Conor ⊗🔺さんのイラストまとめ

The issue opens in the aftermath of Hank's torture–errr I mean treatment–at Dr. Maddicks' hands; the scientist breaking down over what appears to have been his experiment's failure.

Layton seems interested in writing Maddicks as sympathetic, misled by his "good" intentions...

...are unrelated to the original X-Men remains a mystery, but their combined might–and some extra strength rage-addled optic blasts from Scott–knock Tower over and leave him open to interrogation.

...and the team has instead been unleashed against Hank's captor-for-hire Tower as a means to unknowingly tie up loose strings for Dr. Maddicks.

How no one realizes that the man with optic blasts, the man with a body made of ice, the man with the wings or the redhead in green...

X-Factor is summoned, and in a moment that is probably not as meta as it comes across as being, Jean wonders if their VERY OBVIOUS identities as the Original X-Men might have been uncovered.

Shockingly, that somehow isn't the case...

Back at XF HQ, Scott finally resolves himself to reaching out to Madelyne to finally share with her what's happened, but an unconnected phone line leaves Scott to assume he's been fully rejected, rather than that any danger might have befallen his wife and son.

...dramatically (and liberally) by her time in the big city.

Hank barely has time to process this unrecognizable woman before a size-changing mutant, Tower, breaks into Vera's apartment to attack and capture Hank.

...of the man whose vision set her on this path and robbed her of agency in the first place.

There is no better metaphor for unnecessary revisiting of the past than a literal visit to an old flame, and true to form Hank and Bobby head out to meet with Hank's ex, Vera, changed...

...by the ghost of her replacement and the latter haunted by his life with another "replacement" altogether.

Scott's indecision and guilt grip him throughout the issue as he lashes out angrily against both friend and foe as means of avoiding fully processing the consequences...

...its casts' histories under the run.

Each of the O5 is deeply flawed–justifiably so given their upbringing as child soldiers–and those flaws are and traumas are given some room to breath in this second issue.

Jean & Scott are naturally the most impacted, the former haunted...

...wasn't just looking, but begging, for.

With their mission accomplished, a bill to the tune of $42,000 is thrown back at Rusty's mutant-hating commanding officer (much to Bobby's delight), and Rusty is welcomed open-armed into the world of mutant identity by his predecessors.