Well, all this week’s regular titles got annotations posts already, so we can take this one fairly quickly. Oh, hold on, there’s also…

X-MEN UNLIMITED INFINITY COMIC #92. By Jason Loo and Antonio Fabela. This is the start of a new arc, with the Madrox family and the Fantastic Four. If that seems random… well, it is, but Madrox did make his first appearance in an issue of Giant-Size Fantastic Four, which is something. It’s okay, I guess. It’s mostly inconsequential slice of life stuff, which isn’t especially gripping, though there’s a nice idea of X-Corp scientist-version Madrox looking for the approval of Reed Richards. And then a completely random villain shows up at the end, which is… choppy pacing, at least. But it’s fine.

X-FORCE #41. (Annotations here.) The previous issue seemed to set up one of those “jump after jump through time” stories, but it seems we’re just doing two. Which is cutting to the chase, I guess. I suppose the point of this arc is to give the rest of the X-Force cast their own showdown with Beast, in the form of alternate timeline versions, while Wolverine gets to deal with the real deal in his own book… but it does feel a bit secondary. There doesn’t seem to be much going on here beyond some time travel shenanigans, but there are a couple of likeably absurd ideas, like Beast concealing his clones in major world heritage sites so that nobody will disturb them. Mainly, though, it all feels a bit inconsequential to me.

NEW MUTANTS: LETHAL LEGION #4. (Annotations here.) This is fun. Sure, it’s a bit off to the side, and I’m not sure it really needs to bring on a world-ending threat, but it feels like it matters for the main characters. The book has comprehensively turned into Escapade and the New Mutants, so an awful lot turns on how you feel about her. But I enjoy her, and I think her confused mess of instincts about how she wants to deal with Morgan and Cerebella rings true. There’s something pleasingly colourful and eccentric about the art, and it’s the sort of book that can, inexplicably, pull off Moonstone spending half a fight singing a Gilbert & Sullivan song for no particular reason. There’s so much here that could easily be very irritating indeed, but the book pulls it off.

BETSY BRADDOCK: CAPTAIN BRITAIN #5. (Annotations here.) And that’s the end of that. I somewhat admire Marvel’s dogged insistence on sticking with this book, even though I always found it utterly tin-eared when it came to… well, Britain. Which is a bit of a dealbreaking problem in a Captain Britain story. At any rate, the book has now been through three endings that felt obviously like they were rushing to the finale, which is a big problem in its own right. Stick with a book or don’t, but this dithering is the worst of both worlds. This series at least began cutting to the chase with issue #4, but there’s no avoiding the fact that it feels like a precis of the plot that was originally intended. Still, the people who liked this book really liked it, and at least they got a resolution of sorts.