fajrdrako | X-Men: Phoenix – Warsong (Reply)

I read X-Men: Phoenix – Warsong last night. It turned out to have a good number of perks; it heavily featured the Stepford Cuckoos, who intrigue me - I came in late on their story in a period of lapsed X-Men reading, so this was welcome. And explains why they are somewhat strange - if, among the X-Men, there is any such thing as being stranger than any of the others.

Comments:

Love the Silvestri cover on part 5. Mind you, I always like Silverstri's art. Sadly, this contrasts badly Tyler Kirkham art inside, which was barely serviceable... stodgy and stiff. He never did justice to Emma Frost - another of my favourite characters. And I couldn't even recognize Kitty Pryde.
I like Jake Oh, agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., very much. Who is he and where did he come from? Is he still around? If not, I hope it isn't that he is dead and gone. Not that this would mean much in comics.
Seems utterly creepy to me that Emma Frost should have hundreds of cloned babies made from her eggs. Of course, it isn't the only creepy thing that has happened to Emma, but... jeez.
Wonderful to have a story that features the Phoenix Force - and in a rather positive way, too - without having a revival of Jean Grey.
Some of the dialogue confused me - maybe because I confused one Cuckoo with the other from time to time. Celeste was the good one, right? And Phoebe the one who was power-hungry with the Phoenix Force?
I'm not sure having diamond hearts makes much sense - how can diamond beat? I suppose this implies that when Emma Frost turns to diamond, she's diamond through and through. But the designation surely is as much metaphorical as anything else.
I didn't like the Zombie angle.
Nice to see the particular group of characters who were in this story - especially Scott, Kitty, and Logan.