It's been a while since I read any, but I love me some X-Folx. I loved the Astonishing X-Men series that started with Whedon (fuck that guy) and all the Schism stuff, so I understand Wolverine and the new school, but the situation with everyone else was new to me, which seemed to significantly affect how flummoxed and struggling to engage.

Logan is a headmaster, so he can't be mutant back ops, but he can be their Professor X, sending Psylocke and Storm to join Puck in investigating mind control ecstacy. There's a multi-armed space ninja, a little girl in a safe, Bishop doing timey wimey stuff as he is does, there's bad(?) Stands that infect people, dream stuff, and Fantomex and Control are also in here for some reason.

X-Folx has always been a whole lotta WTF and go with it, but this is a lot and absolutely does not feel like a volume 1 of a new series that barely gives any context to anything or anyone, but then a few issues in starts telling the story through huge and boring infodumps. The script seemed like a scattershot mess mess to me that was supposed to be conveying big emotional and significant stuff, but never did I feel able to connect, and I'm someone who has become way too attached, engaged, and bawled more time than I would like to admit at comics in general, but a lot of X-Folx stuff.

Like so many comics, I imagine this must have been running alongside other series because there are jumps and so much unexplained stuff. It just feels like whole scenes are missing and for a TPB it just makes for an incredibly jarring experience.

The art has some moments, but it feels very Marvel house style without much flare. Some of the dream stuff is cool, but from noth a script and art style the dream stuff seems wasted. I found the whole thing extremely dull.

I know I swore off random Marvel stuff without recommendation, but I am addicted to getting stuff from the library and thought I could trust X-Folx to at least be interesting.

(Increasingly feeling like in getting old, grumpy, and my tastes changing, so your mileage may vary) ( )

Wolverine tells Elizabeth Blalock aka Psylocke to look into her email where there's an email from someone who has some information for her so Elizabeth and Orro go in search of this person and it turns out to be Puck, a four foot eleven inches dynamo who was on X-Force with Wolverine and Elizabeth. He tells them that there's a new mutant being held captive by a multi-armed ninja who sells drugs in a run-down building.

Elizabeth knows exactly who that is. Her mortal enemy, Spiral who used to work for Mojo until he got tired of her and stranded her on Earth without the ability to transport between worlds, but she can still transport on Earth. They find her and it turns out the girl is psychic and is the one providing the high for the people. They are about to rescue her when Bishop, the time-traveling mutant arrives and takes her. They follow Bishop, Elizabeth inside his head. Elizabeth realizes that there is a demon eating away at Bishop's mind. Bishop insists that the girl is a revenant.

This is a powerful book as Elizabeth begins to open up a bit to what she's been through. The killing she's done, what Spiral did to her, the twisted love she experienced in Paris with Fantomex who is back and kidnapping her, and Wolverine who is having problems with how she is doing things. This is a fantastic book and I give it five out of five stars. ( )