Xtreme Xcrap...

Why do I continue to even pick up the X-men books? There's almost no hope that I'll know who is and who isn't a part of the team (since there are three or four teams currently operating, since good guys become bad guys become good guys all the time, since half the artists draw the women as though they were over-sexed playboy bunnies instead of heroes). There's almost no hope that I'll understand the story (because so much has gone before, because the story makes no sense at all - they're free, nope they just thought they were free, now they're really free, nope still an illusion).

The storyline is incredibly hard to follow in this volume as the villian supposedly allows the heroes to believe they are free when they truly aren't at least twice. The action jumps around to three or four different locales almost without warning or explanation.

And the art is poor as well.

Steer well clear of this one, folks.

Oh, by the way, the title here is X-treme X-men Volume 8: Prisoners of Fire.