Marvel Fanfare # 40

In perhaps one of the most beautiful tales I’ve ever read, a grandmother experiencing a crisis of faith, has her prayers answered when Warren Worthington III crashes into her back yard. Believing the mutant, Angel, is the real celestial deal, the heartwarming ending was all it took to make this story an instant classic. 

The backup feature also involves mutants and a crisis of faith of sorts. Here, Mystique summons Storm to a neutral setting in a chess match over the X-Men Rogue’s soul. The morality play is quite good until the ending when Mystique starts to morph into a member of the opposite sex. Then the lines get quite blurry and when she monologues her true intentions, I really haven’t a clue what she is talking about. Too bad, it was a disappointing ending to an otherwise near-flawless issue of Marvel Fanfare.

Worth Consuming.

Rating: 9 out of 10 stars