Marvel Comics Dark X-Men #3 of 5 By Hervé St-Louis January 18, 2010 - 22:34 Publisher(s): Marvel Comics Writer(s): Paul Cornell Penciller(s): Leonard Kirk Inker(s): Leonard Kirk Colourist(s): Brian Reber Letterer(s): Rob Steen Cover Artist(s): Simone Bianchi, Simone Peruzzi $3.99 US Nathan Grey, the mutant from the alternate dimension known as X-Man explores this world and discovers the wrong done by Norman Osborn. But the Dark Avengers and the Dark X-Men are after him and ready to defeat him. How can the combined team ever hope of defeating a mutant with such control over his environment? The concept of Nathan Grey is ridiculous. He’s a test tube baby from an alternate dimension with a confusing history that only hardcore X-Men readers can even decipher. I am not one of them. Yet, I like how his presence taxes the Dark Avengers. His power overloads Omega. His power forces Mimic to replicate them. For both Mystique and the Dark Beast, he is a creature to be manipulated and cornered. This story moves fast and although I would have preferred for it to have moved beyond Nate Grey by now, the writer is making good use of this useless and redundant super character. How many omega level characters roam around the Marvel Universe again? It’s starting to get old, but at least the wacky situation the Dark X-Men are pitted in makes for a good story. With Kirk inking his own work, I expected a weak treatment. He tends to leave blanks around. But here his inks more than fill the original pencils and this makes his work actually interesting to watch. I would say he has grown as an artist and that I no longer have to dread his name on a book. That’s a good thing as he knows how to tell a story. © Copyright 2002-2026 by Toon Doctor Inc. - All rights Reserved. All other texts, images, characters and trademarks are copyright their respective owners. Use of material in this document (including reproduction, modification, distribution, electronic transmission or republication) without prior written permission is strictly prohibited.