The X-Men and the Fantastic Four must regroup and address the unexpected catastrophe, while the effects of 3K’s Chairman’s scheme have only begun to be felt! But the Chairman soon learns that even his plans have flaws… DNX #4 is the penultimate chapter that sets up the final confrontation while answering some questions.
The X-Virus has been released and the X-Men and Fantastic Four have a plan to stop the spread. But, DNX #4 is really focused on the Chairman as he looks at the results of his plan and… is disappointed. Written by Jed MacKay, DNX #4 is a decent chapter in the overall event that does a good job of balancing a few threads.
Where DNX #4 really succeeds is finally really explaining, well at least teasing, where things went so wrong with the future X-Men’s plans in swapping minds that helped lead to the current situation. The future version of Beast, who looks a lot like the current evil Beast, dances around and teases that in the future, there’s one Beast and they messed up forgetting there were two in our time. It gets around and answers an interesting question as to what went wrong and how things messed up. But the rather Beast focused issue shows off the results of the Chairman’s actions. Again, MacKay gives it a nice twist to ponder and allow readers to debate how far the Chairman has gone and how much further he may go. All of this leads to the final issue’s confrontation and who knows where it all goes.
The art by Federico Vicentini is good. With color by David Curiel and Clayton Cowles, it delivers a sort of “creature feature” when we see the results of the Chairman’s actions and there it succeeds in a fun B-movie sort of way that the overall event story has. And, the comic does pack a lot into it with quite a cast of X-Men and Fantastic Four and O.N.E. too. The comic’s visuals fit the comic well.
DNX #4 has a fun aspect about it. As said above, it delivers a sort of B-movie “creature feature” horror read and feels like it mines campy films with over the top concepts while also delivering some action and paying off over a year of build up. It’s not the strongest issue in the event but does a nice job of moving the story along and building towards the finale.
Story: Jed MacKay Art: Federico Vicentini
Color: David Curiel Letters: Clayton Cowles
Story: 7.5 Art: 7.5 Overall: 7.5 Recommendation: Read
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