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RECOMMENDED (* stars) X-MEN UNLIMITED #44, a MARVEL COMICS ongoing series CREDITS: Written by: Chuck Austin. Art: Romano Molenaar. SYNOPSIS:** Chuck Austin’s evolution of Juggernaut continues as the X-Men teach us to leave people be unless they tick us off. RELEASED: 04/16/03 COVER PRICE (USA): $2.99 YOUR ALTERNATE REALITY PRICE: $2.54	"Molenaar does a wonderful job here."

Review by Lawrence Evans For some reason Marvel’s plan to give us more issues of Unlimited hit a snag somewhere along the way. This issue and the previous one were to have shipped in March but didn’t so #43 shipped last week and this is shipping this week even though there were supposed to be two issues this month anyway. We may end up with those issues shipping this month as well so get your money ready. This issue by Uncanny’s Austin and a find from the carcass of Chaos, Romano Molenaar moves Cain Marko up a bit on the humanity scale. Since he has been hanging around with the group he has developed a follower in Sammy, the fish like mutant. Both are outsiders and over the passage of time have developed a friendship as bizarre at that sounds. While the school is out on a field trip they discover that the fish in the nearby pond have been poisoned. The obvious suspect is upset and wants someone to do something about it. Cain wonders what the big deal is since he did that kind of stuff when he was a kid which upsets Sammy even more. He goes to Jean who can’t really do anything and busts into a meeting with the grown folks to bitch even more. As action is taken we find the little monsters behind all this and I do mean little. A few lessons are learned (one isn’t so we may see those repercussions years down the road) and Cain gets an idea of what being tortured is all about before he realizes what a bastard he was as a kid. This is a continuation of what Austin gave us in the first Kia Asamiya issue that gave us an idea that Cain had started to realize that being ticked off at the world (and his dad) had gotten tired. Molenaar does a wonderful job here. He shows an affinity for the characters and an improved sense of page layout. I couldn’t see him doing regular monthly work (at least not at this moment) but would figure that Marvel will continue to find things for him to do until he gets to that stage.

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