SPLICED Issue 04\r\n\r\n X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST\r\n\r\nISSUE 04\r\n\r\n-Men: Days of Future Past\r\nis based on the Uncanny\r\nX-Men comic series of\r\nthe same name from way\r\nback in 1981, starting with\r\nissue 141, and is probably\r\none of the most important\r\nand acclaimed story-arcs in the X-Men\'s history.\r\nIn summary, the comic is set in a dystopian future\r\nin which Sentinels reign supreme, systematically\r\nexterminating or capturing mutants in an inexorable\r\nassault and a not so thinly veiled commentary on\r\nbigotry and racism. Very few mutants are left to\r\noppose the swarm of killer robots and are mostly left\r\ndisenfranchised and terrified. Among the survivors\r\nof the ethnic cleansing are Magneto, Wolverine,\r\nShadowcat, Storm, Colossus and Rachel Summers\r\n(Cyclops and Jean Grey\'s daughter). On the day of\r\nan impending nuclear holocaust, the group sends\r\nShadowcat\'s adult mind 32 years prior to the current\r\nevents to send a warning to her team-mates about\r\nthe prevention of the assassination of anti-mutant\r\nadvocate Senator John Kelly by the Brotherhood of\r\nMutants (a cadre lead by Mystique).\r\nThe implications of the actions of the heroes are\r\nmassive and they have to question the motivation\r\nbehind saving someone so ardently hateful\r\ntowards their kind, with tough choices and massive\r\nsacrifices having to be made to save the world. It’s\r\nthe moment every X-fan has been waiting for, the\r\nchance to see some of the X-Men\'s best moments\r\non film, because this is the X-story that deserves\r\nto be told, along with the Apocalypse saga, which\r\nBryan Singer has confirmed as the sequel to Days\r\nof Future Past, so far titled X-Men: Apocalypse,\r\nand set to be released in 2016.\r\n\r\n65\r\n\r\n