"The Evolutionary War" was the first cross-Annual crossover, a notion that became par for the course in the early 90s. We don't see Annuals much anymore, which is kind of a pity and kind of good. Annuals were always nice for the longer format stories, but those stories weren't always of the highest caliber.
Being that it's the first Annual crossover, it begins in medias res, with the High Evolutionary's forces well underway in their quest to exterminate evolutionary dead ends. You get the sense that a lot of this extermination/sterilization has taken place under the radar of the dominant human species, which adds a fairly chilling aspect to this story. The High Evolutionary, much as he keeps telling himself he's doing good, is really quite fascistic. He's an evolutionary fascist? Which makes his conversation in today's comic with the uber-Darwinian Apocalypse so interesting. I feel like, had this conversation been written about 20 years later, it would have been really quite poignant. Here, it skims the surface, and really offers a nice look at two opposing villainous impetuses that seem to be attempting similar goals.
X-Factor themselves are kind of incidental. And I really would like to know what happens to the mutant Moloid (Va-Lor) after this issue. We probably never see him again.
Dear gods, I have to read The Punisher tomorrow. I'm not a fan.
To be continued.
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