Mojoās magical mystery tour continues as news stations struggle to cut through his global broadcast. Inside his arenas, more and more X-Men are being picked off as one team fights the recreations of the Avengers and the other battles amalgams of their worst threats.
Magneto, Polaris, and Danger finally enter the fray, but Mojo already has a simulation lined up for these three.
Luckily, Longshot may have finally found a way to get the X-Men out of this predicament, but will things just get worse from there?

While Iām still a little iffy on the premise, Iām a little more onboard now that the story has entered some kind of groove. Plus, Magneto is in this book, and Cullen Bunn has worked absolute magic with that character before. .
One of the main things that does keep the entertainment value high is Mojo. Iām digging the hell out of that yellow blob in this story. Heās funny, oddly charismatic, and absolutely disgusting. Heās like the child of Roadhog from Overwatch and the ghost of Roger Ailes. Heās kind of magical.
Of course, I suppose Roadhog could be the child of Ghost Rider and Mojo too, but, well, you get the point Iām illustrating.
Magneto finally taking the stage helps too, and the absolute glee he experiences while tearing through the Marauders which slaughtered the Morlocks so long ago is infectious. I so adore Magneto.
The overall plot is still a bit messy, with this less being a gauntlet of X-Men baddies and kind of snapshots of the X-Men fighting some of their old threats. And that does illustrate another issue Iāve had with this story. Thereās very little tension in the individual battles being waged here. No weight has been placed on the X-Men winning any of these encounters. Youāre just waiting for someone, and Longshot was likely the one to do it, to crack the code and get the teams out of there.
If this were some kind of actual gauntlet, the battles may be more interesting. However, as is, the fight scenes arenāt that absorbing.
This is especially true when (spoilers I guess?) you discover that Mojo has just been storing away the ādeadā X-Men to use again later. Donāt get me wrong, that makes sense as a plot point, and itās kind of a nice jab at how mainstream comic books handle death. However, establishing it sooner would have been a better plan so you donāt look like youāre just faking deaths for dramatic effect, which is another overused mainstream comic book trope ironically.

Jorge Molinaās artwork here is pretty good. He makes Mojo look absolutely grotesque, and I love it. The X-Men themselves look heroic and stalwart. The recreations of some old costumes look nice, and I dig that he gave Longshot is awful, awful mullet again. The color work by Matt Milla and Guru-eFX is solid too, with each scene having a nice range of colors to keep things lively.
While I didnāt hate this issue, I canāt quite recommend it. āMojo Worldwideā is still riddled with problems, and a good number of them are baked-in to the premise itself. While Bunn, Molina, and company do their best to provide a good read here, itās still just mediocre. I canāt say you should give it a pass, but I canāt recommend it either. Make of that what you will.
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