Ok, soo here we get a recap if Bishop's life, starting with his parents in Austrailia to being placed in the "Concentraition Camp" in NYC.  We've seen a young Bishop confronting Layla Miller in the pages of X-Factor during "Messiah Complex".  And we also get mention of the "Summer's Rebelion" from the Layla Miller X-Factor Special from a few months ago.  It was these moments that made me like this book.

I don't really know that much about Bishop, other than he is another future character and that he was revealed to be a traitor with "Messiah Complex" and that he's been trying to find and kill Cable and the new messiah child, Hope, and here we finaly get an explaination as to why he wants to kill her.  Apparantly in Bishop's future, a red haired woman called "The Monster" by the mutants living in the concentraiton camps who is actually a woman named Hope, and who just might be the messiah child herself.  It was also interesting to see that Bishop's grandmother is Storm, and also see a young Bishop's imagination depict the X-Men as his grandmother recounts their stories.

The biggest problem with this issue, and the reason i dont think most people will pick it up and why it has such a negative reaction is because of the art.  Larry Stroman almost killed X-Factor with his recent run, and i almost didnt buy this because of it.  Now, yes he is a bad penciler, but here his art isnt as bad as it was in X-Factor, and i think the inks help.  There are even a few panels that are even close to good.  The story, though, is what makes this worth it.