X-Men Legacy #22 – Review

by Simon Spurrier (Writer), Khoi Pham (Artist), Rachelle Rosenberg (Colorist)

The Story: With everything going to hell, it’s a nice thing that David has the help of multiple X-Men for his problems.

The Review: It’s always exhilarating to see a title get to its conclusion. While the end may be coming, to see all those subplots and plot threads developed bloom is something that is always a bit satisfying, especially if you are part of the readers that were there during the inception of the title. There’s always the chance that the title might end up being disappointing, but the chance of it being right is always exciting nonetheless.

X-Men Legacy could have very well become something rather insipid in its last few issues, yet the weird energy and the themes brought by Simon Spurrier are strong here. This issue, in many way, is a culmination of many ongoing themes and developments brought to the character of David Haller, providing plenty of entertainment and excitement as the showdown against the evil Xavier goes forth.

Still putting plenty of emphasis on the narration of David, this issue gives readers plenty of the fascinating thoughts that fueled this series and its development, this time giving us a deep insight on the evolution of his introspection and his relation to mutant kind. The way he interacts with other characters he has met and those he didn’t in this battle against his hate and fears personified is very interesting, revealing how his point-of-view changed with each experiences, giving some nice points to how Spurrier handled his evolution throughout the series as seen in the pages of this issue.

Revisiting Wolverine: Weapon X

by Barry Windsor-Smith (Writer/Artist)

A lot of people can surely agree that there are some characters that are all over the place right now. Spider-Man, Batman, Captain America, Iron Man, Superman and countless other popular characters are kept in quite a high number of books, being members of teams and being the object of constant team-ups with less popular characters. It’s always due to a bit of marketing, of course, but there are always other factors that comes in with those characters, like movies and other such things.

However, if there is one character that keeps on appearing everywhere, it has to be Wolverine. Being the poster-boy of mutants in countless X-titles, possessing a few titles with his name in it and being in several other teams, James Howlett is perhaps the most overused character in Marvel’s staple. However, a lot of that is due not only to the movies, but also due to his popularity from prior titles, like Chris Claremont’s Uncanny X-Men or Miller and Claremont first Wolverine mini-series.

There’s no doubting that the character can be written very well, that there is a certain appeal to the duality of Wolverine balancing through ferocity and peace. However, not every writers tend to balance things out evenly, which means there are a lot of books available with his name on it, with a few being actually worth the trouble.