By: Mike Carey (writer), Steve Kurth (pencils), Allen Martinez (inks), Brian Reber (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Sebastian Girner (assistant editor) & Daniel Ketchum (editor)
The Story: Intrigue abounds as the action in Age of X turns inward.
What’s Good: As mentioned in the review of X-Men Legacy #246 two weeks ago, the Age of X event seems to be mostly skipping the traditional Act II of a story. That is a very good storytelling choice by Mike Carey and the editorial team behind Age of X because Act II of stories doesn’t have much impact when we are dealing with characters that we already know well. What is left of Act II deals primarily with revelations about the slightly different nature of these X-Men characters and that is plenty interesting because although we do know Magneto (or “The General”) and he has a very similar personality in this Age of X timeline, he has some fundamental differences from the wild type that are interesting to explore.
This issue also leaves the reader with a lot of mysteries unsolved. We are now 2/3 of the way through Age of X and it is now pretty obvious that the big revelations will be coming right at the end of the story because things are clear as mud right now.
The strongest point of the art is the general layouts. There really isn’t a panel in the issue where it is unclear what is going on with the story. Now, there isn’t anything very adventurous about the pages and panel designs, but Kurth is not sacrificing storytelling by trying to feed us flashy images.
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