THE WHITE SWORD BROKEN! The White Sword - the mutant Omega healer who could raise the dead and bind them to his service - had One Hundred Warriors. Now the first and last of the Hundred have come to tell the tale of the one who destroyed them?one who is coming to test the mutants of Arakko once again?
Rated T+
X-Men Red #12 introduces a new antagonist from Arakko, but my concern lies in the potential entanglement of their storyline with Orchis and the ongoing Krakoan problems. Read Full Review
There's definitely good to be found inX-Men Red#12, and it's a great set-up for the coming Genesis War. Yet, with Orchis ties being expanded and diminished art quality, it's a low point for the run so far. Still, it's worth reading, if only for Sunspot and Nova's bickering and White Sword's fascinating development. Read Full Review
This issue is fine and the series has shown enough quality, that I'm willing to give it some leeway. Hopefully next issue picks up. Read Full Review
While X-Men: Red remains one of the most exciting series in the entire X-line, this surprisingly quiet chapter is largely focused on past stories being drawn into this one. Read Full Review
This issue was a lot of setup for what's to come following Ironfire's arrival at the end of the previous issue. While I did enjoy it and think it's very far from being bad, I must also say that I believe it to be the weakest issue of the series thus far. However, that's a testament to how good this run has been when my score for this is as high as it is. The only other issue I've scored an 8.5 is the first issue. Other than that, nothing has been below a 9.0 for me. Despite the slight dip in quality here, my interest as to where things are going here is still present and all I can say is that I hope the series returns back to 9-10 territory soon.
Definitely an issue that suffers from the high standards set by the rest of the series, though I liked the use of info pages at the end. Still, this sleepy little interlude lacks some of the punch that the previous 14 issues had
This title seems to have a bit of a "Sins of Sinister hangover"--it's asking us to swallow a big bite of backstory involving a lot of brand new and half-remembered characters, and the taste is unpleasantly reminiscent of the event.
But the words and art go the extra mile to persuade me of the epic-ness of what I'm reading. And the final scenes clarify the stakes and the next steps, answering the critical question of why this matters and making me eager to see how this next war plays out.
Al Ewing's writing is great and he makes use of the history of Arakko but it's the setup that gets to me especially for an event that is not looking very exiting as we get closer to it. I might have to switch to tpb in order to enjoy the full thing collected and deal with spoilers. Fall of X has a lot riding on it so we'll see. Art was good from Camagni.
I’m getting more and more bored as X-Men moves further and further away from actually being the X-Men
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