The following contains spoilers to X-Men # 12, on sale now.
During the fall of X, Orchis managed to convince the Canadian government that mutants were a threat that was to be moderate. Non -mutant members of Alpha Flight (Guardian, Puck, Snowbird and Shaman) agreed to track Canadian mutants. They were challenged by a new team made up of the mutant members of Alpha Flight, Aurora and Northstar, as well as by other heroes, including a mysterious new sworn enemy. Finally, it was revealed that the battles were all for the show, and the heroes were all working together, and Nemesis was in fact the wife of Gladiator, Heather Hudson. However, their plan was exposed and a new mutant was killed and Heather was placed in a coma. Guardian, Puck, Snowbird and Shaman were all arrested for betrayal at the end of the link series. So how in the world is the Alpha flight involved in X-Men # 12?
X-Men # 12 is the writer Jed Mackay, the pencil Netho Diaz, the Inkerw Sean Parsons and Livesay, the Sififent-Sujo iron colorist and the Clayton Cowles letter, and it is as a problem with action which mainly serves to reinstall the new status of the status of Alpha Flight.
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Alpha Flight is back in business, but they work as essentially as a superhero suicide team. These are all technically prisoners, but they will work as a superhero for department H, under the direction of agent Arsenault, who has taken up the vindicator’s costume now that Heather Hudson remains in a coma. Mackay obviously wanted to work Marrina in the team, so she was in fact abandoned and chose to go to prison to serve with her friends. I do not know how it would work logistically, but whatever, there is obviously a room for maneuver in terms of obtaining Mackay the list he wants.
Arsenault is an intruding character, in that she obviously wants to do good, but she has a strange way to show it. She reminds me a lot how John Ostrander represented Oignany Amanda Waller (before everyone begins to write it as a pure and simple villain). Arsenault will do summary things, but at the end of the day, she believes that everything she does is for the good of Canada and, well, the Alpha flight was all stopped for betrayal, so it is not as if they were a cleaning creak in her mind. At the end of the problem, Cyclops proposes to break the Alpha flight, but Guardian wants them to serve their time, because he feels as more they will do good, the more he will prove to the world that the Alpha flight is heroes, and that will do more good for them than for the H department, as, you know, people will be saved, but also everyone will wonder the government that has stopped these beautiful superheroes. In addition, of course, Jim’s wife, Heather, is still in a coma, so it’s not the right time for him to go for many reasons.
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Now, as for the rest of the problem. I will be frank, the plot on this paragraph is naked enough for the bone. Cyclops was captured at the end of n ° 11, and it is released at the end of n ° 12, and the rest is only any action. I have already noted that I appreciated the way Mackay spent a lot of time to make sure that he is working with small moments of character in each of these problems, even in the midst of action sequences, and yet there is not so much in this issue. It’s really really a problem with action.
At least Mackay offered interesting traps for X-Men, because extraterrestrial mercenaries here for Cyclops have all prepared well for X-Men, and the way they eliminate Magik is quite intelligent. Their trap for the mastodon is a bit confusing, because I really don’t know how powerful the mastodon is. The trap they have defined is designed to stop a high -speed Nova. And it is obviously quite strong, but as strong as the mastodon? I do not know, I suppose it all depends on the force of the mastodon these days. I thought he was mainly in his regular strength, but maybe I’m wrong?
Now, as this is a problem focused on action, we must once again highlight how great Netho Diaz is in action. Associated with Parsons and Livesay (and Sififentes-Sujo on colors), it is an incredibly dynamic problem, but beyond power and dynamism in each of the panels, you must admire how Diaz continues to use panel configurations to dictate rhythm and mood. For example, in the first pages, where we get a normal summary on what is happening with the Alpha flight, everything is boxes, straight panels, but then, when we see the Alpha flight embarking on action, suddenly it is a splash page and inclined panels.
I just like the way Diaz makes signs out of Kilter to designate the kinetic. This is something he did throughout his stay on this series, and he improved better and more. Obviously, this is the case of a guy who improves, the more he draws a book, and the more he is comfortable with everyone in the series. You can also see it in character work. He was good with this kind of thing when he started, but he really has a handful on the characters now, and that makes an excellent visual experience.
We have just finished a crossover, and we head towards another. It will be interesting to see how X-books interact with each other in this crossover.
Source: Marvel