Amazing X-Men #12 Review

The big problem here is that Craig Kyle and Chris Yost's script brings nothing new to the comic that hasn't been seen before. This is just about every Wendigo (or any other possession) story mashed together, but with a pacing that doesn't require five issues by any stretch of the imagination. Every moment in this comic is heavily telegraphed or repeated from an earlier moment in the storyline, and sometimes it manages to do both at the same time.

The bigger issue is that almost all of this installment is just a generic fight scene. There's nothing new, nothing exciting, nothing that warrants this being part 5 of 5. This was a 3-part storyline at best, one that could have been pared down without losing a single plot progression. Instead it's an "Alpha Flight" Greatest Hits album, throwing in all of the Great Beasts that appeared in the title over the years, but without any of their actual menace that John Byrne brought to their forms.

"Amazing X-Men" #12 marks a moment where, in just twelve issues, this title has made itself irrelevant once again. With a fill-in and then an "AXIS" tie-in scheduled to round out the rest of the year, I'm not sure that status will change any time soon. What first felt like a great opportunity is now a title quietly limping towards what one can only expect will be a stealth cancellation. If this is the best that "Amazing X-Men" can do, maybe it's time for one less X-Men title until there's a proper reason to revive it.

Review from Comic Book Resources (read full review here)