Sunday, May 20, 2012

X-Men 14 Review

It is now time to dip into the Really Big Comic Book Box of Doom and pull out another issue. This issue that we will be reviewing is X-Men #14 Xcutioners Song Part 3: Fingers on the Trigger. In this issue, Professor Xavier is at death's door, with a huge mystery of who shot Xavier, as Moira MacTaggert and Beast hunt for a cure.

X-Men Volume 1 Issue 14 Review

X-Men Volume 1 Issue 14 review was released with a cover date of November 1992 by Marvel Comics, written by Fabian Niciez, Mark Pennington was the inker, Lois Buhalis as a letter, Marie Javins on colors.

As is the nature of these random reviews, sometimes I am fortunate enough to come across all of the issues in that box of hundreds and hundreds of comic books that I recently acquired. And sometimes, I get thrown in right into the thick of things at about Issue 3 of a Multi part series.

Thanks to the magic of Google, I can fill in the blanks but that is a bit of a cheat really, as Google didn't exist back in 1992, so as a fan who would have picked up the comic book just blind at my local comic book shop, would I have been just befuddled? It is kind of hard to say, because I do have some foreknowledge of the X-Men.

Professor Xavier is at deaths door. The time traveling Bishop is trying to hunt down the assassin, shouldering some of the blame. Meanwhile that other time traveler, Cable, reaches the conclusion that he perhaps might have shot Xavier but this seems rather impossible. Cable and Bishop, they were around a lot in the nineties, so I'm not surprised they popped up here.

Plus Mister Sinister receives the bodies of Jean Grey and Cyclops for his potential malicious plans, as our heroes try and determine what type of virus Xavier was shot with, as they try to find the two missing X-Men. And Apocalypse is also reawakened, which really tends to just expand upon the threat.

Obviously I wasn't completely lost without the first two parts but multi comic book stories are intended to be read each and every issue. Based on what I read, not a bad X-Men issue. Not the best but I have read far worse comic books in my day.

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