X-Men: The (fan fic) Series

Wolverine and the X-Men #24
Possibly the most awkwardly drawn kiss… ever.

Review: Wolverine and the X-Men #24

This was quite possibly the most meta issue of an X-Men comic… ever.

I really don’t know where to begin. There are several couples getting together, either on actual dates, just to talk, or your basic hookup. There isn’t anything wasted in this comic. Not only do we have the visual and written humor we’ve come to love from this title, but each conversation is poignant in its own right for vastly different reasons.

At the crux is the fact that the X-Men are not normal people, this has never been ignored in the comics but it is nicely highlighted here through self-aware dialogue that could have been groan-worthy but was instead thoughtful and introspective (and in a few cases hilarious).

Yes, the Bobby/Kitty date was cliché but the honesty in which it was written forgives it. Quentin’s thoughts on Jean Grey are spot on for a boy his age and Jean’s reaction was equally appropriate. Broo and Idie couldn’t have been any more touching. And if Sabretooth is telling you that you need to get a girlfriend… that should tell you something.

This kind of issue could have gone very, very wrong, and in the beginning it nearly did as the relationship between Storm and Black Panther has been treated poorly since its inception. But once that is out of the way, Storm is able to reassert her individuality in a great segway into the non-adjective X-Men title that will be releasing later this year.

After the poor showing in the last three WatX issues, this issue more than makes up for it.