Review of
X-Men (1963) #17
Published:
February 1966
Reviewer Rating:
Avg User Rating:
(3.20)
Does a great job of building tension. Ends on a great cliffhanger.
This is a well constructed story. It picks up from the end of the previous storyline and has the team in hospital, licking their wounds. One by one they each return to their HQ and one by one they each fall to a mysterious, unseen foe.
A ticking clock is provided with the addition of impending visitors. Xavier has tried unsuccessfully to dissuade them, but someone is calling to the mansion and the professor doesn’t want them to find the mansion/school deserted. Therefore he sends his young pupils back. One by one.
Even if you can guess who might be inside the mansion, attacking the heroes as they arrive, you can’t fault the structure. And the tension that builds with each attack.
The final page - the cliffhanger revelation - is stunning.
9/10
This is a well constructed story. It picks up from the end of the previous storyline and has the team in hospital, licking their wounds. One by one they each return to their HQ and one by one they each fall to a mysterious, unseen foe.
A ticking clock is provided with the addition of impending visitors. Xavier has tried unsuccessfully to dissuade them, but someone is calling to the mansion and the professor doesn’t want them to find the mansion/school deserted. Therefore he sends his young pupils back. One by one.
Even if you can guess who might be inside the mansion, attacking the heroes as they arrive, you can’t fault the structure. And the tension that builds with each attack.
The final page - the cliffhanger revelation - is stunning.
9/10
