DARK X-MEN CONFESSION ONE-SHOT
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Size: pages
Price: 3.99
This review contains spoilers, click here to read
There has been much speculation in the iFanboyverse on what type of goods that Dark X-Men: The Confession would deliver. Most were under the impression that this would be a pointless gab-fest between Cyclops and Emma Frost, being that we know that they are peachy with each other again by the end of the recent Utopia crossover. I, however, set the bar a little higher for my expectations. It was known that this would be the issue where the couple's dirty laundry will finally be exposed, Cyke's being that he's been running a wetworks kill squad and Emma's being that she was summoned by Osborne to be on his Cabal. I was under the impression that the issue would deal with the emotional responces of both characters upon hearing these jaw dropping revelations. But that's not what we got. We just got a recap issue. A very fancilied dressed up recap issue. For 4 bucks.
The biggest fault of this issue was that more time is devoted to the actual confessing than the aftermath of the confessing. A little more than half the book is just artist Bing Cansino re-rendering recent past events and captions explaining what was going on at the time. I would be fine with this if this was a #0 issue or something which was marketed specifically for catching up new readers to the current story, but that's not what we were promised or sold.
Slapping on the title "The Confession" harkens readers back to Civil War: The Confession, which in one issue provided more emotion and character moments than every issue of the core event combined. So naturally, readers would be on the money to assume that something with the same title has at least something a little in common in terms of emotional impact. If you think that's a bit far fetched, take a look at the solicits to this issue. It says "Emma Frost's secret dealings with the Cabal come to light and her life will never be the same." Well allow me, ladies and gentlemen, to fill you in when Emma's and Cyclops' secret dealings came to light: NOTHING! After the lengthy recap pages detailing each others secret dealings, Scott and Emma pretty much shrug their shoulders and say "I'm cool with it if you're cool with it." I mean if I found out that my loved one was running a secret kill squad, I would definitely be pretty shocked and horrified. No real emotional reactions here, folks. Just recaping.
I don't want to blame Chris Yost and Craig Kyle too much for this poor issue since it had "Editorially Mandated" blatently written through the whole thing, but I have to since the execution could have been so much better. I'm sure that writers of their caliber could have worked the script a little better to include both recaping of events and emotional reactions to further the story (Invincible #0 is a great example of this), but this issue was just a lazy and half assed way to tie up a hanging plot thread.
Art: 3 - Good
You know that’s even WORSE than what I expected, because I didn’t expect it to be a recap issue. I at least thought they’d be trying to get some characterization in. And I totally see the editorially-mandated thing, I just. . .wonder what the editors would have been thinking? From what I can tell X-FORCE is a more popular comic than Uncanny so — were they trying to appeal to x-force fans who had read the crossover? Crossover fans who weren’t reading X-Force. No clue!
This comic should have been a dollar, no fifty cents.. you know what? This is definetly "free issue" material, don’t you agree?
Yeah I kinda wish I didn’t buy this since it basically recapped a bunch of books I’ve allready read and then ended exactly how I though it would….
@ohcaroline: I think the editors intent was just to wrap up a dangling plot thread, but since it was both X-Force and Uncanny storylines involved, thats why they put it out in a one-shot. I dont know which particular readership it was aimed at, but my assumption with the X-Offices is always that they want you to buy EVERY X-Book to get the full story. That could be why they pushed for this one-shot to feature so many recaps from both X-Force and Uncanny.
@mangaman: I wouldn’t say this issue should be free, since the free issues that they usually hand out just consist of text recaps, whereas here a story was told (half-assed as it was.) It should have definitly been a dollar or 50 cents, though, as this was pretty much a #0 issue. There was no major event or story here that justified the 4 dollar price tag.
Damn, that is really sad that it seems basically pointless. And you’re right, with the words "The Confession" in the title, this should have been a real gut punch of an issue. Sucks you spent money on it, but glad you convinced me not to 🙂