Champions #12 Review

Writer: Mark Waid / Artist: Humberto Ramos / Marvel Comics This. Was. My. Shit. This was a great issue that highlighted Scott Summers and I live. This issue is pure character exploration and tackles a lot of the history with Scott Summers’ lore as a character. We all know him to be the authoritative figure of the X-Men, Mr. Responsible that never cuts loose. Well, the Scott Summers we knew of grew into that — there may be time for this time displaced (and still very much alive) Scott Summers. We open up the issue seeing the Champions going wild with Karaoke (making a vow to speak of this to no one) and while everyone cuts loose, we see Scott Summers sitting to the side and watching his teammates enjoy themselves.

The Champions are still getting to know one another as a team but Scott Summers being the rigid member of the team is pretty much the given amongst all of them. The team then interrupts an attack by Psycho-Man and when Scott’s gets a reverb from Psycho-Man’s weapon that manipulates emotions, he goes from rigid to manic. Summers repressed feelings, emotions, and moods come out at full blast throughout this entire issue. I really enjoyed seeing this side of Cyclops as I’m a big Scott Summers fan as well as a fan of showing off more sides of Summers that wasn’t really afforded to him in his early years with the X-Men (till the Astonishing run, I’d say). There’s so much bias against Cyclops but this right here was a great look at Scott in his youth and why he is the w…