Family Reunions: Uncanny X-Men #12 Review

Writer: Matthew Rosenberg / Artist: Salvador Larroca / Marvel Comics The X-Men are dead. Long live the X-Men. In the aftermath of an epic battle with X-Man, all mutants present at the fight were exiled to a splinter reality. Any remaining mutants were apprehended by national security, or have gone into hiding. Cyclops has been resurrected with a little help from son Kid Cable (and a miniscule Phoenix Cage in his heart). He puts out a call for any X-Men to team up with, but stands alone as Reavers and Purifiers greet him instead.  Wolverine, also fresh from the arms of death, has watched Summers from a distance. He joins his remaining teammate to put in work for old time’s sake. Uncanny X-Men #12 starts only moments after the previous issue. Logan pulls bullets from Scott’s body as the two share their most expressive scene since re-meeting. Scott regrets the mistakes he made that led to mutants becoming even bigger targets. Logan assures him that they are still not alone. From there, the story unfolds in a series of heist film-style vignettes as Scott and Logan begin raiding government facilities in search of any remaining X-Men and mutants. They successfully break out members of the New Mutants. A trio of Multiple Men, Wolfsbane, and Magick are retrieved from a facility where they were quarantined after infection with the Techmodus virus (see last year’s “The New Mutants” mini-series).

The routine jail breaks take a strange turn when they discover a new breed of Sentinel …