Uncanny X-Men #14 Review

Writer: Matthew Rosenberg / Artist: Salvador Larroca / Marvel Uncanny X-Men #14 rolls on with another chapter of the team that rose from the ashes of the cataclysmic battle with X-Man (Nate Grey). Fresh from the death only to find the X-Men obliterated, Cyclops walks a tightrope of vengeance and justice as he plans to nullify their most persistent of threats one last time. In the previous issue, his reformed team of Wolverine, Magick, Wolfsbane, Karma, Havok, and Mirage started with the first entry on Cyke’s list – Dark Beast.  Thus far, the rebooted flagship title looks, feels, and reads like a proper return to X-Men storytelling – a well-paced script that is referential without succumbing to nostalgia, Wolverine taking on more ultraviolence than the average mutant, and dynamic panel layouts that remains kinetic, detailed, and emotional. Student. Leader. Father. Husband. Mutant. Teacher. Terrorist. In the course of Scott Summers’ life he has held many identities and roles.  At this moment, with the entire mutant race at its most disparring, Cyclops seems to be at a crossroads, but a very aggressive one.  As he intends to make sure the X-Men leave a final statement if their days are truly are as limited as they seem, his recent methods almost put the X-Men more in line with a mercenary guerilla force rather than the army of mutant-human coexistence manifesto of old. As Cyclops leads the X-Men down his his list, he reaches out to former X-Factor government liason Val Cooper to…