‘Planet Size X-Men #1’ Review

Writer: Gerry Duggan / Artist: Pepe Larraz / Marvel Comics In any other case with any other writer, if I heard the title “Planet Size X-Men,” I would think I was about to read an action packed book with Marvel’s mutants fighting Justice League level threats for the fate of the world, maybe the galaxy. Well, Gerry Duggan delivers in terms of scale and threat level, but not in the way your typical epic superhero story would. In fact, he goes even bigger. The majority of events in Planet Size X-Men #1 take place leading up to the Hellfire Gala which is a little weird at first, because there are at least two-week old books that have covered a large part of said event. There are some lingering problems Krakoa has been dealing with across the franchise of books that are starting to add up and become major inconveniences in the empire building process. So, Magneto goes and rounds up pretty much the most powerful mutants he can find on the island, flies out into space, and develops an undeniably monumental solution. And make no mistake, it is no understatement to say that it’s a solution that is a landmark for mutants that potentially reverberates throughout the Marvel Universe for the foreseeable future.

Anytime Captain America shows up and has “the talk” with Cyclops, you just know something big is on the way. There are a lot of characters and references from other books within the issue, but Magneto and his fellow big guns are handled pretty well in Duggan script. If you’re ke…