Seven Secrets #12 Review

Writer: Tom Taylor / Artist: Daniele Di Nicuolo / Boom! Studios A peak behind the editorial curtain: writing a spoiler free review of an on-going series presents a unique challenge, and I have developed a simple guideline to help determine what information I get to present. Anything within the first four or five pages can be discussed freely (as they are often the pages that are included in the review). I’ll allow myself more vague narrative beats to cover the bulk of the issue, but the ending of the most recent comic is completely off limits until the next issue has been released. It’s pretty straightforward, but also surprisingly difficult… BECAUSE I HAVE WANTED TO TALK ABOUT THE ENDING TO SEVEN SECRETS #11 FOR OVER A MONTH NOW, AND I AM ONLY NOW ABLE TO IN A PUBLIC FORUM. Tom Taylor hurt my feelings in August after finally revealing that *Canto* was not only the traitor among the Keepers and Holders, but that he was romantically involved with Amon. The image of the two kissing in the empty wasteland that used to be Switzerland has been stressing me for the past few weeks, and only now do we get some context of what happened to the past and how exactly we got to this point.

In Seven Secrets #12, Taylor very intelligently positions Amon as the shadow archetype to Casper. While it’s not an uncommon trope, the reveal of Amon’s backstory comes as a welcome piece of exposition that helps reframe all of Amon’s actions in the previous eleven issues, which in turn provides a d…