Giant Size X-Men Review: Jean Grey and Emma Frost Slay in A Visual Masterpiece

Writer: Jonathan Hickman / Artists: Russell Dauterman and Matthew Wilson / Marvel Comics I’ll take Badass Heroine Duos for 1000, Alex! If you haven’t heard the news, mutants have united and left all the petty squabbles in the past. Although many are more notorious (Professor X and Magneto) or particularly vicious (Wolverine and Sabertooth), none are more complicated than the history of Jean Grey and Emma Frost. Linked by similar powers and bound by their love of the leader of the gifted young mutants, Giant Size X-Men: Jean Grey and Emma Frost put on a clinic in leaving the bullshit behind and coming together for the greater good.

Mutants Over Everything Following the infiltration of the Vault in Issue #5, Storm has been left incapacitated. While seeing our African Goddess in such dire straits is alarming, this does allow Jean and Emma to come together and embark on one of the most visually stunning journeys in psychic history. Sidebar: I know everyone loved finding out about the adjoined living quarters of Scott, Logan and Jean but after seeing her plant that cheeky kiss on Wolverine with Cyclops standing 2 feet away, I damn near lost it!! Making that subtextual throuple, textual. Ok, back to the astounding artwork by Russell Dauterman and Matthew Wilson. Off the rip, you need to know that after the first 3 pages, this issue is straight Black Bolt and Cassandra Cain silence, signaled by one lily white finger to the icy lips of Emma Frost. Jean’s ready to dive in but gives E…