Comics this week

X-Men: Schism #1- Marvel has been promoting the hell out of this min-series because it is supposed to spilt the X-Men into two. The events of Schism will manage to drive a wedge between Cyclops and Wolverine that will spilt the team and mutant population into two groups much like the earlier generation between Xavier and Magneto. So what’s the event that will tear up the team? Your guess is as good as mine because this issue doesn't provide any definitive answer to that question. Writer Jason Aaron is more interested in showing the friendship/partnership between Cyclops and Wolverine. The friendship between Cyclops and Wolverine is well-written but the problem I have is that I still do not have any idea what the big spilt is about. Several villains like Kid Omega, Kade Kilgore and the Hellfire Club show up but the actions of Kid Omega created a political problem more than anything else. For a setup issue, this issue failed because it does not show the setup.

FF #6- When I saw the face of Black Bolt at the end of last issue, I thought he was a fake. Black Bolt is dead, died during the War of Kings, so this cannot be Black Blot right? Wrong because it seems that this is the real Black Bolt and this issue is the showcase of his return. Unfortunately writer Jonathan Hickman devoted the whole issue to his return and nothing else. Everything ground to a halt for the return of Black Bolt and I have a problem with that. Even if Hickman intend to have Black Bolt play a big role in the future of FF, there’s no reason for everything else to stop! On its own, this issue isn’t that bad but the change of gears from the previous issues is. This issue is just too different from the issues that came before.

Green Lantern #67- The War of the Green Lanterns reaches its epic conclusion in this status-changing issue of Green Lantern. The Green Lanterns make their stand against Krona, and the other mind-controlled Guardians of Oa. Writer Geoff Johns and artist Doug Mahnke made sure the conclusion is an epic issue that will change the Green Lantern mythos and landscape for some time. However, I found that parts of the issue are rushed. It’s as if Johns has a wanted ending and rushed through the issue to get to that ending. Overall, I still found the issue to be a solid finish to a great event that did that rarest thing; an event that changes things.