Comic book fans, our long national nightmare is over–at least until the inevitable hardcover edition.Avengers vs. X-Men is not a series for which we’ve had much enthusiasm here at ComicBook.com–it toggled between being brainless and impenetrable, sometimes within the same issue, and had characterization problems that dated all the way back to the opening issue. Writing such a project by committee rarely seems to work and, while Marvel editor Steve Wacker has a history of making it work for him on 52 and Amazing Spider-Man, clearly nobody was listening to his wisdom here because the book was really a mess.But after last month’s emotionally-draining #11, which wasn’t great but was certainly one of the better issues in the series, it seemed as though the series was set to end on an up note.Let’s first do away with something that’s been a consistent theme in early reviews for the issue, which steeted on Wednesday: The way Cyclops is being treated by the other characters is not, in itself, particularly surprising or unfair. Many writers and fans have rightly pointed out that characters in comics get mind-controlled all the time, including some who played key roles in Avengers vs. X-Men, and that they don’t get nearly the bad rap Scott Summers is getting. Wanda plunged the world into chaos and arguably precipitated these events and many more with her “No more mutants” proclamation. Jean Grey wiped out universes while under the influence of the Phoenix.
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