“It’s Alive! It’s Allllliiiiiivvvvvvveee!”
In our Halloween celebration of scary comic book epics this entry is a creation of the mad scientists behind Wolverine and the X-Men.
The Frankenstein’s Murder Circus arc by Jason Aaron and Nick Bradshaw packed future classic with horror, humor, action, dramatic character development and one —- of a surprise ending!
A witch’s magic mind control turns the X-Men into circus freaks in a traveling show run by Frankenstein. As Logan’s students try to save their teachers. The mutants were facing zombie clowns! Yes, zombie clowns! Trust me, Aaron and Bradshaw make it work.
In the story we learn the secret of The Last Frankenstein and his monstrous past, see a glimpse of hope that he might be redeemed and a potential rattling in the status quo in the Hellfire Club. This kid with the monster ancestry isn’t the only teen who undergoes a big change in this story. The blossoming attraction between young mutants in love Idie and Quentin Quire takes an interesting turn. Is the smitten Kid Omega possibly changing his arrogant bad boy ways as Idie sinks deeper into the dark side?
Nick Bradshaw is an artistic madman conjuring zombie clowns, teen angst and a pop-tastic splash page of Wolverine and the X-Men ready to drop the big top on the murder circus! Doop fans will LOVE the finale issue of the arc!
I enjoyed every frame then Aaron and Bradshaw and pull a bombshell for their final magic act! The comeback of a forgotten villain that may be tied to a running theme since the series began. One of the freakiest, creepiest X-arcs in a long while and will tie directly into the upcoming Amazing X-Men title and the search for Nightcrawler – who’s supposed to be dead!
Jason Aaron’s entire X-Men run is phenomenal but this arc is monstrous and not just because of Frankenstein and those zombie clowns!
Happy Halloween
By Editor