Logan and
Scott finally come to blows, or more like blasts and slashes, when they differ
dramatically on what route of action to take when a super Sentinel bears down
on Utopia. Scott wants to face the monster with the X-kids, potentially risking
their lives, and Logan
wants to abandon ship in order to live to fight another day. The two don’t
actually come to blows though until Scott delivers a devastatingly petty,
childish, and out of the blue remark to Logan
concerning a certain deceased love of theirs…

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This is a
family friendly site so I can’t say what I now think of Scott Summers aka
Cyclops. I can’t help but think of the Hugh Jackman delivered line in X-Men (2000) when Scott asks him how
they know for sure it was Logan
staggering back into the room and not Mystique. I also haven’t been as blown
away by Logan
as a character since…well, I honestly don’t remember when. Just as I’m
bewailing the destruction of dynamism at DC Comics as far as the new DCnU Superboy
and Supergirl are concerned, I’m absolutely thrilled at the dynamism that Jason
Aaron is bringing to Logan
in the pages of SCHISM. The marketing
surrounding the impending X-Men Re-Genesis
storyline is asking readers to choose their team. Put me on Team Logan (okay,
so even I can’t escape the pop culture saturation of idiotic Twilight idioms).

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One team I
can be left off of though is Alan Davis’. His art isn’t poor by any means, it
just doesn’t appeal to me. He draws an incredible looking super Sentinel. His
action choreography and panel flow are both fine as well. It’s his facial
expressions. They are too out of proportion for my tastes. Also they seem a bit
repetitive.
After all
the buildup to the onset of the Logan
vs. Scott battle, when it finally gets here it feels a bit anti-climatic. While
what sets the two at each others' throats has its basis in the direction that
each wants to take the X-Men in, and how seriously to involve the “kids,” it
really comes down to blows as the result of a smart-aleck comment over a
character long gone. A character, for whose sake, the two shouldn’t be
fighting with each other over, but focusing on the real goal, that of taking care of the youngest X-Men.