It's a brand new arc for Jason Aaron's title this week and a great time to jump on board. Wolverine takes his students on a life or death field trip, and a mysterious threat lurks within striking distance. The setup is interesting enough as it unfolds, but the real highlights of this book are found in the character moments and fun details planted in nearly every panel.
Aaron is back to the peak of his form in Wolverine and the X-Men #25. The characterizations are so real, it's hard to process at first. With nothing more than a couple of emerging stars sprinkled among the D-listers of the Jean Grey School, Jason Aaron crafts a tremendously convincing and interesting story. The humor here is biting and the subtextual dynamics are mature; however, Aaron keeps a certain all-ages aspect to the experience. Of the many ways that this script could be described as masterful, the most convincing is probably its nonlinear presentation. By dicing the story as he does, Aaron not only reflects the tantalizing time travel aspect of the story, he packs a whole lot of off-panel character development into this single issue.
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