Review: X-force #22 Necrosha X

X-force # 22 (Necrosha X)
By Craig Kyle, Christopher Yost, and Trevor Crain

X-force #22 finds the X-Men knee deep in techno-organic undead mutants storming Utopia as Selene makes her way to the ruins of Genosha. If you remember, Genosha was the site where sixteen million mutants met their fate at the hands of super-sentinels led by Charles Xavier's sister Cassandra Nova. Selene is a vampire who seeks godhood and will use the techno-organic resurrected mutants of Genosha to do it.

X-force is a title I look forward to each month but so far this story is lacking a bit for me. Maybe it's too close in theme to Blackest Night or maybe because they just came off a disappointing crossover (Messiah War). Plus there's Wolfsbane love story with the Asgardian Wolf Prince which really seems out of place shoved into the middle of this story. I really would like to see the book return to its main story of picking off Bastion's cabal of techno-villains.

The art is by Trevor Crain, who is an amazing illustrator but over the last couple of issues has used too many dark colors making it hard to understand what's going on in the panels. I find myself squinting trying to figure out which character is which and who's fighting who.

Story wise, we find undead X-Men fighting live X-Men, White Queen mysteriously incapacitated and Eli Bard has blown it for his queen once again. At this point, the story gets a bit confusing as M Day made even the dead mutants have no powers and though they mention that, the characters still plan on using them as fodder.

So overall, a bit of a disappointment but still worth reading as they've really only begun the Necrosha X crossover.