I recently reviewed X-Men Legacy #247 for CBR and, in the process, wrote the following sentences: "In his essay 'Twelve Notes on the Mystery Story,' Raymond Chandler, author of The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye gave 12 suggestions/rules for mystery stories. For the tenth note, he wrote, 'The solution must seem inevitable once revealed,' placing a specific importance on the moment of denouement. It's not the most important part of a mystery story, necessarily, since a lot still hinges on that initial moment of revelation and what effect it produces in the reader. In that respect, X-Men Legacy #247 and, sadly, the entire 'Age of X' story fails when the solution to the creation of this alternate world doesn’t seem inevitable or, to add to Chandler’s criteria, satisfying."You can read the rest HERE!
