All New X-Men #25 (2012)

Bendis!(tm) has a long history of getting indy artists to work on jam issues of titles he writing for Marvel. This is one of those, and like many of those, it didn't really work for me. It drops the ball a few times, the first being a solicitation for Stuart Immonen as penciller when David Marquez handles the 'now' storyline in the book. The next is presenting mostly anything good that might happen to the X-Men in jokey, dismissive, " Look at me...I'm independent!!!" terms, both in the writing and art styles. There are seven pages that practically scream "I got my friends real page rates!". As has been the case so often with these books, the styles used don't fit with the book. He switches up his own writing to fit their styles, which also doesn't fit with the book. The parts end up fighting the whole (they win), and what we're left with is less to care about and more pages to do it over. I bet next issue is much better. Harumph.