#xfacotr68

I can hardly believe that this “The Twelve” storyline, about 12 chosen mutants who are destined to shape the future of their species, is serviced in this way. After being apathetically introduced ages ago in X-Factor #14 (54 issues ago), it hasn’t been mentioned again until now, and I’ll be fucked if I have any idea if it’s addressed again until nearly a decade later when the whole thing is finally resolved in Uncanny X-Men #376-#377. Which I’m told is absolutely dreadful. That is what I would call, a failure in storytelling.

It doesn’t sound uninteresting on its surface, if you can suspend your disbelief and accept that Cyclops is one of these special, chosen mutants. A little open ended maybe. I bet Claremont introduced the initial setup for this story without having much of a payoff planned out, which is the worst possible way to go about telling a story. That’s how we end up with shit like the new Star Wars trilogy. Is it too much to ask that people actually write out a whole story before they start telling it? (X-Factor #68 – July 1991)