I’ve never liked Cyclops. I don’t know exactly when that happened, but he surely hasn’t been written as a likable character for quite a while. That’s the beauty of having a second Cyclops around. It almost makes the other one more tolerable. With Cyclops #1, we see a sixteen year old, infinitely more likable, Scott Summers reunited with his Dad, Corsair, who was thought to be dead. Scott decided to join Corsair on his voyages at the end of the All-New X-Men/Guardians of the Galaxy crossover and this is a continuation of that story.
I really didn’t know what to expect with this book, but what I got was exactly what I wanted, without even realizing it. I totally enjoyed seeing Scott and Corsair as they struggle to find their way as father and son. Rucka seems to be in Corsair’s head and I like the way he writes the character. In fact, they could call this book Corsair instead of Cyclops and it would be fairly accurate.
Russell Dauterman does a pretty good job on art and continues the fun feel with the way he draws the interactions between the characters. Corsair sometimes looks like he has the one of the best faux hawks in Marvel Universe, second only to Carol Danvers, but it still kind of works for the character.
In one issue, Rucka managed to make me like a character that I have spent years despising. A lot of that has to do with Corsair and his crew because they are as much a part of the book as Cyclops. A swashbuckling adventure between father and son might just be what is needed to change the boy we don’t know from becoming the man we do.
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