Sunday, January 17, 2016

World War Wendigo!

Marvel Comics recently offered a version of the Wendigo apocalypse in the recent "World War Wendigo" arc of Amazing X-Men (nos. 8-12) by Craig Kyle and Chris Yost. The story pits the X-Men and the classic Alpha Flight against the seemingly unstoppable spread of the curse of the Wendigo across Canada. It also links the Wendigo curse to the Great Beasts, personifications of Canada in the Marvel Universe (details at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendigo_(comics)).

Parts of the story are a bit gruesome, but it is sure to appeal to fans of Chris Claremont's Uncanny X-Men and John Bryne's Alpha Flight series of the 1980s.

The arc is collected in Amazing X-Men: World War Wendigo (978-0-7851-8822-3).More details on Marvel's Wendigo can be found on Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendigo_(comics).