Reviews

X-Treme X-Men, Vol. 2: You Can't Go Home Again by Greg Pak, Stephen Segovia, Paco Diaz Luque, André Lima Araújo

jobinsonlis's review against another edition

3.0

Now I actually loved the two volumes of this short-lived series because it's pure X-Men from beginning to end, with lots of space travel, evil robots, and alternate realities (complete with an alternate version of Wolverine who is a cowboy that's in a loving relationship with an alternate version of the god Hercules). Plus it stars Dazzler in a series of glamtastic rocker outfits. However I have to ding this pretty hard because unless you'd been reading the X-Men comics around this time (or had been vaguely keeping up with their shenanigans like me), these two volumes would be an incomprehensible mess. Plus the series ends on a cliffhanger that would only be resolved in the event comic X-Men: X-Termination...which would only make sense if you had also been reading Astonishing X-Men, Age of Apocalypse, and Uncanny X-Force from that time. And apparently X-Termination isn't very good so I'm not particularly motivated to track them all down right away. This is why event comics are a pain in the ass. If you can't tell a whole story in one series, don't make me track down all your other partial ones to piece it together. But damn if Dazzler and Howlet weren't rocking those cowboy hats.

renatasnacks's review

5.0

I was debating between 4 and 5 stars and then I remembered Unicorn Xavier with Cupcake Guns and I knew in my heart that this is a 5-star book.

Sometime I will show you all the rating rubric of my heart, but until then, that's pretty much all I have to say about this.

nnebeluk's review

4.0

x-tremely fun and just a touch insane. Exactly what comics should be

olsenc's review

adventurous dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

selfwinding's review

4.0

The pacing here felt a little rushed, but I loved seeing the 616 presented as another broken Earth. (Thanks to my disjointed knowledge of current canon it actually took me a little bit before I figured out it was the 616!)

Overall really enjoyed this dimension-hopping run, even if I wished it had been a bit weirder.

depreydeprey's review

3.0

Oh boy does volume two of this series get convoluted. There is a large gulf between alternate versions and multiple versions of main stream X-men and other than the multiple, alternate Xavier's that are the villains throughout this series the second Dazzler doesn't add much to the narative. On the whole I'd say I liked this series and the alternate Hercules is an all time great plot devise but it fell off from the first volume.