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jammasterjamie's review
4.0
I feel like this volume was a little unfairly stacked by giving us double doses of X-Men and Marauders with a nice serving of X-Force for dessert, but this serves as a good reminder about how great the current status quo of X really is.
crookedtreehouse's review
4.0
I didn't find any weak spots in this collection.
SWORD #4: I hadn't recognized Cable as the symbiote villain in his first appearance as such but I liked his use once they identified him. I also enjoyed the focus on Manifold, which I hadn't in the previous issue. There was a lot of X-continuity porn in this whole volume, but particuarly in this issue, and I enjoyed it. I am tentatively excited to read the King In Black book. 4/5*
X-Men #18 & 19: I've missed seeing Hickman's work in the last couple of trades. The story here about Wolverine (formerly X-23), Darwin, and Synch trying to invade and then escape from the vault was well told and engaging, and mercifully brief. 4/5*
Marauders #18 & 19: We last saw Madripoor in the pages of Wolverine, and it was the usual desolate, anti-mutant wasteland, but in the pages of Marauders we see it becoming a welcoming place as Emma Frost opens the Moira Mactaggert Memorial Hospital. There are a ton of fun winks to the larger Krakoan story, and [a:Gerry Duggan|594966|Gerry Duggan|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1442471582p2/594966.jpg] writes with some of the best sense of character in modern comics. 4/5*
X-Force # 17, with a focus on Quentin Quire, was also fantastic. Obviously I'm reading these in trades, and not issues, but it really feels like they're writing a lot of these X-books as either standalone issues or two-parters. This peek into Quire's psyche is clearly a setup to a larger story but it also felt contained and well constructed. 4/5*
SWORD #4: I hadn't recognized Cable as the symbiote villain in his first appearance as such but I liked his use once they identified him. I also enjoyed the focus on Manifold, which I hadn't in the previous issue. There was a lot of X-continuity porn in this whole volume, but particuarly in this issue, and I enjoyed it. I am tentatively excited to read the King In Black book. 4/5*
X-Men #18 & 19: I've missed seeing Hickman's work in the last couple of trades. The story here about Wolverine (formerly X-23), Darwin, and Synch trying to invade and then escape from the vault was well told and engaging, and mercifully brief. 4/5*
Marauders #18 & 19: We last saw Madripoor in the pages of Wolverine, and it was the usual desolate, anti-mutant wasteland, but in the pages of Marauders we see it becoming a welcoming place as Emma Frost opens the Moira Mactaggert Memorial Hospital. There are a ton of fun winks to the larger Krakoan story, and [a:Gerry Duggan|594966|Gerry Duggan|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1442471582p2/594966.jpg] writes with some of the best sense of character in modern comics. 4/5*
X-Force # 17, with a focus on Quentin Quire, was also fantastic. Obviously I'm reading these in trades, and not issues, but it really feels like they're writing a lot of these X-books as either standalone issues or two-parters. This peek into Quire's psyche is clearly a setup to a larger story but it also felt contained and well constructed. 4/5*
vroodles's review
adventurous
dark
funny
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
I'm always a fan of a Marauders-heavy volume, altho I could do with less Verendi. Kid Omega's possible doppelganger might finally make me interested in X-Force!
afreen7's review
4.0
S.W.O.R.D. (2020) 4 - 4/5
X-Men (2019) 18-19 - 4.5/5
Marauders (2019) 18-19 - 4/5
X-Force (2019) 17 - 4/5 (i like x force really but what is up with the art!? made kid omega look like old man omega for a minute)
X-Men (2019) 18-19 - 4.5/5
Marauders (2019) 18-19 - 4/5
X-Force (2019) 17 - 4/5 (i like x force really but what is up with the art!? made kid omega look like old man omega for a minute)
wanderlustlover's review
4.0
Spring 2020 (April);
Dawn of X (Vol. 11-16)
X of Swords (full)
Reign of X (Vol. 1-7)
** As a spoiler warning, do not read this review unless you've read all of the above issues, not just the volume where you've found this review. **
I did a massive multi-volume, multi-arc blitz recently and so I'm going to just drop a lot of what's hot here & going to be copying it down across a million books. My favorite thing literally is now and forever the Polycule going on in Summer House. I love his universe and am certainly very curious about the things still hiding in the shadows.
I'm glad Kitty found her way through that thing. I'm glad we didn't lose Betsy while we were in the other universe where death *sort of* sticks. Excalibur remains the most arrestingly gorgeous art. I'm still not interested in the one and only story comics know how to tell with Beast. I love the whole council and can't stop cooing over Erik as the Left Hand/Charles as the right (and even more so the bits where/how Jean & Scott are off to reform the X-Men #goodboy).
Jeanne & The Twins, in general, are back and I'm super duper in love with that. I really madly adore that there isn't any vast soap opera drama with any relationships or old bad blood that can't be given a new chance in Krakoa. There's such a breath of fresh air reading a lot of the choices Hickman and his writers have made. Illyana remains a badass demon-sorceress at all times, and Ororo remains a goddess. I loved all the Giant-Size art across Emma, Jean, Ororo.
Dawn of X (Vol. 11-16)
X of Swords (full)
Reign of X (Vol. 1-7)
** As a spoiler warning, do not read this review unless you've read all of the above issues, not just the volume where you've found this review. **
I did a massive multi-volume, multi-arc blitz recently and so I'm going to just drop a lot of what's hot here & going to be copying it down across a million books. My favorite thing literally is now and forever the Polycule going on in Summer House. I love his universe and am certainly very curious about the things still hiding in the shadows.
I'm glad Kitty found her way through that thing. I'm glad we didn't lose Betsy while we were in the other universe where death *sort of* sticks. Excalibur remains the most arrestingly gorgeous art. I'm still not interested in the one and only story comics know how to tell with Beast. I love the whole council and can't stop cooing over Erik as the Left Hand/Charles as the right (and even more so the bits where/how Jean & Scott are off to reform the X-Men #goodboy).
Jeanne & The Twins, in general, are back and I'm super duper in love with that. I really madly adore that there isn't any vast soap opera drama with any relationships or old bad blood that can't be given a new chance in Krakoa. There's such a breath of fresh air reading a lot of the choices Hickman and his writers have made. Illyana remains a badass demon-sorceress at all times, and Ororo remains a goddess. I loved all the Giant-Size art across Emma, Jean, Ororo.
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