Reviews

Astonishing X-Men, Volume 11: Weaponized by Mike Perkins, Christos Gage, Marjorie Liu, David Baldeón

stevequinn's review against another edition

1.0

Miserable. Just miserable. The story barely hangs together, and often I couldn't tell which characters were which. Gives the X-Men a bad name.

crookedtreehouse's review against another edition

2.0

Both Liu and Gage have put too much melodrama in this volume. It's tough to make a back-from-the-dead-family storyline or a we-just-got-married-and-we're-mutants storyline in the 21st century, as they've been done to death. You've got to have a deft hand, and really tight dialogue, and neither Liu nor Gage are giften in those departments.

The art style, while not at all what one expects from superhero books, is a good match for the type of stories that Liu and Gage each tell. But it wasn't enough to make me enjoy this series.

mjfmjfmjf's review against another edition

4.0

Reading a series out of order doesn't usually give the best view into a book. But it does indicate whether the story works on its own. And this one kind of does. We get to see who the characters are as people as well as backstories. Kitty even gets to be herself if only for a few short pages. Mostly this is about Karma and Northstar, neither which are characters I care all that much about. But after reading this, I care about them a bit more. So not fantastic, but pretty good. 3.5 of 5.

melhara's review against another edition

1.0

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Average rating for the entire series (minus Volume 12): 3.1/5
Check out my reviews for the rest of the series:
Volume 1: Gifted | Volume 2: Dangerous | Volume 3: Torn (no review) | Volume 4: Unstoppable (no review) | Volume 5: Ghost Box (no review) | Volume 6: Exogenic (no review) | Volume 7: Monstrous (no review) | Volume 8: Children of the Brood (no review) | Volume 9: Exalted (no review) | Volume 10: Northstar | Volume 11: Weaponized (no review) | Volume 12: Unmasked (TBR)

matterofmichael's review

3.0

Annual 5/5

renatasnacks's review

4.0

UGH BEST. I know the "X-Men pretending to bicker and fall apart while secretly having a plan" thing happens like, a lot? But I love it every time. Especially when Gambit and Wolverine get to bicker.

I don't really know much about Karma as a character but her whole plot line was interesting even for a newcomer. (And sad. Aww.) And I like that Jean-Paul & Kyle are having a cool grownup marriage but with superpowers. YEAH!!

nnebeluk's review

2.0

I don't think anything actually happened in this story line. Northstar got some (a lot) of marriage advice and there's a predictable deus ex machina (Iceman can now control himself in vapor form?). Overall the story doesn't seem to have any traction or add anything to the universe