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jmbz38's review
adventurous
medium-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? It's complicated
4.5
surfmonkey01's review
3.0
We’ve settled into a pattern with these books now. Wolverine is really good, and kind of a companion to X-Force, which should be called “When did Beast become a supervillain?” Marauders is great, Excalibur has a great cast but is mediocre, New Mutants is just there, X-Factor and Hellions are love, and X-Men itself is hit & miss. I’m looking forward to X of Swords and seeing where things go from there, it’s time for a shakeup of the patterns these books have settled into...
fbernardes's review
adventurous
mysterious
medium-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
3.75
jammasterjamie's review
4.0
Really more of a run-of-the-mill three star read, but without any really obvious spoilers, it earned an extra star from me for the creative return of a certain character and the person who figured out how to pull it off, thereby adding to the dynamic of their already really well-written and historic relationship with each other.
crookedtreehouse's review
4.0
After a bit of a rought start, this volume is one of the better Dawn Of X titles in a while. X-Factor has quickly gone from promising to eyerolling for me. It's mainly that I can't think of a Mojoverse story that's ever been good. It's an interesting concept, and Mojo is always a ridiculous character, but every writer wants to update the Mojoverse (which makes sense) to the latest jargon and technical advances. But they never get it quite right. The dialogue, jokes, and panel to panel storytelling was grating in the Mojoverse parts but well-paced in the scenes between Daken and Aurora. The largest frustration for long time readers will be the characterization of Spiral who bears no resemblance to any previous version of the character that I recall. This might be a deliberate choice by Williams to point out that she's a prisoner, as Shattershot behaves differently in this issue but it's clear that it's a cry for help. This was a 2/5 for me.
I'm also not a huge fan of Dracula in the Marvel Universe, but the Wolverine story doesn't give Dracula too much attention, instead focusing on how the use of Wolverine's blood has created a 30 Days Of Night scenario across Canada. The Canadian setting, and the lack of other X-characters makes this feel like some of the better Wolverine runs, like Greg Rucka's, rather than being more similar to the bloated Wolverine eras where he was in a billion stories being King Badass Of Everything. 3/5.
The New Mutants story about Magik and crew taking it to Dox, a website outing mutants and helping the Marvel Universe's right wing nutjob/terrorists allegorical groups attack mutants. The story, in general, is really strong, but the highlight is the conversation between Glob and Magik that closes the issue. I never really think about Glob, even though he's been a character in the X-Verse since Grant Morrison introduced him twenty years ago. This is the first time I remember his character being really fleshed out. I loved it. It felt really honest. 5/5
The two Marauders issues gives us the return of Kitty Pride whose absence (again again again) affected not just the characters in her title, but resonated through all of the X-books. We don't get the revenge story here, but the seeds are planted in a fascinating manner, and we get quality glimpses at Storm, The Five, Magik, and several others. 4/5
The book closes with the Fantomex Giant Sized issue. Another Morrison character, but this one's had plenty of in-depth character examinations, particularly during his time with X-Force. This issue was fine. I'm not sure how much I care about The World, but it was fun to see the various groyps of humand and mutants that Fantomex has interacted with over the years as he tries to understand The World. But in the end, we don't learn much more about The World than we knew before the issue started. 3/5
I'm not sure this would be a good entry point for any new X-reader, but for continuity porn fans, once you get past the frustration of X-Factor (which could totally pay out in future issues), this is a Must Read.
I'm also not a huge fan of Dracula in the Marvel Universe, but the Wolverine story doesn't give Dracula too much attention, instead focusing on how the use of Wolverine's blood has created a 30 Days Of Night scenario across Canada. The Canadian setting, and the lack of other X-characters makes this feel like some of the better Wolverine runs, like Greg Rucka's, rather than being more similar to the bloated Wolverine eras where he was in a billion stories being King Badass Of Everything. 3/5.
The New Mutants story about Magik and crew taking it to Dox, a website outing mutants and helping the Marvel Universe's right wing nutjob/terrorists allegorical groups attack mutants. The story, in general, is really strong, but the highlight is the conversation between Glob and Magik that closes the issue. I never really think about Glob, even though he's been a character in the X-Verse since Grant Morrison introduced him twenty years ago. This is the first time I remember his character being really fleshed out. I loved it. It felt really honest. 5/5
The two Marauders issues gives us the return of Kitty Pride whose absence (again again again) affected not just the characters in her title, but resonated through all of the X-books. We don't get the revenge story here, but the seeds are planted in a fascinating manner, and we get quality glimpses at Storm, The Five, Magik, and several others. 4/5
The book closes with the Fantomex Giant Sized issue. Another Morrison character, but this one's had plenty of in-depth character examinations, particularly during his time with X-Force. This issue was fine. I'm not sure how much I care about The World, but it was fun to see the various groyps of humand and mutants that Fantomex has interacted with over the years as he tries to understand The World. But in the end, we don't learn much more about The World than we knew before the issue started. 3/5
I'm not sure this would be a good entry point for any new X-reader, but for continuity porn fans, once you get past the frustration of X-Factor (which could totally pay out in future issues), this is a Must Read.
wanderlustlover's review
5.0
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.
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.
afreen7's review
4.0
X-Factor (2020) #3 - 4/5 ( this story just got all black mirror like)
Wolverine (2020) #5 - 4/5
New Mutants (2019) #12 - 4/5
Marauders (2019) #11-12 - 4/5
Giant-Size X-Men: Fantomex (2020) #1 3/5 (what did i just read?)
Wolverine (2020) #5 - 4/5
New Mutants (2019) #12 - 4/5
Marauders (2019) #11-12 - 4/5
Giant-Size X-Men: Fantomex (2020) #1 3/5 (what did i just read?)
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