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jmbz38's review
adventurous
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.0
surfmonkey01's review
3.0
I’m basically reusing a review across this series, as it seems to hold as things go on. Overall it’s a bunch of highs and lows. Some books are consistently excellent (Marauders, X-Force, Wolverine, and it looks like X-Factor & Hellions will join that group) while some are middling to mediocre (Excalibur being the worst of the lot, plus Cable being so-so, and the main X-Men book varying in quality from one issue to the next). I’m still reading, so the overall whole is quality, and the whole setting that they’ve established is still unique and intriguing. It’s like a house of cards that we know is doomed to fall eventually, it’s just a question of when and how)
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? It's complicated
3.75
jammasterjamie's review
3.0
Three stars all around. Nothing particularly great in this volume, nothing particularly crappy either.
crookedtreehouse's review
2.0
The first issue in this collection, which continues the Empyre storyline from the previous volume is a confusing mess of a comic. Characters seem to be in two places at once because the writers couldn't keep track of them, the plant people vs the zombie mutants vs the living mutants vs the Hordeculture ladies overlap is messy and uninspiring. IN the next issue Hickman steps in to clear things up, and it's remarkably better than the issues preceding it, but it's too late for me to care about this plot or how it afffects any of the characters, with the exception of Exploding Boy(?) who gets a nice scene where his zombie self is comforted by his reincarnated self, and The Scarlet Witch who caused half of this mess ... again.
The post-Empyre issue of X-Men throws a bunch of ideas against the wall and none of them stick. Exodus is teaching kids to be pro-Magneto? Ok. An alien who looks precisely like the aliens [a:Jonathan Hickman|356424|Jonathan Hickman|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1356400161p2/356424.jpg] introduced in his Avengers run a few years ago challenges a mutant to a strategy game, and then we never see them again. The whole issue is pretty much a giant shrug emoji.
The Wolverine and X-Factor issues are both fine but nothing special. While I like the concept of the Wolverine issue: a recovery group of people whose lives were adversely affected by mutants band together to punish Wolverine, the book just doesn't flesh the characters out enough before it tacks into a different wind. The X-Factor in Mojoverse book is another in a long line of examples where Mojo is an ineffective villain whose gag existence should have been ended twenty or thirty years ago.
This isn't a terrible book. It's just not up to par with the beginning of the Dawn Of X run. I fear the whole X-tended X-verse is going to flame out even before it reaches X Of Swords, which seems imminently on the horizon for this series.
The post-Empyre issue of X-Men throws a bunch of ideas against the wall and none of them stick. Exodus is teaching kids to be pro-Magneto? Ok. An alien who looks precisely like the aliens [a:Jonathan Hickman|356424|Jonathan Hickman|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1356400161p2/356424.jpg] introduced in his Avengers run a few years ago challenges a mutant to a strategy game, and then we never see them again. The whole issue is pretty much a giant shrug emoji.
The Wolverine and X-Factor issues are both fine but nothing special. While I like the concept of the Wolverine issue: a recovery group of people whose lives were adversely affected by mutants band together to punish Wolverine, the book just doesn't flesh the characters out enough before it tacks into a different wind. The X-Factor in Mojoverse book is another in a long line of examples where Mojo is an ineffective villain whose gag existence should have been ended twenty or thirty years ago.
This isn't a terrible book. It's just not up to par with the beginning of the Dawn Of X run. I fear the whole X-tended X-verse is going to flame out even before it reaches X Of Swords, which seems imminently on the horizon for this series.
astraea14'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
4.5
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
3.0
Empyre: X-Men (2020) #3-4 - 3.5/5 (explodey boy made me sad :(! )
X-Men (2019) #11 - 3.5/5 (dont get this issue)
Wolverine (2020) #4 - 4/5 (classic wolverine love it)
X-Factor (2020) #2 - 3/5 (meh)
X-Men (2019) #11 - 3.5/5 (dont get this issue)
Wolverine (2020) #4 - 4/5 (classic wolverine love it)
X-Factor (2020) #2 - 3/5 (meh)