A review by crookedtreehouse
X-Men Gold, Vol. 1: Back to the Basics by Marc Guggenheim

3.0

The worst part of the post-Secret Wars X-books is that the forgettable, unchallenging books, are, by far, the best Marvel had to offer. X-Men Gold is yet another configuration of an X-team designed to deal with crises. It mostly ignores the terrible Extraordinary and Uncanny runs that preceded it, which was a wise decision. But another bigoted politician working with sentinel tech and brainwashing mutants to fight for her? How many times can this story be retold? And the sentinels are mutating? Again? Not only has this been done a dozen times before since the Grant Morrison "New X-Men" run, but we're also seeing a variation of this same premise happening in X-Men Blue at the same time.

Guggenheim has a better handle on character interactions than Bunn, Soule, or Lemire did, but the story just isn't that impressive.

I recommend it for someone who, at gunpoint, is forced to read an X-book from the 2010s.