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A review by crookedtreehouse
Dawn of X Vol. 13 by Leah Williams, Benjamin Percy, Nolan Woodard, Tini Howard, Jonathan Hickman, Sunny Gho, Phil Noto, Leinil Francis Yu, Lucas Werneck, Matteo Buffagni, Gerry Duggan
2.0
The description of this book is way off. This book includes only two issues of Cable, one issue of X-Men, and the two Empyre X-Men issues.
The Cable storyline that leads into the upcoming Sword of X trade is fun, and features an appearance of King Deadpool.
I was excited for the first Hickman X-Men issue in several volumes, but it was quite a letdown. The story about Vulcan and two of the other members of the Brubaker retconned second X-Men team from [b:X-Men: Deadly Genesis|106060|X-Men Deadly Genesis|Ed Brubaker|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1528358551l/106060._SY75_.jpg|1632305] was dull, and connected to the upcoming Empyre event in a very shrugworthy way. It was the lowlight of the collection for me.
The actual Empyre storyline threw all sorts of madness, plant aliens, Genoshan zombies, the plant-obsessed grannies from the beginning of Hickman's X-Men run, and more censored swears than a Quentin Tarantino marathon playing on a Christian channel. It felt very haphazard and disconnected both the current X-stories, and the Empyre event.
I still think it's worth reading for the Cable story but it's otherwise a disappointing volume.
The Cable storyline that leads into the upcoming Sword of X trade is fun, and features an appearance of King Deadpool.
I was excited for the first Hickman X-Men issue in several volumes, but it was quite a letdown. The story about Vulcan and two of the other members of the Brubaker retconned second X-Men team from [b:X-Men: Deadly Genesis|106060|X-Men Deadly Genesis|Ed Brubaker|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1528358551l/106060._SY75_.jpg|1632305] was dull, and connected to the upcoming Empyre event in a very shrugworthy way. It was the lowlight of the collection for me.
The actual Empyre storyline threw all sorts of madness, plant aliens, Genoshan zombies, the plant-obsessed grannies from the beginning of Hickman's X-Men run, and more censored swears than a Quentin Tarantino marathon playing on a Christian channel. It felt very haphazard and disconnected both the current X-stories, and the Empyre event.
I still think it's worth reading for the Cable story but it's otherwise a disappointing volume.