With X-Factor #4, @mymonsterischic @david_baldeon and @IsraelSilvaArt have the emotion jump off the page and pull the reader into the story. With this issue, the grand battle of X of Swords is grounded and given weight beyond the mythology of the war introduced last chapter. Read Full Review

Final Thoughts: Leigh Williams has upped her game and written what will be a massive game-changer in the lives of mutants going forward. Actions now have actual meaningful and lasting consequences. And Leigh has also cemented in my mind what many already think. That being, who the biggest threat to mutants really is… Read Full Review

Carlos Gomez delivers some stunning art in this issue. The details in the characters are amazing. The action is thrilling and the art perfectly captures the mood of the story. Read Full Review

X of Swords continues with the resolution of Apocalypse's mission and the start of the story arc as a whole. Read Full Review

X-Factor #4 is a strong second chapter for X of Swords, raising the stakes of this event and disrupting the Krakoan status quo! Read Full Review

X of Swords – Chapter 2Death and rebirth. Corruption. A dark discovery. Read Full Review

X-Factor #4 was a fantastic follow-up and second chapter to X Of Swords. Leah Williams showed that the X-Men team are united in telling the best story possible with how seamlessly she took the baton from Jonathan Hickman and Tini Howard. Every character and story development created greater intrigue in what this entire crossover event will be about. Read Full Review

More than the first part of X of Swords, this issue of X-Factor feels like it carries much more weight. The stakes are definitely higher as readers learn the real threat that Outworld and the coming war present. What's fascinating is that Williams still manages to make his part of this event feel like X-Factor. The investigation into the event that disrupts the resurrection process is compelling. From that point on, the event really gets some momentum going, and we can wrap our heads around the wild premise it's leading to. Read Full Review

X-Factor #4 is the second part of a large crossover, but it is a book that is a good read on its own. Leah Williams doesnt back down from the challenge of following up the massive first part of the story arc, and writes a very good second act. The pencils and colors are top notch too. X-Factor #4 is a good sign for things to come. Read Full Review

So far, this crossover is two for two and I can't wait for the next issues. Read Full Review

Overall chapter two brought excitement and sadness to this event. The game has really changed and the mutants need to adjust or risk being wiped out. Our first champion has stepped forward, with speculation of who the others might be. This tournament just may actually be the death of them, or at least a few of them. Read Full Review

After two consecutive weeks of just one issue each, were getting a whopping three chapters: Wolverine #6, Marauders #13, and X-Force #13. We havent seen much of most of the characters in those titles yet, so Im interested to see how they feel about the current conflict. Im sure Logan will handle the prospect of war with the calm, measured attitude hes known for" Read Full Review

A solid book, exploring more of Krakoa's culture in the aftermath of the beginning of X of Swords. Read Full Review

Apparently instead of jumping right into the X of Swords tournament, we're going to have to recruit and arm all 10 combatants. And apparently instead of jumping right into that, we need this over-sized issue to explain it. Read Full Review

X-Factor #4 is bloated. It gets across what it's trying to, but it's obvious that there's not enough story for all of the pages. Williams does an admirable job of not letting the cracks show, and the art by Gomez and Silva is pretty good to boot. All things considered, it could be worse. Read Full Review

Can't wait to read more of this!

Wow. Leah Williams knocks it out of the park. The stakes have become more real, the set up gets more intriguing, data pages about Otherworld are SUPER interesting, and moments like Lorna's suffering or Xavier shaming Apocalypse were stellar. Also Moira showed up briefly!!! X of Swords is proving that the X writers know what they are doing!

A very good issue! I liked it a lot!

This is the best issue of X-Factor yet. I really enjoyed the revelations here. It adds a lot of weight to this event.

XOS Ch. 2: X Of Swords is still knocking it out of the park so far. The stakes are raised with Rockslide's death and I continue to be more and more invested in Apocalypse and Rictor's relationship. Great stuff!

This was an issue that really picked up for me as time went on. I wasn't the biggest fan of Gomez's art throughout this issue, but it was far from bad. That said, though, Williams's writing was the best part. Like I said, it took me a bit to really get into this, but I did. Rockslide's death was crazy and I think it was a good way to add some stakes to this crossover early on.

So much better than the first X-of-Swords. With a better artist, this could've been a really outstanding issue. As it stands, I still really like it, it's just unfortunate that the one aspect is holding it back, and it's not even Leah Williams' fault, who really outdid herself this time, in my humble opinion.

Leah had the hardest act to follow. And she knocked it out of the park.

People r gonna hate on this issue just cuz it's part of this series but this issue was delightful. It finally touched on the aspects of resurrection on krakoa and what would happen is that stopped working. I thought the pacing was great and kept the momentum from x of swords part 1. The developments from this issue up the stakes for the entire event, which is what I wanted because the X-Men had a Deus ex machina on their hands already. Keep it going X creative team

Great issue. Very interested in the rest of the event.

If you haven’t been following the x-books pretty closely, I can see why you’d get lost. Otherwise wow, ten of swords part 2 ups the stakes and completely changes what we’ve taken for granted. It’s not as tightly written as part one but it’s still intense and fast paced. Can’t wait for part 3!

Part 1 is a must read. I'm also rereading every X-book and a lot of confusing tidbits in past stories are beginning to make sense.

This delivers some solid event developments, but not 40 pages' worth. It chews more than it bites off. Nice art. I may be in the minority on this -- or even alone -- but I didn't like how completely the event took over the title. Everyone except Polaris and Rachel is on time-out.

Note I am 1000% in favor of disrupting the Resurrection Protocols to inject some tension into mutant combat again.

Art 2.5/5 (boob socks everywhere -1Pt)
Story 4/5

Wow. The writing is terrible.

Pace is really awful, they don't have story for fill a issue. So they have pages and more pages of characters talking with each other like idiots.

So now they create a problem with ressurrection, completely nosense.

X of swords is really awful and no-sense.

The art is good.

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Toonstrack - Oct 2, 2020

Man I disagree with almost all of this. This was a very needed issue that sets up serious stakes for the event. People were wondering how you would create any tension if all the good guys can just respawn, now we know how they've achieved it.

maelstron - Oct 2, 2020

"oh but they need to set up things" they had 3 issues before this to do that, but the pace was almost glacial and structure problems. I don't care, they created some type of ressurrection system and when the first event happens they find some random cause for the system not function in only one place. They just went for the easy way, instead of dealing with ressurrection. Thos whole era is dumb

Toonstrack - Oct 2, 2020

3 issues? This is part 2 of the event. Theres literally one 1 issue before this pertaining to the story. If you dont like the whole era, well.... i mean I don't know what you were expecting from this event.

maelstron - Oct 3, 2020

No, the event started on Excalibur #12 where the gate is open, then X-men #12 with the sotry of Arrako. They were called preludes, but they are essential reading for the event. So this is in reality part 4

Toonstrack - Oct 3, 2020

All the same they had to do a lot of explaining even in those issues. Given the timing of events with Rockslides death it makes sense they would only discover this after someone died. No one on Arakko was gonna tell them their resurrection don't work lol

maelstron - Oct 3, 2020

no one knew about the ressurrection, so no one could warn. That wasn't what I criticized. My critic is about how the problem with ressurrection has nothing to do with how the ressurrection was presented.

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One of the worst issues I've read in these couple years. Weak plot, characters acting dumb, it's such a shame this one come right after Creation.

Everything in this don't make any sense. don't make sense with the last issue, don't make sense with the Part I of the big Event, don't make sense with the characters, My God Mate they should fire the writter and give this serie to someone who doesnt make a mess like this. Don't know if the script is so bad that makes the art go down too or just the art and color don't work at all.

Nothing makes sense here. Maybe another writer would know how to handle this better