This is an amazing issue that does a great job of setting up the rest of the series. Even if the Brotherhood is just getting started, so are the X-Men. Read Full Review

This title is still one of the strongest to come out of the re-launch, but thanks to this public snafu it appears that it might already be in trouble of keeping a consistent creative team on board. If this leads to delays are changes in plot, this book could be dead in the water before it even has a chance to start. Read Full Review

X-Men Gold #2 is another strong issue, proving that with Marc Guggenheim, this main X-Men book is in good hands. Read Full Review

This may read as comic book comfort food, but there's something to be said for knowing the classics and being able to emulate them well. There's a lot to like in this solid second installment of X-Men Gold, which hopefully will continue its momentum moving ahead. Read Full Review

I do have high hopes that this series will be able to find its voice. This is a very promising series but controversy may have boosted sales, but in the long run it may have hurt the series more than we know. Only time will tell if this is true or not. There are some great moments here still and Marc Guggenheim has chosen the perfect team of X-Men to lead us further into ResurreXion. Read Full Review

This comic is setting up nicely to be a solid superhero team book, with just enough super-powered action to keep it humming along. Let's see if it can manage to stay out of the drama swirling around much of the Marvel line. Read Full Review

Guggenheim and company fail to build on a tepid debut, but there's still hope that they can salvage their "back to basics" approach if they do more to meaningfully build up the world around these characters rather than just stick them in familiar roles and familiar situations. Read Full Review

While theart is decent enough to appreciate for what it is, the X-Men in action, the storyis just too random, scattered, and even worse treading into uninteresting territory for my tastes.  There are no bombastic X-Men: Gold team adventuresto be found here, just poorly done politics, and a 'been there done that'feeling. Read Full Review

Rehash Gold #2 is the definition of Meh. you feel like you got X-menish things out of it, but nothing felt intrguing nothing inivative. Its the kind of thing that makes people leave mainstreem comics. They see nothing but the same thing, but to this degree of rehash is almost shameless. If youre an X-men fan youll enjoy it, but its not the kind of thing a casual person would enjoy. Read Full Review

It's unfortunate, but I feel like this opening arc is going to be a total dud. The art is weak, the writing feels a little haphazard and though I can definitely see the influence of Claremont on the book's direction, it's not the good Claremont that's coming through. Hopefully with a new penciller and new focus, the second arc will right this ship. Read Full Review

It's just a solid issue. Syaf's art is action perfection, too bad what he did. And Guggenheim does a great job weaving in and out of situations. I love TFS!!!! I really did think it was going to turn into a real Old Man Logan and bad guy show and it wasn't. It was fast paced and ever changing. A solid second issue.

Another fairly fun book from this X-Men revival. Sure, the story is a bit familiar but that really doesn't bother me. Its this type of story where the X-Men really thrive and at this point I'm going to continue reading.

This book had some great moments but I feel like it's a Kitty & Wolverine book with everyone else just filling up space to a degree. I'm really looking forward to seeing some more action by Nightcrawler, storm, Prestige, and the others! The art is fantastic but a bad taste is left in my mouth with all the controversy surrounding it.

For a book advertised as a back to basics story, it's a bit odd to through in an all-new Brotherhood of Evil Mutants with no background on where they came from, or their motivations. The artwork is sold, but I hope Guggenheim has a better plan for this book other than just lightly rehashing the early days of the Uncanny X-Men stories.

Waiting for a hook and something original...

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supercoolyeah - Apr 26, 2017

See that's what I felt with Blue. I guess I'm one of the odd ones. LOL

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The Gold team gets flat-footed by the new Brotherhood and OML has to save the day. For a story called "Back to Basics," this sure is forbidding to new readers. Though the main plot is a simple (possibly simplistic) "anti-mutant prejudice stirred by good mutants fighting evil mutants" story, the cast is packed with deep cuts, lengthy backstories, and complicated relationships. Magma! Mesmero! X-Cutioner! This issue is so lore-heavy that they should have just plopped Wikipedia links right into the captions. A whirlwind pace with shoddy scene transitions just increases the confusion. Ardian Syaf's art lays superfluous Liefeld-style hash-lines over some workmanlike anatomy; his imminent departure from Marvel is cause for celebration.

Someone's personal views would never affect my enjoyment of his or her work...Ardian Syaf's opinions are his own (though, really, what a stupid, stupid thing he did). Political views and career suicide aside, his art in X-MEN: GOLD #2 is still bad. I have never been particularly fond of Mr. Syaf's pencils but his work in X-MEN: GOLD has been awful. All that said, I haven't been enjoying the rest of the book,either, but considering how much the art detracts from the book, I'm willing to give it a couple of more issues before deciding to stick around. Ken Lashley had a distinctive style that, at its best, would work very well here. I'm staying positive...
SCORE: 5.6

I dunno if I'm the only one but I'm really tired of the thinly veiled political commentary on the current administration. I'm not even getting into the "hidden" political messages that Syaf pulled in issue 1. I'm talking about how deporting mutants is essentially a parallel to the threat to deport illegal immigrants from the States. I also pick up Green Arrow which was a solid title for DC Rebirth but the past arc is essentially talking about the Dakota pipelines. While I agree with certain points, I hate how comics are trying so hard to tie into current political events. It's fine in small doses and if written well. As a kid comics were an escape, allowing me to take brief break from my chores and homework, giving me a breather. Now some comics are smothering me with the crap that's plaguing news media outlets and it's defeating the purpose of why I read comics in the first place. more

Mutant deportation?

Remember when this book was a metaphor for racism? Now it's just about racism. Too on the nose. Boring.