If all the "Age of X-Man" comics can be like this I'll buy them all and scream from the rooftops this is some great event style comic book storytelling. This issue does everything right from establishing interesting clues to effectively putting you in the shoes of Bishop. Highly entertaining narrative stepping inside Bishop's head and trying to solve the mystery. Read Full Review

German Peraltas art is good. There are some good looking panels throughout, but nothing really pops off the page. Read Full Review

Overall this book was a great read and got me excited for the event again. I highly recommend picking this book up especially if you are a long time x-fan. Read Full Review

Drama and atmosphere are satisfying in the first of five issues that are likely to take place entirely in prison for superhuman mutants. The introduction to the series isnt quite as amusing as it could have been. Read Full Review

The trappings of the story might be somewhat familiar, but the excellent character work and strong art make this a BUY for me as well. I really expected by this point one of the tie-ins would be a dud, but I'm pleasantly surprised that hasn't been the case, and this one feels pretty vital to how Age of X-Man is going to play out. Read Full Review

Age of X-Man: Prisoner X #1 starts, not with a bang, but a whisper. The prison of the mind appears the most clear and present danger. Read Full Review

Later back at dinner, Gabby actually snitches to Beasts about talking to Bishop, causing him to show him a beat down. Bishop was able to hold his own against Beast for a little while until he started to have flash backs of Beasts as an x-men which confuses him and lets Beasts get the upper hand. The guards send the two of them to their own cells, where he closes his eyes and gets a vision of his past villains taunting him about how the fun isn't over with him yet. He wakes to find a note on the floor saying to believe the dreams because everything else is fake. Read Full Review

A smart parallel to Bishop's role in the original Age of Apocalypse storyline shouldn't be unmentioned. In the scope that Age of X-Man is reaching for, this title debuts with a decent first issue that takes a detour from the utopian society and earns points for showing you something different within an all-new, all-different world. An easy and entertaining read that can hopefully build further across the next four issues. Read Full Review

Bishop is once again the fish out of water in Prisoner X, and while the entire issue is basically setting up revelations to come, it's genuinely interesting to look into the man's history with the various mutants he comes across. Read Full Review

Here's hoping next month's 'War of the Realms' crossover turns out better. Read Full Review

"Oz meets X-Men" should be a slam dunk of a concept - and it might still be - but as it stands, Vita Ayla and German Peralta's first issue leaves a lot to be desired. Read Full Review

The best mini of the event so far.

More than a good first issue. It will be interesting see what happens in the next issue.

THE GOOD:

-Bishop was a great character this issue.

-Finally an issue that doesn't feel repetitive. This is solid, and refreshing in the world of the Age of X-Man.

-German Peralta's art was great.

-I loved seeing Bishop receive those flashbacks.

-All of the other prisoners were great too.

-The end has got me excited.

THE BAD:

-The dialogue wasn't great. It wasn't necessarily Lobdell levels of awful, but it was just average in an issue and an event that is so much higher than average.

Solid first issue. Nothing really made me excited, but I had a good time reading this and I have no real problems with it.

Bishop settles into the Danger Room prison and concentrates - when he's not fighting with Beast - on figuring out whether his little flashes of pre-AoX memory are rare or common. It looks like the setup has plenty of promise, and I am delighted to get past the shiny happy surface of this world. But the focus of the title shines more on the memory mysteries than exploring AoX's morals and laws in depth. It makes good sense from a storytelling standpoint, but it leaves my hunger for unraveling the bigger mysteries of the AU unsatisfied.

Okay nice I’m back into it. I love plots about reality not being reality, okay, don’t judge me.

It was dark. Yeah, it's a prison so I cannot expected less than those. But it was weird too.
Not only because character are change. Or that Moonstone was there and on uncanny. Not enven the vision of the past or of shard (Nice to see her, I was so sure every writer forgot about her).
No it's something else in the writing. The time between Gabby speaking to Bishop and beast's reaction. The way Polaris look. By the end of the book I see who can be responsable and that logic. Still it was weird.

Cover - The variant. Nice but not relly related. 1/2
Writing - It was not bad. They present well the prison and go step by step with us. But some part seem not right. 2/3
Arts - That do the job, but it's not perfect. 2.5/3
Feeling - I didn't like it. 0/2 more