REVIEW: Empyre: X-Men #3 passes the mic to Vita Ayala, Zeb Wells, and Ed Brisson as the mutants, zombies, and old ladies continue to war. Read Full Review

Empyre: X-Men has the humor and self-awareness of Shaun of the Dead, the intensity of Lone Survivor, and the monster madness of Hellboy. Simply put, this is summertime blockbuster escapism in the style of X-Men. Read Full Review

Empyre: X-Men has quickly emerged as the highlight of Marvel's summer event and delivers all of the strange joy readers of X-Men and "Empyre" comics alike could hope for in a miniseries like this. Read Full Review

Maybe not as well-crafted and exciting as the previous two issues, but Empyre: X-Men #3 is still crazy, fun and full of wild comic book adventure. Read Full Review

The conflict on Genosha continues to escalate when Magik finds the source of the Genoshan zombies and the Cotati seedpod hatches! Read Full Review

This series is now all over the place and has way too many moving parts to keep track of. Readers, this issue was certainly interesting and had me locked in from start to finish. I genuinely was entertained. However, EMPYRE: X-MEN #3 goes to eleven" but not in a good way. The levels of crazy almost made the issue comical when I don't think that was its initial intent. Read Full Review

This is just a ton of fun, and honestly that's enough for me right now.

This has now hit the (expectedly silly) tone I expected when I read the words "Alien Plants vs Mutant Zombies vs Old Ladies", which last week's issue kinda didn't.

THAT'S A BROCCOLI

Art 4/5
Story 4/5

The tone and dialogue felt much more fitting in this issue than last week.

More zany mutant mayhem as the X-Men go up against a botanical alien species and a horde of mutant zombies!

That was fun.

This was better. Again, it still is kinda sloppy in certain areas, but its much more enjoyable than the previous issue. The art like last issue was pretty nice, really loved the art style and how Broccardo handles drawing the X-men and how he also handles action. And there was a heap load of action and wild kookiness to be enjoyed in this issue. The dialogue is a big step up. Yes, its pretty cheesy at times, but it handles funny banter way better than last issue on top of not being verbose with its writing. Overall, just a fun and wacky issue of X-men.

I feel again that this is a lot going on, but I don’t hate it. It has some very fun ideas.

There's a fine line between silly and sloppy and this wavers along that line.

Better issue than last week.

LOL what the .... happened here?