Hill's opening tale was exhilarating, engaging, and filled with amazingly detailed art by Kudranski and D'Armata. Read Full Review

In breaking the laws of paradise, Fallen Angels #1 captures an incredibly interesting perspective of the new status quo for mutants with a dark story and powerful visuals. Read Full Review

Through the events of Fallen Angels #1, we take a deeper exploration into what this age of peace means to the more battle-hardened. Certainly not a book that you want to just jump into without knowing what's going on in the mutant world currently, but it does manage to stand on its own if you can get past that. Read Full Review

Fallen Angels is visually and thematically beautiful in its use of darkness inside and outside the characters. The identity of this book is fascinating, especially if you're a Psylocke fan, and I suspect it will connect with a lot of readers. It's the rare instance of comic book poetry from a superhero comic. Read Full Review

Overall this is a sleeper hit that you shouldn’t miss. This book is going to take us to dark places, pull no punches, and I for one do not want off this ride. Read Full Review

In turning its focus to the outsiders of Krakoa, this series is the perfect book for those looking for a darker and more introspective read with elements of the supernatural and crime for good measure. Read Full Review

Fallen Angels doesn't hold back in the slightest, but if you give it a chance you'll find an X-Book unlike anything else in "Dawn of X," and that certainly has us coming back for more. Read Full Review

Fallen Angels #1 is a great first issue. It focuses on a little-used X-Men character and puts some flesh on her bones. Hill sets up an interesting conflict, one that ties into Hickmans conceit about humanity using machines to equalize themselves with mutants, and has picked out characters who all have the same warrior spirit, ones who would bristle at the peace of Krakoa. Szymon Kudranskis art is impressive, and it will be great to see what he can do in more action-heavy issues. While not perfect, this is an excellent beginning for a new book. Read Full Review

Fallen Angels #1 is an interesting start. The series fills a space not covered by other X-Men series. It also begins to add depth to the character of Psylocke. There's lots of potential there and the set up makes me want to check out what comes down the road. Read Full Review

If you're committed to reading the entire Dawn of X lineup then you definitely don't want to miss this. Also, the artwork is great and can carry this issue on it's own. There are some elements that need time to develop, but as of right now Fallen Angel #1 isn't blowing anyone away, storywise. Read Full Review

Fallen Angels completes Marvel's relaunched X-Men line with a solid debut issue. Read Full Review

This is a well-made first issue with a good enough plot, but there's nothing particularly enticing or unique about it to warrant a whole comic on its own. Read Full Review

The last of Marvel's X-Men relaunch debuts this week with Fallen Angels #1, a series that transcends a thin high concept and some inconsistent artwork thanks to a sterling protagonist and some strong execution from writer Bryan Edward Hill. Read Full Review

Id say Hills script is a bit stronger than Kudranskis art, colored here by Frank DArmata, which comes off as something of a cross between Greg Land and modern Mike Deodato that Im not totally decided about. I will say the books horror-flavored visuals add an interesting dimension to the proceedings that enhance what Hill has written on the page, even if theyre a bit muddy and lacking definition at times. But that speaks more to DArmatas colors than Kudrankis linework. In any event, Fallen Angels has a distinct look from some of the other art seen in Dawn of X, and that has to be commended. Read Full Review

Fallen Angels #1 is a tad disappointing, as it is easily the weakest of the debuts. Still, the story is interesting enough so there is plenty of reason to stick around. If a few of the inconsistencies are ironed out, this will be another hit. It might just take some patience to get there. Read Full Review

There's a lot of good here in Fallen Angels, to be clear. Hillmakes some subtle insinuations between Overclock and things like thePhalanx, transhumanism and other things at play in Dawn of X'speriphery. I'm still interested in seeing how this plays out; I likethe characters and want to know who will join them in later issues. Butfor now, Fallen Angels #1 is perhaps the sole misstep in the Dawnof X launch so far. Read Full Review

"Fallen Angels" #1 is unable to achieve the greatness of the premise and creative team. Read Full Review

Despite some bright spots in the dialogue, Fallen Angels #1s plot doesnt do much to grab the reader and is ultimately fairly forgettable. The art shows some promise, but the issues darkness and over-reliance on closeups really hinders the reading experience. Read Full Review

This isnt the best start of the new Dawn of X comics, but there are a few reasons to be hopeful that this creative team can settle in and rise to the level of the other books in this line. Read Full Review

Overall: Fallen Angels #1 was a boring debut issue. This issue is completely forgettable the second the reader finishes this issue. Hill does nothing to distinguish Fallen Angels #1 from the numerous superhero titles already on the market. The cost of entry is $5.00 for Fallen Angels #1. That is a price too high for a title that is average at best. Read Full Review

" Because you were fighting instead of dancing. You're smart enough to hate comfort... You're a soldier and you need a war... You're a predator and you need a hunt. None of us have a place in paradise. "
- PSYLOCKE

I hope this doesn’t get slammed because I enjoyed this read.

Owner of her own body, owner of her own comic book.

Fallen Angels is the first of the mutant relaunches to enter as a limited series. A good move by Marvel, as after separating Betsy from Psylocke after these years. This character deserves more prominence and her own story.

This book shows how Marvel is really paying attention to mutant titles and creating a connection between the re-releases. There are facts contained in this book that make references to other previous titles with the participation of different characters. It's also quite interesting how they managed to highlight X-Men villains in different books. We have Apocalypse in Excalibur, Shaw and Emma in Marauders, Magneto in X-Men, Black Tom in X-Force and Sinister in Fallen Angels. I'm really excited to see what everyone will do on their adventures.

The story of Fallen Angels focuses on action and knowledge, kind of an origin story. We don't know much about Kwannon, so everything seems new. The book is full of action and I found it very similar to X-force, I even preferred the story of Fallen Angels to the previous one.

The art is beautiful and the lines refer to Japanese culture, Kudranski was a hit. Very interesting how each page has its own style, following the psyche of psylocke as well as Sinister's house. more

A solid start to this mini-series. I really like Kwannon and I'm glad to see her character explored further.

Looks like all the DoX books had great starts. This one wasn't an exception, bringing us a slightly darker story with an incredibly beautiful art.

Prelude:
The Dawn of X series I'm worried the most for. Let's see how Bryan Hill goes on this.

The Good:
It is an interesting premise but I'm unsure of it's place in Dawn of X.

I think Kudranski's art is pretty good.

The Bad:
Feels like this story could have happened without Dawn of X or HoX/PoX.

Dialogue and characterisation, especially with Sinister, Laura and Cable is definitely off.

Conclusion:
It's an interesting premise of a story but one that could be done without Dawn of X. Meanwhile the dialogue and characterisation is off. It's passable but it needs to improve or I'll quickly get bored of it.

Don’t get me wrong, Fallen Angels 1 isn’t a bad comic, it’s just by far the weakest Dawn of X title. Bryan Hill plays to his strengths; mainly his talent for horror writing. Hill still isn’t the best character writer, but Psylocke’s flashbacks were extremely powerful. Bill’s storytelling itself was alright, but rushed. The whole Apoth conflict was super rushed and it doesn’t seem important to the comic at all. Cable and X-23 are written extremely flat. Psylocke is the only character with any depth, and she’s already the main character of Excalibur, which came out just 2 or 3 weeks ago. Still, Kudranski’s art, the creepy tone Hill has instilled, as well as momentum from the other Dawn of X books has given Fallen Angels the potential to be a solid comic. more

Good writing, terrible art and colors/digital „effects“. Too many subplots and backstory/exposition makes it feel pretty slow, which is not good for a (expensive) first Issue. Not sure if I’ll be back for more...

The artists of other Dawn of X titles: OK, people, this is really important to gain the trust of the readers, so let’s make every title look beautiful.
Kudranski: Well, I’m gonna end these men’s whole careers!

I enjoyed this quite a bit, despite it not being anything unique. This feels very much like one of those stories with a stone cold female protagonist that occasionally shows some compassion finding about herself and her identity. The art overall is nice and fits the tone of the book well, but there are some panels where it's hard to differentiate between Psylocke and Laura.

a lot of cool ideas, but the weakest of the bunch so far. The plot really needs to pick up for me, especially since I don't care about Kwannon at all really. Cable does not need to be in this book, and I also don't like the way Laura is written. But the overall plot and mystery I enjoyed, and the art was pretty good. I'll read for a couple more issues to see if this will still be in my pull

There's a lot of cool ideas here but the art isn't helping things and a lot of what's going on with Psylocke just feels like Katanna B-sides from Batman and the Outsiders. But I'm hopeful that things will turn around with issue 2.

"We've had one, yes. But what about second X-Force?"

It's probably inevitable that this feels redundant and a little tiresome for those of us who aren't the obvious market for "edgy rogue team that does the violence that the X-Men can't" titles, but that's no fault of Hill who writes some great dialogue, though the art doesn't always provide the same clarity as the writing.

It looks really pretty, that’s for sure. I really dug the art. However, since I’m kinda new to all things Mutant, I have no idea why there are 2 Psylockes that used to be one person but now there’s 2 and ones captain Britain now. Also x-23 isn’t wearing the wolverine costume anymore and resents Wolverine now. Also Cable is a teenager now. I’m kinda lost. These X-Books (primarily this and new mutants)should really include brief backgrounds of their characters if they really want this to be a “jumping on point” for new readers

Story was good but not great, same for the art. I felt Hill had a real grasp of where he was taking us and how it is going to play out and I found myself really wanting to know whats going to happen next. Unfortunately I found this story equally forgettable by the end of it and I felt a large part of that was the artwork and how it misinterpreted the story. At times the art was beautiful and pausing but those moments were matched equally by cheap looking panels with ugly borders. Considering the price tag this book just felt a little cheap in quality. Overall just "Meh" ya know?

The writing seems important but isn’t. Just feels pretentious

"Thank you for not being boring"

That more or less sums it up.

The idea is cool but I’m not crazy about the execution.

Art made it difficult to follow in some spots, there's no reasion cable should be their. All the other dawn of x books stated why the needed to exist and tried to prove it this one dosent(feels like a second xforce )Also the reasion for her to take the name psylock is never given, no do we get anything relivent between her and betsy(. On the pluss side hill has been redpeoint to the criticism about Laura well(a certain line in the issue he regretted putting in so that bumps my score a few points) hope it improves.

This issue's art isn't going to get Szymon Kudranski off my @#$%-list, but it's not a trainwreck. Definitely the bottom of the barrel, but it still has a healthy whiff of that "everything is new again DoX" smell.

It's okay. There's a dark, melodramatic angst that teens would probably enjoy. The back matter switches between 'Overclock' and 'Overlock' and uses a faux quote quote from a doctor in neurotechnology that is supposed to sound smart, yet uses 'whom' incorrectly, lol. Just thought that was funny.

Laura Kinney deserves much better than this book...

THE GOOD:

-The colors were great and nailed the tone of the book.

-I will admit that the opening scene pulled me in and grabbed my attention.

-Psylocke was the only interesting character here. And even she could've been explored better.

-There's some cool imagery here. Unfortunately the art ruins a lot of it.

THE BAD:

-Probably one of my least favorite DoX books yet. I have no interest in the story whatsoever.

-The art just wasn't for me. The facial expressions looked weird and it didn't flow very well.

-I found the script kinda pretentious. Like it was trying too hard to be like Hickman.

-I was just very bored.

To be perfectly honest, I didn't really like this book. Much like Excalibur, it's a book primarily about a character I don't care about (Psylocke) while also not being an interesting story. Hill's writing lacks excitement and personality. Szymon Kudranski is comparable to Salvador Larroca which is an art style that I find to be distractingly too much in darkness and too close to the uncanny valley. Easily the weakest out of the Dawn of X which has had equal hits to misses, in my opinion.

Possibly the worst ongoin in the bunch. Colors really don't work with art, and poor Laura is really regressed.

Easily the worst Dawn of X book. The writer spends too much time trying to make the fake "Psylocke" happen. It feels forced. The writing for X-23 and Cable is abysmal at best.

What a disappointment. Awful misogynistic undertones in the writing for the female characters and a unfortunate regression for X-23 after all the good work done with her for the past few years. This will definitely be the first DoX to get cancelled. Simply ugly.

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mynameisraj - Nov 13, 2019

Misogynistic?

Julian Keller - Nov 13, 2019

Yes. https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2019/11/fallen-angels-1-review/

Valiant Son - Nov 15, 2019

Ah, so an agenda driven blog says it is misogynistic so it must be true! What arrant nonsense.

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It’s just. So. Boring.