Marauders has become the flagship X-Book for a variety of reasons, though if we had to single out one particular reason to explain its success, it would be its ability to maneuver between various tones with ease. Read Full Review

Overall this was such a great fun and exciting issue packed with so much action from beginning to end. I couldn’t think of a better book to read after a long break from comics. You should definitely pick this one up. Read Full Review

When you look at the X-Men book, you enjoy the fact that there is an artist there who really knows how to render a scene, but at the same time you would find problem with the fact that the characters become stiff in turn. This art team finds a way to give you that same quality of artwork, and take extra steps towards making sure that there's life put into the characters. The are expressive through both their facial expositors and body language. Read Full Review

Most of this issue feels like the calm before the storm. From the Dawn of X files/interludes, we dig deep into how Kate really felt about being unable to be a part of Krokoa like everyone else. These little snippets paint a different picture, making readers feel even more sorry for the missing captain. I'm wondering how the crew will keep it together as the next issue hits as we might be getting the final word of Captain Kate's fate. Read Full Review

Marauders #10 is a welcome return to X-Men comic books and a great reminder of what these characters stand for. This is another great issue in what might be the best X-Book on the stands right now. Read Full Review

Fun issue with a lot of great character moments, but the overall plot of this individual issue leaves something to be desired. Read Full Review

Marauders is the kind of book that I didn’t realize I missed so much in its absence. Duggan has developed a great rapport between these characters and is doing his best to have his story as fully informed by this new era of X-Men as possible. (Though, it is odd that Kurt calls Kate “Katya” in his e-mail to her rather than “Katzchen.” Is Colossus borrowing Kurt’s computer?) Caselli is doing his part to make sure that Marauders feels like an essential X-title despite not technically having an X in the title. In a lot of ways, this is the platonic ideal of an X-Men book. It was missed. Read Full Review

If youre a MARAUDERS fan, you have to buy this issue to stay in the loop. If youre an X-MEN fan interested in jumping onboard MARAUDERS, this isnt the time or the issue. Just have a friend catch you up and wait a bit before diving in. And lastly, if you're a comic fan starving for something new to read, you can take a chance on this issue for sure. Its entertaining, creative, funny, easy to follow, fast-paced, and contains a decent amount of action. However, heavily invested MARAUDERS fans, as well as X-fans may leave craving more answers and substance from a series that's been a Rock Star since day one. Was it the lack of Kitty, the lack of New Releases, or a whirlwind of both making the perfect storm for an average issue from Duggan? The verdict is still out. Read Full Review

What could have been just a basic smash and grab rescue mission managed to encompass so much more, by way of allowing us to read the thoughts of Kurt and the Red Queen. And alluding to the fate of Kate, even without seeing her. And we see both the Red and White Bishops in action. But where the hell was LOCKHEED? Read Full Review

Marauders #10 pushes the Hickman era of X-comics forward. It touches on some things that have been getting built up in other titles and fleshes them out a little. Gerry Duggan has been consistently good on this title, and hes really made it one of the fun books in the line. The art is clean and crisp with vibrant colors. Marauders #10 is a nice book to get you prepared for the rest of the line. Read Full Review

i enjoyed everything about this issue! great book

More fun mutant pirate adventures on the high seas!

Prelude:
Marauders has consistently been one of my favourite X-Titles currently, so let's see how this issue goes.

The Good:
While I understand the disagreement, that scene is so in character for Emma.

Continuing the developments with Kate and I enjoyed the infographics.

Caselli's art was good.

The Bad:
Nothing.

Conclusion:
The issue doesn't do much but it doesn't need to. Just some nice plot movement as things head on forward

The Marauders, stinging over the loss of Kate Pryde, go to war, neutralizing the power-neutralizing tech their enemies have developed. It's a brilliant special-ops story with a great pace and some inventive tactical ideas. Outstanding art helps breeze the story along. I say this is about as good as an issue can be without breaking through into "great" territory.

I don't know why this issue got so much negative attention from users. I guess maybe with comics being in short supply, more people read what did come out. But I think I'll just use my review to mock the other users who don't agree with me.

Let's start with the big one. The scene with Emma Frost. Users Todd A. Lonn, Captain Krakoa, Old Guy Nate, DC Stuff, Julian Keller and Sky788 all have a big problem with this scene. We'll get into why they're wrong in a second, I just want to give my hot take about it. The first time I read it, I was slightly put off by it, because it was unexpected, but then I decided that it was a very Emma Frost move. I did tell a friend of mine that she was going to love the Emma scene, but I said that in a very tongue-in-cheek manner, because I really was not sure. I figured either she'd love it and she'd congratulate me on being as right as always, or she would hate it and she'd just assume I was setting her up for disappointment, for the sake of my own thrills, which is a very Me move. Either way it was a win-win for me. I still don't know what she thinks. She's slow with reading. But I mention this to say that I get it. I get where these people are probably all coming from, but I don't place stock in what a lot of these people do, which is... for lack of a better word, identity politics. Like, I don't mind if Emma is being sexualized. In fact, the reason why it's an Emma move in my mind is because that sexualization is almost baked into her. It's part of her character. She used to and still kinda does lead a rich mutant sex dungeon club. That's what the Hellfire Club is, sorry not sorry. So I don't think that's a valid reason to be upset. It would be if this was Jean Grey, but it's Emma Frost. Some of these users then went even further by saying that Emma was talking about the rights of minorities as a rich white lady, and that's bad. Representation! I would not really ever agree that it's bad out of principle for a white character to speak of such things. You go too far and you end up with a token character to explain all of society's ills like he speaks for every single one of them. Like Lisa Simpson for Liberals or Charles Gunn for Blacks. There's no need to go down that rabbit hole. But if we were going to... Emma is a minority within the world that she lives. She's a mutant. She's an analogue for any minority out there. She's faced hate, suffering, death, even literal genocide. So you know... she's not unqualified to speak. She's being a mutant in the Marvel universe, simple as that. The most genuine argument, I think, for why that scene is bad is that Emma shouldn't need to distract four dudes in order to control them. And I don't really disagree with that. So Old Guy Nate, who seemed to think that scene alone made the comic a 1/10, you're not entirely wrong. Good for you. I would just say that power levels and stuff like that fluctuate greatly with any superhero, really. You're never going to get it down exactly. My headcanon just assumes the men had dampeners or Emma was just really not feeling it that day. Oh, and as to whether this scene is sexualization or empowerment... I think it's probably both. I think Emma is supposed to be a strong, empowered and sexy woman, and she's all three of those things in the scene.

Now, for the two people who didn't really get into the specifics of the issue, but nonetheless thought it was trash. Marvel Overlord and Michaelbn. Marvel Overlord should just stop reading the X-Books. I've noticed him on a lot of these issues, and he always hates what he reads. Just stop, my dude. And okay, I'll be fair and actually address your one point. You think the book is senseless. It's not. You want senseless, go read Neal Adams' Deadman. But you seem to be thrown for a loop by seemingly simple writing, so I could be wrong. Deadman wrong. Michaelbn, you had some trusty tips on how to spot a bad Marvel comic, so I'll review those. One, it's written by "professionals". Every single big two comic is written by what most would deem "professionals" so I mean, technically, you're not wrong. A bad Marvel comic would be written by a "professional". Two, it has a high rating. Um, no? I mean, you can't trust critics. They praise mostly everything, but usually if both scores are high, chances are the book might be good. Not always, though. And the implication is that a lower score would mean a better book. But no, if critics trash something, it's REALLY bad. It has to be damn near unreadable to get the critics to hate it... or just be slightly political in such a way that pisses off both sides of Twitter (RIP Secret Empire). Three, the summary is absolute crap. I don't know what this means. You could mean the solicitations, but I'd argue the worst ones are usually for the biggest and best books since they don't want to give anything away. Or you could just mean the story of the issue, and yeah, if you think the story sucks... You will realize it's a bad comic? Oh and you summarize this issue yourself, which is fun. Russia is bad because they aren't gay and the US is good because they are gay. We're seeing the other side of those identity politics now, I guess. This is not a good summation of the book. But I would argue that gayer is better. Mutants would definitely think so, too, since gays deserve the same rights that mutants are also clamoring for.

This issue was good, guys. Calm down. more

I don't get all the outrage over Emma Frost in this issue. She used her looks to gain the advantage and, then, she uses her telepathic abilities to make, essentially, make a bad guy turn good. Aside from that, I thought this was another good issue for the series with some really nice art from Caselli.

It's easy to control leering monkeys Pyro... When they all have the same thought. "
- EMMA FROST

I didn’t hate this issue but I also wasn’t in love with it, maybe I just felt like it was moving a little weirdly?

Emma xD

The review syestem for this site says a 7 is the first number which is in the brown or a mixed review, and I think that is accurate for this book. I didn't hate it, but it's a bad sign when the suplementals are more interesting than the book itself. The plot wraps up a few elements but also has an awkward, overly sexualizing scenes from a women who doesn't need more sexualization and a wierd explanation for such a scene to boot. The book ends up leaving an underwhelming impression by the end but I didn't regret my purchase. Worth buying for those still reading, to everyone else, there are better X-Men singles than this in the last NCBD alone.

boobs lmao

Okay. Not as bad as some people make it out to be. That scene with Emma may be in line with her character, but it felt awkwardly executed nonetheless.

No words for this one. While Marauders has been an average book so far, this issue drops the ball magnificently.

That Emma panel was terribly handled. I'm sure Gerry Duggan had the best intentions; however, it comes off very cringey and tone-deaf. In the hands of a straight, white author, what is supposed to be sexual empowerment can often be interpreted as objectification.

The cast as usual is underused. Not even with Kitty out of the picture, there's hope for meaningful panel time for Storm or Bishop (literally the only two PoC characters). Iceman serves no purpose other than being the token gay character who only shares actual dialogue with the other gay character. And of course, Pyro's only purpose is being the comic relief.

To rub salt in the wound, the villains in this book are utterly uninteresting and dull. Nameless humans with big guns? Boring. more

How to spot a bad marvel comic:

1. It's written by "professionals"
2. It has a high rating
3. The summary is absolute crap.

This comic in short:

Russia is bad because they're not gay
USA is good because they're gay

Just the Emma scene alone makes this an awful pile of shit!!!

That Emma scene is so disrespectful and bad.

Oh God that was bad, really bad! They have a full team to handle one simple boat, two omega mutants doing nothing but stop the boat while they can just teleport from that freaking thing. Emma Frost being sexualized 'cause she can't control 4 guards and btw the white straight rich woman who says 'minorities rights' while the true minorities in the book stay on background.What a shame, again, that was BAD.