Your favorite celebrity super villains are back! Zeitgeist is still on a mission to achieve social media godhood, no matter who he has to kill! But the spotlight won't be big enough when the next generation of the X-Statix drop in! Join Peter Milligan and Michael Allred for the final half of their mutant celebrity saga!
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Zeitgeist's front is starting to crumble, but The Orphan finds himself having to compromise his own values to keep up with the X-Cellent. Things are really building to what could be a killer conclusion, which I hope is just the arc and not the series as a whole. Read Full Review
I would recommend this one if you are a fan of the X-Men but want some other characters in the same area of comics and a newer storyline that doesnt really as much on what has happened before. Read Full Review
Readers were left with plenty of loose ends previously in The X-Cellent #5, and the new #1 does an excellent job reminding them where the story left off while heading directly into new misadventures and twists that range from the idiosyncratic to outright disgusting. Read Full Review
Things get weird and very, very melodramatic in this new issue. I think I'm finally beginning to understand this series but I might also be way off base. Who can tell? Read Full Review
The X-Cellent's return to the comic book world continues to showcase the series' unique storytelling techniques, offering a modern twist to their underrated heroes. Although the first issue doesn't have the same impact as last year's return, it sets up a stage for more interesting adventures to come with the same cultural relevance and self-aware humor. Mike Allred's pencils continue to be the highlight of the title, even when some of the gags fall flat. Read Full Review
The silly story of silly characters locked in a silly conflict grinds on, devolving into a literal popularity contest. And that's fine. It certainly looks cool.
There is *one* element that approaches contemporary relevance: Zeitgeist and his problems with women fit well in a #MeToo world. What is Zeitgeist, after all, but the literal embodiment of toxic masculinity?
Unfortunately, the other attempts at social commentary are DOA. I couldn't even go along with the hypothesis that this comic's tone-deaf swings at social media are intentionally, ironically out of date.
It wants to be clever and insightful and subtle and it just isn't. It isn't *bad*, but neither is it good.
I don't know why I'm reading this, it's just not very good.
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