Wolverine #7 is everything that X Of Swords could be, but thats hardly a surprise, seeing as how Percy has already been responsible for the best parts of the crossover so far. Together with Duggan, who after a bit of a long-winded, rocky start in Marauders #13, has really stepped up his game with issues #14, #15, and this one, they weave an exciting tale that gives readers more than they expected and changes the game for everyone. Combine that with Cassaras amazing art, and this one is a rollicking good time. Read Full Review

This was the most fast-paced, high octane issue so far that had the most battles with even more underlying questions waiting to be uncovered. Read Full Review

Joshua Cassara captures the surreal elements of the story perfectly with the art in the issue. Both the characters and the action are exaggerated to perfect effect. Read Full Review

Overall this chapter throws in a little bit more action, fun and absurdity into the mix. Hopefully Wolverine gets a break soon, he really deserves one. Read Full Review

Wolverine #7 is incredibly fun and keeps the reader on their toes the entire time. Read Full Review

I was afraid that the challenges in the Contest of Swords was going to lose its subtlety. However, this issue brings us back to some of the interpersonal things going on within the X-men. This is because we get the option to focus on just a few characters rather than trying to give each character a moment. Because we can just focus on Wolverine, Storm, Magik, and their adversaries we get to see a lot more details that would otherwise be skipped. Read Full Review

While Wolverine #7 does not fix the bigger picture problems that X of Swords is having it did do a great job getting over how Saturnyne has stacked the deck against the X-Men. The four different matches that we get in Wolverine #7 showed a randomness that has placed the X-Men against the wall. Having Wolverine be the focal point of three of these matches made the narrative in this chapter for X of Swords have an engaging character focus story. Read Full Review

If you were left scratching your head by the other comics, you'll equally be perplexed by the general creative choices made for this event. Read Full Review

Once again, another issue of X of Swords is pleasant enough to read " and this issue has some particularly amazing artwork " but the event as a whole is a chaotic mess. Read Full Review

This is a really fun issue.

The event is still posing more questions than it is answering, but it's having a lot of fun along the way. This issue's artwork is some of the best since Del Mundo's work on Elektra.

I gotta disagree with a lot of you on this one. I really enjoyed this issue and if you are comparing it to most of the X of Swords storyline it actually made some sense and was a lot of fun. The scoring and drunk Wolverine made this issue for me. One thing we can all agree on is art was fantastic!

Now that's more like it! Subverting expectations without being confusing, and just a little bit of ridiculousness instead of an entire weddings-worth.

Art 4/5
Story 4.5/5

A fun issue, but not the best from X of Swords. This was far from bad, however, as it was actually a fun read. I loved how Wolverine was consistently just fed up with Saturynne and this whole situation in general. Cassara also did great on the art duties here, and I think this picking him for this side of the story was a really good choice.

I was right; the outcome of the contest(s) is entirely up to Saturnyne. She fixes the score at 5-2 against the good guys with a series of gimmicked matches. At this point, who even knows what score they're playing to? I'm liking this not despite but BECAUSE of its absurd fickleness. It makes the outcome impossible to predict and I see that as a good thing. Exceptionally beautiful art on this issue, too.

XOS Ch. 16: Love the artwork this issue! Especially during the Logan/Summoner fight. That was a pretty great sequence. The problem is I feel like the writers crammed too much into one issue. First we have a story stretched too thin between Wolverine #6 and X-Force #13, Now we have too much happening too quickly. Weird pacing. Also, if that truly is the end of Summoner then I gotta say it's a somewhat anti-climactic end to a villain they've built up since X-Men #2.

I'm trying to stay with this but it's losing me again. Great ideas that are all over the map and are not coherent enough to gel together. Before it was too little stretched over many issues and now too much crammed into one issue. The pacing was not handled well. If Cassara wasn't lights out with his art, this would be really bad.

Uh okay I guess.

Really hope the final 6 issues of this event are good because even with fantastic art, I'm starting to check out.

Guess nothing matters really.

Least the art was ok.

Good art but the plot just isn't hooking me in.

I have little patience for crossovers at the best of times and all I find myself doing is waiting for the event to end so we can just go back to the regularly scheduled programming of a Wolverine-focussed story.

Not a bad issue by any stretch but certainly no more than mediocre.

An arm wrestle? Seriously? Also, if the point was awarded to Arakko b.c of the "to the death rule," why didn't Betsy get the point in the last issue? I just don't understand what going on anymore.

At first, this issue seems stupid. Then it becomes interesting and making sense. Then it doesn't make any sense again. I almost believed there was a smart trick in the story, but at last there are only two groups of fools playing stupid games.

5 just for the art.

"This is beyond bullshit. What are we even doing here?". Wolverine himself reviews X of Swords.

Is it me or was this kinda... anticlimactic? After all the hype and issues building up to the duels we get:

- a super-short battle where Betsy loses for some unknown reason
- a wedding (Excalibur)
- arm wrestling
- a drink off
- another short fight battle between Wolverine vs Summoner (and his momma).

The banquet was fun, but I expected the tournament to be crazy. Mutants and Arakkii's lives are at stake and yet it's just silly and lighthearted.

This is one of those times where comic writers should take notes cause tournament arcs in manga are superior.

Art is really great here.
But the writing is all over the place

Unless you read all X of Swords issues, you'll be like me, completely lost on the plot. This issue is obviously an X-Force story with a Wolverine cover. X-Force #13 should've been Wolverine #7, since it follows what happened on #6. If you do not care for this crossover is not even worth a read. Skip it. IMO this issue and the last, never happened.