Is it a recommend? Yes, completely. The art is worth your time and the story is strong enough to keep you more than entertained throughout. Read Full Review

I wasn't going to buy this issue--I'd intended to wait for the collected edition--but it's a slow week, so I opted spur-of-the-moment to spend the $4, which--while the issue's good--still seems really steep for a single issue. Read Full Review

It's still too early to write off the series completely of course, since most of the characters from the initial solicits haven't even made an appearance yet. At the same time though, a complete cast isn't really going to make much of a difference if the storytelling problems aren't corrected by the time they arrive. Read Full Review

Fun if you unplug your higher reasoning and just roll with it. Not essential reading unless you really like the X-Men though. Read Full Review

It's fair to say that there's nothing hugely deficient about this story. It just feels like a pair of relatively green creators doing a fairly routine X-Men story which was thrust into the spotlight without a clear mandate. While the X-Men fan in me can't help but enjoy Jubilee's return to the spotlight, there's nothing here that makes me think the story was so good that it needed an entirely new series to contain it. Marvel has admitted getting over-enthusiastic about a series' ongoing prospects in the past. Based on this issue's inoffensive, if unengaging story, I'm more convinced than ever that "X-Men" will prove itself to be mainly a barometer for the market's ability to absorb another X-Men title -- and that's not a healthy opinion for a comic to inspire. Read Full Review

As an X-Men fan, this is not what I wanted when I heard they were relaunching the X-Men book. For a book that's mainline continuity, this just makes no sense as a direction to take the mutants after Second Coming and during the Heroic Age. It's also bafflingly titled Curse of Mutants. Honestly, if that's a commentary on the obvious drop in quality they tend to have after any solid storyline, I'd agree. If you're an X-Men completist like myself, then you're a slave to your obsessions and you probably picked it up already. However, if you are anything less than a diehard X-Men fan, don't even go near it. Avoid it and buy just about any other X title instead. Read Full Review

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