The story was exhilarating, captivating, carried weight, and plays with so many toys in the toy box. The potential is ripe for the picking and I haven't been this excited for an X-book since HOXPOX began. Read Full Review

X-Men is one of Marvel's premier books! Read Full Review

Overall this book was an explosive addition that really raised the stakes. We are now seeing consequences to the actions made in the other series really tying the books together. Things are about to get really crazy so I highly recommend jumping on-board if you haven’t already. Read Full Review

X-Men has never felt so footloose and fancy-free. It's an excellent series backed up with more ideas than you can possibly wrap your head around. The future of X-Men is bright and it's thanks to a treasure chest of ideas that is endless. Read Full Review

Hickman is joined by Mahmud Asrar on art for this book, with color art by Sunny Gho. The art team really cuts loose on this book in fantastic fashion, from the horror of the Brood's nature as parasites to some chaotic action sequences that fill the page and make innovative use of some of the X-Men's power sets. Read Full Review

This is a pretty fun issue, all and all. Read Full Review

The action really heats up in an exciting issue, with the promise of even more fun story to come! Read Full Review

This issue, more than any other, is about spectacle and action and tapping Madmun Asrar for the job was the right choice. Read Full Review

If it's not hate groups trying to get a piece of the pie, apparently there's always a chance of Brood raining from the sky! X-Men #8 marked the start of something exhilarating. When you create a problem which involved the Shi'ar, Imperial Guard, and Brood? You go big or go home. This creative team went big for what madness the New Mutants dropped on Krakoa's doorstep. Read Full Review

As it stands, X-Men #8 still reads as a fun and fast-paced actioner, and one that will likely appeal to diehard fans of classic Claremont stories. Read Full Review

A popcorn plot combines with some absolutely amazing art in this surprisingly fun issue. Grab it, before The Brood grabs you! Read Full Review

By the end of this issue, we know exactly where things are heading, and I'm very excited to see more from the Shi'ar empire in Hickman's world. This issue was cool but didn't really take us anywhere. With so much happening in the “Dawn of X,” this was one of the few issues that felt a tad bit yawn worthy. Of course, I say this now and the Brood will have secretly laid an egg in some random mutants' body and they turn out to be bigger villains than Homines Verendi brats. Gotta love Hickman. Read Full Review

I love how this book shows so many different angles of Dawn of X! Also, space stuff is always enjoyable.

I’m in awe. Best comic in the industry right now no question.

Awesome cinematic action and great characters. Cool moments all the time. The only thing bad about these X books lately is that they are sucking my wallet dry.

The New Mutants' space jaunt breeds consequences as the Brood come after the "King Egg" Rahne brought home. And out in Shi'ar space, a new plot thread about a Kree Accuser (Ronan?!) loose in the empire looks aimed to collide with the Brood story. There's plenty of exciting action, compelling ideas, and snappy one-liners. The art is nigh-great. But that's the way the whole package comes off: nigh-great. Still very good, though!

Prelude:
Moving into the first two-parter story in Hickman's X-Men and a direct followup to his New Mutants, let's see how this issue of X-Men goes with Issue 8, "Swarm".

The Good:
Always love a bit of the Summer spice of life story.

Asrar's art is really good here.

I like how tactical everything is.

While brief, the infographics were as great as always.

The Bad:
Not sure on the story yet, but I guess I'll see in the next half.

Conclusion:
It's a very good issue, however I am still a bit unsure about it.

" I want the fire to be fire. "
- CYCLOPE

It's was good. A bit disjointed I think and the first issue that felt off. Still alright and the set up is good. Asrar and Gho did alright!

The Brood, King Egg, Kid Gladiator, Mister Mustache,Illyana.

A step back from the epic world-building from the last issue to have some humor and fun action. Which isn't bad, but personally I want to see more from this world and more mystery. But I get that tension needs to be dissolved every now and then, and this issue does that in a great way. The New Mutants are back from space, and Hickman is not writing that book to basically move the new mutants that he liked to this book, which I am all for because he writes all the OG New Mutants very well and very fun. The dialogue was great throughout with them. Cyclops and his brothers have a weird relationship which I can only contribute to some mental shenanigans going on between Krakoa and the mutants. The action is also really fun and cool to see, love to see all the usual X-Men theatrics again with the Brood the Shi'ar and the Starjammers, it really feels like we are going back to the golden Claremont era of X-Men with these elements returning. Continues to be one of my favorite pulls right now more

While this was a fun and entertaining issue, I would also have to say it was definitely the weakest of the series so far. It just didn't resonate with me like the previous seven issues have. Either way, I still liked what we got here with both Hickman's writing and Asrar's art.

This was a lot of fun, but not quite as large in scale as the last few issues. Although the stuff with Vulcan may be very important.

This one is interesting, the plot can lead to some nice places.

-Felt somewhat disjointed and sporadic, but enjoyable.
-The art for the Brood was very good

I feel lightly puzzled but I’m sure that will be undone imminently.

Probably the weakest issue so far. I like the feel of the changing arcs overall but I do wish theyd also wrap them up and not keep changing so often.

"Can this possibly wait?"

The last issue was rather heavy, so this one is a welcomed change of tone.

Hickman is basically continuing in here what he started in New Mutants. And to put in very simple: it's a lot of fun. There's action, there's humor, there's Brood. What's not to like?

It amazes me how Hickman is able to switch between serious tones and lighthearted ones in the confines of just one book without any noticeable changes in quality.

That man truly is good at what he does.

It was good, it was alright. Wasnt bad at all but its obvious a story arc like this would be much better in its entirety. Asrar kills it with the art, there were some moments better than others but overall good stuff. There was something about this issue that just wasnt all there..It could just be the fact that every fucking issue of this series has set such a high bar that will be hard to maintain.

As much as I love Sunspot, I didn't enjoy this. The pacing was way off. It's a shame. This series was really on a run.

Not their best work since x books have started anew.

Why did this get silly all of a sudden?