Additionally, specific to this issue of X-MEN, Duggan reveals some pretty big stuff that may have been better suited for the main A.X.E.: JUDGMENT DAY event and not so much in a tie-in issue. However, overall, X-MEN #13 continues to show how impressive Duggan is at the helm of the biggest X-title and why it continues to be the X-book everyone should have on their pull list. Let me know what you think, have a great week, and God Bless! Read Full Review

The first issue to the new era, with a new team, and its off to a decent start. The dialogues kinda clunky, but Villas art is great here. The new team is pretty much nondescript at this point, so Im excited to see what Duggan will give us as time moves on. Read Full Review

X-Men #13 establishes that the mutants are willing to work with the Eternals to end the feud, but can either side truly trust each other? Read Full Review

X-Men #13 opens up with a massive mistake thats impossible to forgive. Therere several other problems throughout the book as well, but this book is almost too simple for Duggans shoddy writing to screw up. That makes it the best chapter of this book in ages, which is damning it with faint praise. Villa and Milla do a good job on the art. This issue isnt great, but it isnt as terrible as usual. Read Full Review

There's little in the way of dialogue beyond combat orders, leading to a confusing, off-putting mess of an introduction that also doesn't feel terribly essential to Judgment Day's plot, making it a miss on all fronts. Read Full Review

This was a fun issue, but nothing special whatsoever. For me, some of this reads like generic dialogue, which is a shame considering that this is the first issue with the new team following the 2022 Hellfire Gala. However, it's saved by a fairly engaging adventure for them that ties into the Judgment Day event. I appreciated Iceman getting some time to shine here and I can only hope it's a sign of things to come.

I liked this issue. Fun action. Having said that, it seems like Forge is being written completely differently than his last characterizations. And why even have Havok on the team when the issue would literally be exactly the same without him. I hope that changes.

Just not into... 'Judgement'.

And much like most, if not all of 'Destiny of X', I found this fairly uninspired and frankly... barely serviceable. In fact, I would've given it an even lower score, but am trying to maintain--with desperation, increasingly--the benefit of the doubt. Which pretty much stems from what little goodwill there is left from pre-'Inferno' 'Reign of X', combined with the healthy but short-lived boost this year's 'Hellfire Gala' gave.

Magik was obnoxiously annoying and unlikable, while Havok comes across as stupefyingly insensitive and oblivious. Synch, Jean, and Iceman were basically satisfactory, stock portrayals, as was Forge, more or less. And I'm not sure why Cyclops and Firestar were even there, as they couldn't have been, and not much... if anything, would've changed.

So, yeah, I'm feeling disheartened and rather... salty, toward the X-line of books these days. But to be honest, as soon as I saw the promo teaser for 'Destiny', I kind of figured it was the beginning of the end... for the 'Age of [Professor]X-Man'-cum-Krakoa era. Though I suspect that may very well be put to the new "vote"... at the beginning of 2023. I guess, we'll see. more

An action packed issue where a lot of mutants get to shine and use their powers to fight fight fight.
It ties up events from Judgement Day 2 and Death to Mutants 1 pretty nicely.
In all the chaos, characterization is so/so. Magick feels a little different here and speaks more like Wolverine (Laura) and Havoc's characterization is also off making him out to be a frat buffoon.

Duggan's easily best written character has some great moments as Synch is clearly the strongest part of this series (and this may be because he doesn't have a lot of history and Duggan has essentially been the only one writing him).
Everyone else is fine.
After this week I'm ready for this event to hit the next part of it's plot.
The action is fun but I feel this team could have been utilized a little bit better. more

In this issue, the X-Men do exactly what Judgment Day and its prior tie-ins told us they'd do. It's livened up with some splashy combat art and the requisite number of quips, but there's not a lot of new development.

It sure does look pretty in a lot of these panels, though! My favorite parts are the distinct bits of Kirby style salted through the Eternals' technology.

Unfortunately this is probably the weakest issue of Judgment Day so far to me. The new X-Men team hasn't even had a full issue together, so swapping a majority of the group out seems ill-timed. It left Duggan with A LOT of work to do as he has to introduce a new team dynamic, work in some new power combinations, and deal with the fallout from the events of Judgment Day. It would have been nice to deal with the Gala fallout and to settle in with some of the new team members, especially since we hardly got a glimpse of Firestar.

Going through the motions and that's bad for a new team. Duggan might have tried to find something here but it didn't work for me. Not a good idea to introduce the new team in a mess of a show. Villa was OK with mixed results. He can have great panels with amazing compositions but then the next ones are OK.

woof. judgement day is not a good way to introduce a new team of x-men. really not a good way. that being said cyclops gave a thumbs up, iceman got really big. Good stuff. Mixed bag.

Useless: The Comic Book.

*LOVE* nearly everything relating to A.X.E.: JUDGMENT DAY; I do not love Gerry Duggan continuing as writer on X-MEN! Don't get me wrong there was some great dialogue, like getting to see Forge out and about as part of the team. but there was some bad dialogue, like over-the-top Iceman! The best part about this issue was the art, which helped earn that 5.5 I gave it! Maybe next Hellfire Gala we can elect a different writer perhaps?

Oof, this is a mess. Duggan's second team line-up is as unremarkable and arbitrary as his first, as evinced by the fact that I made it to page 17 before I remembered that this is a new team. His characterization remains shaky, particularly for Alex. (I'll grant, there could be a mind control or shape shifter thing going on, but Duggan's characterization is so often off that it would be impossible to tell the difference.) CF Villa's art could pick things back up, but unfortunately fantasy epics don't seem to play to Villa's strengths; the storytelling is ineffective and there are several panels that I found particularly difficult to decipher. Add to that that this is one of those dreaded crossover issues where the characters have a zero-stakes fight for the sake of putting a crossover branding on the cover, and this is by far the least essential issue of Duggan's run so far. more

I can't say there was a lot to like. I wouldn't say I hated it but, it felt like it lacked emotion, and had no depth.