FEAR THE CHILDREN!
The Children of the Vault - hyper-evolved humans from a society whose time moves much faster than our own. Each time the X-Men defeat them, they retreat to their home, evolving further to a new, more advanced generation. This time, they will not be stopped so easily.
If you're an X-Men fan, Duggan hits right at the heart of one of the best stories to come out of this developed Hickman Era. Read Full Review
Cassara delivers some beautifully detailed art throughout the issue. The art showcases fantastic visual action on every page. Read Full Review
Its a bumpy start for the new team, with a rather lackluster handling of the adversaries, and schlocky dialogue for the regular cast. Giving Duggan the benefit of the doubt, but hes got an uphill battle ahead of him. Read Full Review
WhileX-Men#15 is mostly a fluff issue, the issue it sets up should be far more interesting. Forge goes into the Vault to rescue Darwin and with that plot thread finally being touched on again, interesting developments are sure to follow. Read Full Review
It's ultimately an issue that is more likely to leave readers excited about what's coming next issue to satisfy in itself, but it's still not a disappointment. Read Full Review
The ongoing Children of the Vault storyline kicks off its next big chapter with this issue, which is all about exciting set-up. Read Full Review
X-Men #15 is yet another Duggan-written book. There's a good plot, but his execution of it is as poor as always. Marvel needs to stop putting A-list artists on this book and see if Duggan's writing can survive without amazing artistry. Cassara and GURU-eFX are brilliant, and Duggan does give them some cool stuff to draw, at least, but it's still a mediocre comic, and they deserve better. Read Full Review
Oh man...this was incredible! Why couldn't more issues in this run be like this one? I never found the children of the vault all that interesting, but the story here sucked me right in. Josh Cassara's art was also INSANELY good. Some of the best work of his I've seen.
This one is fantastic! Forge shows what a badass he is leaving me very curious what happens next. The artwork is phenomenal! This book really looked great!
Fascinating! Can’t wait to see what happens next
Following Judgment Day, it seems we have an overarching story for this book that might be directly followed up on in the next issue. Plus, it's actually pretty interesting. I'm hoping that this can be maintained, as the first 12 issues of this run just felt like tease after tease of a larger story without much actually dealing with that. Along with this nicely done issue, we have Cassara's utterly fantastic art.
It's a tale of 2 halves that start with a messy (literally) predictable narrative but ends with some nice pages that grab my attention. This book has to do something new and soon otherwise it's just comfort food and even that gets old after a while. Cassara and Guru eFX on art is exactly the boost it needed because Cassara is always good and his details on Forge's designs are superb.
This new arc has an intriguing premise, and the script helps it along with a pretty nice twist (half-twist?) in its structure. Beautiful art helps sell the story, too. This volume is always brisk, and that can be an asset when there are some cool ideas in play.
The attempts to characterize individual Children of the Vault were pretty half-assed, though. And why do only the dude-Children get names? There are several female Children making equally impressive (or more impressive) contributions in the fight scenes.
Wow. This is the forst time in a bit I truly enjoyed the X-Men from start to finish. It just seems like it has some purpose.
Not in love with the way this brings Percy's tone and obsession with horrible things happening to people's bodies along with Forge & Joshua Cassara, but there's a plot and it seems like it's going somewhere, which I haven't been able to say about this comic in a minute. I'll take it