Action-packed and filled to the brim with drama, X-Men #23 is excellent. In a time when the looming FALL OF X has made many new fans anxious, well made comics like this instill confidence that the X-Office has plenty of great stories to tell and is not slacking off anytime soon. There's a lot of X-Men coming out this week, but this issue cannot be missed. Read Full Review

Overall, X-Men #23 does an outstanding job of making multiple titles and storylines feel important. From Ms. Marvel to Tony Stark and the other X-books, Duggan writes like a team player that's paying attention. He dabbles in all of Marvel Comics and puts all the pieces together nicely. Read Full Review

The X-Men's struggles are getting better and better, especially with Fall of X looming. It's the best this series has been in a long time. Read Full Review

In what can be called easily be called the lead up to the new era for the X-Men, the battle between the mutants and the new Stark Sentinels, its the least interesting pieces to this story. The real meat here is the rift thats developing between Scott and Jean, as well as the upcoming war thats going to deal with all of the myriad clones of Sinister. What role will they play? Will the X-Men be able to deal with ORCHIS, AND the cornerstone that Scott and Jean provide to their fellow X-Men? Read Full Review

Cassara delivers some fantastic visuals throughout the issue. The action is visually exciting and I actually loved seeing Cyclops in his old costume. Read Full Review

The series still feels like it's in a holding pattern as it waits for Fall of X to begin, but it's a stellar issue in its own right. Read Full Review

This series is hit and miss, but I enjoyed what they are setting up here.

This was a step-down following the highly interesting Issue 22. I really liked what was being set up there, but this doesn't do that much to follow up on it, in my opinion. We get some nice stuff with Mother Righteous in the beginning, but then we cut to the X-Men fighting a Stark Sentinel. It was an entertaining battle, but I'm not entirely sure why it was there after little-to-nothing being said about his sentinels in the series beforehand. Perhaps I missed something, but the only reason I wasn't surprised to see this machine here was because I look at solicitations and I knew Tony's involvement with Fall of X is up ahead. It could also be the fact that, at the time of this writing, I haven't read anything from Duggan's Invincible Iron Man series. This isn't even mentioning that Scott and Jean are, apparently, taking a break from their relationship without it being mentioned before Scott just says it almost casually to Emma. Either way, I would very much like for this book on focus more on the adamantium skeleton situation introduced in the previous issue, as I'm really interested to see how that plays out. more

Duggan delivers some OK X-Men stuff here but it feels like a time wasting stand in. Cassara has great pages and some not so detailed as his usual stuff but the hectic schedule of comics would get to the best artist. It's looking like I'm starting to tire of this X-Men drama post Sins of Sinister. I'll ride it to Fall of X but it's getting stale for me and we need a real shake up but knowing Marvel, these things will be formulaic to the T.

Wherever its subject matter overlaps with another title (with Invincible Iron Man and with Immortal in particular), this issue suffers in comparison. And where it stands alone--in the Big Sentinel Fight™--it entertains, but it fails in its most important job. It desperately wants to portray the Stark Sentinels as new and different. It does not, at least in my opinion, do so.

An awful lot of stuff happening, but since Duggan's X-Men are short on interiority I don't know as I care about any of it. And while Jean & Scott separating is a thing that's been set up, it's kind of weird to skip the actual process and just have him mention it in passing to Emma afterwards. I had to poke around and confirm that I hadn't just missed something in another issue or even another comic. At times this book feels like reading the plot summary of everything but the fight scenes. Whereas Hickman's X-Men was quiet and introspective to a fault, Duggan treats all character work as an accessory to the punching; an odd and unsatisfying tack to take on a book that's always been at its strongest with soap opera