Pina and Carlos deliver some impressive and fun visuals throughout the issue. The art is stellar and the action is thrilling throughout. Read Full Review

X-Men #5 is a capable installment which splits itself between x-heroics and some character introspection, while pushing ongoing plotlines a few steps forward. It tries a little too hard to justify some past choices in my opinion but that doesnt stop it from being an entertaining yarn nonetheless. Read Full Review

It's a stellar issue, especially for fans of Lorna Dane, some of the best art currently offered by the superhero genre. Read Full Review

THE DISPATCHThis weeks issue of X-MEN focuses heavily on Polaris and her addition to the team. Those familiar with the character know shes a heavy hitter. However, I think Duggan wanted to take the time to showcase her abilities and give her the presence she truly can common. Nevertheless, as an X-MEN comic, it just didnt do a great job this week balancing out the cast of characters. I, like many others, get excited for the X-MEN because its a team book. Yet this week, Duggan decides to sidestep the atmosphere of the title to give some extra background information on Polaris, her nomination to the team, as well as her acceptance within the dynamic of the X-MEN. Read Full Review

X-Men #5 is a stumble from the series' previous hot streak, featuring some baffling storytelling and character decisions. Hopefully, the next issue will keep characterization in focus as it introduces the newest member of the mutant heroes. Read Full Review

X-Men #5 was another solid issue in this series that has become one of Marvel's most consistent monthly titles. Gerry Duggan does a good job providing some development for Polaris' character and pushing the greater narrative around Orchis' plot forward. The final few pages of X-Men #5 sets the stage for the next issue of this series to be a highly important comic book in this era for the franchise. Read Full Review

Try as he might, Duggan can't seem to find any solid ground for Polaris as a character. Read Full Review

X-Men #5 is a terrible comic. There's really no other way to put it. Duggan messes up from the first page and then never really recovers. In fact, he continually makes the book worse and worse until the end. This is kind of okay until it gets to the part with the big bad with a parabolic microphone watching Cyclops and Urich through a window. Pina and Carlos get nothing great to draw, and their art is fine, except for the Reavers, who look sooo very bad. This issue isn't comically bad, where can you laugh at it. It's just really, really bad. Read Full Review

I’m really enjoying what Duggan has been putting down here during this initial arc. It feels very much like a classic X-Men book told through the lens of the Krakoan era, and that’s something the line has been missing a little bit. The focus on Polaris was fun and Piña’s art made the little play on Magneto shine. The Urich stuff was probably the most intriguing part of this issue and I loved the position he put Scott in.

I feel that this should have been a better issue, considering the stuff with Polaris being pretty good. However, this just felt a little off and it definitely felt a lot quicker than the previous issues. Nonetheless, still an enjoyable issue, even more so for fans of Polaris.

I liked this for the most part, but the Polaris stuff didn't work as well for me as it should've.

The solicit promised big Dr. Stasis developments, but on the page, it's business as usual: big dumb fights, a characterization spotlight on one team member, and tiny tiny bits of big-picture plot development. It still looks great and I saw real potential in the character study of Polaris. That character work could be *much* better written, though. That's this volume in a nutshell, really: tons of potential in the ideas, great visuals, and writing that constantly flirts with adjectives like "disappointing" and "mediocre."

(Also, Polaris using Laura as a murder-puppet sounds like a great idea -- until you remember that Laura, unlike her clone-daddy, *doesn't* have adamantium bonded to her whole skeleton. Polaris can at best drag her around by her claws.)
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I don't mind the writing but I am getting tired of the 'villain of the week' trope. I thought this Doctor Stassi was going to actually matter in this issue and he was relegated to the background.

Just looking for an ongoing story that'll keep me coming back.

Same as last issue, but worse. Please don't let me down, Gerry!

The urich stuff is great but, damn these one shot type story's are a little bland.

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This writings really going downhill and its a shame as this is one of the few ongoing Marvel series I'm enjoying

The characterisations were poor and this issue felt very dragged out and boring to me, at least Javier Pina on the arts a plus

Disjointed issue. The only interestingplot is about Ben discovering the mutant ressurrection

This is getting worse and worse with each issue, there were several time I cringed pretty hard. I cringed at the villain's correction, "Dr. Polaris" just enough to make sure we get that Polaris is super smart even though we never got any proof of that, we're just told she is. I laughed at his anti-nuclear propaganda. I cringed again at how he copied the whole "iron in your blood" and "fillings in your teeth" from the way the movies used Magneto's powers. Great originality there, Gerry, you really did your best lol. Also, that's really not good journalism there, buddy, you don't go to the subject of the news telling him you're going to expose him. If this is how Duggan thinks journalism should work, boy, is he a lot dumber than I thought he was (and I do think he's pretty dumb). And where is Pepe Larraz? The art is ok, but I do miss Larraz.

This book really needs to get better, I am interested in the new Captain Krakoa, but cautious of it at the same time, knowing Duggan he can botch this up in a pretty big way. more