X-Men #2 is an action-packed issue that works to provide insight into what the team's agenda is. Read Full Review

Fun and exciting second issue balances a crazy story, really great action and good character dialogue. The only thing missing is better character development, but that might not be this kind of series. We'll see. Read Full Review

Stegman delivers some great art in the issue. The visuals are exciting and beautifully detailed throughout. Read Full Review

Its the second issue of the brand new run, and its unfortunately pretty middling. The first issue had a ton of charm, and warmth. They felt like the pre-No More Mutants era. Focusing on making it new reader friendly stripped it of its identity, and it checked me out of the story. I have faith in MacKay, so hopefully this is the outlier for his run Read Full Review

X-Men #2 was a solid follow-up to the debut. This second issue further put over this series tapping into the more traditional superhero team vibe it is going for. Compared to what the other X-Men titles are doing this honestly helping it standout. Though hopefully we see the team fight more credible threats than the random aliens than they did here. Read Full Review

Even extremely well made art cannot save this extremely predictable and uninteresting journey that the X-Men are on. But, finding footing after something as substantial as the Krakoa era was destined to be tough but there are glimpses of the story eventually being able to find its path. Read Full Review

X-Men #2 is a strangely mediocre and forgettable comic because it ignores the cliffhanger from issue #1, doesn't set up the motivations for any of the characters, and presents it all with oddly inconsistent art. MacKay's chronic problems with forgettable villains are unavoidable in this issue, and the art can't decide if it's trying to be serious or silly. Read Full Review

Is the Marvel Cinematic Universe forcing the Marvel comics universe to be a popularity contest? With talk of the X-Men entering the shared movie universe is Marvel hyping this by flooding the market with mutant books. Read Full Review

Somehow, Jed McKay has made a book with all style and ZERO substance. Some solid teamwork is completely overshadowed by zero info on our characters and some extremely weird character designs. I realize this review is much shorter than most of my reviews, but honestly, there wasnt a whole lot to write about. Read Full Review

I'm not sure what X-Men #2 is trying to achieve beyond possibly turning X-Men into a straightforward power fantasy and not even doing that particularly well. Read Full Review

Plot
CYCLOPS, PSYLOCKE, KID OMEGA, TEMPER, MAGIK and JUGGERNAUT arrive in Los Angeles to save a mutant who is in the middle of a sudden alien invasion. The mutant is called Ben and he has to be abducted again by aliens.

The battle is intense, but Cyclops and Psylocke feel that there is something out of the ordinary, even Temper uses the new Beast cannon that launches Juggernaut like a bullet, this sequence is brilliant.

Psylocke discovers that this whole invasion is a lie, it is part of a psychic outbreak of the mutant Ben, who they manage to intercept and is overwhelmed by his power and apparently disappears thanks to an illusion of Kid Omega and Magik, but in reality Cyclops takes him unconscious to Hank and Magneto in Alaska, it was all a show to be able to take Ben Liu to be studied.

Great chapter that highlights the complex tasks of this new team of X-men, who must face mysterious new challenges while carrying out a secret agenda.

Art
It is magnificent, organic and with Stegman's imprint everywhere, offering a classic and modern tone at the same time.

Summary
A large-scale threat becomes a battle where nothing is what it seems. Intense and great new chapter of this saga more

Art: 3.5/5
Story: 3/5
Total: 6.5/10

So MacKay & Stegman's X-Men seems to be picking up the "episodic book where things explode a lot" remit from Duggan's X-Men, which seems like a waste of their talents and doesn't suit MacKay at all. Utterly forgettable and generic.

All of the characters' voices felt so off and all dialogue felt forced to provide generic quippy banter that just didn't work. I really liked all MacKay's Black Cat and Moon Knight issues but so so far his Avengers and X-Men writing has this same issue of feeling very generic.

Yeah this is not good.

Just read Morrisons X-men run if you want to know what this is about. This is just a copy and paste version but worse.

There is functionally zero reason to buy this book, the story has already been done and the art is very mediocre.

This is terrible. Boring plot and generic characterization.