A story about magic that highlights the magic of X-Men Blue--wall-to-wall character development mixed with a classic Marvel feeling. Read Full Review

X-Men: Blue solidly earns itself a recommendation with its tenth issue. The team feels a bit different from issue one, even if some interpersonal problems havent been solved since the beginning. However, the characters and their struggles manage to carry the book, and Valletta, Hanna, and eFX put together a visually appealing book. Grab this one next time youre at the comic shop. Read Full Review

Bunn does a good job with creating a transition issue that picks up the pieces and moves things forward as to what's coming next and he gets to that conflict in the same issue. That pacing is solid and a lot is packed into the 22 pages. Bunn also gives this series a personality of its own that helps set it apart really well from its fellow X comic series. Still, the art doesn't quite click making the series good, not great. Still, we're getting something different and with that some entertaining stories. Read Full Review

With Secret Empire in the rear view, X-Men Blue #10 sows the seeds for a multitude of potential arcs, certainly enough to give writer Cullen Bunn ample room to explore the characters he has been exploring so well throughout this series while changing their circumstances enough to keep anything from feeling stale. Read Full Review

There's some interesting territory in the story itself, but the series isn't quite living up to its potential Read Full Review

Bunn does a good job of managing the multiple story plots in this issue, which are mostly comprised of minor transitions that will lead to the next story arc. However, none of the various stories seem that interesting, and while X-Men Blue has been the better of the two main X-books, it could really use a strong story arc to give it the identity and shelf life Marvel desperately needs from it.

Hank's magical experiments bring a heap of Goblin Queen trouble down on a team already overburdened with mysteries and challenges and soap operatics. There's some real potential in this latest adversary, but this series has already *started* a bunch of promising plotlines and I think finishing one would be better than launching yet another. The by-the-numbers character development that fills out the issue and the "forget it as soon as you close the issue" guest art encourage me to think of this as a strictly middle-of-the-road affair.