The character work and plot set up is of a high enough caliber to carry the issue few, but the rough around the edges artwork keeps the issue from truly soaring. Read Full Review

In the end, the plot to X-Men Gold #21 is a little conventional if functional. The art team of Bernard, Mayer, and Prianto are the real heroes of the comic. With gorgeous art and a knack for visual storytelling, they bring this comic into the status of solidly recommended. As such, you should feel free to give this one a read. Read Full Review

If it wasn't for the art, X-Men Gold would be on some pretty shaky ground. But it really does need more from its heroes and villains to break out of this rut. Read Full Review

X-Men Gold #21 focuses on the development of its characters but rushes through each situation so quickly that the biggest revelations have no impact. Read Full Review

X-Men Gold #21 is a flawed issue; it's not perfect and even feels a bit repetitive in times as it doesn't really bring anything new to the table in X-Men mythology that hasn't been done before and been done better. But it is just about entertaining enough for X-Men fans to get something out of it and it's hard not to like an issue with art as fantastic as this. Read Full Review

The team has yet another short order status shuffle but it has done them little good here. Someone's heart just isnt in it maybe? Read Full Review

boring villains, but loving the melodrama lol.

Evil Pundit Lady's mutants (with Mesmero in the lead) bust out of prison to get revenge on her. The Gold team intercepts them and gets its collective ass handed to it. Kitty believes it's her fault because of special circumstances, which is damned bad characterization. Kitty SHOULD be a good enough leader to blame herself for her team's failure no matter WHAT the situation. The real blame for this pathetic combat showing lies with the writer, though. Nightcrawler, Colossus, and Storm have to be incapacitated off-panel, for God's sake. The plot might be disappointing, but the art is excellent. Diego Bernard and JP Mayer deliver impeccable top-shelf visuals.

Ok so let me start off on a positive note, the art is great! But the story is weak & boring. Only took 4 pages of conflict to bring the team down. If this was a boxing match this would be a no contest. And I don't see how this is the Brotherhood,

I just don't get it. They're suppose to have great training and experience, and yet every fight they approach head on. No tactical strategizing. Nothing written to expound on the danger or their talents. No, we have 15 pages and we need as much melodramatic bullshit as we can fit in them. This series is officially a lifetime original.