X-Men: Gold #25 is a fun one-off issue for the series. It brings back a fairly obscure villain and unites the teams of Gold in a big boss battle-style showdown. The art team does some great work to boot, and I can recommend this one. Check it out. Read Full Review

X-Men Gold #25 loses all sense of narrative causality. Read Full Review

I wanted to see the new team of X-men promised in the cover. I didn't like the beginning of Gold and leave after issue 2.
I was surprised to see the X-men in prison. That remembering me of the Jurgens/Perez story. But there was some stupide moment.
Storm in some sort of catatonia ... Didn't she have deal with her claustrophobia before ? ... Then with no explanation turning so powerfull that she can use her power with a dampener (Even if that remember the time Doom transform her as statue, that didn't seem right).
I liked poor Megan & captain britain moment even if they are much more powerfull that seen there.
And did the writer mock Rogue leadership. For good sake she was a leader before in the x-men & in avengers. That make me angry. And I didn't even talk about her been KO like that ... It's just stupid !
And poor pyro. Why letting him in the team just for doing nothing. And what hammer is that. I believed in the one of Brutal Thor/Ultimate Thor but it seem not. How many hammer exist seriously ? It's become a joke !

Cover - Nice & this his one of the character of the story. But not really the character with more showtime. 1.5/2
Story - Some part is good, and some not so much. It's even sometime catastrophically laughing ! 2/3
Arts - At least their is the arts. But as a fellow "Parisien" I don't recognize Paris. That would be nice the artist take time with internet to see real street in paris. And some real view of it and not putting some monument where they don't have to be ! 2/3
Feeling - If blue succeeded to give me the need to follow & catch up, gold give me the need to run far away. And a bubble with only "Courir" is laughable. A little effort on the french would be appreciated ... 0/2 more

Scythian stomps on Paris and all this title's on-call mutants unite to dispatch him in an exceptionally vague way. This issue starts off by explicitly stating its villain is a mindless force-of-nature, singularly unaware of how dull that makes him.

What a surprise, the Gold team's master strategy is, once again, "everybody punch/blast as hard as you can! We'll either win or get knocked out by a cliffhanger ending!"

The finale glories in assembling a dozen X-Men like that's some kind of special achievement instead of one line of script direction. The creators are batting frantically at the toilet paper roll of plot, flushing down another clutch of potentially-cool ideas without half the attention they deserve. The huge art team produces some pretty panels (especially when Storm gets Asgarded up), but the overall effect is thoroughly generic. The visuals abjectly fail to convey the details of Scythian's defeat; that's the sign of unfocused art struggling with a shallow script. more

In this comic, thing simply happen with no reason at all. Stormcaster enters in the narrative without any previouse plot, it just enters. And the villain is extremely obscene.