This issue was kind of a slow read. It wasn't bad though, we saw some great emotional moments between our characters and it is a great addition to the story arc we are currently facing. This series is turning into one of the best X-men series I have read in a decade. Pick up the issue. In fact do what I have done and get all four issues of the series from your local comic shop, don't forget X-Men Red Annual #1 is out now too! Pick them up!!! Read Full Review

X-Men Red #4 continues to be the tightly scripted and well paced king of the current X-title pile. This issue continues to take the story in interesting directions and assembles a badass lineup of X-Men to battle an aptly devious villain. This comic earns a recommendation. Give it a read. Read Full Review

Tom Taylor, Mahmud Asrar, and Rain Beredo's X-MEN RED #4 explores real life technology issues that hit surprisingly close to home. Storm and Jean's friendship is left unresolved and Asrar's art struggles to keep up with a growing cast of characters; but overall, the issue's relevance and awareness helps to make it a solid read. Read Full Review

One of (if not the) strongest book of the line, "X-Men Red" #4 borrows from the best the mutants can offer: meaningful character moment, compelling plot threads and just enough soap opera for fans to smile. Read Full Review

While some of the books in the X-Men line seem devoted to recapturing past glory, X-Men Red continues to be the one interested pushing the X-Men into the future just as much as Jean Grey is trying to build a future for mutantkind. Read Full Review

Overall, I'm really enjoying this title and liking the direction it's headed in. I like the team line up (shout out to Trinary, a great new character) and really like seeing a character like Gentle become more then just a background player. And as I mentioned earlier, I'm really enjoying getting to hate Cassandra Nova again. Read Full Review

It's not a great issue to jump on but I'd go back and read 1-3 first and then this one to get up to speed. I again think this series may be the best X-men series we have ongoing so if you want your X-men free ranged, gluten-free, and without lactose, this comic won't give you any of that BUT it's still really good. Technically, it's gluten-free and lactose-free if you enjoy that...  Read Full Review

While the story doesn't move forward much, X-Men Red #4 is still an entertaining issue that elevates the stakes even more. Read Full Review

My waning struggles with the artistic style aside, this particular issue makes impressive strides in its move to globalize the X-Men in a way that has been seemingly absent for a few years, between the retreat into Limbo and the subsequent move to Central Park. The introduction of sentites is an interesting spin on a time-tested trope, but moving forward, the real test will be in the execution and handling of said trope (how is it different from similar devices?). Read Full Review

This book is a definite must read for all x-fans. It's so exciting and packs a lot of action, comedy and heart. While some of the x-books seem to be lacking lately, this one just keeps getting better and better with every issue. Check it out, trust me. Read Full Review

This is one X-Men book sure to appeal to everyone - even those like me who don't much care for X-Men. Read Full Review

Assembling the new team, expanding the villain's plan and making for an exciting read. Read Full Review

Another solid issue from Taylor. To me this is the x-men book to get. It’s what an x-book should be. Can’t wait for the next issue.

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Jean exercises excellent leadership in defusing Storm, getting her onto the team along with Namor and Gentle, and preparing to go on the offensive. The X-Men understand Cassandra's weapon now - the Sentinites are a nice refinement of earlier titles' clumsy attempts at nano-sentinels - but they still haven't seen their enemy's face. I like the way this conflict is gearing up; the stage is set for awesomeness.

I normally come down diametrically opposed to "Diversity in Comics"-type opinions, but Trinary's awfulness transcends personal politics. No matter how closely my views align with her and her author, I find her techno-progressive yawping loathsome and paranoid. "This is a magic super-science bug that mind-controls innocent people into assassinating mutants. It's just like stealing your social media data for propaganda purposes!" No, it ☠☠☠☠ isn't, you tinfoil-hat-wearing donkey!
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Welcome to the Oblivion Bar where the first round is on me and the pretzels are free! Be warned: like the pickled eggs at the bar, this issue is going to get SPOILED rotten.

I am loving this X-men title. In a franchise that can be confusing as religion, X-men Red does a good job taking you in slowly and has been showing us all how the team is going to be formed and who the big bad appears to be. I feel the X-men franchise is one that turns new readers away with its complexity. But Taylor has done a great job explaining where this crew is at to this rookie (maybe 4th year sophomore at this point) and keeps me wanting to come back for more each month.

This issue basically shows us the possible big bad, which is now sentinels, but nano ones that implant themselves in your brain causing you to act like a He-man Mutant Hater! And, if it effects a mutant brain, it sends them off the reservation entirely, I’m talking large Casinos, which is why Storm was going Baboon poop crazy at the end of the last issue and the beginning of this one.

The X-men crew are forced to leave Wakanda due to the impact it will have on their society because these nano-sentinels already found Storm here in Wakanda so who knows where else they could find the X-men. So, they pack up and head to Namor in this underwater city that’s not Atlantis but some place else I guess...

Jean brings Gentle ( Wakandan Mutant), who we don’t completely know his power set yet other than it effects him painfully and it looks like he can grow really large..... and Storm tags along as well. Trinary creates suits for the rest of the team that will stop access to any control of any nano-sentinels on, in, or around their body. This helps them, but they need to wear them at all times. Namor joins the team and of course we can’t forget about Nightcrawler, Honey Badger, and Wolverine (girl daughter-ish version). So, we know the bad guy-ish and we know the team as the story kicks off. we even know their hide out. So what’s next?

If you want to read an X-men book, pick this one up. They got “their band” together and I think we will be getting the show on the road for next issue. I’d slide this one in the upper half of my stack right now but not too high.... yet. Why? Simply because nothing has really happened yet. Once the story picks up, which I’m sure Tom Taylor’s creativity will get this book buzzing, I can see this sliding up higher and higher as the weeks go on. It’s not a great issue to jump on but I’d go back and read 1-3 first and then this one to get up to speed. I again think this series may be the best X-men series we have ongoing so if you want your X-men free ranged, gluten free, and without lactose, this comic won’t give you any of that BUT it’s still really good. Technically, it’s gluten free and lactose free if you enjoy that...

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Story pieces were a bit vapid compared to previous issues. The art was beautiful (sans the cover), but I did feel there were some gratuitous objectification going on on page 8 when Grey and Ororo interact that took me out of the story.

As mediocre as this whole run has been so far. Nothing relevant happens and the story is pretty much a rethread of the everyone hates mutants trope.
The return of Jean Grey has been terribly anti climactic so far. Is this editorially mandated and is this series a placeholder while some much bigger plan is cooked up for Jean? It certainly looks like it.
With the exception of Nightcrawler and Storm, the cast is bad. What do you make of characters named Gentle and Trinary? Also, Namor is part of the team in another of those Let Remind Everybody Namor is a mutant push.
A big dissapointment so far

I feel like this book is the Last Jedi. Some people are saying how, "This is the X-Men book we're all looking for," when it's really not any good. Nothing happened this issue, it was so dull and boring. And Trinary is literally a character created to push agendas. I'm not even complaining about agendas being storylines in comics, but when it is so out of the tone of what is going on and it takes three speech bubbles to explain, it's not good dialogue.

This book gets one more issue, and if nothing changes it's going to get dropped. I like Gold, Astonishing and Domino is a fun read, but wow, this book is just a snoozefest with politics.

This book is so boring that it takes a considerable effort just to review it.

The cover art makes Laura look ugly. The dialog is interchangeable (this is typical for a Tom Taylor book). The team already switches to their second hideout in this relatively new series. Hopefully they will stay there for awhile, but it makes you wonder why Taylor wasted any time at all on Wakanda. The powers of the fairly obscure character Gentle are never explained. The motivations of Cassandra Nova are still unexplained. The book is only 20 pages. For four dollars Marvel still steals two pages from us.

This team is too big. One of the final pages shows eight team members, and this doesn't even include Gambit. As a result, good characters like Nightcrawler and X-23 have very few lines. You could easily get rid of Namor and Gentle. Taylor can't write Gambit well anyway so you can get rid of him as well. Honeybagder should be excised from all Marvel continuity.

The greatest insult comes at the very end where Forge is revealed to be under the control of Cassandra Nova. This is unforgivable. more

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MKW69 - May 24, 2018

Dude shut up. You're talking bullshit, and only shows how much you have a problem with your inteligence.

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