LOGAN LEADS THE HUNT FOR OGUN!
The X-Treme X-Men have reunited to aid their comrade KITTY PRYDE, but as WOLVERINE leads the hunt for their mutual enemy OGUN, RACHEL uncovers a dark secret! And what does PURITY hope to gain in the chaos of the mutants' battle? Chris Claremont and Salvador Larroca take X-TREME to the next level in this issue!
Rated T+
X-Treme X-Men #2 successfully combine multiple plot points in a digestible and entertaining way. Read Full Review
Claremont and Larroca continue with their wild ride with the X-Treme X-Men team running roughshod with some new faces, as well as the anti-mutant hate group, Purity, continues to demonstrate close to the Belles of Hell Bar. The comic reads like its 2004, and Im really enjoying it. Theres a couple missteps, but this feels like a return of classic Claremont. Read Full Review
To summarize, X-Treme X-Men #2 is simply ghost-tracking, off-panel solutions, and one showdown with a jacked-up bodybuilder. The story lacks character depth and assumes that readers know all the background details before diving in, which isnt always necessarily a bad thing. However, in the premise that is X-Treme X-Men #2, I feel like more context other than issue one would have been helpful. Additionally, with the busy nature of the issue, it felt like the characters were all extremely surface-level. Nevertheless, it was Larroca and GURU-eFX who helped salvage the issue with some incredibly crisp and vibrant art that kept this reviewer entertained enough to the end. Nonetheless, I highly recommend adding much more action to a title thats meant to be X-Treme before you lose readers fast. Read Full Review
It's better than almost all of what appeared in X-Treme X-Men's pages during the second half of its run, meaning anyone who found anything to enjoy in that original series will likely find something to appreciate here. Read Full Review
There's nothing wrong with the plot or the character work--but nothing particularly notable, either. Of course the storytelling is consciously retro, in words and art, but it works better on the visual front. There's a certain campy, cheesy fun in winding the art-clock back 20 years. There's no such joy in the language, though.
Larroca's art is terrible. Made worse by the horrific early 2000s designs. The story is uninteresting, as well.
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