The story is easier to follow this time, but I can't help but wonder if anyone is even interested in the whole Miss Henrietta storyline. The art is quite dull (not Werneck, but C.F. Villa), with a lot of empty space, although the design for Asnawushka... Acopetzlka... Anatevka (whatever that giant snake woman is called) is pretty great.

I may not be a fan of the Age of Apocalypse, but in times when most X-titles look like dog shit and read even worse, I favor a well drawn AoA title over the 616 line anytime. And indeed, X-Men of Apocalypse feels like a breath of fresh but familiar air from a better era. Jeph Loeb's story is simple but works, and DiMeo's artwork just pops off the page. XMOA is great 90s fun, and part of it may be just because it doesn't have to carry the baggage of twenty to thirty years of bullshit stories. Please, Marvel, put this team on the main X-book! more

The art by Alvaro Lopez looks amazing, but it's Jed MacKay on writing, which usually means bad dialogue, illogical plot points and pacing issues. Nova: Centurion probably has all three, but the story is so boring and unengaging, I stopped paying attention to whatever cosmic shenanigans are happening and just enjoyed the art. It's really a shame, since Lopez invokes some classic superhero goodness that I haven't seen in a while. Nova probably never looked better, but looks alone don't make a compelling comic. more

The conclusion to Our Secret Wars is bittersweet for me. Obviously the second Captain, Dave Colton, had to go. But it's disappointing that Zdarsky is seemingly going to turn him into a villain, to return in a future story arc. I enjoyed Colton's ambivalent story and found him much more relatable than the one-dimensional and squeaky-clean Steve Rogers. A part of me wanted to see him as a replacement for Rogers.
I will probably pick up next issue, but with Colton gone for the moment (it seems) I doubt that the next arc will keep my interest. more

What the hell was that? And I praised Straczynski for his sort of revisiting of the Hulk's origin in that one-shot with Doctor Strange. But what was this? And the art is awful, even more so when the Hulk appears, and the rest is so unnecessary.

The writer is good, damn it! Why subject him to writing garbage like this?

Just horrible. What is Marvel trying to achieve with this poorly written and amateurishly drawn crap?

Standard superhero stuff, not as bad as some of the other AoR books, but completely forgettable. This is filler.

I feel like concept of status quo of cloak and dagger is really nice. They are bassicly divorced parents not because of the condition they find themselfs in, not because a lack of love. They are accustoment to it already and the say is treated is mature. Where my issue is how unnispired the plot of the twins is and how untied is it to what cloak and dagger are going through. it ends up feeling like a comics that they are not integral part of and could be switched off with someone else. more

Confusing, but I do like the art. I don’t see how this conflict can be resolved in just one more issue though. All in all, several of the AoR books feel more like glimpses into this timeline than actual stories. This whole event is a creative and most likely commercial failure, but at least Ayodele gets to play with some of his ideas from the regular Storm series.

Back in the 80s, this issue would have been an eight page backup story in an annual by some unknown creative team. It makes me sad that this is the quality of the main series now - produced by an established writer and a veteran artist to boot.

The story is flowing nicely, but it’s the art that made me care. Despite his preference for Manga faces, that make his art look somewhat shallow at first glance, Jimenez is a capable storyteller. There are small moments, gestures, facial expressions, that elevate this issue from a good to a great comic.

Finally a good MacKay X-men book?

Another masterfully written story. It's hard to criticize Francis Portela's art, as it is absolutely perfect, but I think it might be a little too pretty and clean for Hyde Street. I can't help but wonder what the issue would have looked like illustrated by regular artist Ivan Reis.

I’d rather have Jen back on Earth, but Planet She-Hulk is obviously a concept we all needed - or so Marvel thinks. The result is an issue that feels like a 1970s fantasy comic, and that’s not a bad thing. Aaron Kuder’s art has its moments, although his facial anatomy could use some improvement. The story is not too exciting, but compelling enough to keep me interested. All in all, Planet She-Hulk, although derivative of the Hulk’s adventures on Sakaar, is a fun new twist on the character.
Having said that, please come home, Jen! more

You had one job, Marvel: put an artist on this book that knows how to draw children.

The story is bullshit and the art is girlie crap.

I’d respect this if it were fan art, but it isn’t.

I’m shocked. This is probably the first time Jed McKay’s writing actually works. He definitely made his homework regarding Scott and Illyana’s histories and it all comes together seamlessly. I also liked the weird little details, such as the workers producing suffering as sustenance for Limbo or Animalia changing into different animal forms. Mahmud Asrar makes it all look great too. So, as much as I wanted to, I can’t really hate this book. From all the AoR books, Amazing X-Men is the only one I enjoyed so far. more

The absence of Pepe Larraz makes it all too obvious that Kelly’s story is just not that interesting. This “succulent” Spider-Man sucks.

Tom Reilly is back, which means I have no complaints with the art. A lot is happening in this issue, and while I appreciate more content in times of decompressed storytelling, it feels that things are moving a little too fast. I think it would have benefitted the story if Williamson had given the reader some more time to digest the surprising twists and turns of this first part of Dreadnok War.

This wasn’t as bad as I expected. Yes, I don’t care about these characters, since most of them haven’t been X-Men longer than five minutes and the rest is being introduced in this very issue - but I also felt myself drawn into the story, the art is actually not bad and in contrast to NYX and Extraordinary X-Men, there is no woke nonsense here (so far). On the other hand: who cares about this event in the first place? more

What? This was it? I wonder if it was always planned as a four-issue series, or if they shortened it because Hickman lost interest in a project again. However, this was bullshit.