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Excellent art and a story that makes the reader ponder some big moral questions rather than give a prefabricated answer. It’s nice to see that Marvel is still able to produce quality.

I think I haven’t read a comic this bad in years. It’s actually not even a comic, it’s what Jody Houser, who I’ve never heard of but who I suspect is not a comic book writer but some activist blogger, thinks a comic is. The plot, if you can call it that, is utterly confusing. The reader doesn’t get any sense of why things are happening or even where they are happening. The dialogue is clumsy and d isjointed, like a first draft. Plus, for a first issue, this comic doesn’t even attempt to give the reader an introduction to the characters, except some very vague hints through the art.
Speaking of the art, it’s clearly geared towards a Manga-reading female audience, so if that’s your kind of thing, you might at least enjoy the pretty pictures.more

X-Men #25 is in fact the better of the 2 books after the awful Uncanny X-men featuring knock off Universal Monsters. But thats not high praise at all. I'll say it now and later in this review- Current X-men Suck. Let's dive in - We get the team deployed to find the Morlocks in hopes of finding Doug Ramsey. Along the way a random story of Nazi mutant twins, nazis killing( hero’s kill right? The X- men are not heroes in this book) and a cool battle. Cyclops's team go back to being the Krakoa killers we got at that series end. Some will say it’s a political message and killing Nazi mutants is allowed blah . Idc about all that.Be heroes or don’t be heroes. Then we get the return of Crimson Commando who was last killed by Wolverine working with a group called O.N.E. Just what we need. Another group to be unfocused on. More cuts to the X-men talking about the actual plot while eating. Then more 3k nonsense in the back up story. Does this sound like this story makes sense or that this story crafted in a way that flows? NO. Do we get crowbarred into plot lines and crazy exposition just because and go nowhere with it? YES.
As mentioned before ,the X-men everything is really BAD right now. 98% of this stuff just sucks.So if you want Claremont type writing it’s not here. It’s never going to be here and this story isn’t it. But is it better than the usual xmen story we got in earlier issues ? Sure it is. more

Everything about this issue is garbage. Garbage writing, garbage art. Worst of all, Ryan North doesn’t understand the characters he is writing - or their powers.

Despite not reaching the quality of Tom Reilly’s artwork, Andrea Milana is doing pretty well. There’s some disconnect between facial expressions and the dialogue here and there, but overall, G.I. Joe 19 is a solid issue.

As much as I enjoyed last issue’s first part of the story arc, we’re back to lazy art and endless fight scenes. I guess there must be a reason behind the monsters’ attack, but we don’t really learn much about it this issue. All in all, the issue is light on plot and feels unsatisfying.

This issue might as well be titled “Jumping to conclusion because the plot needs us to”. Jed MacKay’s Unlikeable X-Men has become a little less frustrating in recent months, because as unrecognizable as Toy Daniel’s art has become, at least it’s not Ryan Stegman or his clone Netho Diaz. The way MacKay makes the characters arrive at convenient conclusions is completely mind-boggling though. Because Doug wants to go underground, he must be with the Morlocks. Because the stupid new mutant sickness didn’t exist in the future it must come from there. And 3K is clearly code for Make More Mutants, which gives away the identity of Dark Beast. WTF. How stupid does McKay think the reader is?
The rest of the book is going through the motions by bashing a few Nazis (everyone’s called a Nazi now, but the Strucker twins are the real deal) and encountering an old acquaintance. Meh.more

Let's get this right out in the open- I love the X-men. I grew up reading them and ever since Hickman left the X-men have been in deep decline. Krakoa was largely a mess and from the ashes is a disaster. when almost all the books in the relaunch are canceled I know I'm not alone in this thinking. I want good X-men books. So far this hasn't happened and this book doesn't turn that around.

We get essentially 3 different stories in this that barely connect. the Excessive exposition is clunky and just bad. Scott is highly unlikeable as the main star of his own book. Do I view him as a military commander or a survivor with repressed memories? Scott is once again back on this authoritarian nonsense that was never present to this degree in past X-men books. Antionio's art jumps between semi competent to unfinished sketches.

The whole premise of Scott losing his visor is cool and that makes me interested in the next issue. Not the characters or plot. it's not the worst new X book i've read this month in a sea of bad X-men everything , thats Storm. but thats not high praise. more

I’ve never been a huge fan of Scott Summers, and a Cyclops series seems like an odd idea, since Scott has never been known for going on solo missions. Anyway, I think there’s some potential, especially if the series functions as a tool for some character growth - hopefully into a better man than the terrorist asshole we’ve seen in the last fifteen or so years.

After reading the issue, I ’m not so sure this is going to happen. The series probably exists for one reason: Marvel literally throws any X-Men character solo title at the reader to see which one sticks. And they haven’t really tried Cyclops before.

I’m not sure this is going to help anyone though. Cyclops #1 is not the worst comic ever, but it’s also not very good. The writing is very simplistic, the art is pretty meh, and there’s nothing really new here to grab the reader’s attention. I guess this is going to be a mini series with no memorable consequences whatsoever.more

A fun little interlude. Marco Fodera does a good job filling in for Tom Reilly.

The finale of Punisher: Red Band doesn't hold back. All in all, this was a pretty good series.

I liked this issue. Maybe the opportunity to draw Rawhide Kid inspired Marquez - his art looks much more detailed and naturalistic here than in previous issues. Also, Simone's story hits all the right notes. There are scenes and dialogue that took me back to the glory days of the X-Men and New Mutants in the 80s, and even if this current book doesn't quite reach the quality of those classic runs, it comes pretty close (provided Simone manages to put the identity politics aside and just focus on the characters and telling a good superhero story, which is exactly what she's doing here.)more

It's interesting that Marvel chose to cross over the FF with the old Planet of the Apes movies, not the new ones, and it's definitely the better choice! I'm a huge fan of the movies and Josh Trujillo just nails the different personalities of the ape characters. Andrea Di Vito provides solid art, although I think the book would have been so much better with a more traditional or even retro 60s art style. The modern, digital style doesn't quite fit the nostalgic character of the book and makes it look forgettable.
All in all, POTA VS. FF #1 is a fun book though.more

It's a satisfying conclusion to the first story arc, although it doesn't quite have the emotional impact Fraction seems to think it has (judging from the montage page showing the story's fallout.)
The open scene with Bruce and Dr. Zeller talking over multiple panels with the same camera view is incredibly well done and there are a few other calm moments in which this issue really shines - som ething I didn't expect Jimenez to be able to pull off, since his style is mostly action-orientated.more

I can see Ayodele was trying to tell a good story here - that of a superhero confronted with personal failure and becoming a potential threat to the world as a result - but the full emotional impact doesn't translate into the finished comic because of the artist's limitations. In fact, Federica Mancin is such a huge step down from most of the artists working on the last Storm series, that I had to force myself to actually read the pages.

I hate to bash a newcomer artist, but this job was just not the right one for Mancin - and it's probably not even her fault. Marvel should have given her a book that can use a more cartoony approach, such as Champions or Runaways, to hone her skill a few more years before letting her draw a book like Storm. Maybe even then she would be wrong for the book, since Storm of all superheroes needs an artist with a more naturalistic style, capable of depicting the human form in all its elegance (R.B. Silva's cover is great btw!).

To wrap this up: Storm is my all-time favourite superhero and it hurts to see her in a poor book like this. I have continued reading X-Men over the decades because of her - even when it was bad - but she isn't even in the X-books anymore. Avengers is not worth the paper it's printed on. And now her own solo book looks like it's going down the drain as well. Taking into account that she's not even the same character that I loved for most of my life, maybe it's time to let go. more

Great character and I'm happy to have the original Betsy back in a comic but if I wanted to rehashed continuity blast I'll do it the right way and read classic X-men. At least then I got Art Adam's covers. Book is so wordy and just who asked for this story ? When X-men are the worst they have ever been ... you put this out ? Try again.