This was probably my favorite issue yet. Lots of big ideas on the creation of supers in the MU, but with good character moments and solid action. Also noticed that despite a number of splash pages, this one didn’t read in five minutes - it felt meaty. Enjoying this run a lot so far!

Very dark take on the Hulk, this reads like an intelligent horror comic and nothing at all like Pak’s Totally Awesome run (which I also enjoyed, but for very different reasons). The art and writing compliment each other well, really hope we get quite a few issues like this before the next dramatic tonal shift.

Snyder is one of my all time favs. New 52 Batman is near perfect. So far Justice League is pretty good but I feel like I dont really have that emotional connection to it yet. For some reason with most Justice League series it's all action action action and I feel no connection with the characters. Maybe that's why I liked Snyders Batman and the new Bendis Superman so much, it delves deeper into the character and gives them depth. I dont know, maybe I'm just not a big Justice League fan in general for that reason. But aside from that the story and the story telling is good so I'm sticking with this more

I'm going to start by saying that I want Jorge Jimenez to draw as many books as it is humanly possible. He is amazing at his craft. Each character looks unique and different and the action looks just grand. Just one little thing. Please make Martian Manhunter a little more beefed up. When he looks all slender and slick it's just wrong.

As for the story it's good, but not great. It gets a bit convoluted at times. It feels like Snyder is trying to put too much story, too much plot points into a single issue and not even one of these points gets explored enough. Same goes for characterizations of some characters, heroes mostly. Sometimes they seem spot on and sometimes the exact opposite. Kendra and Barry seemed really odd in this issue. But my biggest issue is with Luthor. In issue 1 he was calm and collected, he looked like a guy with a plan. In this issue I was just waiting for him to burst into maniacal laugh for no reason what so ever.
Fortunately it did not happen. more

I think this is going to be my time to just realize that Snyder isn't the writer for me. I really liked the Court of Owls storyline but ever since then he's never quite landed for me. This has pretty great art and an epic feel, but the characters don't act strangely, none of them seem to have three dimensions - just a bunch of cyphers. I was hoping for a big bold first issue to get me back into the DCU - instead I got something that didn't really feel any better than Hitch's run (in fact to me it actually felt pretty similar to Hitch - big cosmic level stuff with no human connection). more

Scott Snyder takes the reins over The Justice League and expands on the ideas put forth in Metal and No Justice.

The banter and comradery between members of the League feel really good. Snyder even pokes some fun at Batman for the dark and gloomy demeanour.
The story moves smoothly with Martian Manhunter kinda in a center, but it all changes somewhere halfway through. League defeats the threat, in a really bizarre way, after that they have a meeting to discuss some new possible threat that, again, is something old and ancient. Then Manhunter gets a really confusing and convoluted visoion and issue #1 ends. Leaving reader with a little feeling of "what the heck just happened". I'm guessing that things will get clearer with coming issues.

As for the art I must say that Jim Cheung Justice League looks gorgeous. Especially when we see all of them fighting on panels side by side. more

I loved this. This is simply Cap being Cap and it's all the better for it.

I'm in the minority but I quite enjoyed this issue. Kitty taking down Sythian (sp?) was inventive and made sense and I enjoy seeing villains dispatched by thinking rather than just punching. Only issue I have is that Guggenheim really keeps the secondary X-Men in the background and I'd be happier if they weren't around if he's not going to invest them with strong personalities.

Really intrigued by the Magneto pieces. Another great issue, I hope Rosenberg ends up with an X-book after this mini.

Everything I wanted this book to be and more. Great classic X-Men nods, fun team chemistry, gorgeous art, and tons of mystery. Another perfect issue worthy of Jean's return.

Very fun first issue, gets the characters perfectly and feels the right amount of old and the right amount of new. I'm onboard with those asking for Thompson to get an X title after this.

I've been reading the old Claremont run one issue a day for the past month and a half and I'm two issues to the end of the original Dark Phoenix Saga (unintentionally good timing). The best compliment I can give this book is that the mysteries, the ease of which the characters interrelate and the feeling that this is building to something would fit right in those classic books. I've been enjoying the X-Men since Gold & Blue started but this is the best of any of them, great book. more

It's a well written story that sets up a potentially very fun series. While lacking in action, it does compensate with character development and makes the perfect launch pad for the upcoming events. The art is stunning though every pages and the colors are great. The nostalgia is strong with this one and Zdarksy knows it and uses it to its full potential. At this point, pretty much everyone hopes it ultimately turns into the full fledged return of the fantastic four, but for now, just Johnny and Ben seem like a nice team. It they can keep introducing cameos without them feeling forced and have a fast moving story, this might be a series to follow and add to you pull list for 2018. more

Very epic issue, lots of great action with character work supporting it all. Great last page, I've loved this series from the start (a stealth Marvel Team-up book starring Jean Grey) and love it still. Hopeless had better keep writing at Marvel when this finishes or I'll be bummed.

Another fun issue, I never read X-Men 2099 but it was still a fun dance in yesterday's version of tomorrow. Dig Sila's art too.

This may be a sequel to the original Cross-Time Caper in spirit only, but I am enjoying what is being done. Bunn just seems to be having fun playing with time. In this we see the return of the X-Men of 2099. Their future has been altered by the original five (or so they are told) themselves who have taken over Alchemax and have put the world in a desperate state separated by two classes. Having read the original X 2099 when they were released I would say this is the best I have ever seen them. Silva does some great layouts and captures some good body language and faces. The colors make everything really stand out. At the end I noticed that Bloodstorm was no longer in the panels. It could be an over site by Silva, but it could also be intended as another alteration in time. The last page reveal also promises a bit of fun. It may be hard to trust that this will have line shattering changes, but much like the Excalibur run off Cross-Time Caper it is a lot of fun. This is especially true if you reading the titles that feature the heroes in them as well (looking at you Jean Grey). The thing to get you engaged in the book is seeing where they will pop up next and who they will encounter. more