Boy, was this book a disappointment.

I've never read Zdarsky before but I've heard good things about his Spiderman books, so I had fairly high expectations for this miniseries. What I ended up with was a book where the X-Men act like idiots. For what is essentially a diplomatic mission to the Fantastic Four, Prof X decides to send Wolverine, Magneto and Pyro. Considering that the FF are already trepidatious when it comes to the X-Men, this seems like a mission roster designed to provoke them and it predictably leads to the X-Men and FF mixing it up. This was a common trope of Bendis' during his long decline, advance the plot of the story by having your heroes behave in a completely stupid or irrational manner. Think Carol Danvers in 'Civil War II'. I sincerely hope that this is Zdarsky phoning it in and that he's not simply a lousy writer.

Regarding the art, I had extremely low expectations for Terry Dobson and yet he still managed to surprise me. In addition to his normally terrible art, apparently Dobson thought it would be funny to dress a few of the X-Men ridiculously. Most notably, he put Magneto in his infamous purple with a giant 'M' costume from Uncanny #200. Near the end he puts Cyclops in a similarly silly costume.

This book is unworthy of Hickman's 'Dawn of X'.

+ Like • Comments (2)

• Likes (1)

• JBL Reviews

The-MJP - Jun 6, 2020

I know this is mostly personal taste but dodson, a bad artist? Really? Dodson? The only art of his I didn't like was the generation x covers and that's into because the colors on those blended into each other and it stangley gave the impression it was a "woke" book Other than that I have read it so....no comment

CrazyforRAMU - Sep 7, 2020

Rather than dismiss Xavier as an idiot, consider that this undiplomatic visit drove Franklin straight into the mutants' arms. Bringing a combative roster -- particularly letting Magneto push Sue's buttons -- worked out great for him.

Sign in to comment