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X-Men United (2026-) #4
Graymatter Lane is totally safe from all interlopers. All threats psionic, military or demonic. Right? Right. But what about the doubts and fears that always emerge among friends and lovers? And who keeps blowing up Emma's phone? Meanwhile, Iceman has a rather unorthodox training idea. Bring your twenty-sided die.
- GenresMarvel
Kindle Edition
Published June 17, 2026
About the author
Eve L. Ewing
120 books1,245 followersDr. Eve Louise Ewing is a writer and a sociologist of education from Chicago. Ewing is a prolific writer across multiple genres. Her 2018 book Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism & School Closings on Chicago's South Side explores the relationship between the closing of public schools and the structural history of race and racism in Chicago's Bronzeville community.
Ewing's first collection of poetry, essays, and visual art, Electric Arches, was published by Haymarket Books in 2017. Her second collection, 1919, tells the story of the race riot that rocked Chicago in the summer of that year. Her first book for elementary readers, Maya and the Robot, is forthcoming in 2020 from Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House.
Her work has been published in many venues, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Nation, The Washington Post, The New Republic, Poetry Magazine, and the anthology American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time, curated by Tracy K. Smith, Poet Laureate of the United States. With Nate Marshall, she co-wrote the play No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks, produced by Manual Cinema and commissioned by the Poetry Foundation. She also currently writes the Champions series for Marvel Comics and previously wrote the acclaimed Ironheart series, as well as other projects.
Ewing's first collection of poetry, essays, and visual art, Electric Arches, was published by Haymarket Books in 2017. Her second collection, 1919, tells the story of the race riot that rocked Chicago in the summer of that year. Her first book for elementary readers, Maya and the Robot, is forthcoming in 2020 from Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House.
Her work has been published in many venues, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Nation, The Washington Post, The New Republic, Poetry Magazine, and the anthology American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time, curated by Tracy K. Smith, Poet Laureate of the United States. With Nate Marshall, she co-wrote the play No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks, produced by Manual Cinema and commissioned by the Poetry Foundation. She also currently writes the Champions series for Marvel Comics and previously wrote the acclaimed Ironheart series, as well as other projects.
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Displaying 1 - 8 of 8 reviews
June 18, 2026
There are some fun parts to this issue. The tension between Scott and Emma is good and Rogue is fun as well. The storyline feels a little loose and not sure where we are going here. The ending is promising if it leads to more of this crew having to work together.
June 18, 2026
This whole premise where the X-Men are meeting on the astral plane isn't working. The artwork isn't portraying the astral plane as any different from physical reality, so the reader really has no way of distinguishing the two different realms. Beyond that, even the mechanics within the astral plane aren't making any logical sense.
In this particular issue, a random assortment of mutants are supposed to play a fictionalized version of Dungeons and Dragons. Iceman and the new gay mutant, Ben, are acting as the game moderators. (One could read this as the two gay men being on a date, but no one explicitly addresses this, so maybe they are just friends. When did they even meet, though?) Ben's power is generating physical manifestations, and even animating them. He first was shown using this power to simulate an alien invasion. In this particular issue, he is using this power to manifest costumes and scenery so that everybody can see the simulated D&D world.
... But... They're already supposed to be doing this in the astral plane? Ben's power is unnecessary. ANY telepath could have already restructured the astral plane to resemble whatever they wanted. Ben's power made less sense, actually. If he normally generates some sort of malleable, animated matter in the physical world, that is totally irrelevant to changing the landscape of the astral plane. It would have made more sense to have Emma, Jean, Rachel, or any other telepath be in charge of this.
Something went wrong and there was a threat in the astral plane who wasn't part of the expected simulation. Just like Cyclops has been afraid of some sort of security risk, it turns out that he was right.
This felt like a waste of good characters. Hell, it was a waste of ink.
In this particular issue, a random assortment of mutants are supposed to play a fictionalized version of Dungeons and Dragons. Iceman and the new gay mutant, Ben, are acting as the game moderators. (One could read this as the two gay men being on a date, but no one explicitly addresses this, so maybe they are just friends. When did they even meet, though?) Ben's power is generating physical manifestations, and even animating them. He first was shown using this power to simulate an alien invasion. In this particular issue, he is using this power to manifest costumes and scenery so that everybody can see the simulated D&D world.
... But... They're already supposed to be doing this in the astral plane? Ben's power is unnecessary. ANY telepath could have already restructured the astral plane to resemble whatever they wanted. Ben's power made less sense, actually. If he normally generates some sort of malleable, animated matter in the physical world, that is totally irrelevant to changing the landscape of the astral plane. It would have made more sense to have Emma, Jean, Rachel, or any other telepath be in charge of this.
Something went wrong and there was a threat in the astral plane who wasn't part of the expected simulation. Just like Cyclops has been afraid of some sort of security risk, it turns out that he was right.
This felt like a waste of good characters. Hell, it was a waste of ink.
June 21, 2026
I like the idea of the X-Men getting trapped inside of a D&D campaign - I am not convinced that *these* mutants are the ones who would play said campaign, lol. That said, it’s a fun concept and I’m interested to see where it goes from here.
June 17, 2026
Decent fun as the team are in some kind of D&D type environment
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June 19, 2026
i think a good dnd campaign could fix them
June 22, 2026
not feeling this as much as Exceptional X-Men
July 13, 2026
"Ah, but that's impossible. I make it a strict practice to never owe anyone anything."
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