All-New X-Men: Inevitable, Vol. 1: Ghosts of Cyclops

All-New X-Men: Inevitable #1

by Dennis Hopeless (Writer), Mark Bagley (Artist)

More than ever, hatred and fear has made the world a dangerous place for mutants. But as the few remaining X-Men retreat into seclusion, a handful of mutant teenagers refuse to allow their destiny to be decided for them! And no one is more concerned about their fate than Scott Summers, whose young shoulders must bear the heavy weight of the terrible acts committed by his adult counterpart. Cyclops is joined by three of his timetorn teammates - Beast, Iceman and Angel - as well as the All-New Wolverine, Kid Apocalypse and Oya. Together, they're heading out on the highway, looking for adventure, intent on writing their own futures! But when they encounter the baleful Blob, their road trip may end before it begins...

Collecting: All-New X-Men 1-6

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Marvel, X Men, Superheroes, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book

136 pages, Paperback

First published May 17, 2016

About the author

Dennis "Hopeless" Hallum is an American comics writer from Kansas City, Missouri who has written for Marvel Comics, Image Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Boom! Studios, Arcana Studio, and Oni Press.

See also under Dennis Hallum

Reviews

[Anne · Rating 3 out of 5]

Hey does anybody know what happened to Cyclops?
Because apparently he's dead.



I know, right? When did that shit happen...and why? Is Marvel just cleaning house when it comes to old X-men?
So. Yeah. Guess I'll have to try and dig that story up next.
That's actually a soft maybe. Because, seriously, I'm not sure I can bring myself to care.
But the basic story is that Baby Cyclops is having a bit of an identity crisis now that his older self is dead. And also because Old 'Clops evidently went out like a massive douchebag...



To top it all off, there's a group of grubby teenage mutants going by the name Ghosts of Cyclops who are using his death as an excuse to loot & steal shit. The gist of the story here in volume one is that the other X-teens jump in the Mystery Machine, find the idiot teens, rally behind Scott (who has already found the idiot teens), and try to save the day.
Whooo!

This volume is less about any sort of action-based plot, and more about emotions. Laura and Angel are having relationship difficulties, Bobby is having a hard time accepting that everyone accepts that he's gay (I think?), Beast thinks he's irrelevant because other people have beaten him to making cool apps...and so on.



Bottom line?
It didn't rock my world, but it wasn't the worst thing I've ever read. At any rate, I'll give the next volume a shot.

[Baba · Rating 3 out of 5]

In a post Cyclops cataclysmic for mutants event (an event yet to be revealed) world people hate mutants more than ever. So the time displaced Beast, Angel and Iceman go on a road trip to see the world with Wolverine II (X-23), Kid Apocalypse and Idie. Meanwhile displaced Cyclops is stalking a terrorist group. In the second half of the book Blob runs amok in Paris! Nowhere near as good as Bendis' incarnation but Hopeless doesn't do too bad especially with dealing with one of the team coming out gay, and another sub-arc with dating a suicidal killer teenage angst. 6 out of 12, Three Star read.

2019 read

[Sam Quixote · Rating 2 out of 5]

In the eight months since Battleworld, Cyclops has died - somehow, somewhen, by possibly someone (the suddenly-lethal-to-mutants Terrigen Mist might’ve got ‘im!). In his wake are a gang of mutant idiots wearing Cyclops masks calling themselves the Ghosts of Cyclops, causing havoc wherever they appear. It’s up to the teenage time-displaced All-New X-Men - including the young Cyclops - to stop them. Not enough Cyclops mentions in this paragraph? CYCLOPS!

Wow, it’s tough to be an X-Men fan these days, especially since their two main titles - this one and Extraordinary - have some major suckitude going on! The Ghosts of Cyclops are a joke: nobodies with lame powers and no goals who may as well be wearing signs saying “Filler”! They’re just meaningless targets for the X-Men to fight. Just like Blob in the second half of the book who shows up to also act as filler/a target for the X-Men. It’s such a boring, uninspired read!

The young Scott gives the most retarded speech ever. Bearing in mind he’s from the PAST, he talks about how his future is already set in stone and that he’ll grow up to be the asshat Cyclops who recently died mysteriously. Uh, here’s an idea: travel back to your time and, using the knowledge you have of the person you’ll be, become a different person! How can someone who’s from the past, with the ability to alter the future, be so dumb as to believe his future is intractable?! You know of his mistakes, you can avert them! What a fucking moron.

I couldn’t have cared less about Angel and Wolverine’s relationship drama but I did like the way Bobby talked about his homosexuality, like how it’s easy for others to accept but not as easily for him, as well as Idie’s crisis of faith in Christianity. You know, stuff that actually felt like they took some thought to write rather than just going through the motions with “Random Useless Enemy attacks X-Men for x pages”. Unfortunately these glimmers of quality only last for a few pages. I suppose Mark Bagley’s art throughout is pretty decent too but not especially exciting or standout from the usual Marvel standard.

Ghosts of Cyclops is another terrible X-Men book that does nothing to take these characters out of the tailspin they’ve been in for some time. All-New has an aptly named writer with Dennis Hopeless!

[Paul · Rating 3 out of 5]

In this post-Secret Wars X-Men relaunch, the teenage versions of the original X-Men from an alternate universe (and they say comics aren't accessible to new readers) have found themselves a combo Mystery Machine/TARDIS and hit the road.

I love these guys and am happy to have Wolverine join the gang (I love me some Laura). I'm less keen on the addition of Evan and Idie; there just doesn't seem to be much reason for them to be there (at least Laura has a reason to join the team, in that she's 'going steady' with Warren). I'm quite upset that Jean's left the team, too.

In this volume, our protagonists face off against a group of wannabe mutant terrorists who have styled themselves after Cyclops and then go up against a seriously powered-up Blob.

I quite enjoyed the ride, particularly the dynamic between Laura and Warren. I also really liked Hank's self-doubt due to his knowledge of science being years out of date.

All in all, it was an OK read but nothing special. It's about a hundred times better than it's sister book Extraordinary X-Men though.

[Sesana · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's a bit more bearable than Extraordinary X-Men, but not by a lot. Where Extraordinary focuses on the implausibly long list of bad things currently happening to mutants, All-New focuses instead on smaller, more personal issues. So while Storm is fretting about the mass sterilization of mutants, Hank is realizing that he isn't quite so impressive when his knowledge base is more than a decade out of date. But because every single character is experiencing some sort of personal crisis (Scott is dealing with the legacy of his future self, Bobby is struggling to come to terms with his sexuality, Warren and Laura are having relationship problems, you get the idea) it's nearly as overwhelming as it is in Extraordinary. Pickles the bamf is the only character who isn't going through some sort of emotional turmoil. And it's kind of a lot to lay out all at once. I know that, in real life, groups of friends don't take turns going through crap, but in fiction, maybe they should? Or at least a bit more than they do here. It would be hopeless, if I didn't like these characters and the way that Hopeless writes them. Idie is here! I never really expected to see her again, to be honest, and I couldn't be more thrilled.

[Terence · Rating 3 out of 5]

The All-New X-Men have formed up a new team. Jean Grey has left to live a normal life. Evan aka Kid Apocalypse and Oya have joined Cyclops, Beast, Iceman, Angel, and the former X-23 current Wolverine Laura Kinney. Cyclops has set off on his own quest going after The Ghosts of Cyclops a group that revere the recently deceased present day Cyclops.

Meanwhile this group of young adults has their share of challenges.

I'm not a fan of Cyclops in general. He always seemed a pompous brown-noser and one of the best things I had seen was him doing his revolution business prior to his passing. He was still pompous, but he was at least honest. Despite my general feelings I feel terrible for past Cyclops. Traveling to the future and learning you turn into just about everything you hate has to be devastating.

He's handling things surprisingly well. The first three issues are primarily centered around him dealing with The Ghosts of Cyclops.

The next three issues shift into emotion-ville. All the young team members are forced to deal with their issues. Hank intelligence isn't cutting edge because of his jump to the future, Cyclops has to deal with what he becomes, Evan is an Apocalypse clone, Oya is religious and believed mutants were demons so she hates herself, Iceman is gay yet is uncomfortable with that fact, and Laura and Angel are having problems in their relationship.

This was really off-putting because the X-Men were literally all whining about their problems in these three issues. Perhaps for a young adult audience this would have been more appreciated, but I felt like I was being overwhelmed with teenage emotions even though they aren't all teenagers. I hope the author got that out of his system or at least is willing to take turns because it was just too much.

Ghost of Cyclops was an OK story, but their is still some potential. As always I still wonder when the time traveling X-Men will go home, but I'm trying to enjoy their story in the moment.

[James DeSantis · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was okayish. Which is a shame because I like Dennis Hopeless writing a lot usually.

So this starts off interesting enough. The death of cyclops. At the time this was release nobody knew what happened to one of the most famous mutants ever. Just that he was dead. Now the "Ghost of Cyclops" a group of kids trying to be radical mutant group decide to hurt regular people. At the same time Cyclops, young cyclops, is trying to stay out of the spotlight and be his own person. Of course that isn't going to work. Then we have a couple of subplots about Laura and angel relationship and bobby dealing with being gay.

Good: Some fun dialogue between the characters at points. I still really enjoyed the Laura and Angel moments (even if a bit silly) but least entertaining.

Bad: The art is kind of wonky. I think the fights were pretty hard to follow at points. I didn't like some of the designs for the ghost of cyclops either. The storyline, while not terrible, was kind of cliche and boring.

Overall, it's not a bad title but just okay at best. 2.5 out of 5.

[Chad · Rating 4 out of 5]

This surprised me...because I actually liked it. Mark Bagley's art was as winning as it always is. Dennis Hopeless has taken the original X-Men along with Oya and Kid Apocalypse and sent them in a new direction, road tripping around the world. Hopeless has a good handle on the characters and their voices. The Ghost of Cyclops are a bunch of college kids using Cyclop's memory as an excuse to rebel. the latter half of the book features a battle with Blob.

[Michael · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hier zunächst meine alte Review:
Während ein paar durchgeknallte Nachwuchsmutanten sehr zum Unmut der X-Men, allen voran der junge Scott Summers, die normale Bevölkerung als "Ghost of the Cyclops" terrorisieren, hat Angel emotianal damit zu tun, dass X-23, die jetzt Wolverine ist, als Anti-Team-Player sich dauernd von Kugeln durchlöchern und verbrennen läßt. Und schließlich bekommen sie es mit dem Blob zu tun.

Bendis Run der ALL-NEW X-MEN hat mir gut gefallen, aber wie Hopeless den Faden aufnimmt, gibt mir nicht viel. Weder Story noch Artwork haben mich wirklich angesprochen, mehr als ein "it was ok" ist da leider nicht drin.

Beim zweiten Lesedurchgang hat mir Dennis Hopeless Auftakt sehr viel besser gefallen. Im Grunde geht es hier weniger um die Auseinandersetzungen der X-Men mit irregeleiteten Jung-Mutanten und alten Feinden, sondern Hopeless verleiht den einzelnen X-Men mehr Tiefe, indem sie gegen ihre inneren Dämonen antreten müssen:
Scott Summers muss lernen, Cyclops zu sein, obwohl sein älteres Ich den Traum von Charles Xavier fast zerstört und den Belangen der Mutanten unglaublich geschadet hat.
Bobby Drake ist immer für einen lockeren Spruch gut, muss sich jedoch mit seiner Homosexualität auseinander setzen.
Die Beziehung zwischen Laura und Warren zerbricht daran, dass Laura ihre selbstzerstörerischen Tendenzen zunehmen auslebt und sich im Alleingang durchlöchern, verbrennen und zu Brei schlagen lässt.
Auch die anderen Team-Mitglieder unterziehen sich eingehender Selbsterforschung, wobei Hopeless erfreulicher Weise nicht mit einfachen und schnellen Antworten aufwartet.
Ein "Entwicklungsroman", der mir erst beim zweiten Lesen gefallen hat.

[Craig · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was kind of fun. It picks up in the middle of a thing without a whole lot of background (Cyclops is dead... when did that happen?) and then drops you off in the middle of a thing with no sense of resolution (Cyclops is left tied to an altar by Toad), but there's some interesting bits of things in-between. There's a whole time-travel thing (okay, okay, no more things, clobberin' time be hanged) going on so that the original X-Men (just the males, apparently) are brought forward into the current time, team up with Laura Kinney/Wolverine, Kid Apocalypse (who looks a lot like Alicias's Dad, but that's a different thing), and Idie Okonkwo (who's really the best character of the lot, as her unusual religious affiliation is explored). Iceman is conflicted about being gay and Scott is conflicted about being Scott and Beast is conflicted about being out of date and you'd think that Warren would be happy since he's together with Laura, but he's bothered that she's a better man than all the rest of them put together and that becomes conflicting. It's a road trip book with two arcs; in the first, a group of college kids use Cyclops' death as an excuse to get rowdy, and in the second, set in Paris, Blob gets rowdy and doesn't need an excuse. Bagley's art is pretty good; it's a little more on the humorous-comic side than the dramatic-comic side for my taste, but it's pretty well done overall. I'll say three-and-a-half and round up... & eXcelsior, as Smilin' Stan would have said.

[Jonathan · Rating 5 out of 5]

This latest volume is really awesome. The dynamic of Laura and Warren's relationship, Bobby struggling with his sexuality and this new girl Idie questioning her faith all make for a rich story with some real character depth.

The pop culture references about Twitter, Snopes and Ronda Rousey are all very well received also.

BUT, the absolute BEST part of the whole thing is my new favorite BAMF...Pickles:

[Michael Hicks · Rating 2 out of 5]

Well, that certainly wasn't anything special... Coming off Jonathan Hickman's Secret Wars, the young time-displaced X-Men are scattered across America, laying low and basically on permanent vacation until they realize Scott Summers is in danger. Hopeless won't say what's happened, but in some undefined period of time between Secret Wars and this here relaunch (yes, yet another one...hey, it's Marvel) of All-New X-Men, the old present-day Scott Summers died in one last awful act of terrorism. What happened? I dunno know, but it apparently has something to do with the Inhumans vs. X-Men arc that comes up toward the end of this book's run.

So, we get two three-issue arcs in here. The first involves Scott going to war against a rag-tag team of college anarchists who call themselves The Ghost of Cyclops. Dennis Hopeless injects some nice commentary and gets us up to speed on the state of the X-Men pretty quickly and smoothly. Unfortunately, the end of this arc is unbelievably lackluster and ends on a ridiculously simplistic note. The second arc involves the X-Men fighting the Blob in Paris. It's kinda meh over all, literally just three issues of fighting. There is some neat exploration of the relationships between Angel and Laura (Wolverine), though, with him being overly protective and concerned for her welfare, whereas she jumps headfirst into danger that pretty much sees her getting set on fire every other day. It's a neat dynamic, but clearly there's a lot of strain on their romance, and it's gotta come to a head eventually.

Overall, this wasn't a bad way to kill an hour but it's not as good as Lemire's run on Extraordinary X-Men so far. It's certainly easy reading, but don't get your hopes up too high for something brilliant and original. For an "All-New" X-Men, it feels like the same-old, same-old, refusing to break any new ground and too content to tread on everything that's come before.

[Travis Duke · Rating 3 out of 5]

(2.5 stars)Spoilers below



wait cyclops died? did i.... i must have missed a series...CRAP... death of x. ok anyways new x-men are still stuck in the future and still figuring out where they fit in. Young Cyclops is in hiding and tracking down a team of kids who are using his name to create havoc. Obviously this doesn't sit well with him and he gets involved, it's some decent writing that i can appreciate. X-23 and Angel are feuding about how she is too risky and charges into battle. The blob comes in are wrecks the crew but Angel shows he has demons too and saves them all. The story is fine its standard stuff nothing world ending but I dont think all comics should be that way either. I think Hopeless does a fine job writing, actually has some good deeper meanings going on. the art is good very clean and colorful. Im on board for to see where these new x-men go

[Mr. Cody · Rating 1 out of 5]

Barf. What an awful series. Crapatastic writing that simply skimming was painful. Who the f breaks up with someone in the middle of a fight? So much whining for super heroes. I get that they're teens but it's pathetic. Next we have toilet paper art. It's so easy to see these guys were on a mission to ruin the franchise. No wonder the series is canceled.

Let's stab The Blob's eye out!

It's like Hopeless is being paid to write garbage.

No more inner monologues!!!!!!!! Your action scenes suck enough as it is, we don't need emo ponderings on religion and identity while snarling fat-shaming banter.

Sucks sucks sucks sucks sucks.

[Anthony · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Bagley art and focus on younger characters meant this reminded me a bit of early Ultimate Spider-man. I'm also someone who doesn't hate the idea of the time jump X-men, so I quite liked this.

[Jesús De la Jara · Rating 2 out of 5]

Realmente se nota la diferencia de escritor. El joven equipo de los X-Men del pasado han dejado de estar a cargo del escritor Bendis (que hizo un genial trabajo) y ahora tienen nuevas aventuras con un nuevo team creativo. Aunque las relaciones entre ellos no han variado las acciones que se narran resultan muy aburridas y los villanos muy mal elegidos (el "sapo" por ejemplo o "Blob"). Un cómic aburrido y poco tonto.

[Kay · Rating 5 out of 5]

All-New X-Men has a new team! (Well, for the next 4 volumes at least until they reboot this again *sigh*.)
Wolverine/Laura, OG 5/post Black Vortex Angel, Hank/OG Beast, baby OG Cyclops, baby OG/newly gay Iceman, and Evan/Kid Apocalypse & Idie Okonkwo from Wolverine and the X-Men, yay!

I still don't understand how Angel got to keep his fire wings from the Black Vortex, but isn't crazy in the brain like he was in The Black Vortex. Anyone have an answer for me?

I really enjoyed each character's struggles here. (Reading this) It really feels like Hopeless was able to focus on each individual X-Men in this story (which is hard for a team comic). Scott is struggling with being Cyclops (RIP adult Cyclops), Bobby is struggling with being gay, and Angel is struggling with Laura running into fights head/life first all while feeling pain (that scene with The Blob was heartbreaking).

Idie and Evan are wonderful additions to the team & I'm a big Warren & Laura shipper.
Also, the addition of Pickles the Bamf adds just the right amount of silliness to make this a good young X-Men comic.

Strong start.

[Adam Stone · Rating 4 out of 5]

Coming out of Secret Wars, Marvel had the opportunity to do pretty much whatever they wanted, continuity be damned. I like that they used it to embellish the time traveling X-brat squad by teaming them up with X-23 (who'd been around before The Event), Kid Apocalypse, and Idie (both previously from Wolverine & The X-Men). It made for some fun team dynamics.

I also enjoyed the idea that a gang of people idolizing Original Flavor Cyclops would be just as much a band of criminal jerks as a group that wore Magneto helmets.

This is a great jumping on point for people who are only interested in reading recent X-Men books. The story was fun, the characters were great, and it's the teen supehero soap-opera that the original run of X-Men comics were. I recommend it for anyone looking for a new place to jump in the X-verse.

[Eli · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars

It's been a few months since I read the volume before this, the conclusion to the All-New X-Men story by Bendis. So that explains why I don't remember how it ended and the background on this. I was missing some of the pieces, but it was still good overall. The artwork was good and the new characters have potential. This comic is definitely valuable for young comic fans that want X-Men they can relate to. I do really like the All-New X-Men so that's part of the reason I will read the next volume (doesn't look like it continues after that), but I also want to relieve the small-ish cliffhanger that was dropped at the end.

[Get X Serious · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is probably my favorite ongoing series in the Marvel Universe, and yet I feel like Marvel is doing their best to put X-Men on the back burner. I wasn't expecting a lot out of this, I mean, this had so many things working against it: new author, terrible last collection by Bendis, Secret Wars doing a couple unforgivable things to the mutants of the Marvel U... instead I am pleased to report that this "reboot" is anything but the current author's surname.

[Judah Radd · Rating 4 out of 5]

A bit teenybopper melodrama... but still fun and cool. Really great art from Mark Bagley as well.

I don’t like this as much as Bendis’ run... but I still like it. I love Laura as Wolverine. There are some major departures from continuity, so if that kind of thing bugs you, expect some head scratching. Otherwise, this is some mostly softcore, kid friendly X-Men that might make you smile.

[Dan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Am I the only one really annoyed by the time-traveling teen X-men? The original team wasn't annoying...wtf???

[Tiffany Joy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love the new x-men. They are funny and awesome!

[Tomás Sendarrubias García · Rating 2 out of 5]

Estoy teniendo una recaída en una necesidad que ya había perdido o dejado al menos atrás, pero bueno, aunque no me hace sentir orgulloso, en fin... hay vicios peores. Así que nada, aunque aún tengo por terminar Batman y Robin: Eternos y la etapa de Scott Snyder en Batman, pues tenía muchas muchas muchas ganas de volver a leer mutantes. Así que nada, me he lanzado y lo he retomado desde el punto en el que lo dejé en su momento, en 2015 más o menos, después de Secret Wars. Con la salida de Bendis después de este evento, tanto de Nueva Patrulla-X como de Imposible Patrulla-X, llegaba el momento de hacer cambios en las colecciones, y muchas de estas vinieron de la mano del universo cinematográfico de Marvel. Y diréis, "un momento, pero si las películas de X-Men no son de Marvel". Correcto, sus derechos estaban (y siguen) en Fox, al igual que Cuatro Fantásticos. Y si cerraron directamente Cuatro Fantásticos para no darles demasiado bombo, es cierto que no se iban a pegar un tiro en el pie con los mutantes, cerrando algunas de las colecciones con mejores ventas del mercado... pero mientras trataban de sustituir a los mutantes por los Inhumanos, alguna lumbrera en alguna oficina decidió que lo mejor era darles un perfil bajo a los mutantes durante un tiempo. Así que sus colecciones se dejaron en manos de equipos que, si bien podían resultar "competentes", no tenían ni el brillo ni el empuje necesario para tener buenas historias que pudieran potenciar películas protagonizadas por los X-Men.

Y así, Nueva Patrulla-X quedó en manos de Dennis Hopeless, un guionista que había hecho algunas cosillas en Image y que había aterrizado en Marvel para hacerse cargo de una de las dos colecciones de X-Force que surgieron cuando terminó la etapa de Uncanny X-Force de Rick Remender. Al dibujo iba a estar Mark Bagley, un profesional con muchísima experiencia y que había participado en proyectos como Thunderbolts o Ultimate Spiderman, y que siempre ha sido uno de los valores seguros de Marvel. Pero que las cosas como son, tampoco está especialmente resplandeciente en este primer arco de la Nueva Patrulla-X de Hopeless.

Este primer volumen recoge los seis primeros números de Hopeless, pero curiosamente, al menos desde mi punto de vista, deja la historia a medio terminar. Me explico. Fantasmas de Cíclope es la historia que se desarrolla en los primeros cuatro números, y ya aquí las cosas se empiezan a poner un poco raras. En principio, el último número de Imposible Patrulla-X de Bendis transcurría después de Secret Wars, pero hablan de una especie de salto en el tiempo de unos ocho meses, en los que Cíclope ha hecho alto muy malo que le ha granjeado el odio de toda la humanidad. La Patrulla-X como tal se ha disuelto, los mutantes están de nuevo al borde de la destrucción como especie debido a las Nieblas Terrígenas que los Inhumanos habían liberado durante Infinito y que resulta que le dan alergia a los mutantes, que desarrollan una enfermedad mortal a la que llaman Viruela-M. Y con este panorama, los jóvenes miembros de la Patrulla-X que Bestia trajo del pasado y que ya tienen diferentes puntos de separación con sus homónimos del futuro, deciden viajar por el mundo en una furgoneta a lo Scooby Doo. O al menos lo harán Bestia, el Hombre de Hielo y el Ángel, a los que se unirán Lobezna, Kid Apocalipsis y Idie Okoye, y se harán con uno de los Bamf que había infectado la escuela en la etapa de Jason Aaron, al que llamarán Pickles. Jean Grey va a apartarse del equipo, y también lo hace al principio el joven Cíclope, aunque él será el detonante de la primera historia de esta joven Patrulla-X, en la que el Scott primero y luego el resto del equipo, tendrán que hacer frente a un puñado de jóvenes mutantes radicales, seguidores de Cíclope, que se hacen llamad "los Fantasmas de Cíclope".

El segundo arco (que para mí queda inconcluso), lleva al equipo a diferentes puntos del mundo, pues utilizando un ingenio de Hank y los avisos de Twitter, el equipo se va a ir desplazando por el mundo para atender diversas crisis, lo que les va a llevar a París. Y allí, de forma accidental, van a tener un enfrentamiento con La Mole que va a llevarles a todos a extremos (especialmente a Warren y Lobezna, que continúan manteniendo una relación amorosa que esta pelea va a tensar especialmente). Pero en este caso, durante el conflicto, Sapo, decidido a salvar el mundo y recuperar la buena reputación de los Mutantes, piensa en matar al joven Scott Summers, para evitar que el Cíclope adulto hiciera lo que fuera que hizo. Aprovechando el caos de la lucha, Sapo va a secuestrar a Scott, y esta es la parte que se queda en el aire y que se desvelará en el primer número del segundo tomo, solo les quedaba un número, así que bien podían haberlo metido en este.

En fin, creo que la historia no llega apenas a entretenida, y el dibujo, por muy Bagley que sea, se queda en pasable, así que nada... Iremos viendo...

[Frédéric · Rating 2 out of 5]

Maybe it's just me but I'm not sure I'm the target audience here.

Ok, most people will tell you I'm not the target audience for most comics considering my canonic age but still.
I had the nagging impression to read something absolutely and totally designed for teens and YA which, sob, I'm not anymore.

So I can't say I did connect with these teenagers and their introspective philosophical questions on themselves and stuff while fighting the Blob in Paris, France, of all places (I will mercifully ignore the ridiculous first issues and their moronic 2-bits Ghosts of Cyclops' admirers, so not a challenge it's embarrassing).
Ol' Fred's a gourmet now? How convenient. Meanwhile, Toad's getting drunk on beer in a seedy parisian pub. Yeah, sure, beer's France forte, like everyone knows so Toad goes all the way there to wet his whistle. How more contrived can this plot be?

The romance between Warren and Laura could be cute but feels off-center somehow. Hank and Evan are as blank as a sheet of paper and Scott's a cry baby I personally want to slap. Half a cast of losers not so much better than the aforementioned Ghosts.
The only idea I found original is Bobby's reluctance to acknowledge the fact that everybody accept him as gay when he has difficulties with it. This one hit the spot.

I've never been a huge fan of Mark Bagley's unnoticeable art and this book didn't make me change my mind.

[47Time · Rating 1 out of 5]

Barf! Teenagers... now with Pickles... my God... everything here is for 10-year-old readers.

Young Cyclops meets the Ghosts of Cyclops, a band of mutants who agree with old Cyclops's message. They run away after a fight with the All-New X-Men. And whiny Cyclops gets arrested after some finger wagging from the police. 'You shouldn't have done that, young man. Off to jail so you can cool off.' The jail gets attacked by the Ghosts of Cyclops, but their escape is cut off by the police. Then the rest of the X-Men join in on some banter and punches. All ends well with the video of Cyclops defending his fellow mutants going viral. Aw, that's so kewl, like, how the kids are all ok.

Good ol' ever-virgin Warren is wowwied about indestwuctable little Laura. She breaks her bones, gets set on fire, encased in ice and shot, but the healing factor does its job well. They're so cute how they love each other - it makes me puke. I remember how cool Archangel was in the olden days with the metal wings and poisonous feathers. X-23 was an anti-social killing machine that would stab first and ask questions never. This PG13 version of them is better suited for a teen drama. And then they have... (DUM-dum-duuuuuum) THE TALK.

The Blob and Toad are more fun than all the gay, religious, reckless X-Men put together. Blog gets stabbed in the eye with some rebar by Warren, but otherwise the fights are lame. Cyclops gets captured by Toad, but I can't care less if he lives or dies.

[Max · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ended up being a very fun, light read for something I chanced upon for 6 euros. Despite not reading the Brian Michael Bendis run that precedes this comic, I was able to really enjoy this comic once it got going, though throughout the first few issues the common superhero comics-hurdle of not knowing the events preceding the story was definitely present. Some of the characters are explored better than others, but overall the book handles the team at the centre well. Shame the run is out of print, so continuing it will be a challenge in itself.

[C. Varn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun

Hopeless' task to integrate the revived teenage original X-men with the teen children of many of the second gen X-men is done admirably here, particularly with the ghosts of Cyclops arc. The weight of Inhumans events is interesting but hardly felt. There are some jarring shifts in tone though due to the high teen angst and the number of crossover plots that can be involved in any X-book.

[Villain E · Rating 4 out of 5]

So much better than Extraordinary X-Men. Good character work, great art, decent story. The young X-Men from the past, Wolverine, Kid Apocalypse and Idie (who used to have a codename) roadtrip in the US and Europe. Scott has an identity crisis because of the unmentionable whatever other Scott has done. Even though the Terrigen Mist means there will be no more new mutants, they encounter some new mutants. And the Blob wants to eat dinner but the X-Men are determined to stop him.

[Becky · Rating 3 out of 5]

Anyone who reads my reviews semi-regularly knows how much I loathed the Bendis X-Men era, so when I say this is a vast improvement, please keep in mind how low the bar was.
I find Hopeless to be hit-and-miss. I really enjoy his Spider Woman run, but Avengers Arena was SHIT. So I was really, really worried about him writing a bunch of teenagers again (especially Laura, she is my bb). After reading this volume I feel like he's having mixed success.
I was so excited to read a non-Bendis X-Men run; I wanted some good old fashioned mutant books! This might be a little TOO old fashioned... Basically, remember the days when the original X-Men were just children, running around the world with essentially no supervision? That's this. Except they have literally no supervision this time around. They're cruising around Europe in a couple of micro-buses, using trending Twitter news to find bad guys to beat up. Which is actually a pretty rad concept. They, like Hopeless, are having mixed success.

Scott: Hopeless is writing a very Scott-like-Scott. Again, take your mind back to ye olden days of X-Men when he was struggling to make the team work together, trying to be a strategist, was super cute and idealistic, and often made moving "we're not enemies" speeches. That's this Scott. again. Which makes sense, as it's supposed to be that Scott pulled forward. So good job, Hopeless, for accurately writing a boring character.
Still better than Bendis.

Hank: Hopeless is working REALLY hard to make Hank sound like Hank. Occasionally he goes overboard ("visage" might be a bit much). Again, he's very Hank: he's got a very lively inner struggle going on about his worth and his intelligence, and at least he's got a decent vocabulary again. Basically Hank and Scott are just re-living the problems of their youth because THESE ones haven't actually lived them yet. It's a little boring to read, because WE'VE already seen them do this.

Bobby: I'm actually very interested in what Hopeless is doing here. The general gist is: now that I've seen what happens if I live my entire life in the closet, and now that I've been outed anyway (thanks Jean), how do I live? The fundamental question for him is, "how do I be gay?" which is really just asking, "how do I be me?" He fully intended to go his entire life without ever dealing with this, and now he has to, and everyone's watching him try to do it. No one is being homophobic, in fact they're very supportive, but they are still watching. I think this is so interesting because, unlike Hank and Scott, Hopeless is actually doing something new with Bobby. He's still Bobby, still sounds and acts like Bobby, but he's actually doing new character growth, not re-growing old characters.
Definitely better than Bendis.

Laura: does not sound like Laura. Except, since the Bendis run, I suppose she can't go back to sounding like her old self now? People would find it too weird? IDK. Most of what Hopeless is doing with Laura is in relation to Warren, so we'll see how it all unfolds. She's ACTING like Laura most of the time at least. The thing is, everyone gets tangled up in her anger; they make her so explosive. But she was always terrifying because she WASN'T explosive. She was always so quiet, so calm, and then you were dead. And yes, there was rage, but it burned in her eyes in a horrifying silence.
Still better than Bendis, so far.

Warren: colour me interested. He has fire wings now, which is pretty rad. Again, most of him is in relation to Laura, so it's tough to say. Right at the end, there, he had a pretty awesome moment, and I'm interested to see what Hopeless does with it, both for Warren's own growth, and for the (broken) relationship between him and Laura. At least Warren has the potential to be interesting again, which IDK I haven't found him so since they made him blue.

Idie: I'm actually really impressed at the attention Hopeless is giving to her, and how her struggle to pick up the pieces of her shattered faith is mirrored in Bobby's struggles. You opened your hand and what you thought you were holding is not what you actually have, so now what do you do with it? How do you reconcile all the pieces of yourself when your entire world has changed? This makes it sound like she's only there in relation to Bobby, and the cool thing is that she isn't. Her problems are about her, not about him, and I love that. I'm very interested to see if he can maintain this and produce growth.
Much better than Bendis.

Even: honestly, I had to go back and look up his name because so far he has not had much. He's the new Kid Apocalypse, and from what I've seen I really like him. He had a pretty great conversation with Bobby about how to become your own person when there is an audience and a ridiculous amount of baggage. So that's cool.


Basically, he's spent a lot of time getting a feel for the characters and not a lot of time on plot. And while he's got a fair grasp on the characters, there's only a couple that he's actually doing new and interesting things with. We'll see if the run picks up speed once he gets a handle on who he's dealing with. Hopefully he can keep all the balls in the air; there are an awful lot of them to juggle here.