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X-Men Gold (Collected Editions)
X-Men Gold, Vol. 5: Cruel and Unusual
Sacrifices were made in the fight against Scythian. Find out what's in store for the X-Men after their treacherous escape from the Negative Zone! What is the new status quo for the team and where do they go from here?
COLLECTING: X-MEN GOLD 21-25
COLLECTING: X-MEN GOLD 21-25
120 pages, Paperback
First published May 30, 2018
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Marc Guggenheim
930 books175 followersMarc Guggenheim grew up on Long Island, New York, and earned his law degree from Boston University. After over four years in practice, he left law to pursue a career in television.
Today, Guggenheim is an Emmy Award–winning writer who writes for multiple mediums including television, film, video games, comic books, and new media. His work includes projects for such popular franchises as Percy Jackson, Star Wars, Call of Duty, Star Trek, and Planet of the Apes.
His next book, In Any Lifetime, coming from Lake Union Publishing on August 1st.
Guggenheim currently lives in Encino, California, with his wife, two daughters, and a handful of pets.
Keep up to date on his latest projects with LegalDispatch, a weekly newsletter where he shares news and notes about writing, comics, and the entertainment industry.
Today, Guggenheim is an Emmy Award–winning writer who writes for multiple mediums including television, film, video games, comic books, and new media. His work includes projects for such popular franchises as Percy Jackson, Star Wars, Call of Duty, Star Trek, and Planet of the Apes.
His next book, In Any Lifetime, coming from Lake Union Publishing on August 1st.
Guggenheim currently lives in Encino, California, with his wife, two daughters, and a handful of pets.
Keep up to date on his latest projects with LegalDispatch, a weekly newsletter where he shares news and notes about writing, comics, and the entertainment industry.
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September 5, 2023
An improvement on the previous volumes sees Mesmero strike again. This Mesmero is so much more better thought out, darker looking, and utilises his power so much more effectively, it's good to see. Later as both the Shredded Man and Scythian approach; the Gold team find themselves incapacitated, leaving Rogue to set up an interim Gold team. The move to more realistic storylines and characterisations is beginning to work in Gold. 7 out of 12, improved Three Star read!
2019 read
2019 read
July 31, 2018
This book suffers from a lack of characterization. Every one of the 12 mutants in it has the same personality. If it wasn't for their different powers, they be interchangeable. Overall it's more surface plot with surface characters.
Mesmero and his Evil Mutants escape prison and frame the X-Men sending Kitty's team to prison. Someone needs to notify Marc Guggenheim how prison works. You don't get a get out of jail free card just for joining the X-Men. When someone escapes prison, it's a big deal and makes national headlines. You also don't get out of prison because you've beat the bad guy in the past either. I think the Avengers or the Champions can handle it as it's mentioned several times in the comic. Storm's Thor hammer comes out of nowhere to help save the day. It makes no sense. Guggenheim's just ticking off a list of the things he wants the X-Men to do. There's very little else to this at all. Nothing sticks for more than an issue or two before moving onto the next thing.
The multiple artists are getting to me as well. The art often looks rushed and unfinished.
Mesmero and his Evil Mutants escape prison and frame the X-Men sending Kitty's team to prison. Someone needs to notify Marc Guggenheim how prison works. You don't get a get out of jail free card just for joining the X-Men. When someone escapes prison, it's a big deal and makes national headlines. You also don't get out of prison because you've beat the bad guy in the past either. I think the Avengers or the Champions can handle it as it's mentioned several times in the comic. Storm's Thor hammer comes out of nowhere to help save the day. It makes no sense. Guggenheim's just ticking off a list of the things he wants the X-Men to do. There's very little else to this at all. Nothing sticks for more than an issue or two before moving onto the next thing.
The multiple artists are getting to me as well. The art often looks rushed and unfinished.
July 10, 2018
This wasn't super great or terrible, it was just fine. Although it does raise a lot of interesting questions about how laws work in this universe. If a bad guy escapes from prison, and then joins the good guys, apparently his remaining prison sentence just vanishes from all official records.
October 14, 2018
While it was still entertaining, I didn't enjoy this book as much as I did the previous volumes. The story just seemed a little all over the place and some of the characters felt out of character at times. Still, it was nice to see Captain Britain make an appearance, even if he wasn't given much to do.
June 30, 2018
In some ways, this volume feels like X-Men Gold finally coming of its own. That's because the book is increasingly focused on its own mythology, like the Brotherhood of Faux Mutants, Scythian, and the evolutionary Sentinel from V1. Yeah, except for Scythian those are all derivative elements on their own, but as X-Men Gold continues to develop them, they can become a little more.
It's also nice that X-Men Gold is slowly moving away from the ridiculous conceit that there are only six X-Men. Yeah, having twelve still insists on an awkward situation where the comic turns a blind eye to most of the school, but it's an improvement.
Unfortunately, the characterization remains close to nil. As has so often been the case in this comic, it's a shallow story of shallow superhero adventures with none of the depth of the X-Men at its best. The plot also feels very railroaded: the Gold team is pushed from situation to situation like pawns on a chess board in a way that feels very artificial.
So, 3 stars, maybe trending up, but this book is so shallow that it's not going to be that rereadable in the future.
It's also nice that X-Men Gold is slowly moving away from the ridiculous conceit that there are only six X-Men. Yeah, having twelve still insists on an awkward situation where the comic turns a blind eye to most of the school, but it's an improvement.
Unfortunately, the characterization remains close to nil. As has so often been the case in this comic, it's a shallow story of shallow superhero adventures with none of the depth of the X-Men at its best. The plot also feels very railroaded: the Gold team is pushed from situation to situation like pawns on a chess board in a way that feels very artificial.
So, 3 stars, maybe trending up, but this book is so shallow that it's not going to be that rereadable in the future.
May 27, 2018
[Read as single issues]
The world that hates and fears them finally gets the upper hand as the X-Men go to jail! But Scythian is still alive and kicking, and he wants revenge for the events of the Negative Zone War, so the likelihood of them staying there is pretty slim.
This is...okay. It builds on stuff that came before, so you can tell that Marc Guggenheim has an overall plan for the series, and a lot of the plotlines do seem to be converging now with the Mesmero stuff, the Lydia Nance stuff, and now the Scythian stuff, but they're not more than the sum of their parts unfortunately. The prison story barely goes anywhere before the X-Men are released, and although Guggenhiem nods to past continuity regarding Storm's old Asgardian hammer, it comes out of bloody nowhere.
The art is also beginning to fall apart a bit; there's a few artists that rotate through but we've lost a lot of the coherence from earlier on. Diego Bernard, Thony Silas, and Paolo Siqueira are all great, but it'd be nice to get a whole story by the same artist like we had back at the beginning of the series.
Eh. This one's okay, but the series is definitely starting to lose steam if it's recycling plotlines from literally the volume before.
The world that hates and fears them finally gets the upper hand as the X-Men go to jail! But Scythian is still alive and kicking, and he wants revenge for the events of the Negative Zone War, so the likelihood of them staying there is pretty slim.
This is...okay. It builds on stuff that came before, so you can tell that Marc Guggenheim has an overall plan for the series, and a lot of the plotlines do seem to be converging now with the Mesmero stuff, the Lydia Nance stuff, and now the Scythian stuff, but they're not more than the sum of their parts unfortunately. The prison story barely goes anywhere before the X-Men are released, and although Guggenhiem nods to past continuity regarding Storm's old Asgardian hammer, it comes out of bloody nowhere.
The art is also beginning to fall apart a bit; there's a few artists that rotate through but we've lost a lot of the coherence from earlier on. Diego Bernard, Thony Silas, and Paolo Siqueira are all great, but it'd be nice to get a whole story by the same artist like we had back at the beginning of the series.
Eh. This one's okay, but the series is definitely starting to lose steam if it's recycling plotlines from literally the volume before.
October 14, 2018
What was the point of them going to prison? Scythian attacks and is pretty much unbeatable then they beat him pretty easily but I imagine he will come back later. Nothing seemed to matter and everything is easy for kitty and friends prison yard fight no big deal fight a god easy peasy just doesn’t really seem to matter. I liked the last volume hopefully it gets better.
November 16, 2018
Wtf was up with this book? It jumped all over and the prison story was pointless.
August 30, 2023
A mildly entertaining volume with plenty of smashy-smashy. I have no doubt the details of this volume will leave me by lunch tomorrow.
April 22, 2018
Cuando los mutantes Mesmero y Avalanche van a causar problemas en una reunión pacífica de humanos, el equipo con Kitty, Raquel y otros van a contenerlo. Kitty duda de llevar a Rachel y Magma quienes pasan por momentos psicológicos complicados y sus presentimientos no estarán mal pues caen en una terrible trampa.
Para colmo de males Scythian, un dios de Dartayus, un planeta de la zona negativa volverá buscando venganza.
Para colmo de males Scythian, un dios de Dartayus, un planeta de la zona negativa volverá buscando venganza.
March 30, 2020
This volume begins with the surprising but probably wise decision to have Old Man Logan bugger off on his own, and then proceeds to give attention and fun shenanigans to the rest o' the gang.
I'm loving this series, I realize it's probably not for all X-Fans but for this reader who came of comics-reading age in the late 80s/early 90s it's really hitting the sweet spot without feeling dated.
Oh yeah, and we get to see classic X-Men characters doin' hard time in The Joint. Gotta love it!
I'm loving this series, I realize it's probably not for all X-Fans but for this reader who came of comics-reading age in the late 80s/early 90s it's really hitting the sweet spot without feeling dated.
Oh yeah, and we get to see classic X-Men characters doin' hard time in The Joint. Gotta love it!
August 6, 2018
This series is getting better and better.
October 16, 2018
While both X-Men Gold and X-men Blue seem to be operating on second string teams, Guggenheim still seems to have trouble finding exactly what he seems to want X-men Gold to be. The Scythian and the evolutionary Sentinels start to flesh out the internal universe of X-men Gold and the appearance of Captian Britain implies some continuity with prior incarnations of X-men, the number of subplots that don't seem to have significant characterization continue. Mesmero's plot moves some key members into prison, thus establishing the second-string team's necessity, but even with Colossus, Kitty, Storm, Nightcrawler, and Rachel Summers in prison, the consequences and development just don't seem to be there. The plot wheels spin into place, and it becomes clear that all the moving parts are building up to some specific development, but the obviousness of the plot movements adds to my annoyance.
June 2, 2019
Old Man Logan has left the team, which is a big downer for me. The new Brotherhood of Evil Mutants show up again to cause problems, and the fallout ends up with the X-Men in prison. Then that weird deity from the other universe shows up again to cause more problems, so this is the "X-Men's problems always come back to haunt them again" volume. Art was good, but this volume was overall a drop in quality from the previous volumes.
December 28, 2019
The X-Men land themselves in jail just an alien deity escapes from the Negative Zone and comes to destroy Earth on a vow of revenge. And Old Man Logan takes an unceremonious and abrupt leave from the team; I’m not sure if this is because of stuff happening in his own title or the Dead Man Logan stuff, though, so it feels like a rather sudden departure here. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
All in all, this is another pretty blah entry. For the most part, it just feels like wheels are spinning in place, and knowing the series is almost finished before another X-Event lands in just a few more books down the line, it feels like Guggenheim is just killing time, waiting for his book to end.
All in all, this is another pretty blah entry. For the most part, it just feels like wheels are spinning in place, and knowing the series is almost finished before another X-Event lands in just a few more books down the line, it feels like Guggenheim is just killing time, waiting for his book to end.
February 13, 2019
I mean, I'm interested in the Lydia Nance stuff and the theoretical idea of Orange is the New X-Men jail arc, but this all maybe could have used a few more issues for the ideas to breathe? IDK.
February 9, 2022
Ugh, this series just keeps getting worse and worse. More aggressive mischaracterisation of Kitty, and now also Rachel. CONSTANT saviour nonsense from Peter refusing to treat Kitty like an adult, a person and a freaking LEADER and instead running off to save and undermine her at every step.
It's exhausting and boring and I'm so ready for this series to be over.
It's exhausting and boring and I'm so ready for this series to be over.
August 14, 2018
So conflicted about this book!! Love the artwork, characters are a bit “meh”. Like they don’t really represent who they are... and the final issue just seems shoe-horned in.
For an amazing god creature, they sure took him down easy...
For an amazing god creature, they sure took him down easy...
May 21, 2019
What to do with 13 X-men? This writer/artist team has no idea. Waste of paper.
March 15, 2021
The whitewashing of Storm is distractingly egregious in this collection. It distracts from an otherwise fun storyline.
February 26, 2020
Oof. This series is just NOT getting any better. Guggenheim continues to not seem like he’s really grasping these characters’ voices. They all sound like hollow versions of themselves that hit certain touchstones (like Storm calling Kitty “Kitten” or Kitty calling Nightcrawler “fuzzy elf”), but it’s not enough. Even those things became distracting because of how often they were used.
Also, why is Guggenheim acting like Magik is some rookie? She’s being looked after in every scene and is knocked out just as often. She was part of the Phoenix Five. She was on Cyclops’ Extinction Squad in San Francisco. She’s a certified badass and was given no justice in this volume.
The stories were mediocre. It didn’t give much progress toward the overall plot of the title and was already revisiting things from earlier in the series (the new Brotherhood, Scythian) that weren’t that interesting to begin with. I’m hoping it’s setting up some more payoff in the next volume.
The art continues to disappoint. Thony Silas in issues 23 and 24 was especially bad. Everyone was horribly proportioned and generally unpleasant to look at. Diego Bernard was better this time around in the first two issues, but mostly just by comparison to Silas. Also, someone decided (or didn’t) to change Magik’s costume back from her most recent black spiky look. I’m not saying I loved that look, but it just disappeared mid-issue. Plus her new look was throwing it WAY back with the look of her armor going up one arm and her Soulsword being a very different look. It stood out more as an inconsistency or a lack of research than any sort of artistic choice.
Also, why is Guggenheim acting like Magik is some rookie? She’s being looked after in every scene and is knocked out just as often. She was part of the Phoenix Five. She was on Cyclops’ Extinction Squad in San Francisco. She’s a certified badass and was given no justice in this volume.
The stories were mediocre. It didn’t give much progress toward the overall plot of the title and was already revisiting things from earlier in the series (the new Brotherhood, Scythian) that weren’t that interesting to begin with. I’m hoping it’s setting up some more payoff in the next volume.
The art continues to disappoint. Thony Silas in issues 23 and 24 was especially bad. Everyone was horribly proportioned and generally unpleasant to look at. Diego Bernard was better this time around in the first two issues, but mostly just by comparison to Silas. Also, someone decided (or didn’t) to change Magik’s costume back from her most recent black spiky look. I’m not saying I loved that look, but it just disappeared mid-issue. Plus her new look was throwing it WAY back with the look of her armor going up one arm and her Soulsword being a very different look. It stood out more as an inconsistency or a lack of research than any sort of artistic choice.
January 6, 2019
Marc Guggenheim has a clear direction that he wants to take X-Men Gold, and he has me hooked enough to see this through. I am especially curious to figure out what Lydia Nance has planned. She appears to a much more insidious threat than the X-Men are use to dealing with.
There are two things that drag this collection down a bit. The first is the return of the Negative Zone “god” Scythian. Battling deities from other dimensions does not a strong X-Men story make. The second issue is the very noticeable lack of character development -- normally a hallmark of X-Men comics.
The newest incarnation of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants (Avalanche and Pyro led by Mesmero) escape the mutant prison known as the “Box” and look to exact revenge on Lydia Nance, the mutant hating woman who put them there. The X-Men Gold team (Kitty Pryde, Storm, Nightcrawler, Colossus, and Rachel Summers) arrives to protect her, but they their attempt to stop the Brotherhood leads to their arrest and incarceration in the “Box”.
Iceman and Rogue form a new X-Men team with Armor, Ink, Magma and Magik to deal with the threats while the X-Men Gold team fight to stay alive in prison.This new team must stop the Shredded Man’s attack on Manhattan, the Rhino, and the return of Scythian.
It can be difficult to manage 12 characters each with significant backstories and developed personalities. I think Marc provides to two great storylines that could’ve been a fantastic way to learn more about our favorite team of mutant heroes.
There are two things that drag this collection down a bit. The first is the return of the Negative Zone “god” Scythian. Battling deities from other dimensions does not a strong X-Men story make. The second issue is the very noticeable lack of character development -- normally a hallmark of X-Men comics.
The newest incarnation of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants (Avalanche and Pyro led by Mesmero) escape the mutant prison known as the “Box” and look to exact revenge on Lydia Nance, the mutant hating woman who put them there. The X-Men Gold team (Kitty Pryde, Storm, Nightcrawler, Colossus, and Rachel Summers) arrives to protect her, but they their attempt to stop the Brotherhood leads to their arrest and incarceration in the “Box”.
Iceman and Rogue form a new X-Men team with Armor, Ink, Magma and Magik to deal with the threats while the X-Men Gold team fight to stay alive in prison.This new team must stop the Shredded Man’s attack on Manhattan, the Rhino, and the return of Scythian.
It can be difficult to manage 12 characters each with significant backstories and developed personalities. I think Marc provides to two great storylines that could’ve been a fantastic way to learn more about our favorite team of mutant heroes.
April 13, 2023
Por algún motivo, debe ser que los números 25 tanto de Azul como de Oro debían presentar nuevas alineaciones para los equipos habituales, en X-Men Blue hemos visto al equipo liderado por Polaris, y aquí también vamos a tener un nuevo equipo. Y es que la historia va a comenzar con el equipo luchando de nuevo contra la Hermandad de Mutantes Diabólicos, o al menos una parte de ellos: Mésmero, y los nuevos Pyros y Avalancha, que van a atacar un barco de Legado, la organización antimutante dirigida por Vivian Nance (juraría que se llama así).
Pero el equipo liderado por Kitty Pryde se va a encontrar con que han caído en una trampa, y van a ser detenidos por la policía y llevados a la Caja, una prisión especial para mutantes, por lo que Pícara y el Hombre de Hielo van a liderar a un nuevo equipo que cuenta con Magik, Tinta y Armadura... y Pyros, que decide abandonar la Hermandad para unirse a los X-Men, y mientras Tormenta Magma (el Viejo Logan va a dejar el equipo y será sustituido por Amara), Kitty, Coloso y Rondador tienen que enfrentarse a otros prisioneros que quieren hacerse un nombre acabando con uno de los X-Men (incluyendo a la mismísima Calisto), el equipo de Bobby y Pícara va a tener que hacer frente a...
Scythe. Que llega a la Tierra para vengarse de los X-Men. Y es aquí donde de nuevo falla la trama, porque el enemigo es tan irrelevante e intrascendente que es una historia más, sin gracia, sin nada. Podría haber sido el momento de hacer algo importante de darle un giro a la colección... pero nada. Sin más.
Pero el equipo liderado por Kitty Pryde se va a encontrar con que han caído en una trampa, y van a ser detenidos por la policía y llevados a la Caja, una prisión especial para mutantes, por lo que Pícara y el Hombre de Hielo van a liderar a un nuevo equipo que cuenta con Magik, Tinta y Armadura... y Pyros, que decide abandonar la Hermandad para unirse a los X-Men, y mientras Tormenta Magma (el Viejo Logan va a dejar el equipo y será sustituido por Amara), Kitty, Coloso y Rondador tienen que enfrentarse a otros prisioneros que quieren hacerse un nombre acabando con uno de los X-Men (incluyendo a la mismísima Calisto), el equipo de Bobby y Pícara va a tener que hacer frente a...
Scythe. Que llega a la Tierra para vengarse de los X-Men. Y es aquí donde de nuevo falla la trama, porque el enemigo es tan irrelevante e intrascendente que es una historia más, sin gracia, sin nada. Podría haber sido el momento de hacer algo importante de darle un giro a la colección... pero nada. Sin más.
July 23, 2018
When Pyro and Avalanche break out of prison (courtesy of Mesmero), they are told that they are going after Lydia Nance, but really it's an elaborate trap to trap the Gold Team of the X-Men into getting arrested (fighting cops, while really thinking they are fighting a new Brotherhood). Kitty, Colossus, Storm, Nightcrawler, and Rachel Summers get locked up in a prison that blocks their powers, but they are able to hold their own. While they are incapacitated, a new Gold Team is needed. Led by Iceman, Gold becomes Armor, Ink, Magma, Pyro (who comes to them after Mesmero's double crossing seeking a way to use his powers for good) Magik, and Rogue.... just in time for Scythian to escape his Negative Zone prison and declare revenge.
When Storm's claustrophobia increases her powers enough to override her collar, it does two things: causes an explosion that allows them ultimately to be released to join the fight against Scythian (who is terrorizing the city) And calls Stormcaster, a hammer similar to Mjolnir, which comes to her and increases her powers enough to help the others send Scythian back to his extra-dimensional prison.
Still loving this title... Wedding is coming soon!
High recommend.
When Storm's claustrophobia increases her powers enough to override her collar, it does two things: causes an explosion that allows them ultimately to be released to join the fight against Scythian (who is terrorizing the city) And calls Stormcaster, a hammer similar to Mjolnir, which comes to her and increases her powers enough to help the others send Scythian back to his extra-dimensional prison.
Still loving this title... Wedding is coming soon!
High recommend.
September 15, 2018
This was a quick read, and it rushes right on, in a very plot-driven comics style. There are some fun moments, but they all confirm the physical prowess/outer character of the X-Men we're observing at the moment. The closest we get to meaningful character moments is...a costume reboot? Really? Don't these guys change clothes randomly without comment all the time? I suppose paired withe continuing ominous visions/flashes Rachel is having of herself as a hound that we're getting some heavy-handed foreshadowing...but I'd like more character with my punching please.
The art is strong througout, and I particularly enjoyed the last two issues of the volume. Watching the Ice-Man/rogue led team was intriguing, although there was something flat in the manner Ice-Man's leadership was presented. I liked this new guy Simon, and how he ends up with the X-Men. It's believable and the best character work in the volume as everyone else pretty much beats on people and spouts catchphrases. Nance is an interesting villain in a Luthor/Mafia king pin kind of way. She has the resources and brains to be just far ahead to be beaten this time without being beaten period. She still feels mostly like an annoyance though.
The art is strong througout, and I particularly enjoyed the last two issues of the volume. Watching the Ice-Man/rogue led team was intriguing, although there was something flat in the manner Ice-Man's leadership was presented. I liked this new guy Simon, and how he ends up with the X-Men. It's believable and the best character work in the volume as everyone else pretty much beats on people and spouts catchphrases. Nance is an interesting villain in a Luthor/Mafia king pin kind of way. She has the resources and brains to be just far ahead to be beaten this time without being beaten period. She still feels mostly like an annoyance though.
April 8, 2025
More artist changes. A poor man's Rmaos here which is a very bad start.
Early Mora work on the covers, a nice Stegman cover too.
Mesmeri restarts the Brotherhood with new Pyro and new Avalanche. Turns out it's not to get Revenge on Nance but to help her schemes once again. I wish Nance was doing more dastardly plots than just the same scheme over and over. She could have been a Luthor to the X Men.
The team are sent to jail for an issue, but break out as something big is happening - Scythian escaped and is seeking Revenge also.
More mutants join the X Men. The characters are so cool, the different choices are superb bur the stories aren't serving them.
Magma. Magik (who gets beaten all the time). Armour. Rogue. Guggenheim uses sugah every third sentence. The first trade I really enjoyed. Everything else has been dull.
Rachel and Kurt need to sort out their relationship.
Early Mora work on the covers, a nice Stegman cover too.
Mesmeri restarts the Brotherhood with new Pyro and new Avalanche. Turns out it's not to get Revenge on Nance but to help her schemes once again. I wish Nance was doing more dastardly plots than just the same scheme over and over. She could have been a Luthor to the X Men.
The team are sent to jail for an issue, but break out as something big is happening - Scythian escaped and is seeking Revenge also.
More mutants join the X Men. The characters are so cool, the different choices are superb bur the stories aren't serving them.
Magma. Magik (who gets beaten all the time). Armour. Rogue. Guggenheim uses sugah every third sentence. The first trade I really enjoyed. Everything else has been dull.
Rachel and Kurt need to sort out their relationship.
May 30, 2018
Sacrifices were made in the fight against Scythian — so where do the X-Men go from here? They’d better decide quickly, because the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants is back — and deadlier than ever! As the Gold squad bids farewell to one of its own and faces its most devastating loss, what exactly is wrong with Rachel Summers? And when Kitty Pryde and her team end up in prison, who will protect the good people of New York? Prepare to meet… the new X-Men Gold! They’ll stand up to the Shredded Man and other deadly threats — but something bigger than they can imagine has survived the Negative Zone and is on its way, looking for revenge! Can our jailbird mutants — with the help of the rest of the Big Apple’s super heroes — somehow lend a hand?
December 12, 2018
Continuing the great x-read of 2017/18...
Well, this series just doesn't seem to know where it wants to go exactly. The Brotherhood of mutants from other dimensions (well, one of them. There are so many dimension hoppers in x-continuity right now that it gets hard to care...) attacks. And then the X-Men go to jail. And then they get out of jail and it seems fine. And then they fight a god. And storm gets Thor's hammer for some reason (this is particularly unclear...). And and and… It just jumps around like a four year old on Jolt cola and none of it is particularly interesting.
Worth a read if you are keeping track of everything in continuity (though it almost seems like each x-book is its own continuity at this point which is just odd...) but certainly no classic on its own.
Well, this series just doesn't seem to know where it wants to go exactly. The Brotherhood of mutants from other dimensions (well, one of them. There are so many dimension hoppers in x-continuity right now that it gets hard to care...) attacks. And then the X-Men go to jail. And then they get out of jail and it seems fine. And then they fight a god. And storm gets Thor's hammer for some reason (this is particularly unclear...). And and and… It just jumps around like a four year old on Jolt cola and none of it is particularly interesting.
Worth a read if you are keeping track of everything in continuity (though it almost seems like each x-book is its own continuity at this point which is just odd...) but certainly no classic on its own.
December 24, 2019
Well, this was a quick read. Thankfully, not as bad as the last volume, but it still was far from being a memorable storyline. Kudos to Guggenheim for building some character development here and handing some interesting moments.
I would have rated this as a 3 star, but now that I think of it, I did really enjoy what was going on. The art by Siqueira, Silas and Bernard, was also way much better than the previous arc's artist.
I wonder if any of my liking of this storyline has anything to do with Logan departing the team... He kinda breathed too much testosterone into the group, turning everyone into a two-dimensional character. Anyway, whatever it was that changed, good for both the book and the creative team.
I would have rated this as a 3 star, but now that I think of it, I did really enjoy what was going on. The art by Siqueira, Silas and Bernard, was also way much better than the previous arc's artist.
I wonder if any of my liking of this storyline has anything to do with Logan departing the team... He kinda breathed too much testosterone into the group, turning everyone into a two-dimensional character. Anyway, whatever it was that changed, good for both the book and the creative team.
July 21, 2019
At this point, you know what you're getting in X-Men Gold and while this is certainly a busy volume with a couple of sub-plots packed into these few issues, it was once again enjoyable and featured plenty of nice X-Men action. While some things like the X-Men being in prison was a little too cliche and resolved too quickly, I still had a good time reading this and look forward to the next volume. The biggest complaint I had was the art inside the book which was just alright and inconsistent. The amazing covers really raise your hopes and expectations which is then quickly dashed as you start reading. The next volume seems momentous with a potential wedding so I look forward to that.
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