Uncanny X-Men: Wolverine and Cyclops, Vol. 1

Uncanny X-Men (2018)

by Matthew Rosenberg, Salvador Larroca (Illustrator)

Cyclops and Wolverine are together again — and they're mutantkind's only hope! After the devastating events of "X-Men Disassembled," it falls to Scott Summers to rebuild the X-Men in the face of overwhelming hatred. Thankfully, he's not the only X-Man to have just returned from oblivion. Drawing together a new team from the ashes, Cyclops and Wolverine turn their eyes to setting an all-new agenda. Cyclops has a list of matters the X-Men must address — but the Mutant Liberation Front has its own plans! Led by one of the X-Men's own, the MLF is willing to do whatever it takes to stop the oppression of Homo superior — even if that means killing any mutant who stands in their way! Writer Matthew Rosenberg and returning superstar X-artist Salvador Larroca lead the X-Men into their darkest hour — and beyond!

COLLECTING: Uncanny X-Men (2018) 11-16

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

184 pages, Paperback

First published June 19, 2019

About the author

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"I haven’t always been a writer. My parents are writers and my brother is a writer, and I resisted that as long as I could. When I was 17, I hopped in a band’s van and I went on tour for a summer, and that was it, that was what I wanted to do. I ran a record label for 10 years, a small indie punk label. I did everything in music that you can do that doesn’t involve having musical ability. Eventually the music business, probably in a similar way to comics, will just start to break your heart, and I realized one day that I kind of hated music. I was resigned to thinking, if I’m going to be involved in music forever, I’m going to hate it for the rest of my life. I just stopped. I stopped having any sort of business with music, any involvement.

I read comics my whole life, so I just naturally fell back into another medium that is marginalized and hard to make a living in."

Source: http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles...

Writer of comics WE CAN NEVER GO HOME, SECRET WARS JOURNAL, OUR WORK FILLS THE PEWS, 12 REASONS TO DIE, & MENU.

Reviews

[Baba · Rating 4 out of 5]

The X-Men are dead. These a vaccination against mutant-ism. All the mutants are hiding or incarcerated. Wait a minute, I thought Cyke and Logan just got back? They did, and hence begins a new era of the Uncanny X-Men, one with a single X-Men team book, with pacing, with mystery, with character development and actually stories being told. It's so good to see how Matthew's writing talent has evolved!

I actually went back and checked, and this is my most highest rated X-Men team volume since the end of Bendis' run! A dark book and a great read. Pluses including - great Captain America cameos. Loving the interaction between Cyclops and Logan and Alex. The use of lesser known X-Men as team members. The spectacularly tight and on-point continuity :) 9 out of 12, fine Four Stars.

2019 read

[Chad · Rating 3 out of 5]

Rosenberg picks up loose plot threads from a dozen different X-Men books. At this point, the X-universe was a mess editorially and impossible to follow. This book could have used a primer or at least some footnotes on where to find these plot threads that were picked up. For Pete's sake, Cyclops returned from the dead in Uncanny X-Men Annual #1 just before this and it wasn't collected here. Instead, it's in an odds and ends cash grab that was just released 6 months after this, X-Men: Summers and Winter (It took me about 15 minutes to even track this down. Damn you Marvel for making this so difficult to follow.)

So if you just give up on all these ongoing plot lines that you'll never figure out how to read in order, (Thanks again Marvel! [In case you can't figure it out from my tone of voice, I'm flipping Marvel the bird while saying this.]) The story's actually pretty good. After X-Men: Disassembled, there are very few X-Men left. The recently resurrected Cyclops and Wolverine round up the remaining X-Men and go on a hunt tracking down all their enemies before bigot humans can use them as an excuse to eradicate the rest of mutantkind. This series is REALLY dark for an X-Men book.

[Subham · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was quite good!

Cyclops decides to gather the remaining X-Men after returning from being dead but then he finds that they are being hunted and he calls for the remaining X-Men to come to westchester and we see Wolverine come and they fight everyone from the Reavers, Purifiers and all. Then we get the angle from Logans POV and what he has been doing and how he is Scott's keeper, interesting stuff with Cap. And then they rescue Havok and the New Mutants and finally they decide to reform the X-Men and save who they can and fight Dark beast, Mutant Liberation Front, an interesting journey in Chernaya and finally face off against Joseph (Magneto Clone) and the brotherhood!

Its a big volume and packs so much and pulls from a lot of continuities and ties up a lot of things and manages to give one hell of a story with Scott realizing his mistakes and trying to do better and everything. He is trying something new and gets the X-Men to fight mutant enemies and also assist Cap America and all that but he has his own targets to go after. Finally its time for them to be heroes again for a better future and yeah some great revelations with Psylocke and Juggernaut! The art was fantastic and consistent throughout and I loved it all the way through!

[James DeSantis · Rating 3 out of 5]

This very much feels like it could have been apart of the Yost era, around X-Force and Messiah Complex times.

Rosenberg brings back the X-Men you probably know and care about. Cyclops and Wolverine team up in the first issue, which I reviewed by itself, and it's pretty awesome come back. We also go deeper into Cyclops wanting to rescue a bunch of X-men. This means the New Mutants stroyline that Rosenberg did a bit ago comes into play here. Will Cyclops be able to bring back the X-Men or will they be hunted down again?

I really enjoyed Cyclops here. A man broken and trying to find his way again. His past actions ruined him in ways and now he's trying to find a solution. This is fast paced, and with that some great action scenes mixed with hard hitting deaths and moments. However, being that this series comes to a close next volume, I feel bad for Rosenberg as his pacing seem a bit too quick at points. I could tell he was rushed some as they were bringing in Hickman to basically reboot the X-Men soon. So with that everything moves too fast and loses the focus at times.

Overall, it is good. I liked a lot of the interactions, fights, and art. But it feels messy a points without much moment to let things breath to feel the terrible things that happen to the X-Men. A 3.5 out of 5.

[Tiag⊗ the Mutant · Rating 3 out of 5]

If the first volume was about getting the new wave of X-Men away, this one focused on getting the old X-Men back. Scott and Logan are back together and they soon start looking out for the remaining mutants, forming up a new team, meeting familiar faces along the way. This was definitely a nostalgia trip, a volume clearly intended to bring old readers back, with some pretty cool moments in it, but the whole "the mutants are dead and no one cares about it" just doesn't feel right to me, can't say much more without spoiling the fun, but I feel like Matthew Rosenberg is finally building something interesting, taking steps in right direction.



Artwise, I gotta say Salvador Larroca is an acquired taste, didn't liked it at first, but it soon started growing on me, he needs to work on those faces though.

Make sure you read the Uncanny X-Men Annual before picking this up or you will be missing out.

[Chris Lemmerman · Rating 4 out of 5]

With the vast majority of the X-Men 'dead' (read: off in a parallel dimension thanks to Age Of X-Man), the newly returned Wolverine and Cyclops band together their remaining allies in an attempt to defeat all of the threats that the X-Men have ever faced once and for all. But their ranks are thinning quickly, and hatred for mutants is worse than ever before, so when Captain America comes a'knockin', will he be friend, or foe?

This book (and this run) have been ~controversial~ (so, an X-Men book), which usually translates into 'bad', but I've actually really liked it. While Disassembled was a bloody mess, this actually has a straight forward goal in mind, and while the combination of characters is extremely weird, it kind of works. The systematic attack on all of the X-Men's old foes is a blast from the past (although I don't know what's going on with Hope these days, I didn't think she'd be 'evil' even with Cable dead), and Rosenberg captures Cyclops and Wolverine's relationship very well.

Salvador Larroca returns to the X-Men with these issues, and he's not a bad fit. His art is what it is, but it's nice to see him branching out again after phototracing Star Wars comics for the last few years.

I'm also assuming, although nowhere seems to confirm this and I don't have the physical trade just yet, that this also includes the Uncanny X-Men Annual which explains how Cyclops came back to life. It makes sense to collect it here, and it's a pretty good story as well that sets the stage for the first issue of this run really well.

This is clearly part one of a larger story however, so it's hard to see what the endgame is just yet. It's clear that Rosenberg is having fun however, and trying to make this storyline count even with Jonathan Hickman's arrival on the franchise looming heavily over him.

[Jesús De la Jara · Rating 4 out of 5]

Buen regreso de los clásicos X-Men Cíclope y Wolverine. ¿Cuándo estuvieron mejor los X-Men cuando estos dos estaban juntos? Desde "Cisma" que no trabajaban juntos pues se separaron largo tiempo primero con Cíclope como líder cuasi militar de Utopía, luego ambos estuvieron en diferentes bandos durante la guerra contra los Avengers y luego Cíclope fue por su cuenta cuando hizo su "Revolución". Pues luego que Cíclope reviviera empieza a buscar nuevamente la unión de los X-Men bajo su bandera, Wolverine que también acaba de revivir hace poco lo ayudará y nuevamente vemos a los dos combatiendo. Siempre Wolverine cuidando de su espalda y haciendo chistes sarcásticos por doquier. Sin embargo no todo parece ir fácil para los dos pues sus aliados no son los más poderosos que hay y las dificultades crecen día a día mientras el grupo de X-Men originales de esta serie (Jean Grey, Kitty Pryde, Etc.) están como desaparecidos.

[Jason · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was so, so much better than volume 1. Where that was a disjointed mess of too many cooks in the kitchen (writers and characters), this dials things back a bit, and the results are MUCH more enjoyable. While most of the X-Men are busy off dealing with the "Age of X-Man" alternate reality, the recently resurrected Cyclops and Wolverine reunite and put together a small band of forgotten X-Men and get back to basics as they run down a checklist of enemy groups they decide have to be dealt with once and for all.

It's fun to see some of these X-Men enemies I've not seen in a very long time. The dialog is fun, the artwork by Salvador Larroca is incredibly good, and the the characters chosen for the team are a great mix (Cyclops, Wolverine, Havok, Magik, Wolvesbane, Mirage, Karma, and Multiple Man...a nice mix of X-Men, New Mutants, and X-Factor). THIS is the kind of X-Men book I want to be reading. I'd follow this for quite a while if it maintains this direction and quality--unfortunately it's ending after the next volume because of Jonathan Hickman's future X-Men plans (but after seeing what he did with the Fantastic Four and Avengers, I'm totally okay with this book being a casualty, despite how much I'm enjoying it now).

Very glad I stuck around after the initial terrible story arc.

[Adam Fisher · Rating 4 out of 5]

After the events of X-Men Disassembled, the X-Men seem to be dead. With only Scott Summers recently returned to life, he is scouring the world to see if he can find any other mutants alive. The Reavers, Purifers, and Sapien League show up to respond to his summons, but he is NOT alone... Logan pops out of the trees to help. Excellent battle takes place!
Next, they seek out Blindfold, who they believe will know where they can find other mutants who survived. She tries to deter them, claiming that their mission will make things worse, but they don't listen. At a O.N.E. holding facility, they rescue Strong Guy, Moonstar and Karma (those 3 trapped inside sentinel suits against their will; then Wolfsbane, Magik and Havok from the cells. Guido dies in the escape (pool Strong Guy!) but the team is able to regroup at Harry's Bar (the mansion got destroyed in the last Volume) and plan the next phase. However, something very funny and nostalgic happens, when they need uniforms and the only ones they can find are most of their gear from the mid-90 era *YAY!)
Scott, still being the leader of the X-Men, decides their new mandate. Since they believe it to be the "last days of the X-Men", they want to take down as many of their enemies as possible, showing the world that they are heroes and want to leave no threats.
First up? Dark Beast. They capture him, and use him to assist the team. (Where's Hank? Did he vanish too?)
Second? The MLF has been trying to pass themselves off as the X-Men. Stopping them gains Banshee and Hope back to their team, but not before a misunderstanding with Hope gets one of Scott's eyes shot out, making him an actual Cyclops. (After the injury, he steps down from being the leader, and the group votes to run everything equally.)
Third? As always... the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Pyro, Avalanche, Toad, Random, Juggernaut, and Magneto. The battle goes well, until Magneto's helmet is removed, and they discover it is not Erik but Joseph who is leading them. Revealing this deception brings Juggernaut back to siding with the X-Men. Surprisingly, it seems like peace might be struck, when suddenly, Joseph's head falls from his shoulders! Kwannon has made an appearance, and she claims she did it to prevent Joseph from destroying everything. In the confusion, the Volume ends with a declaration from Dani that Wolfsbane (Rahne had left the team to pursue a normal life) is dead.
Such a chaotic and crazy ending!
Where is it going next?

This seems like one of the worst times to be an X-Man. I can't wait to see what the missing ones are doing in "Age of X-Man", and how they might escape...

Recommend.

[Shannon Appelcline · Rating 3 out of 5]

This volume starts off quite strong. The super-sized issue #1 (#11 after the Disassembled miniseries became the series) has a great reintro to both Cyclops and Wolverine, but also a devastating story about Blindfold.

But after that Uncanny X-Men sort of becomes an overly compressed last resting place of plots that had been forgotten. The fumbled plot about the New Mutants all becoming infected by the techno-organic virus? It's here. Whatever happened to Layla and Jamie? Here. Semi-dead Banshee? Here. Hope Summers? Here.

Honestly, I like the attention to continuity, but too often these old problems are either dealt with too easily (I'm looking at you, techno-organic virus) or ignored (and that's you, dead Banshee). This is part of the overly compressed problem with the comic, which just blithely moves on to the next plot without really considering the ones that have passed by. (Related: seriously, you bring Cyclops and Wolverine back from the dead, and not only don't you treat the mystery of their rebirths as a plot element, but you don't each treat it like a mystery? That's everything that's wrong with DC and Marvel.)

[Looks like the Cyclops story is in Annual #1, which inexplicably hasn't been reprinted, and the Wolverine story is in "Return of Wolverine", which I guess came after the largely worthless "Hunt for Wolverine", but it's still freaking bizarre to not mention either topic here.]

And then, there's all the authorial murder. I mean, I understand killing a couple of lesser mutants to show the extent of the anti-mutant hysteria. It works. But then to randomly kill off another character in a prison escape, and another because he was just a dangling plot thread, and to claim the death of a fifth as a cliffhanger? That's just putting X-Men into a bizarre alternate reality where deaths occur every issue, which isn't the way Marvel's supers work.

I did like much of the volume, despite its excess compression, but there were so many different plot issues, that I couldn't give it a "4". More like "3.5".

[Unseen Library · Rating 5 out of 5]

Rating of 4.5.

Prepare to enter a whole new era of X-Men comics as writer Matthew Rosenberg and artist Salvador Larroca bring forth a second volume in the new series of Uncanny X-Men and focus on the aftermath of the latest disaster to befall mutantkind.

No More X-Men!

For years, the X-Men have tried to fulfil Charles Xavier’s dream of unity between mutants and humans by being the shining examples of their species as superheroes, protecting even those people who hate and fear them. However, in one devastating moment, that dream has been smashed. The godlike mutant X-Man, in an attempt to remove all opposition to his messianic desires, combined his powers with that of the reality-bending mutant Legion in order to end all the X-Men who stood against him. In a single instant, nearly every mutant who had served as a member of the X-Men was gone, and the world reacted accordingly.

In the aftermath of this loss, Mutantkind is on the brink of extinction. Already suffering from years of losses caused by the Genosha genocide, the M-Day Decimation, the Terrigen Mists and Disney’s wrath for being owned by Fox, the remaining Mutants are now left without their protectors. With public opinion firmly against them, government agencies hunting down and imprisoning any surviving mutants and the new mutant vaccine being made mandatory for the entire population, this looks like the end for the species. However, one mutant is desperate to change this: the original leader of the X-Men, Cyclops.

Having been recently returned from the dead, Cyclops attempts to find his way in the new world, where all his X-Men comrades have disappeared. After an encounter with the mysterious mutant Blindfold, whose cryptic visions now contain nothing but despair, Cyclops will try to do what he always does, attempt to save his species. However, with no allies willing to help and even the Avengers turning against them, Cyclops is finding it hard not to give in to despair. In a desperate move, he makes a televised plea for any remaining X-Men to join him at the remains of the X-Mansion. While at first it appears that only the X-Men’s enemies have turned up in order to kill him, one X-Man answers the call, the last person Cyclops expected to come to his aid, his long-time rival Wolverine.

Having also just come back from the dead, Wolverine is reluctantly drawn back into Cyclops’s orbit. In their recent past these two legendary X-Men have fought, gone to war and nearly killed each other over their ideals, the future of mutantkind and the heart of Jean Grey, but now they can agree on one thing: the X-Men need to come back. Pulling together a rag tag team, including Magik, Wolfsbane, Havok, Dani Moonstar, Karma, Chamber and Jamie Madrox, Cyclops and plan to go after the biggest mutant threats they can find on order to stop additional escalations against mutants and to leave the world in a better place if this is truly the end of mutantkind. But what happens when they are forced to go up against old friends such as Banshee or Hope Summers, as they attempt to obtain their own form of justice leading a new version of the Mutant Liberation Front?

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[Michael Hicks · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the last X-Men story.

Or so we’re told in the opening pages as Cyclops narrates and catches us up on recent events in the wake of X-Men Disassembled. Although this certainly isn’t the last X-Men story, it does kind of feel like it, and knowing Jonathan Hickman’s reboot of the entire X-line is right around the corner these final volumes of the flagship Uncanny book at the very least mark an end of a particular era in Marvel history.

Writer Matthew Rosenberg knows it’s the end of a very long chapter in X-lore, too, and he’s crafted a mighty, and suitably, bleak story for the occasion. In the wake of Disassembled, the world is moving full-steam ahead with the mutant vaccination program in an effort to eliminate future generations. In the meantime, the world’s current mutant population is being rounded up and either murdered or exploited by their government. The mutant genocide is in full swing, and Stateside Homo Superior is being crushed under the boot heels of its racist, fascist leaders in D.C., who are promising “The Future Is Human.”

This is easily the darkest an X-book has felt in quite a while, and with the X-Men having disappeared and presumed dead following the war between Nathan Grey and Legion in Disassembled, the mutant community needs a leader to rally around. Lucky for them, both Cyclops and Wolverine are back from the dead! What? How? Who cares!? I’m sure their returns are covered in various other crossovers I missed, but I can’t be fucked to figure out the logistics of it all, and given the maze-like continuity of X-history and everybody having rebirths in some form or another, it doesn’t really matter.

Rosenberg does a great job capturing the mood and flavor of classic X-Men (classic to me, anyway; read: 90s era Jim Lee X-Men and books like Days of Future Past and Age of Apocalypse), and it’s fun to have some witty repartee between Cyke and Wolvie. It’s also nice to see Scott Summers working on being a better leader for the X-Men after spending so much time as, first, a pariah and then a martyr. Salvador Larroca does a fine job penciling Rosenberg’s moody scripts, as expected.

It’s been a long time since I read an X-Men book that felt like an A-list title, but Rosenberg and Larroca deliver the goods the whole way through, crafting a dark, gritty, political, adult superhero comic. It’s also been a long time since I’ve felt actually invested in an X-book, but this penultimate chapter to this era of the X-Men has its hooks sunk in deep.

[Thomas · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is a jump forward from vol 1's story into a post-X-Men world. I admit that I was not on board with this story from the get-go. I did not like Cyclops coming back to life - I thought his original death was a fitting end to where the character had grown to, and the slap-dash "now you're alive" twist was not earned and not deserved.

That said, it is fun seeing Cyclops and Logan back together again, slicing and optic blasting and trying to make sense of a world where they are even more on the run than usual. Fun, but not a good story.

What completely wrecked this arc for me was [spoiler]Wolfsbane's death[/spoiler]. A complete textbook trans panic murder, out of nowhere, and it didn't feel meaningful to me. It hurt, but it also hurt me to see a character with such rich history snuffed out so callously.

Rosenberg is not impressing me with his X-Men run. And I can already tell that he is hurrying things along for the Hickman re-re-re-launch. Marvel is also trying my patience as an X-Fan with reboot after reboot. I long for the days of Claremont or Morrison, where we get TIME to grow these characters and develop the supporting cast and villains.

[Kay · Rating 3 out of 5]

Iloved Bendis's Cyclops (Uncanny X-Men circa 2013). Sure, the world hated him, but he believed in what he was doing, and he did it (changing your ideals after 50 years can be hard, ok?). He was flawed and unsure, but he was a damn good flawed and unsure leader to read about.
And then there was something about Cyclops killing Xavier? And then the Terrigen Mist & the Inhumans...and then he died...
But now he's back! (though I don't know how). He is alive (and so is Wolverine!) and they are back to rally the X-Men.
And after everything he has learned, Cyclops is now repentant and cowed and going to let others lead for a change! But it's a kind of quick transition on paper, which doesn't work for me. It feels like I'm missing a lot.
(How is he alive, again?)
Apparently these volumes have no effect on the upcoming Hickman run, so I dunno how to really feel about this Cyclops or this book.

On the whole, the book was fine. I just didn't like how the characters felt old/new. Meaning, I knew them, but they were all changed and different and I somehow missed the hows and the whys.

[Sans · Rating 4 out of 5]

Jesus, this is brutal. Not in the "this is awful why am I reading this" way, more in the "wow, scarily accurate reflection of the dystopia we are currently living in and how it can get even worse, thanks for confirming my dangerously low opinion regarding the general goodness of people is well-founded, I'll just go sit in the closet and wait for the sweet embrace of death" way.

Why is Cable a tween, what the HELL happened to Banshee why does he look like a walking skeleton, and how is Kwannon alive when Betsy shed that body in a way that I still haven't looked up on wiki? And should I already know why Cyclops is alive again, or are we just glossing all that over with hand-wavey comic book "stuff we haven't gotten around to figuring out yet"?

I may do something I haven't done in years. I may go buy an X-Men graphic novel this weekend because volume 2 is not on Marvel Unlimited yet, my library doesn't have any copies, nor is it available on Hoopla, and I'm itching to see how this turns into House/Powers of X.

[Ross Alon · Rating 1 out of 5]

WTF?!
This make Austen run looks good. The definition of a filler story stretched to a series. It's like Marvel's editors just let them write what the wanted since it doesn't matter anyway.
Worst understanding of source material and the marvel universe.

Well at least he didn't create a new fishboy, or another x-prostitute

[Andrew Shaffer]

Cyclops’ granddaughter shoots him in the face causing him to lose an eye...and then she joins the team and they never mention that she SHOT HER GRANDPA IN THE FACE. X-Men comics are weird.

[Dimitris Papastergiou · Rating 2 out of 5]

It wasn't good or interesting, it was a simple story, that halfway through was a chore to read, but it was ok, I guess to pass the time and with some nice artwork along the way.

[Fran · Rating 4 out of 5]

Es mejor que el anterior y con menos números

[Dan · Rating 3 out of 5]

https://youtu.be/EhYAigXBKXM

[Scott Lee · Rating 3 out of 5]

Scott Summers is alive--there's no explanation of that fact in the issues I read (11-16 as single issues) --although I saw from some letters in the individual issues that the story of his return is available in the Uncanny X-Men Annual, which I haven't read.

Without any contacts with any of the remaining mutants following the events of "X-Men Disassembled" Scott makes a public broadcast call for any remaining X-Men to surface and meet him. When he arrives at the designated location he's greeted by a slew of squads from the various mutant hate groups that have been common through the last five to ten years of the book. Also, Logan. The two of them then team up to face whatever comes next.

There are some interesting moments as Scott & Logan first gather whoever's left--they have to lead a prison break to find them--and then begin hitting targets. However, only Scott believes the missing X-Men (those present at the end of the Disassembled storyline) can actually be found. So they focus instead on taking out a bunch of the remaining threats the X-Men would be going after if they were all still around. It's especially dim and hopeless as they figure that's all they can do what with the arrests/deaths of mutants all over the world and the coming wave of Anti-x-gene vaccinations that will (supposedly) eliminate any future generations of mutants. Scott and Logan end up leading a really exotic lineup--certainly not one we've ever seen in one book before--on these adventures.

But unless Rosenberg is intentionally wanting the reader to feel as frustrated and adrift as many members of the team seem to feel through these issues--and if he is, he's successful, but WHY DO THAT?--he's failed to give any sense of direction. The books seems to be pinballing fatalistically with no particular headway.

[Steve White · Rating 4 out of 5]

The two most iconic X-Men are back! And not a moment too soon for readers wondering who all these muties are.

The first installment (this is the second) in this latest attempt to reset the X-Men focused mostly on new characters. Some of them were pretty interesting. But without spoiling it, they’re out of the picture and now Cyclops and Wolverine have to round up a team of X-Men in a world where they’re very much unwanted.

A few complaints — there’s no explanation for where these characters have been. Seems like a little recap would’ve been nice. Also, a list of the cast of characters. Some of these have been running around with the X-Men for decades but a primer on the newer characters would be nice.

All that aside — the actual story was enjoyable and there were some interesting uses of the medium to tell and engaging story.

It did not wrap up the situation started in the previous installment and instead introduced many new dangling plot points.

But I enjoyed it and want to see where they go next!

[Rafa Araujo · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5

[Travis Duke · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is vol.1 but it hinges on Disassembled, read that first. I am big Uncanny fan and the beginning was sweet music to my....eyes(?) anyways I loved the team up with Logan and Cyclops. It starts off pretty gritty with the x-men seemingly gone..again. The team looks great with Magik, cyclops, Logan etc. but I feel like the writing got a little muddy and sort of fizzled out. Lots of characters in this book and playing various sides which is fun but I think it distracts from the story. The Art is really good, lots of action and good line work. Solid read.

[Emmett Spain · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very plot-heavy and occasionally rushed, this collection of the weekly series leading up to HoXPoX features more characters than you’ve had hot dinners, and does some stuff with some of them. Everyone else is just kind of … around.

There are some good moments here, but overall it feels like what it is — a last gasp of the exceedingly messy X-books before the much needed and very successful change in direction that HoXPoX offered.

[Laissez Farrell · Rating 1 out of 5]

I realllllllly don’t care for Larroca’s art on this, and am hit or miss with the story. I do really like Rosenberg’s individual character moments and interactions, and how quickly paced the book is.

[David · Rating 4 out of 5]

Now that I've gotten to the end of the Disassembled story I have to admit it was pretty entertaining.

[Guilherme Smee · Rating 4 out of 5]

Este encadernado começa bastante empolgante com o retorno de Ciclope para o "mundo dos vivos", e a jornada de Cable para que o "Ciclopão" volte a estabelecer os X-Men como uma equipe. Aí temos o retorno de Wolverine e o destino de alguns personagens. A partir de então, com a equipe formada, eles começam a perseguir vilões como os Carniceiros e os Purificadores. É então que o enredo começa a ficar chatinho e começa a enfadar. Esse encadernado também teve o episódio em que o desenhista Salvador Larroca reclamou das cores de Rachelle Rosemberg justificando que ela fazia um trabalho de cores ruim por "ser mulher". Isso pegou muito mal para Larroca e também para essa série da Marvel. Quando o tempo passar, é muito provável que essa passagem de Matthew Rosenberg nos Fabulosos X-Men vai ser lembrada como "encheção de linguiça" pura e simplesmente. Com um começo empolgante, não conseguiu se manter, principalmente em face a todos os anúncios e preparativos feitos para a chegada da estrondosa nova run de Joanthan Hickman às revistas e à franquia dos mutantes da Marvel.

[Lane Williams · Rating 1 out of 5]

Yeah, no.

It doesn't start awful. Then it goes downhill fast. The dark, bottomless pit of despair this series offers as a mishmash of lore and same-toned characters ultimately left me skimming through it to be done. Plot points smash into each other and characters appear and then die, leaving me feeling absolutely nothing. Horribly done. I'll delete it from my Kindle and try to delete it from my brain. Easy enough, since it's utterly forgettable.

[[ishtaru] · Rating 2 out of 5]

this one was not very good. it just brought up a whole bunch of frustrating questions like:

•how exactly are Scott and Logan back?
•why did blindfold have to die—like that especially?
•so many useless fucking deaths, why?
•why are the avengers so fucking useless when it comes to mutant issues? literally fuck the avengers