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Hellions (2020)
Hellions, Vol. 1
Bad is the new good! When the new nation of Krakoa opened its doors to all mutants and forgave all past crimes, its leaders knew that they'd have to accept some of their worst foes into the fold...but they didn't plan for what to do with them. Not to worry - Mister Sinister has plans for the troublemakers. Meet his new Hellions: Scalphunter, Wild Child, Empath, Nanny, Orphan-Maker, Psylocke...and Havok?! Under Sinister's direction, they are sure to become productive members of mutant society...and the new mutant team that you're going to hate to love! Though right now the Hellions can barely keep from killing one another, let alone find a way to fit into Krakoan society. Of course, that might be just what Mister Sinister is counting on when he sends them to clean up his messes... COLLECTING: HELLIONS (2020) 1-4
125 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 1, 2020
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Zeb Wells
708 books72 followersZeb Wells is an American comic book writer known for his work at Marvel Comics, as well as his work on the animated TV series Robot Chicken.
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May 1, 2021
So everyone's back on Krakoa, but what to do with the outliers? Havoc, Orphan-Maker, Nanny, Wild-Child, Empath(!), Scalphunter and Kwannon, reporting to Mr Sinister, are brought together for much as therapy as well as as a team to clean-up mutant issues across the globe. First mission.. what do to with the original Marauders! Too many intense and interesting characters for one book, but the creative team doesn't do that bad a job. Marvel needs to spend lest time on battle scenes and spend more on character and plot development! 6 out of 12
November 30, 2020
This is my favorite of the 2nd wave of the Dawn of X books. Mr. Sinister is given the care of a bunch of mentally deranged mutants. Most are pretty obscure X-Men villains. Scalphunter, Orphan Maker and Nanny, Wildchild, Empath. Havok is also with the team. He's still having issues after being inverted a few years ago. Kwannon is assigned to lead them and keep them from killing anyone. It's a lot like the original setup for Suicide Squad. On their first mission, they are sent to destroy Mr. Sinister's lab beneath the orphanage where Scott and Alex Summers grew up. There's some really messed up moments in this and they are glorious. Wells writes some snappy dialogue too.
Steven Segovia was a good choice for artist. He has a chaotic look to his art that works for a team of villians.
Steven Segovia was a good choice for artist. He has a chaotic look to his art that works for a team of villians.
July 13, 2021
The Problem Kids
I got to say I enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would. Psylocke is on of my favourite X-MEN. Since she was separated from Betsy I think the character has just got better.
Mutants now have their own homeland, their own laws and even their own language. Foes are now friends, but there are a bunch of problem kids that do not play well with others. What do you do with them? Why not hand them over to a manipulative sociopath. Having Psylocke lead the team is genius.
This is therapy through violence. Point these guys at the enemy and watch the firework at the afterparty. This book just ticks all the boxes for me. Yes that is a bit worrying. I would not mind seeing this as a max title. The book finishes with a cover gallery of l the issues with their varient covers.
I got to say I enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would. Psylocke is on of my favourite X-MEN. Since she was separated from Betsy I think the character has just got better.
Mutants now have their own homeland, their own laws and even their own language. Foes are now friends, but there are a bunch of problem kids that do not play well with others. What do you do with them? Why not hand them over to a manipulative sociopath. Having Psylocke lead the team is genius.
This is therapy through violence. Point these guys at the enemy and watch the firework at the afterparty. This book just ticks all the boxes for me. Yes that is a bit worrying. I would not mind seeing this as a max title. The book finishes with a cover gallery of l the issues with their varient covers.
January 20, 2021
I still have reserves about the whole Hickman’s weird death cult sect take on the X-Men, but this first volume of Wells and Segovia’s Hellions was a real blast of a read for me with a badass team of flawed characters that I totally dig, wonderful artworks, and references to the Mutant Massacre and Inferno, two of my most fan favourite one storylines from Marvel ever.
Probably I had to read Fallen Angels, Vol. 1 before this one, but reviews were so bad that I skipped it, luckly it was never like I was missing something and I liked a lot this well written gorgeously drawn volume, with its excellent plot, characters interactions and interactions: I’m just in love about the way Stephen Segovia draws Havok’s signature concentric plasma blast effect.
Still not sure if I’m liking or hating the new version of Mr. Sinister, one of my most favourite one Marvel villains ever, depicted in recent mutant comic books, but again I was having lots of fun reading his quotes with with Jeff Goldblum's MCU Grandmaster voice in my mind… Oh, Good Grief.
And Wild Child’s "We're a bunch of crazy sons of b1/(£&$" gag just cracker me up so much that I was laughing with the whole gang in the end.
Excelsior.
December 21, 2020
This was one of the better books in the new Hickman-X-verse, mainly because it actually explored some of the darker corners of this new so-called mutant utopia. Books like this one give me hope the X-folks are eventually going to wake up to the fact that there is something rotten in the state of Denmark. The artwork was very nice too, although it owed a lot to the work of Lienil Francis Yu.
October 25, 2020
Definitely the best Dawn of X book I’ve read so far aside from Hickman’s stuff. This is basically Suicide Squad but with mutants, and it’s a really fun interpretation of that concept. It’s also a book that deals with some heavy baggage from mutants’ past, but Zeb Wells writes the book in such a way that I, not being very versed in previous X-lore, never felt lost in what was going on and understood the emotional stakes fairly well. The art was also nice and consistent throughout. Good stuff.
October 25, 2020
Luego de que un grupo de mutantes (Havok, Orphan-Maker, Nanny, Wild Child, Empath y Greycrow) muestren problemas al adaptarse a su nueva vida en la Isla Nación mutante Krakoa, son seleccionados para pasar por "terapia" a cargo de Mr. Sinister quien lidera el grupo junto con su segunda al mando Psylocke (Kwanon). En realidad se encargarán de ciertos objetivos, pero en su primer encuentro se cruzan con Madelyne Pryor, quien volverá a tratar de ganarse a Álex, gracias a su antiguo vínculo y por momentos toda la situación me puso los nervios un poco helados, cosa que me parece un mérito. El final también un poco duro me gustó.
May 7, 2021
Kind of an X-Men Suicide Squad...only thanks to the Krakoa Protocols I guess there isn't much actual suicide being required of them?
But, hey, if it means a triumphant return of Jim Lee era Psylocke, who am I to quibble?
The rest of the team, including the surprise inclusion of sad sack Havok, I honestly don't care much about, particularly Orphan Maker and Nanny, but as (or is it ”if”?) the title and team matures I'm open to being otherwise persuaded.
But, hey, if it means a triumphant return of Jim Lee era Psylocke, who am I to quibble?
The rest of the team, including the surprise inclusion of sad sack Havok, I honestly don't care much about, particularly Orphan Maker and Nanny, but as (or is it ”if”?) the title and team matures I'm open to being otherwise persuaded.
October 27, 2020
This book is just so inconsistent. The premise of how Sinister gathered together the bad/problem mutants almost makes sense. What doesn't make sense is why these particular mutants were the ones chosen.
No one has any reason to trust Kwannon as the ninja lady in charge of the problem mutants, because neither Xavier nor Sinister has ever had much contact with Kwannon. Betsy has been piloting her body for years. Why would ANYONE, hero or villain, trust this stranger?
Empath, Nanny, Orphan-Maker, and Greycrow are all pretty much dyed-in-the-wool murderers. I get that. But Wild Child and Havok have both been members of X-Factor (at different times), and both have a long history of being heroic, yet mind-controlled. Wild Child has largely been shat upon in the last 15 years or so, but before that he was a fairly likable, heroic member of both Alpha Flight and X-Factor. Havok has pretty much NEVER been evil, he has just been possessed or mind-controlled a lot.
If getting mind-controlled a lot is the criteria for joining this group, why isn't Polaris part of it? She spent more time possessed by Malice than Havok did, and she was also manipulated by Zaladane, Apocalypse, and the Shadow King at various points in her life.
And there are lots of other murderers on Krakoa currently. I know for a fact that Black Tom has snapped a 12-year-old fish boy's neck. And then there's Wildside, who appeared in New Mutants a couple months ago; in the 90s he was always described as a complete sadist. Why aren't these guys with the Hellions? What about Sienna Blaze? Senyaka? Harness used her energy leash to enslave her 12-year-old kid, and force-feed him Proteus' energy so that he could be possessed. Doesn't Mommy Dearest there deserve to be on the Hellions?
The first volume of Hellions actually had a very nice little story about Madeline Pryor. It called back to the original Inferno storyline from the 80s. It even referred to a specific page where Madeline had a dream of herself as a mannequin, being told that she wasn't real. This storyline 30 years subsequent actually managed to tug at one's heart strings.
But I need to emphasize that Sinister's personality is way, way wrong. Modern writers are unaware of his old personality, or else they don't know what to do with him now that there seems to be some sort of editorial mandate preventing Rachel from having any major significance in Marvel comics. (She isn't even counted as an omega-level mutant anymore, when she was the ORIGINAL omega-level mutant before the term became common.) Now, Sinister doesn't talk about collecting Summers DNA anymore. If you believe Hellions, Sinister is a foppish, flamboyant fool obsessed with his cape. People try to defend the idea that now Sinister is "funny," but this is a very real problem. Characters can't just have dramatic personality changes out of the blue, with no in-story explanation for them. Maybe the real Sinister will show up, with his serious personality, and explain that we have just been seeing defective clones for the last couple years.
But otherwise, we just have to accept that Marvel is lazy and basic. They take completely unrelated characters and decide to arbitrarily change their personalities to make them more "snarky." Star-Lord, Deadpool, Quicksilver, and many others, all started out with much more serious personalities. (For Quicksilver, the fact he was cold and emotionless was actually a plot point in Avengers Academy.) Writers then give each of them the exact same personality over and over again. Snarky. Making lots of pop culture references. Irreverent. Cracking jokes.
Fans need to stop acting like this is somehow a good thing, or even that it's good writing. It's actually very bad writing. The writers are counting on fans being basic, and/or fans being unaware of the earlier personalities, and so writers just present us with the same "funny" personality over and over again. It would actually take much more skill on the part of the writers to convey deeper meaning and emotional depth with the original, serious personalities.
Overall, Hellions is very uneven.
No one has any reason to trust Kwannon as the ninja lady in charge of the problem mutants, because neither Xavier nor Sinister has ever had much contact with Kwannon. Betsy has been piloting her body for years. Why would ANYONE, hero or villain, trust this stranger?
Empath, Nanny, Orphan-Maker, and Greycrow are all pretty much dyed-in-the-wool murderers. I get that. But Wild Child and Havok have both been members of X-Factor (at different times), and both have a long history of being heroic, yet mind-controlled. Wild Child has largely been shat upon in the last 15 years or so, but before that he was a fairly likable, heroic member of both Alpha Flight and X-Factor. Havok has pretty much NEVER been evil, he has just been possessed or mind-controlled a lot.
If getting mind-controlled a lot is the criteria for joining this group, why isn't Polaris part of it? She spent more time possessed by Malice than Havok did, and she was also manipulated by Zaladane, Apocalypse, and the Shadow King at various points in her life.
And there are lots of other murderers on Krakoa currently. I know for a fact that Black Tom has snapped a 12-year-old fish boy's neck. And then there's Wildside, who appeared in New Mutants a couple months ago; in the 90s he was always described as a complete sadist. Why aren't these guys with the Hellions? What about Sienna Blaze? Senyaka? Harness used her energy leash to enslave her 12-year-old kid, and force-feed him Proteus' energy so that he could be possessed. Doesn't Mommy Dearest there deserve to be on the Hellions?
The first volume of Hellions actually had a very nice little story about Madeline Pryor. It called back to the original Inferno storyline from the 80s. It even referred to a specific page where Madeline had a dream of herself as a mannequin, being told that she wasn't real. This storyline 30 years subsequent actually managed to tug at one's heart strings.
But I need to emphasize that Sinister's personality is way, way wrong. Modern writers are unaware of his old personality, or else they don't know what to do with him now that there seems to be some sort of editorial mandate preventing Rachel from having any major significance in Marvel comics. (She isn't even counted as an omega-level mutant anymore, when she was the ORIGINAL omega-level mutant before the term became common.) Now, Sinister doesn't talk about collecting Summers DNA anymore. If you believe Hellions, Sinister is a foppish, flamboyant fool obsessed with his cape. People try to defend the idea that now Sinister is "funny," but this is a very real problem. Characters can't just have dramatic personality changes out of the blue, with no in-story explanation for them. Maybe the real Sinister will show up, with his serious personality, and explain that we have just been seeing defective clones for the last couple years.
But otherwise, we just have to accept that Marvel is lazy and basic. They take completely unrelated characters and decide to arbitrarily change their personalities to make them more "snarky." Star-Lord, Deadpool, Quicksilver, and many others, all started out with much more serious personalities. (For Quicksilver, the fact he was cold and emotionless was actually a plot point in Avengers Academy.) Writers then give each of them the exact same personality over and over again. Snarky. Making lots of pop culture references. Irreverent. Cracking jokes.
Fans need to stop acting like this is somehow a good thing, or even that it's good writing. It's actually very bad writing. The writers are counting on fans being basic, and/or fans being unaware of the earlier personalities, and so writers just present us with the same "funny" personality over and over again. It would actually take much more skill on the part of the writers to convey deeper meaning and emotional depth with the original, serious personalities.
Overall, Hellions is very uneven.
November 13, 2020
With the Krakoan edict to resurrect all the dead mutants, even the bad ones, in place, someone has to keep an eye on them. And of course, that someone is Mister Sinister. Because sure, why not?
Hellions has no right to be as good as it is. On paper, it should be awful. I literally didn't know who half the characters were, since they're more obscure X-Men foes like Nanny and Orphan Maker. None of the characters should work together, ever, because they're impossible to work with. And yet. AND YET. It is brilliant.
Zeb Wells' dialogue makes this book absolutely sing. The banter strikes the finest line between too mean and exactly as snippy as it intends to be, and it's a pure delight. The personalities involved here clash perfectly, from Havok and Psylocke's attempts to corral the troops to Nanny's always inappropriate comments and Mister Sinister's sassiness turning itself up to eleven. The plot itself is decent enough, with the Hellions going to destroy one of Sinisters' old cloning labs (and running into another old X-Men villain along the way), but it pales in comparison to the dialogue.
Stephen Segovia is on art duties, and he's a great pick. His art's just left of centre in terms of standard superhero, without veering into too dark or obscure, which is exactly where a villain-lead book should be. Segovia's been all over the comic landscape in terms of work, and his wide range of experience always shows.
Hellions be crazy. But Hellions be good too. The black sheep of the Dawn of X family deserves a lot of attention.
Hellions has no right to be as good as it is. On paper, it should be awful. I literally didn't know who half the characters were, since they're more obscure X-Men foes like Nanny and Orphan Maker. None of the characters should work together, ever, because they're impossible to work with. And yet. AND YET. It is brilliant.
Zeb Wells' dialogue makes this book absolutely sing. The banter strikes the finest line between too mean and exactly as snippy as it intends to be, and it's a pure delight. The personalities involved here clash perfectly, from Havok and Psylocke's attempts to corral the troops to Nanny's always inappropriate comments and Mister Sinister's sassiness turning itself up to eleven. The plot itself is decent enough, with the Hellions going to destroy one of Sinisters' old cloning labs (and running into another old X-Men villain along the way), but it pales in comparison to the dialogue.
Stephen Segovia is on art duties, and he's a great pick. His art's just left of centre in terms of standard superhero, without veering into too dark or obscure, which is exactly where a villain-lead book should be. Segovia's been all over the comic landscape in terms of work, and his wide range of experience always shows.
Hellions be crazy. But Hellions be good too. The black sheep of the Dawn of X family deserves a lot of attention.
February 3, 2021
This was really good, basically the X-men’s version of the Suicide Squad. Havok is still having problems from his inversion during axis and is selected to be put on a team with other problematic mutants on Krakoa so they can help Krakoa out under the supervision of Sinister. Looking at the team you wouldn’t think any of them would work well together, they are such a random bunch. But they fit very well together and have a lot of great interactions. The book is fun but has a fair share of emotional parts (Madelyne Pryor deserves better). I’m excited to see where this team goes because this volume was a blast.
December 11, 2020
"We're a bunch of crazy sons of bitches" - Wild Child.
March 6, 2021
This was better than I was expecting it to be. In particular, the way that Mr. Sinister is written gives him a lot of personality. Unfortunately, he doesn't accompany the team on the mission, so that part of the story isn't as interesting as when Mr. Sinister is running his mouth.
June 28, 2021
I just read these issues in Dawn of X and was hoping this had 5 and 6 but it only has 1-4. It’s a lot of fun and the art is excellent too. It’s a little questionable that the council would ok this team but if you get past that it’s enjoyable. Think an X-Force team to the next level.
January 20, 2021
I cannot get over how much fun this book was. This has definitely become one of my favorite Dawn of X books, and it's a welcome change from some of the more lackluster titles like Fallen Angels and Excalibur. The Krakoan Council must decide what to do about problematic mutants that are having trouble socializing in their new nation, so Mister Sinister convinces them to create a team with the idea that dealing with their trauma in the right controlled destructive context will help them work through their issues and be able to better fit into society.
The team is an oddball mix of Havok, Orphan-Maker, Nanny, Scalphunter, Empath, Wild Child, with Psylocke (Kwannon, not Betsy) as their babysitter/team leader. I was not enthused about this team at all when I first heard the line-up, but I was shocked by how much fun their dynamic was. This book is what Suicide Squad wishes it was, with a dysfunctional group of misfit heroes that are incredibly fun to read. Their first mission is to destroy an old cloning facility of Mister Sinister's, and without spoiling the fun, things do not go as planned. Things get QUITE dark, but there's also a good degree of levity sprinkled in with how the team interacts with each other.
Zeb Wells has a great handle on these characters, particularly Mister Sinister, who has been a delight to read in the hands of the new X-writers, but Wells really has him coming off as a sassy bitch that I just can't get enough of. His dialog had me laughing out loud multiple times in the book. Stephen Segovia's art is also delightful--his crisp, action-oriented style is perfectly suited to superhero books. I'll be surprised if this book can maintain the momentum it came out of the gate with, but for now I am fully on board and very excited for what comes next!
The team is an oddball mix of Havok, Orphan-Maker, Nanny, Scalphunter, Empath, Wild Child, with Psylocke (Kwannon, not Betsy) as their babysitter/team leader. I was not enthused about this team at all when I first heard the line-up, but I was shocked by how much fun their dynamic was. This book is what Suicide Squad wishes it was, with a dysfunctional group of misfit heroes that are incredibly fun to read. Their first mission is to destroy an old cloning facility of Mister Sinister's, and without spoiling the fun, things do not go as planned. Things get QUITE dark, but there's also a good degree of levity sprinkled in with how the team interacts with each other.
Zeb Wells has a great handle on these characters, particularly Mister Sinister, who has been a delight to read in the hands of the new X-writers, but Wells really has him coming off as a sassy bitch that I just can't get enough of. His dialog had me laughing out loud multiple times in the book. Stephen Segovia's art is also delightful--his crisp, action-oriented style is perfectly suited to superhero books. I'll be surprised if this book can maintain the momentum it came out of the gate with, but for now I am fully on board and very excited for what comes next!
March 16, 2022
Here comes the mutant Suicide Squad, Yippeee!
Nah, just kiddin’.
Bunch of psychos gets let loose to... express themselves through violence or something as dumb. I can’t even remember why they were sent away to start with and the book is only 4 issues!
It’s bland, with dumb action and no character building. Why on earth did Wells bothered to dig up useless characters from more than 30 years ago (like Nanny and the Orphan maker from X-Factor) remains beyond me.
Art is decent, oddly dated though, with pseudo-martial improbable poses I thought had been banned since the 00’s.
Nah, just kiddin’.
Bunch of psychos gets let loose to... express themselves through violence or something as dumb. I can’t even remember why they were sent away to start with and the book is only 4 issues!
It’s bland, with dumb action and no character building. Why on earth did Wells bothered to dig up useless characters from more than 30 years ago (like Nanny and the Orphan maker from X-Factor) remains beyond me.
Art is decent, oddly dated though, with pseudo-martial improbable poses I thought had been banned since the 00’s.
May 16, 2023
4.5 stars. This story was sloppy and messy in only the best ways. Everything that doesn’t work for this team on paper actually tends to work very well for the story overall. As a DC fan for much longer than I’ve been reading Marvel, this “X-Men Suicide Squad” just felt right and was definitely one of the more enjoyable books I’ve read in this Krakoan era so far. There was a lot that I didn’t understand completely, not knowing history of some of these characters, but the book showed what was going on very well, without having to teach a history lesson. Looking forward to more of this!
April 24, 2021
x-men’s suicide squad rip-off should not fuck this hard
July 21, 2024
Ratings and links to previous reviews under the spoiler:
This was an okay book. It does try to address the issue of opening Krakoa to all mutants, good and bad and murderers alike, but it does it in such a hamfisted way that I could only shake my head. The selection of this team specifically is weird, like why is Havok even here? Why did not one person except his brother question why he nearly murdered a few humans and then didn't realize what he'd done? Hello?? You're just going to throw him on the Bad Guy team instead?
So many weird choices have been made throughout this entire Hickman era to justify all these "cool" ideas and themes.
In other news, I got two panels of Theresa Cassidy in this so things are looking up a little. X-Factor is next, which will eventually feature her and I'm so damn excited to get there.
November 13, 2024
I enjoyed the hell out of this short, violent, and very funny book. The concept and tone are perfect for a delightful brand of mayhem, and this book delivers. Can’t wait for more!
Second reading: Still awesome.
Second reading: Still awesome.
July 6, 2021
Wow, was this ever a surprise! I laughed out loud several times, said WTF or WTH more than once, and really, really enjoyed this. Think X-Force, but cranked up a notch or two. This was my first exposure to many of these characters--Greycrow, Wild Child, Nanny and Orphan-Maker (who thought those up?). Basically, it's a taskforce made up of some of the most unpredictable and potentially dangerous of mutants, sent out on very special missions, under the direction of Mr. Sinister. The artwork was great and the story was flat-out amazing. Hopefully, this title will continue in this direction.
May 28, 2021
My favorite series in the Dawn of X era outside of Marauders. This book is hilarious, but it also asks interesting questions and treats its antisocial characters with a very humanizing perspective. Segovia's art is great, Wells's writing is sharp, and Sinister is a camp icon.
February 18, 2025
This didn't live up to the hype I saw for it online, but it was still good!! I had fun reading it, and I had fun with the characters, but I wish there was a lot more development both with overarching plot threads and with the characters. Another good entry into Krakoa, that's for sure.
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December 3, 2020This is not a Suicide Squad. They are wearing funny hats.
December 31, 2020
Hey, it's the new Mutant bad-boy book, much better than the old Mutant bad-boy book (the equally purple Fallen Angels, Vol. 1). This time around, our characters are positively villainous, and they're interacting with one of the darkest sides of the Marvel mutant universe: Mr. Sinister and his various clones. (As that suggests: there's great attention to continuity here too.)
The first two issues of this volume are great. We get beautiful insights into the various members of the team, with Scalphunter of the Marauders (of all people!) really getting some standout characterization. Unfortunately, that all descends into two issues of overly extended fighting, which drag things down a bit. Still, I love the questions raised about clones and their place in the new Mutant-resurrection civilization.
Overall, this is a hopeful start, much better than the misfire that it replaces. I hope to see more of the characterization of the first two issues than the fighting of the last two.
The first two issues of this volume are great. We get beautiful insights into the various members of the team, with Scalphunter of the Marauders (of all people!) really getting some standout characterization. Unfortunately, that all descends into two issues of overly extended fighting, which drag things down a bit. Still, I love the questions raised about clones and their place in the new Mutant-resurrection civilization.
Overall, this is a hopeful start, much better than the misfire that it replaces. I hope to see more of the characterization of the first two issues than the fighting of the last two.
September 4, 2024
"Hellions, Volume 1 " is a decent read, if not an inspired or overly creative one. The book focuses on a group of lesser known and generally villainous mutants who are proving difficult for the new government of the mutant nation of Krakoa to assimilate. For less than obvious reasons the solution to this problem is to form a special ops team out of this group under the command of Psylocke and then send it on a secretive mission with poorly defined goals and an obvious low chance of success. All comparisons to "The Suicide Squad" aside, this works about as well as one might imagine until the team runs into the Goblin Queen and a bunch of mutant zombies she controls. There is not really a lot of substance here and readers who have not been following the X-men closely are going to find a lot of the content and plot to be opaque.
Expect a middle of the road team of semi-reformed baddies, Mister Sinister being sinister, Psylocke kicking mutant butt, fairly insightful philosophizing from the Nightcrawler, Maddy trying to be a real girl and the usual Summers brothers dysfunction.
Recommended for hard core fans who have kept up with more recent X-Men stories.
Expect a middle of the road team of semi-reformed baddies, Mister Sinister being sinister, Psylocke kicking mutant butt, fairly insightful philosophizing from the Nightcrawler, Maddy trying to be a real girl and the usual Summers brothers dysfunction.
Recommended for hard core fans who have kept up with more recent X-Men stories.
January 23, 2022
This has a 'Suicide Squad' vibe to it that might end up making this more memorable.
Having a Summers brother on the team, albeit a messed up one, could lead to complications later on in the arc. They ARE working with Mr. Sinister who always has a plan within a plan. Heroes and villains mixed together to be a strike team for Krakoa. Don't they have a bunch of teams doing different tasks at this point? Oi. Is there a group that just delivers packages? I'm calling it...Spring 2022 X-Air is a Krakoan delivery service :P
Having a Summers brother on the team, albeit a messed up one, could lead to complications later on in the arc. They ARE working with Mr. Sinister who always has a plan within a plan. Heroes and villains mixed together to be a strike team for Krakoa. Don't they have a bunch of teams doing different tasks at this point? Oi. Is there a group that just delivers packages? I'm calling it...Spring 2022 X-Air is a Krakoan delivery service :P
February 25, 2022
I had heard such good things, does this get better? I quite like Psylocke, Havok and Mr. Sinister, but I'm very tired of the Suicide Squad trope. The d-listers of the cast did nothing for me, and these four issues are a rush job through a single dungeon which does little to resolve anything of substance. I don't like these four issue volumes at all, hardly anything to sink your teeth into. Art was good, was fairly well written, but it feels insubstantial. I'm fairly disappointed as I was hoping for something less rote and more unique.
November 23, 2022
My thoughts are all over the place on the mutant titles of this era - but I think that Zeb Wells is one of the most capable character writers on any of the contemporary series.
I love Nanny and Orphan Maker on this book - they are so freaking nuts, not that their presence isn't nuts enough already: 35 year old D-Lister villans from an span of X-Factor that didn't have a lot of memorable things going on. Fan service - I guess - and I'm a fan.
Downsides - it's really hard to understand who some of these characters are in their lives right now. Who even is Psylock now? Havok? Well - it's a soap opera, and that's what I get for not being glued to the screen for a while :)
I love Nanny and Orphan Maker on this book - they are so freaking nuts, not that their presence isn't nuts enough already: 35 year old D-Lister villans from an span of X-Factor that didn't have a lot of memorable things going on. Fan service - I guess - and I'm a fan.
Downsides - it's really hard to understand who some of these characters are in their lives right now. Who even is Psylock now? Havok? Well - it's a soap opera, and that's what I get for not being glued to the screen for a while :)
October 27, 2023
This Hellions title is interesting in this new Krakoan era where villains are allowed to exist as long as they don't harm humans. Zeb Wells does a really great job with this weird team. Psylocke, Scalphunter, and Sinister are all standouts. I'm unsure about Nanny and Orphan Maker despite the creepy comedy they provided. The art by Stephen Segovia was very good. Overall, I'm hooked for what this team could be.
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