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REVIEW: X-Factor #4: X of Swords Part 2: Chekhov’s Rockslide

October 6, 2020

X-Factor #4 doubles as X of Swords part 2, with regular writer Leah Williams returning alongside guest artist Carlos Gomez. I was equally excited for the next installment of X of Swords and frustrated that this wasn’t a regular issue of X-Factor, but the creative team delivered on both counts. ...

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REVIEW: X of Swords: Creation #1: Tens Across the Board

September 28, 2020

And here we are. Like the mutants taking their first steps through the External Gate, we’ve entered the mysterious world of X of Swords. The first chapter of the long-awaited, 22-part event, X of Swords: Creation #1 is an earthshaking beginning. True to its title, the comic is shining and ...

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REVIEW: X-Factor #3: Mutant Furniture Movers

September 24, 2020

Leah Williams and David Baldeon’s X-Factor continues its adventures in the Mojoverse with issue #3. In this issue, we see the team fight their way to the top, rescue their missing mutant, and plant seeds for future storylines of both X-Factor and X of Swords. This issue keeps up the book’s ...

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REVIEW: X-Men #12: The Secret History

September 21, 2020

X-Men #12 begins with a game, continues with a story, and ends with a promise. But aren’t all stories a kind of game? Summoner, the grandson of Apocalypse, sets the tone immediately: “We’ve learned so much about one another. What we love, what we hate…the things we believe…but now we come to ...

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REVIEW: Hellions #4: We Still Demand Justice for Madelyne Pryor

September 17, 2020

The first arc of Hellions wraps up just in time for X of Swords, leaving the readers with moral quandaries and righteous anger. Hellions #4 is a dirty, grimy, yet satisfying conclusion to an arc that still sets things up for the future.

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REVIEW: Cable #4 Doesn’t Challenge Readers, but is Fun as Hell

September 15, 2020

Cable, like most teenagers, thinks he knows everything. Thankfully, also like most teenagers, he is hilariously wrong. After a significant misfire in Cable #3, the series returns to the fun, engaging tone and standard of quality established since launch. While not a perfect tale, the end of ...

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REVIEW: A Question of Identity in New Mutants #12

September 9, 2020

I really, really want New Mutants to be great. It’s been…solid, for the first year, but against the rest of the current X-Men line, is solid really enough?

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REVIEW: X-Force #12: Fuck Off, Hank

September 9, 2020

The thing about X-Force is that somehow, after a full twelve issues, what would’ve been a year’s worth of comics in non-COVID times, I still keep wanting to come back to it, review work aside. That it accomplishes this despite featuring two characters I’ve come to despise is ...

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REVIEW: Marauders #12: Ain’t No Lie…

September 9, 2020

LONG LIVE THE RED QUEEN! Kate Pryde is back, and ready to take some revenge on the Black King. But first, she has some people to see and places to go in Marauders #12.

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REVIEW: The Strange Satire of X-Factor #2

September 7, 2020

Leah Williams and David Baldeon kicked off the new X-Factor last month with the story of Jean-Paul Beaubier (Northstar) gathering a team to investigate the death of his sister, Jeanne-Marie Beaubier (Aurora), in hopes of resurrecting her on Krakoa. This month’s issue begins with Aurora and ...

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REVIEW: X-Factor #4: X of Swords Part 2: Chekhov’s Rockslide

REVIEW: X of Swords: Creation #1: Tens Across the Board

REVIEW: X-Factor #3: Mutant Furniture Movers

REVIEW: X-Men #12: The Secret History

REVIEW: Hellions #4: We Still Demand Justice for Madelyne Pryor

REVIEW: Cable #4 Doesn’t Challenge Readers, but is Fun as Hell

REVIEW: A Question of Identity in New Mutants #12

REVIEW: X-Force #12: Fuck Off, Hank

REVIEW: Marauders #12: Ain’t No Lie…

REVIEW: The Strange Satire of X-Factor #2

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