chantaal's Reviews (2.32k)

Cable’s story has always been insanely convoluted and highly confusing to me, and that is no different here. However, Duggan does some great work to hit some emotional plot beats that still hit even when I feel so unmoored by all the timey-wimey shit. He also has some great humor in here that I highly appreciated. 

Phil Noto’s art is fantastic as always. Between Duggan’s humor and Noto’s art, the bits of the Emma Frost we get here are absolute highlights and the best of Emma in this X era so far. 

DNF @ page 112. This started out very strong, but it's taken a turn in a direction I personally do not want to follow.

A decent story with some promise, though my enjoyment was tempered by the juvenile execution. The six POVs felt like too much, especially after they all meet up half way through. Most everything else felt like trope after trope and not in a fun way.

Sora was the best character, honestly. She had a very interesting back story and motivations, and I  think this story could have massively benefited from maybe being her own. 

Not mad I read this, but not impressed either. At least the book is pretty.

The main title always feels a bit fractured, following various storylines that don’t seem to have any real connection to each other - I assume this is all for some big payoff down the road, but for now it just makes me feel like Hickman is incredibly pretentious and is ruining the X-Men. 

Two islands: Noto’s art is always lovely and this is intriguing despite the heavy handed “you are soft and we are strong and only know war” etc etc. Boring. 

Shi’ar: Horrible art. What was the point of this issue?

The Vault: Hickman at his most pretentious, but I genuinely loved the emotional story arc that Synch got here. Do I have any better idea of what the Vault actually is after this? LOL no. 

Nimrod: Xavier has alway been an ass but HOLY SHIT THIS IS FUCKED UUUUUPPPPPPPPP. 

A halfway decent volume that tries to create some Krakoa mysteries and thrills and tries its damndest to make me like Quentin Quire (spoiler alert: still hate him). 

I still hate where they’ve taken Beast, this whole era better make all this character assassination worth it. 

1 extra star just for having Black Tom on the team. I’m a simple gal, I love my Cassidy clan. 

Some say the writing was lyrical, but I say it was fucking insufferable. Tomato, tomato. 

A confusing mess that I think was supposed meditate on themes of personhood and capitalism and identity, but honestly I did not care one bit about anyone and it all read a little bit on the silly side.