This was fast paced action fun with a truly fucked up plot for our hero.

Imagine being a weapon and believing you have a family and friends to come home to but in reality it's all a fake lie. Now imagine having your brain override and you find out it's all fake. So now you deal with that while also going after the people who've done it. It's both intriguing and screwed up all at once. Will Bloodshot be able to get out of the clutches of the people who are using him or forever trapped?

Duane gives a thrilling story of a man who has lost everything. In doing that he pushes to survive and it brings up some stellar fight scenes that can be really brutal. The art is solid and what surprised me the most was the slick fight scenes mixed with solid dialogue and storytelling. It's like if Robocop met a non-stop action movie. A 4 out of 5.

This final arc was a letdown.

Most of this volume takes place with Manhunter hunting down people who kidnap women and kill them. Could be really good but it's pretty boring. The last two issues fair better as it's a huge time skip to show what would become of Manhunter in the future. It's by far the better part of the book but still not great. Overall, decent at best.

House of X made X-Men a MUST read title once more.

The thing is I didn't hate recent X-Men runs. One a few years ago by Bendis was pretty good, I liked some of Taylor's run as well as Astoning X-Men by Soule. I even enjoyed the more recent first half of Rosenberg's run. Saying that, while they were all good, we needed great. The X-men have been down for far too long. Enter Hickman to pick them back up and make them grand again.

Right off the bat the world is set different Xavier, Cyclops, and a lot of other familiar faces stand firm on bringing the X-Men and mutants in general to a new safe haven named Krakoa. But first Xavier sets ground rules. Avengers, fantastic four, and more do not come into their land demanding shit. This is the land of mutants, and they are united like never before. They set out rules though, such as Kill no Human, Respect the land of Krakoa, and the biggest one...Make more Mutants.

Make more mutants? No no no, this isn't a sex story. Though that would be interesting. Then how is Xavier going to create more humans? That is the mystery and when revealed it might make you go "oh shit...that's kind of brilliant."

Why this works well is Hickman's ability to grab the past characters, so many you might relate to or love, and make a compelling story of their future. Instead of creating another dozen or so new mutants we focus on ones already here. The moving forward storyline, filled with sci-fi and politics, keeps this title extremely fresh. The end result with two great artist really helps this series shine.

My only negative is in the Power of X we have a lot of time skips. And in doing so the future storylines might not seem as interesting. Even in the end I didn't love them all but I did love the way it all tied up.

To say Hickman's idea is ambitious alone would be unfair. It's both Ambitious and GREAT. The artwork helps further it into a status that makes this must read for X-Men fans. I don't know what awaits for our favorite mutants but I can't wait. A 4.5 out of 5.

Great follow up to the best volume. This has our hero training with his IBM to become a better warrior. We also get alot of backstory to multiple characters that help them grow into something amazing. Last but not least we find out what happen to a certain somebody and the ending leaves it up to something interesting.

Overall great world building and character development even if the pacing of the plot has slowed.

Another Grant Morrison book I really enjoyed!

The book opens up with a stand alone issue of Xorn trying to help figure out a crime. It's both horrifying, sad, and beautifully done by the end. Then we jump into a main story with some crazy X13 stuff. This is more typical morrison as we get into some weird shit going on here. Last storyline revolves around the young kids, calling themselves the "new x-men" making a stand against their teachers. Magneto might have taught them TOO much. Then we get some drama here and there, the biggest being Scott and Emma affair!

This is Morrison honestly firing on all cylinders. I fucking LOVED the stuff with Xorn here in the first issue plus all his stuff with the special X-Men kids. I also dug the hell out of the rebel kids storyline and shows how powerful the X-Men really are. Oh and the Emma and Scott stuff? Amazing. The only negative is the X13 stuff was just okay.

Overall, great stuff. No wonder this series is held in such high regard. A 4.5 out of 5.

Book 2 as a whole is where Young Justice begins to get its footing.

The story starts off simple enough. The young justice work together to take down underground evil bad guys with the help of Supergirl (Another series Peter David was writing at the time) This turns out some great scenes and funny moments. Then we have a dark story where Arrowlette losses someone close to her. It's both sad and also kind of a nice message on gun control even back then. We also get a story with Red Tornado's kid and wife and it's pretty strong as well to show a more human side to the mentor of the Young Justice. Last we have the team working together to rescue Secret.

Lots of moving pieces here and mostly they all work. The team dynamic is great. The art is bombastic and fun. The humor works for the most part. The serious moments strike hard because they come out of nowhere. I also think the ending leaves a nice little cliffhanger for us. The crossover stuff with supergirl was okay and the "old Justice" team is kind of lame. But overall, this is a solid fun collection of late 90's galore of comics. A 3.5 out of 5. I'll bump it to a 4.

This was okay. Art still great and some wonderful interactions but the whole power in wonder woman to be used as a weapon was eh...meh.

Pretty can't save this series. The art still solid but the story is so bad compared to volume 1. Just loses itself and never returns. A 2 at best and that's cause art is great.

An enjoyable reimagine of one of the coolest vampires every. This is split between seeing Angel's past and what he's done and his current fight against someone using tech to kill people. While the storylines themselves are simple the art and dialogue is strong to make this enjoyable. Will read more!

Interesting story with dark themes and well made characters.

I enjoyed the set up here. It has a family who's in some weird ass business of creating a drug that makes you see the dead. However, someone wants to buy them out. Of course that won't go well and they strike them, killing someone in the family in the process. This causes the family to take it into their own hands.

The art is solid with distinct character designs though the action is lacking and looks a bit stiff. I enjoyed the pacing and story as it's something pretty original though none of the characters really hooked me in. The ending is the best part however, and made me want to read the next volume. A 3 out of 5.