And in here we do get stories ranging from a day out with a father, to a new baddie all about the environment, to meeting with the nations on how to settle matters involving mutants from now on, to even speaking up on what happened in House of X and Power of X. Could make some readers jump off if they don't like 1 or 2 of the stories. The idea of this first 'arc' of basically telling 6 individual stories is a bit risky. The main X-Men series is now HERE and it is written by Hickman! Are we ready? Yu's long time inker Gerry Alanguilan died in the midst of these issues so Yu certainly deserves a pass for not keeping up. It's not even noticeable given the solo issue stories involve. There are two fill in artists, RB Silva from HoxPox and Matteo Buffagni, who fill in admirably. The stories are all focused on the current mission and that's it. You also aren't going to get much character progression here. Hickman has a larger endgame and it comes in fits and pieces, but the book does feel disjointed at times. Sometimes, it feels like they run out of money and time and here's what we are left with. While very well written, the issues can be frustrating because you often only get part of a story with the rest filled in by a text page.

Mutants have humanity very scared right now and various factions are looking to exterminate all mutants. Hickman follows up the brilliant HoxPox with a series of vignettes, each issue either introducing or bringing back an old threat to mutantkind.

After that, the book goes back to the thought provoking storytelling we experienced in HoX/PoX, with some more world building, the introduction of new villains, and new political developments, the fourth issue is a masterpiece, Cyclops, Xavier and Magneto are all really well written, about time someone respect these characters.Īrtwise, I wish Pepe Larraz was still on board, but Leinil Francis Yu's style is growing on me, feels similar to the art they used on Hickman's Avengers, it's not my favorite, but works with his writing. It starts out episodic, with most of the focus on Scott Summers, rightly so, as no other character have been so pivotal to the mutants story, he needed to get a proper fan boost after the crap he got from Marvel these last years, he basically became Marvel's favorite punch-bag ever since Bendis finished his run, so starting out the series with Cyke spending some quality time with his family was a really good decision. Straight from the pages of Hox/PoX, one of my favorite Marvel books ever, the main X-Men series gets the relaunch it deserves, and if you ever read a comic series by Jonathan Hickman, you know everything is planned and he's gonna take his time to get to the big stuff, this first volume is no different.

X men by jonathan hickman vol 1