Reviews

Astonishing X-Men, Vol. 2: A Man Called X by Charles Soule

crookedtreehouse's review against another edition

2.0

If you're going to use the astral plane to tell a story, it better have some cool art and some interesting story twists. The highlight of this collection was the panel layouts for issue #6. Everything else was pretty paint-by-numbers. The team isn't a very interesting combination of characters, and the Professor X/Fantomex idea is intriguing, but doesn't live up to the concept.

It does keep it consistent that Astonishing X-Men has been a solid disappointment since Joss Whedon left the title. It gets a little staler with every new team incarnation.

I don't recommend it for anyone who isn't a continuity buff, curious about where X comes from.

antsneversleep's review against another edition

3.0

2.5 Not nearly as good as the first volume.

lillian_francis's review against another edition

3.0

Some really messy storytelling and those double page spreads were just as bad, almost impossible to follow. The artwork suffered from being done by different artists in each issue, it gave the overall effect as a mish mash of quality and styles.

squidbag's review against another edition

3.0

A worthy follow up to the first one, and I like (like? is that the word, here?) the addition of the character "X" who might be Xavier's mind in Fantomex's body? We're not sure yet. I enjoyed the recall of old villains like the Shadow King (who of course is on Legion right now) and Proteus, who does that good villain thing where they make some excellent points. Could have done without the "artist of the month" plan on this, though. Soule writes good X-Men.