I’ll start this review on a positive note. This issue is penciled by Yanick Paquette and his art is very refreshing, yet gritty at the same time. I personally like his interpretation of characters and I loved his time on Ultimate X-Men.
Unfortunately, his artwork could not lower my annoyance with other aspects of the comic book. I’m really sick of seeing the same X-Titles and names recycled. Come on, you know what I mean! This book has an entirely new roster of mutants, but they call themselves the “Young X-Men” which I hate. In the recent years, there has been Young X-Men, New X-Men(with Nightcrawler, Stacy X, etc), New X-Men (random students at the academy that Frost threw together), New Exiles, and the list can go on forever. This isn’t just X-Titles, this is across Comic-dom and SUPER irritating. If the roster is mostly, if not completely different, and the concept is different please choose another title for the book/team!
Also, what’s going on with these characters? Two of these characters I’ve never heard of before and normally that would be fine. After reading the issue through, I still don’t know their powers, back story or not even their damn names. This issue doesn’t even explain why he’s putting together a team of X-Men and NOT using the senior members to face the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. What is Cyclops’s plan? For right now, this book makes very little sense, the characters are bigger enigmas than in any other first issue of a comic and there still hasn’t been an explanation of where two more mutants came from, if no more can be born. Hopefully issue #2 will be much better and will give the readers something to be excited about for this title. At least the new X-Force has a lot of blood and guts flying!
@~~~~~~~}~~~~ Devin Peacock
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