Your superpower - explode...and you don't come back.Such a great premise but horrible conclusion. I really wanted to love this one.

I really want a X-Men comic with Miranda as the main protag! I want it! But anyways, I really did enjoy this little jaunt though the X-Men universe.

Bailey is an ordinary high school kid who doesn’t fit in anywhere - until he discovers he’s really a mutant and belongs in the X-Men! Except his power is to explode. Once. And he can’t re-form, he just dies. He’s basically a suicide bomber who doesn’t need to strap on any explosives. So.... pretty much a worthless mutant power. Worst X-Man Ever! Max Bemis and Michael Walsh’s book isn’t bad but it’s also nothing special. It’s accessible to new readers as it exists outside of continuity as a stand...

Bailey is an ordinary teenager who wishes to be something more, to stand out in some way. He's ecstatic to find out he might be a mutant until he discovers his powers. He can make himself blow up...once. He's basically a suicide bomber. So he tags along as an intern for the gazillion X-Men teams. Then he meets a fellow mutant who makes people forget things and that's where things start to get meta. She's basically Marvel's editorial department imagined as a mutant.The Good: The series is interes...

Writer Max Bemis uses this book to make a few comments about the world of the X-Men (and occasionally the larger Marvel universe and the superhero genre in general), not by having his characters break the fourth wall but by having the events of the story itself do it instead.The result is one of the most 'meta' comicbooks I've ever read... and it's a damned funny one too. If you've been reading superhero comics for a while (or, as in my case, what seems like forever) you can't help but be a litt...

This is a lot better than I was expecting it to be. It explores the X-Men from an outside perspective and adds a nice underlying tone of meta commentary. Unfortunately, I don't think it's quite as smart or well executed as it thinks it is. Many plot points seem to lead nowhere, and there are big pacing issues that are further let down by the ultimate payoff which seems extremely rushed and somewhat undeserved. I also feel like pre-established X-Men aren't interpreted correctly and act out of cha...

This was quite entertaining for what it was: a satirical take on comics - more specifically on X-comics. Bemis introduces Bailey, a new character, who discovers that he is a mutant, like he always wanted! Unfortunately the power he has isn't quite what he dreamed of. I liked this because it was different in an entertaining way. It's not a comic I will buy, but I'm glad I read it.

After LOVING Max's take on Foolkiller I decided to try Max's other Marvel work. Worst X-Man Ever is a spin-off, or elseworld, where a boy finds out what his mutant power is. After having nothing special about him he's ready to explode into the world of the X-men! Except his power is exploding...as in BOOM but then he dies...like that's it. So he works with the X-Men, mostly the new kids, trying to help even though his power has nothing to do with it. Good: I really enjoyed the start and thought

A surprisingly clever little limited series! A young mutant with the worse power ever (he can only use it once, and if he does he dies). The story plays around the idea of how his power makes him an outsider among the outsiders. Nice concept, some great comedic moments and good art 7 out of 12.

I liked the premise of this story: a kid with a one-time only terrible power feels just as useless as an X-Man as he did an average teenager, the story just didn't go anywhere. It neither created a really cool elseworld environment, nor exposed any tropes with satire, nor was funny. An Alanis Morisette Ironic joke? In 2016? None of the characters, except possibly Beast behaved like they would in any other book. Not a single person used their power intelligently. It was a five issue miniseries wi...

Well, this whole thing was a weird idea, a cool idea also. 2,5/5. It could have been really good but it wasn't really, it wasn't horrible or baaaad but it wasn't good. I just liked the end but I'm still not sure what to think about it. Also please stop introducing characters that are kinda fat by showing them eating biscuits, that's really disrespectful.

Better than I'd thought it would be. It's very silly, and the joke was getting too long towards the end, but it is a pretty good joke. And there are some great scenes that aren't even trying to be funny, and those make the book.

"...There's not really a point to any of it Bailey. Just to do a bit of good while we can."Surprisingly, kinda liked this a lot. Maybe a 3.5?I liked the *wink wink nudge nudge* jokes at the X-Men's expense. I like the fact that our protagonist is a bit of fanboy, that he yearns to be a mutant, to be special and different (is he really just us, the readers?), but discovers he has the worst powers ever. He becomes a non-combatant X-Men, and is completely useless, and hated, and gets sued. It's an

I mostly liked this - there's some clever metacommentary on superheroes in general and the various X-Men teams in particular, and some genuine laugh-out-loud moments (like when the main character Bailey interns with X-Force), but it trails off a bit in the 4th and 5th issues. Maybe could have / should have been a tighter 4 issue series than a padded 5, but whatever, it was still pretty fun.

This really picks up on all the x-men tropes and pokes fun of them.

This book had a lot of twist and turns!!! Very good read about wanting to be more.

Fans of the X-Men will enjoy this comic dig at the ridiculous powers some heroes have had throughout the history of Marvel comics.

A young man wants to be different, and he gets his wish--he's a mutant! But his mutant power is one use only, ala the Daffy Duck gig with the gunpowder and the dynamite. He's the worst X-Man ever in this mini-series that isn't actually a story--it's a collection of inside, snarky jokes about the X-Men.The story is that Bailey desperately wants to be special, and his attempts keep failing until he musters the confidence to lose himself. If it weren't buried in gags like Wolverine having "Slim not...

"I don't know how we even get away with calling this a school! It's more like a Hogwarts for future dead people". A sly, but I think still loving, piss-take of the ridiculousness of superhero comics in general and the X-Men in particular, all told through the lens of one poor kid with the worst mutant power ever (yes, even worse than Maggott's): he can explode. Once. And then he'll be dead, because he exploded. Which would have been plenty for a lot of writers new to comics (Bemis' day job is si...

This book asks a question that I frequently asked myself when I was younger. If there is a world where there are mutants and all kinds of variations of powers, there must be some people that get stuck with weird and/or useless powers right?Things like, the ability to grow your hair quickly! The ability to change color, but only in the dark! The ability to create massive amounts of mucous! You know stuff like that. And this book totally runs with that idea with characters that has the ability to