Fun take on the X-Men

Angel has wings of cosmic fire. Finally something cool about this character. The volume is made up of short stories that slowly complexity to each character, but make little change to the status quo. The exception is a new member half-way through the book.The young, time displaced X-Men face Black Tom Cassidy and his sidekick Juggernaut. The fight ends when Beast uses his magical powers to send Juggernaut to hell or something. Then the big reveal - Magneto is guiding this team and, while satisfy...

55% | C+ | Good"And you know we're not playing around because we use codenames"The original X-Men squad, now led by Jean Grey, have teamed up with Magneto in order to fulfil Charles Xavier's dream of a peaceful mutant and human co-existenceFirst thing I need to establish is the fact that I have zero idea what's happening timeline wise. Beast is now a magician and Angel has flaming wings? I've just got to the point where I let it be and don't question it anymore. Apart from the confusing multiver...

Fun but nothing spectacular

I primarily picked this up because of Cullen Bunn, however, I'm not a big fan of the young, original X-Men being in the current timeline. They are teenagers and the book feels that way, which sure, maybe that's a way to bring in new readers to the X-Men universe, but for someone who's read pretty much the entire history of the X-Men, there's isn't of much interest to me here. The team members have already been modified slightly since they've been here, and now after Secret Wars, many of the vill...

Less annoying but more soporific than sister book Gold, this follows the time-displaced younger versions of the original X-Men, though of course given the sliding timeline at Marvel, when exactly they were displaced from seems to vary by the issue (if the age of heroes always started about a decade ago, how come Scott misses old-fashioned barbershops?). They're now secretly working with Magneto, for whom Bunn previously wrote an excellent solo series but here feels very flat, but mainly it's abo...

The All-New, original X-Men get their third reboot. How does Marvel expect any of their readers to keep up with these books when you need a freaking road map to figure out what to read next? I like the idea of Jean leading the team but having the genius scientist Beast learn magic is just stupid. Nothing is explained in the book, why they are working for Magneto, why the Ultimate X-Men pop up after their reality was destroyed in Secret Wars.The art in the book is a mess. Four of the six issues h...

When it comes to Marvel, they have relaunched their bibliography several times in recent years than what DC has done so and although they don’t do a complete clean slate in rebooting their comics universe, there are more #1s on their titles that one can question where to begin. As for the X-Men, I've personally struggled about where to start when wishing to commit to a whole run because there are so many titles, although I chose wisely as my introduction to the mutants was reading Joss Whedon an...

X-Men Gold and X-Men Blue both try to recreate the well-loved Claremont era of the X-Men, when the team were as much heroes fighting villains as they were symbolic icons of oppression (or science-fiction dystopias or whatever). Of the two X-Men Blue is more successful.That's in large part because it tempers its super-hero fights with character. There's considerable attention paid to who these young X-Men are, and how they are growing and changing. It's not all just about hitting the bad guy.Howe...

I really, really like the set-up, concept and tone of this book. It has great artwork, too (apart from #6, which wasn't really a filler issue but certainly felt like one due to the substandard artwork). I think Cullen Bunn has a good handle on these characters and has their voices spot-on. In fact, if it weren't for one thing, this would have been a five star rave review.That one thing?BLOODY PARALLEL UNIVERSES AGAIN!!!I am getting SO SICK of plots that revolve around parallel universes and time...

I have no idea why this X-Men series is called “Blue” and no explanation is given either! One thing’s for sure: Cullen Bunn wrote down a list of things you’d associate with the X-Men and then proceeded to tick them off here. Seriously, this is the most generic, boilerplate X-Men book I’ve ever read. The original, young X-Men from the past (are they ever returning back to their time??) fight Juggernaut in the opening scene. Wendigo and Wolverine fight in the snow before the X-Men fight some Senti...

An even worse poorly written hot-mess.

(3.5) Gulp... Cullen jam packed this lots of action. In comparison, this book has little individual story lines and deal with the x-men as a group and I prefer it this way. The young team is getting a new break after the IVX and I am glad they leave the school and kind of start anew. Lots of big baddies in this book with Juggernaut, Bastion, and a few others which i also liked a lot. Although the Bastion part was pretty silly, " i must save you to...kill you later... oh really?!? Anyways, we als...

The good -- the original five-man (sorry, Marvel Girl) mutant band is back together in all their adolescent glory, spanning the globe to bring readers a constant variety of super-heroics. Sharp uniforms, snappy banter, and lots of teamwork-related 'SHRAKKOW!' (to quote a Cyclops optic blast) action. Lastly, the old-school descriptive 'corner boxes' are back. The best one? Jean Grey's "Team Leader. About Damn Time." Rock on, MG!The bad -- Hank 'Beast' McCoy is dabbling in the mystic arts?! No tha...

Finally finished this, been on my TBR for years, and of course the X-Men latest arcs are somewhat repititions of previous arcs..... I've followed up and read about the time displaced X-Men and adventures in this series gonna be a hoot ..... Will continue reading up on the series, thanks to Comixology Unlimited!

Love the artwork and I'm still digging the team dynamic, but once again the story revolves around the multiverse with alternative versions of the original characters, I've had so much of it since the Secret Wars that I feel nautious everytime I hear the word "timeline" or "multiverse".

Pretty good, actually. Concentrating on just the time displaced original X-Men is a good choice, and the fact that they're secretly working with Magneto is a great twist. But the art is kind of not good. It probably doesn't help that every single issue had a different team on the art. And the introduction of Jimmy Hudson from the Ultimate universe was probably the last thing this book, or the MU as a whole, needed.

Pretty good! So these X-Men comics have been pretty hit or miss for many people, for me I've been really enjoying both titles (Blue & Gold), but both for different reasons. Gold I feel is more for older readers who want a serious comic, where as this this is more for younger readers or readers who just want a fun comic. Overall though I enjoy the stories presented here, I like the fun tone of the book, and I also liked the funny quips they would make that always made me smile! Bunn has written a...

Not a bad start to this X-wide relaunch (yes, another one), following the X-Men vs Inhumans stuff from the last batch of X-books. Cullen Bunn sets up a number of threads that I'm interested in seeing play out, including the appearance of some other Ultimate Universe characters that have been dumped in the 616 following Hickman's Secret Wars. There's also a nice old-school vibe here, which I had fun with.