The X-Force stuff is great; I loved the Kyle/Yost run, with Clayton Crain art. I'd give those parts 4 stars. However, some of the extras leave a little to be desired, thus dragging down the whole. Especially at a cover price of $39.99, you'd expect this to be better.

The first time around, I found X-Necrosha way too hard to understand because its deep, deep continuity. The second time around, I was able to enjoy the story more. It's only drawback was the artwork going overly murky at times [8/10]. The New Mutants bit was also quite good [8/10]. The Legacy/Proteus story is unfortunately largely a big fight, though it's got some nice character bits here and there [6/10]. The Indra & Cuckoo story that finishes off the Legacy inclusion is much more interesting,

Great main story, mediocre tie ins.The main story is awesome. X-Force and New X-Men had been hinting to some hardcore Selene shit, and this is where it finally pays off big time. She’s a fascinating and evil as fuck villainess and the entire drama that unfolds is satisfying and thrilling.The tie ins? Meh. The New Mutants shit is snoozy. The X-Men Legacy stuff has its ups and downs.Necrosha: The Gathering is fun and provides some backstory. Maybe it should have been in the beginning?? Also, there...

What a mess - Kyle & Crain's mainline story should be mind-blowing, visually-stunning stuff but it's sloppy writing (I don't know who or what is going on) and bloody murky art (every action scene is impossible to decipher what just happened, too much black - like low-budget horror - and half the scenes I can't tell who is who). If that's the premier story in this arc, they should've sent it back to the minors for retraining. The X-Force story finally ends well, but it sure took it's sweet time g...

3.5 stars. I must say the Necrosha #1 and the X-force issues were my favorite. If this book was just that story, it would easily get 4 or more stars. Love the build up, Clayton Crains art and seeing the X-force really get tested on if they could get the job done. Loved the back and forth between the characters especially Vanisher. The New Mutants stuff was pretty good as well. I liked what they did with Cypher and Warlok. Then we have Carey’s X-men Legacy. This was the weak link of the book. I c...

Necrosha is such a strange event. I decided to bind it within my Matt Fraction X-Men bind, but it doesn't really belong there at all. I've already put the X-Men Legacy issues in my XML bind, and the New Mutants issues in my NM bind. That left the core X-Force story and the various side stories needing a place to go. The rest of X-Force is in official oversize hardcovers, so it can't go "with" those in any meaningful way. And it does incorporate the X-Men on Utopia. But it's still quite the tonal...

This book was primarily a big editing fail. The choices made putting this particular book together ignored the idea of there being an understandable story and without redundancies. Though there is an assumption that somewhere published elsewhere something makes this story make sense. Otherwise the book was dark and muddy and hard to follow. And when we finally saw the arc showing Selene recruiting some of her minions, it was hard to believe. The Deadpool story at the end was kind of fun. But re-...

The X-Force stuff, which really runs this event is pretty good. It could have used a little more space at the finale to explain what exactly was going on, and it was pretty choppy due to the order in which this volume is collected, but it's good.The New Mutants storyline is pretty weak.The Legacy story is pretty good, but only tangentially related to the Necrosha plot. Under than happening contemporaneously, there's really no reason it goes here.There's a lot of backup stuff of varying quality,

Jesus god did this collection suck! And it was $25 too! Frowny face. The first part is a continuation of the main X-Force story, and it was such an anticlimactic climax I could barely give it 3 stars. Very blah. (view spoiler)[Selene basically succeeds in becoming a goddess and is almost immediately killed by Warpath and his mystical knife thingy. Lame. (hide spoiler)] Anyway, then there’s this boring story about Muir Island with Magneto, Rogue, and Proteus. And then there’s this other boring st...

The story itself isn’t bad, but the way it’s arranged in this compilation is absurd. The last issue in the volume tells the story of how Selene put together her crew. The first set of issues tells you the end of the story arc. In the middle, you have some stuff about Rogue training newbies, which doesn’t really fit in with what the overall compilation is supposed to be about. Whoever put this together was a tool who couldn’t even grasp basic chronology. Oh, and the art in most of it is sketchy A...

I didn't particularly like the concept behind this story as I'm not a fan of resurrection as a plot device. If you don't let dead characters stay dead then death loses all its impact.Having said this, there were some really nice character moments to be had here. Unfortunately, there was some real crap, too. The same goes for the artwork, sadly.Honestly, I think they stretched this story out too much by having it encompass nineteen issues. Six issues would have been fine... nine, tops.

The Black Queen finally gets a good story. For years, the Hellfire Club has been used as "just another band of villains". It's surprising it took this long for someone to come along and really create something unique with one of the background players. Craig Kyle and Christopher Yost do a great job with the story for X-Force and while the New Mutants portion falls a bit flat, seeing the Hellions and Thunderbird come back (even for a lil bit) is a lot of fun. I should also point out that while Ma...

I like how they did this X-Crossover. With all the X-Titles dealing with the same big bad but you don't have to jump from book to book to book. You can just read each book straight through. The Black Queen, Selene, is back and she's resurrected a ton of dead mutants and X-Villains from the past, all under her control. It's like The Blackest Night for the X-Men. Clayton Crain's art is hit and miss for me. Often it's great. The problem is he uses way too much black and it obscures the art. It's li...

4.5 StarsSo the X-Force part of this story was a solid 5 stars like the rest of the run has been. The other stories not quite as good.One thing odd about this particular volume is how the issues are presented out of order. The main part of the story are the X-Force issues including the big ending, but those are the first issues in the collection. Once you read the first half of the collection, you know how everything ends and then the rest is stuff you learn after the fact. The last thing in the...

Re-read 2018Ok, so this is the more complete version of the Necrosha event than what you'll get in Vol 4 of the X-Force. And while I didn't realize it the first time around, those other stories from the New Mutants and X-men are really an important part of what made this a good compilation. Now, I did still find the non-X-Force stuff at the end less interesting than the main storyline. But I found it more interesting than I originally did.If that makes sense? My biggest criticism would be that t...

I felt they could have ordered the comics a bit differently. I guess I'm used to the format of spreading the story out over the course of the whole volume, but rather in this case they kept it more contained to each comic arc that was associated with the event.So you read the event, then backtracked and went through the event from the X-Men and X-Force teams respectively, and then finished with the tie-in.Doing it in this way helped keep each storyline more succinct and less chaotic than if they...

You know how when you watched Pulp Fiction for the first time it was fun that the movie messed with the chronological order of events so you could have one more scene with Samuel L Jackson and John Travolta? Remember how great that was? This collection is the exact opposite. Issues are out of order from the event's chronology for no real reason I can see. The "Selene's getting the death themed gang together" issue comes at the end after the event is over for no reason I could understand and the

FULL REVIEW - https://youtu.be/vdZNfzCrnlETwo Average and One Good Story with a Funny Little Annual to Close Things OutOVERALL RATING: 2.75 starsArt: 3.25 starsProse: 3 starsPlot: 2.5 starsPacing: 3.25 starsCharacter Development: 2.75 starsWorld Building: 2.5 starsFor starters I am a big fan of Crane's art but it didn't work here. It was too dark and was hard to follow what was going on in the X-Force pages. Otherwise the art was fine. The highlight run was the least important written by Zeb Wel...

I really enjoyed this book even though the layout is awful. The story isn’t laid out in chronological order. There’s a Necrosha Chronology diagram at the beginning of the book but I took the liberty of outlining a better suggested reading order with the help of comicbookreadingorders.com. There’s a lot of jumping around but I felt doing the work really enhanced the overall story. 1. X-Force #112. New X-Men #323. Necrosha: The Gathering #14. New Mutants #6 (begin reading after the X-Force #25 var...