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X-Men Blue (Collected Editions)
X-Men Blue, Vol. 4: Cry Havok
After the X-Men's cross time capers and harrowing exploits in Mojo Worldwide, the team needs to regroup because what's in store for them is bigger and more daunting than ever!
COLLECTING: X-MEN BLUE 23-28
COLLECTING: X-MEN BLUE 23-28
144 pages, Paperback
First published July 25, 2018
About the author
Cullen Bunn
2,098 books1,070 followersCullen grew up in rural North Carolina, but now lives in the St. Louis area with his wife Cindy and his son Jackson. His noir/horror comic (and first collaboration with Brian Hurtt), The Damned, was published in 2007 by Oni Press. The follow-up, The Damned: Prodigal Sons, was released in 2008. In addition to The Sixth Gun, his current projects include Crooked Hills, a middle reader horror prose series from Evileye Books; The Tooth, an original graphic novel from Oni Press; and various work for Marvel and DC. Somewhere along the way, Cullen founded Undaunted Press and edited the critically acclaimed small press horror magazine, Whispers from the Shattered Forum.
All writers must pay their dues, and Cullen has worked various odd jobs, including Alien Autopsy Specialist, Rodeo Clown, Professional Wrestler Manager, and Sasquatch Wrangler.
And, yes, he has fought for his life against mountain lions and he did perform on stage as the World's Youngest Hypnotist. Buy him a drink sometime, and he'll tell you all about it.
Visit his website at www.cullenbunn.com.
All writers must pay their dues, and Cullen has worked various odd jobs, including Alien Autopsy Specialist, Rodeo Clown, Professional Wrestler Manager, and Sasquatch Wrangler.
And, yes, he has fought for his life against mountain lions and he did perform on stage as the World's Youngest Hypnotist. Buy him a drink sometime, and he'll tell you all about it.
Visit his website at www.cullenbunn.com.
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August 31, 2023
Bastion, Havoc, Emma Frost and Miss Sinister and their allies are set to bring a new golden age of mutants using Ultimate Universe tech, Mothervine! But they should have read the small print as all is not what it seems... only Magneto and his New X-Men Gold team can stop them? They hope!
A very nice footnote to the Ultimate universe and a nice way too bring back some 'lost' characters and further move on the Alex Summers /Havoc story. Although a 'big event' too much happens to quickly to make it a good story. It felt like 12 issues squashed into 6 which ultimately does a disservice to the plot (which is pretty good), character development and book itself! 6.5 out of 12, rushed Three Star read.
2019 read
A very nice footnote to the Ultimate universe and a nice way too bring back some 'lost' characters and further move on the Alex Summers /Havoc story. Although a 'big event' too much happens to quickly to make it a good story. It felt like 12 issues squashed into 6 which ultimately does a disservice to the plot (which is pretty good), character development and book itself! 6.5 out of 12, rushed Three Star read.
2019 read
September 4, 2018
I was amazed at how much I liked this book with the original X-Men off in space with Venom. They're virtually nonexistent in the book outside a few pages where they are trying to fix Danger. Once the emphasis shifts to Magneto and Polaris I was instantly interested. Polaris puts together a new team to help stop Havok, Emma Frost, Miss Sinister, and Bastion from deploying the Mothervine virus that will turn normal people into mutants and give mutants secondary mutations. Yes, it's all very convoluted and there's way too many mutants from Ultimate X-Men running around this earth now. But the stakes felt legible and the book had more of the feel it did back when Matt Fraction was writing the X-Men. Maybe the lost in time X-Men can just stay lost in space?
December 8, 2018
While the time-displaced teen X-Men are lost in space with Danger and Venom, Polaris puts together a new team featuring a bunch of characters I don’t much care for to fight a bunch of baddies including her currently-evil ex, Havok.
It was OK. The artwork was nice. The fact that the only characters I actually like in this book were Polaris, Havok and Magneto didn’t help, though.
Also, can we get rid of all these third-rate characters left over from the Ultimate universe already? We especially don’t need yet another Wolverine running around, for goodness’ sake...
It was OK. The artwork was nice. The fact that the only characters I actually like in this book were Polaris, Havok and Magneto didn’t help, though.
Also, can we get rid of all these third-rate characters left over from the Ultimate universe already? We especially don’t need yet another Wolverine running around, for goodness’ sake...
January 31, 2022
65% | B- | Great
"It's about time you learned why I'm called The Queen"
It's kind of ironic that this is the best volume in the series when the core five barely even feature in it. In fact, the sections with the 'actual X-Men' are the most boring parts, especially since I didn't put myself through volume 3.5 which is a Venom crossover of some kind. Magneto and his new X-Men team? Absolutely awesome. They might not be the most conventional bunch, but they are still a fun team with a far more chaotic dynamic than the original squad. As usual, Emma Frost is absolutely killing the game when it comes to classy one-liners and sass. It's such an improvement from the previous volume that it's managed to pull the series from the gutter and into something enjoyable again.
"It's about time you learned why I'm called The Queen"
Mothervine is underway, and the wellbeing of both the mutant and human populations are at risk. Magneto and his new team of X-Men have made it their mission to save their species, but despite their best efforts, Mothervine gets launched and now it's only a matter of if they fighting a fight that's already been lost
It's kind of ironic that this is the best volume in the series when the core five barely even feature in it. In fact, the sections with the 'actual X-Men' are the most boring parts, especially since I didn't put myself through volume 3.5 which is a Venom crossover of some kind. Magneto and his new X-Men team? Absolutely awesome. They might not be the most conventional bunch, but they are still a fun team with a far more chaotic dynamic than the original squad. As usual, Emma Frost is absolutely killing the game when it comes to classy one-liners and sass. It's such an improvement from the previous volume that it's managed to pull the series from the gutter and into something enjoyable again.
July 13, 2018
[Read as single issues]
While the X-Men are away, Magneto will play, and he plays for keeps. With his team in space dealing with the events of Poison X, Magneto sets his sights on the alliance of villains that have plagued him and his team for months – Emma Frost, Havok, Bastion, and Miss Sinister. But when they launch their own counterattack and bring their Mothervine program to fruition, Magneto will need a whole new team of X-Men to save him, whether he likes it or not.
It’s strange that removing the main characters of the series can improve this book so much. Or maybe it’s just that after Poison-X I don’t want to see another bloody symbiote again. The shift of focus to Magneto and Polaris is great though, and it’s nice to see a sense of time for the series rather than just the X-Men getting back right away as if nothing happened. Although this could be a result of the X-Men being missing acting as a plot point in Venomized, but either way I’m glad it’s addressed. We do get a few pages here and there of the team in space trying to fix Danger, which aren’t strictly necessary but remind us what the team’s up to while Magneto’s making a hash of it back on Earth.
I’m all for big alliances of supervillains, and any story involving Emma Frost instantly gets a boost for me, so this ticks a lot of boxes. It deals with her ‘villainy’ since Death Of X, and addresses Havok’s heel turn from Axis, so you can’t fault Bunn for dealing with complicated continuity. Bastion’s a bit of a non-event, and Miss Sinister is the driving force for the plot here as Mothervine runs rampant and their little alliance all falls apart. There’s also a surprise appearance by another X-Men foe we haven’t seen in a while, and pitting her against Polaris is a nice touch.
Speaking of Polaris, it’s up to her to recruit the new X-Men team, and it’s not really a surprise to see who they are, since it’s all characters we’ve previously seen in the series. Some of them haven’t made a massive impact, but it’s fun to see lesser known characters take the stage and manage to do a decent job of solving the problem, even if it’s Magneto that does most of the heavy lifting.
On the art front, Jorge Molina returns for a few issues, which is always a pleasure since he’s definitely the best of the rotating X-Men Blue stable, although R.B Silva and Marcus To also appear and neither of them are any slouch. This is probably one of the strongest visual volumes of X-Men Blue since the first, I think.
X-Men Blue manages to regain some good favour after Poison-X with a cracking story with unexpected leads and what feels like the culmination of quite a lot of plotlines, as well as laying the groundwork for some more appearances by Emma Frost and Havok later down the line.
While the X-Men are away, Magneto will play, and he plays for keeps. With his team in space dealing with the events of Poison X, Magneto sets his sights on the alliance of villains that have plagued him and his team for months – Emma Frost, Havok, Bastion, and Miss Sinister. But when they launch their own counterattack and bring their Mothervine program to fruition, Magneto will need a whole new team of X-Men to save him, whether he likes it or not.
It’s strange that removing the main characters of the series can improve this book so much. Or maybe it’s just that after Poison-X I don’t want to see another bloody symbiote again. The shift of focus to Magneto and Polaris is great though, and it’s nice to see a sense of time for the series rather than just the X-Men getting back right away as if nothing happened. Although this could be a result of the X-Men being missing acting as a plot point in Venomized, but either way I’m glad it’s addressed. We do get a few pages here and there of the team in space trying to fix Danger, which aren’t strictly necessary but remind us what the team’s up to while Magneto’s making a hash of it back on Earth.
I’m all for big alliances of supervillains, and any story involving Emma Frost instantly gets a boost for me, so this ticks a lot of boxes. It deals with her ‘villainy’ since Death Of X, and addresses Havok’s heel turn from Axis, so you can’t fault Bunn for dealing with complicated continuity. Bastion’s a bit of a non-event, and Miss Sinister is the driving force for the plot here as Mothervine runs rampant and their little alliance all falls apart. There’s also a surprise appearance by another X-Men foe we haven’t seen in a while, and pitting her against Polaris is a nice touch.
Speaking of Polaris, it’s up to her to recruit the new X-Men team, and it’s not really a surprise to see who they are, since it’s all characters we’ve previously seen in the series. Some of them haven’t made a massive impact, but it’s fun to see lesser known characters take the stage and manage to do a decent job of solving the problem, even if it’s Magneto that does most of the heavy lifting.
On the art front, Jorge Molina returns for a few issues, which is always a pleasure since he’s definitely the best of the rotating X-Men Blue stable, although R.B Silva and Marcus To also appear and neither of them are any slouch. This is probably one of the strongest visual volumes of X-Men Blue since the first, I think.
X-Men Blue manages to regain some good favour after Poison-X with a cracking story with unexpected leads and what feels like the culmination of quite a lot of plotlines, as well as laying the groundwork for some more appearances by Emma Frost and Havok later down the line.
December 27, 2019
This penultimate chapter in Cullen Bunn’s X-Men Blue focuses on this series’ overarching Mothervine plotline and Magneto’s attempts to stop the trio of mutant masterminds behind it. The issues in this volume take place concurrently with the events of Poison-X, so with Jean Grey’s team stuck in space with Venom, Magneto is forced to rely on Jimmy Hudson, son of the Ultimate Universe’s Wolverine, displaced from his reality and stuck in the 616 in the wake of Hickman’s Secret Wars, and an alternate universe vampire Storm. Can I just say how awesome Bloodstorm is? I love her and she’s an awesome addition to Blue’s roster, so huge props to Bunn for drawing her into all this madness. Hudson’s inclusion has also been a surprising amount of fun over the course of this series, too, and Bunn did a fine job of making his presence particularly relevant to the plot. Knowing that the next volume is this series’s last, I’m especially curious to see what happens with these two characters in particular, especially since the fate of the Original 5 is a given (although the journey is still a bit of a mystery).
November 22, 2020
This was a amazing story and the art work was amazing as well! I’m sad that Jean is still assumed dead. I didn’t care for how they were explaining how mutants got their second mutation from another mothervirse.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
October 2, 2018
Cullen Bunn's not a bad author, and Cry Havok shows what he could have done if the entire X-Men creative team hadn't been shackled by editorial mandate since Secret Wars.
It's in part that he gets to put together a good team, with a story that focuses on Magneto, Polaris, and Jimmy Hudson. The X-kids weren't bad either, but no one else has managed to write them with the heart of Brian Michael Bendis. Bunn's new team comes across much better, with all kinds of interesting subplots scattered around.
But it's also because Bunn focuses on a better story than the shallowness that was endemic throughout post-Secret Wars X-Men. We've got a team of classic villains, including Emma Frost, who gets her first nuanced characterization in years. (And Havok!? Really? He's the only person in the universe still inverted?) Then we've got the idea of using the mutation from the Ultimate universe to create new mutations on 616 The result is a fun story, heavy with continuity, and thus pushing many old plot threads forward.
The fights in Cry Havok go on too long, and the parts with the original 5 are sort of dull, but otherwise this is one of the strongest volumes of the core X-Men comics since before Secret Wars (almost, but not quite reaching the level of the newer X-Men Red, Vol. 1: The Hate Machine).
It's in part that he gets to put together a good team, with a story that focuses on Magneto, Polaris, and Jimmy Hudson. The X-kids weren't bad either, but no one else has managed to write them with the heart of Brian Michael Bendis. Bunn's new team comes across much better, with all kinds of interesting subplots scattered around.
But it's also because Bunn focuses on a better story than the shallowness that was endemic throughout post-Secret Wars X-Men. We've got a team of classic villains, including Emma Frost, who gets her first nuanced characterization in years. (And Havok!? Really? He's the only person in the universe still inverted?) Then we've got the idea of using the mutation from the Ultimate universe to create new mutations on 616 The result is a fun story, heavy with continuity, and thus pushing many old plot threads forward.
The fights in Cry Havok go on too long, and the parts with the original 5 are sort of dull, but otherwise this is one of the strongest volumes of the core X-Men comics since before Secret Wars (almost, but not quite reaching the level of the newer X-Men Red, Vol. 1: The Hate Machine).
January 8, 2019
What was the Axis event? Who are Polaris, Alex, and Emma to each other romantically? Why is there another Xorn? All questions you kind of have to already know going into this arc to even be able to follow it...which I didn't. Look, it's not that I want my comics spoon-fed to me but Bunn either bounces around from arcs that are just basically carbon copies of another to ones that are so heavily dependent on prior knowledge it is difficult to read. Want a great Bunn Book? Pick up The Sixth Gun or Harrow county, because they shine so much better than this.
July 22, 2018
El volumen es relativamente interesante. Trata de lo que sucede mientras los X-Men del pasado están en su aventura espacial con Venom (volumen anterior y Venomized).
En esta ocasión Lorna (Polaris) reúne un equipo con algunos digamos mutantes desplazados como Daken y Jimmy Hudson, ambos hijos de Wolverine. El asunto principal es lo que más llama la atención. Mothervine es un producto realizado a partir justamente de Jimmy en el mundo en el cual vivía, que tiene una propiedad de despertar a mutantes o en todo caso convertir humanos en mutantes. Y esa sustancia será usada por el Hellfire Club para causar problemas, que a su vez está constituido por Emma Frost, Havok y Miss Sinister.
En esta ocasión Lorna (Polaris) reúne un equipo con algunos digamos mutantes desplazados como Daken y Jimmy Hudson, ambos hijos de Wolverine. El asunto principal es lo que más llama la atención. Mothervine es un producto realizado a partir justamente de Jimmy en el mundo en el cual vivía, que tiene una propiedad de despertar a mutantes o en todo caso convertir humanos en mutantes. Y esa sustancia será usada por el Hellfire Club para causar problemas, que a su vez está constituido por Emma Frost, Havok y Miss Sinister.
October 16, 2018
Bunn's moving of the original X-men into plot limbo with the Venom crossover seems to free him to develop Polaris and second-string team for X-men Blue in ways that really work for the book. While X-Men: Red seems to be developing a new take on a classic X-men feel and X-men: Gold seems to be all over the place, this colored X-team seems to be interested in dealing with dynamics between classic characters like Havok acting as villains. Clearly building towards the events of X-men Black with Magneto, the supervillains are returning to ambiguous villainy again and the clearly villainous such as Ms. Sinister and Bastion being clearly villainous. It is strange how improved things are with the focus of the book changing even considering that Bunn's book was among the stronger of the recent X-team books.
May 18, 2019
This was a good volume with a lot going on. We had the evil cabal of Havok, White Queen, Lady Sinister, and Bastion attempting to turn most of the world into mutants they can control, but of course they all have ulterior motives. The original X-Men are still lost in space with Venom. Lorna gets possessed by a familiar entity. And more. I have to say the writer (and editor I suppose) did a good job of holding thing together even then there were a lot of characters and setting involved. X-Men stories aren't known for definitive endings, but there's at least a decent conclusion here as well. One of the better volumes in my opinion.
June 22, 2019
2 1/2. For some reason the alternate original X men are in space with Venom and it's not being told in their own title. Instead, we get a power struggle between Magneto and Havok that amounts to nothing.
October 6, 2018
Great volume. Definitely one of my favourites so far of the x-Men blue run. Kept up the pace, high stakes, entertaining and saw some characters we haven't seen/come across in a while!!
May 4, 2026
With the original team out in space - Magneto assembles a new team just in time to combat Ms. Sinister and her crew.
It kind of felt like Cullen Bunn was spinning a lot of plates in this one - as the story feels fractured and stressed at times. Between explaining Mothervine, explaining the new team and how they came to be, where the old team is, Havok's inversion, Emma's secret plotting... there was a lot going on in this one! However Bunn does manage to keep it somewhat cohesive and make it an interesting story as well. And while the plot can teeter on the edge of collapse in time, this was still an entertaining volume that delivered on some of the plot points that were teased in earlier volumes.
It seems that we are definitely headed towards the end of this particular X-Men era - as things are starting to feel very "final". Im looking forward to where Bunn takes us from here, and of course - how the time displaced X-Men storyline will finally resolve.
It kind of felt like Cullen Bunn was spinning a lot of plates in this one - as the story feels fractured and stressed at times. Between explaining Mothervine, explaining the new team and how they came to be, where the old team is, Havok's inversion, Emma's secret plotting... there was a lot going on in this one! However Bunn does manage to keep it somewhat cohesive and make it an interesting story as well. And while the plot can teeter on the edge of collapse in time, this was still an entertaining volume that delivered on some of the plot points that were teased in earlier volumes.
It seems that we are definitely headed towards the end of this particular X-Men era - as things are starting to feel very "final". Im looking forward to where Bunn takes us from here, and of course - how the time displaced X-Men storyline will finally resolve.
January 14, 2019
An okay Bunn x-men story, which mean he's getting better.
A shame that the whole purpose was retconning Havoc switch to the dark side.
A shame that the whole purpose was retconning Havoc switch to the dark side.
September 8, 2018
Kind of befuddling. Any old psychic can undo Axis? Malice from the Ultimate Universe? Jimmy Hudson AND Daken?
I think there just might be too many stories here.
Also, Havok has been controlled by an evil Havok before, right? And why are they holding off on having him meet Bloodstorm?
I think there just might be too many stories here.
Also, Havok has been controlled by an evil Havok before, right? And why are they holding off on having him meet Bloodstorm?
June 1, 2018
i just really miss the days when emma was leading the team
September 16, 2019
Ai que saborzinho de nostalgia tem esse gibi! Nham, nham, nham. Lembra todas as vezes que a equipe principal dos X-Men teve um contratempo, estava no espaço, fora do tempo, foi capturada ou teve que ir no banheiro por infecção alimentar e teve de ser substituída por uma equipe B e temporária. Os leitores de longa data provavelmente vão sentir esse saborzinho de Novos Mutantes, X-Men da Ilha Muir e outros nessa edição, os mais novos não sei se vão entender a homenagem. A Panini Comics resolveu publicar os dois últimos arcos de X-Men Blue em encadernados separados para dar prioridade para X-Men Gold na revista mensal. Isso porque os títulos mutante estão extremamente atrasados em relação aos demais títulos Marvel. Viram a falta que faz uma revista X-Men Extra? Pois é, Geração X e Homem de Gelo que o digam. Enquanto isso temos Batman à rodo até em preto e branco. Fazer o quê, né? Gostei bastante dessa edição de X-Men Azul como vinha curtindo mais as suas histórias dentro da revista dos X-Men. Se tivesse que escolher entre Azul e Dourada escolheria Azul. Mas eu sou um verme dos X-Men e não tem isso de escolher. Tem de ter todos e quanto mais, melhor!
April 13, 2023
En esta lectura de los antiguos X-Men Blue, Gold, etc, he recordado otro de los motivos por los que en su momento dejé de leer cómics en grapa, y sobre todo de Marvel. Y es que es imposible leer una colección. No puede ser, cuando menos te lo esperas, tienes un crossover con otra colección, y en su momento, cuando leía muchas, pues más o menos me daba igual, pero en perspectiva, es un castaño. Y más aún cuando, como es el caso, se trata de colecciones que no tienen absolutamente nada que ver. Es decir, si sigues X-Men Blue, por defecto es posible que también te interese X-Men Gold, así que un cruce entre ambas tiene sentido. Ahora... ¿con Veneno?
Me explico. No ocurre exactamente en este arco, pero entre el anterior con los viajes en el tiempo, y este, el equipo Azul (los básicos, se van a dejar en tierra a Jimmy Hudson y a Tormenta de Sangre), después de que en una videollamada cósmica con Corsario, el joven Cíclope sea testigo de cómo los Saqueadores Estelares son atacados por lo que parecen ser Venenos, así que se van a ir a buscar a Corsario y los suyos y se van a llevar a Veneno con ellos. La saga se llamó Poison-X y no la he leído, pero es que resulta que después debió tener una especie de continuación llamada Venomized (o algo así), que tampoco he leído pero que también influye en esta colección.
El caso, lo que afecta a esta saga es que en el curso de Poison-X, Jean Grey va a morir y el resto del equipo se va a quedar tirado en el espacio durante bastante tiempo, así que este arco nos va a contar qué ocurre en la Tierra mientras, y es que porque los bebés-X se hayan ido de paseo, los malvados no van a esperarles, así que el extraño grupo formado por Kaos, Emma Frost, Bastión y Miss Siniestro van a continuar sus planes para fabricar mutantes dominados por ellos a través de Mothervine, esa especie de enzima (por decirlo de alguna manera) extraída por Siniestro de los mutantes procedentes del Universo Ultimate. y que además es la causa de las mutaciones secundarias que habíamos ido viendo en algunos personajes. Así que Magneto va a dirigir en persona estas operaciones, reuniendo un nuevo equipo de X-Men Blue, y en el que va a contar con Polaris, Shen Xorn, Daken, Jimmy Hudson, Tormenta de Sangre y Gazing Nightshade de los Raksha (este personaje me parece una copia de Vendas). A través de diversos encontronazos (incluso un guiño a los clásicos a través de la posesión de Polaris por la Malicia del Universo Ultimate), este nuevo equipo va a irse enfrentando a Mothervine, en un arco que sobre todo va a servir para redefinir las posiciones de Kaos y Emma Frost en el Universo Marve. Kaos llevaba siendo un secundario malvado desde la mismísima Axis, donde había sido uno de los héroes que, junto a Iron Man, se habían quedado atrapados en su versión "malvada". Y Emma Frost va a volver a convertirse en aliada de los X-Men... pero esto va a tener un precio, y es que Magneto, después de sufrir una experiencia traumática en manos de los mutantes de Mothervine, va a decidir vengarse de sus enemigos... a cualquier coste.
Bunn sigue cumpliendo en X-Men Blue con su trabajo, haciendo una historia entretenida y que, en comparación con lo que estaba pasando en X-Men Gold incluso mejora.
Me explico. No ocurre exactamente en este arco, pero entre el anterior con los viajes en el tiempo, y este, el equipo Azul (los básicos, se van a dejar en tierra a Jimmy Hudson y a Tormenta de Sangre), después de que en una videollamada cósmica con Corsario, el joven Cíclope sea testigo de cómo los Saqueadores Estelares son atacados por lo que parecen ser Venenos, así que se van a ir a buscar a Corsario y los suyos y se van a llevar a Veneno con ellos. La saga se llamó Poison-X y no la he leído, pero es que resulta que después debió tener una especie de continuación llamada Venomized (o algo así), que tampoco he leído pero que también influye en esta colección.
El caso, lo que afecta a esta saga es que en el curso de Poison-X, Jean Grey va a morir y el resto del equipo se va a quedar tirado en el espacio durante bastante tiempo, así que este arco nos va a contar qué ocurre en la Tierra mientras, y es que porque los bebés-X se hayan ido de paseo, los malvados no van a esperarles, así que el extraño grupo formado por Kaos, Emma Frost, Bastión y Miss Siniestro van a continuar sus planes para fabricar mutantes dominados por ellos a través de Mothervine, esa especie de enzima (por decirlo de alguna manera) extraída por Siniestro de los mutantes procedentes del Universo Ultimate. y que además es la causa de las mutaciones secundarias que habíamos ido viendo en algunos personajes. Así que Magneto va a dirigir en persona estas operaciones, reuniendo un nuevo equipo de X-Men Blue, y en el que va a contar con Polaris, Shen Xorn, Daken, Jimmy Hudson, Tormenta de Sangre y Gazing Nightshade de los Raksha (este personaje me parece una copia de Vendas). A través de diversos encontronazos (incluso un guiño a los clásicos a través de la posesión de Polaris por la Malicia del Universo Ultimate), este nuevo equipo va a irse enfrentando a Mothervine, en un arco que sobre todo va a servir para redefinir las posiciones de Kaos y Emma Frost en el Universo Marve. Kaos llevaba siendo un secundario malvado desde la mismísima Axis, donde había sido uno de los héroes que, junto a Iron Man, se habían quedado atrapados en su versión "malvada". Y Emma Frost va a volver a convertirse en aliada de los X-Men... pero esto va a tener un precio, y es que Magneto, después de sufrir una experiencia traumática en manos de los mutantes de Mothervine, va a decidir vengarse de sus enemigos... a cualquier coste.
Bunn sigue cumpliendo en X-Men Blue con su trabajo, haciendo una historia entretenida y que, en comparación con lo que estaba pasando en X-Men Gold incluso mejora.
April 11, 2020
Oh this is finally back to what I expect from Cullen Bunn, Jorge Molina, and the rest of the creative team. As counterintuitive as it might be, I think I just tend to not enjoy the space adventures of the X-Men. I love timey wimey nonsense, but a lot of space missions seem too basic or unoriginal (at least in the grand context of outer space).
This wasn’t necessarily original either, but at least it fit within confines of a plot we knew was in motion with Havok and Emma Frost. I also care a lot more about those characters than Venom or the other half dozen symbiotes introduced in the last volume. Not to digress too far, but I don’t even understand why they do that stuff now. Like the Poison-X story seemed like a marketing gimmick to sell new versions of these characters as toys, but they don’t really do that anymore, at least not that I’m aware of, so I just don’t get it.
Anyway, I enjoy the way this progresses the story. It’s got a bit of a “getting the band together” feel to it as they set up a new team while the O5 are off world: Polaris, Xorn, Daken, Gazing Nightshade, Bloodstorm, and Jimmy Hudson (from the Ultimate universe). My one complaint was that I had no clue who Miss Sinister was, but luckily the internet exists, so I figured it out (Mister Sinister made a failsafe “virus” that would create a clone of him if he ever died out of this woman he had been experimenting on, it was triggered when he seemingly died years ago in Messiah Complex).
I also really appreciated what this story does to further expand and fix some of the character assassination that has been going on with Havok and Emma Frost leading up to it. I never read Secret Empire, but it seemed like it was not kind to them, not to mention the Planet X story from Uncanny Avengers (Vol. 1), Axis, Death of X, Inhumans vs. X-Men, etc. I think Bunn does an excellent job with most of these characters. I don’t really understand the point of the Raksha and Gazing Nightshade. With all of the references to “Patch” (an alias of Wolverine), I expected them to be some deep cut from his original solo series or something, but they were created new for X-Men Blue.
The art was really great for the most part. I was acutely aware of Craig Yeung being the inker in issue 25. Everything was mostly the same as when Jorge Molina was inking his own work, but it was just slightly off (in a bad way). Nothing horrible, but still a small step down. R. B. Silva, Marcus To, and the rest of the art team did well on the other half of the issues as well. I also wasn’t a huge fan of the “Meanwhile, in space” segments by Mike Perkins and Andy Troy, but I appreciated what they were going for.
I was a little nervous about this after the last volume, but luckily this brought me back. Not too much left before we send these young X-Men packing back to their original timeline. I can’t wait to see how it goes.
This wasn’t necessarily original either, but at least it fit within confines of a plot we knew was in motion with Havok and Emma Frost. I also care a lot more about those characters than Venom or the other half dozen symbiotes introduced in the last volume. Not to digress too far, but I don’t even understand why they do that stuff now. Like the Poison-X story seemed like a marketing gimmick to sell new versions of these characters as toys, but they don’t really do that anymore, at least not that I’m aware of, so I just don’t get it.
Anyway, I enjoy the way this progresses the story. It’s got a bit of a “getting the band together” feel to it as they set up a new team while the O5 are off world: Polaris, Xorn, Daken, Gazing Nightshade, Bloodstorm, and Jimmy Hudson (from the Ultimate universe). My one complaint was that I had no clue who Miss Sinister was, but luckily the internet exists, so I figured it out (Mister Sinister made a failsafe “virus” that would create a clone of him if he ever died out of this woman he had been experimenting on, it was triggered when he seemingly died years ago in Messiah Complex).
I also really appreciated what this story does to further expand and fix some of the character assassination that has been going on with Havok and Emma Frost leading up to it. I never read Secret Empire, but it seemed like it was not kind to them, not to mention the Planet X story from Uncanny Avengers (Vol. 1), Axis, Death of X, Inhumans vs. X-Men, etc. I think Bunn does an excellent job with most of these characters. I don’t really understand the point of the Raksha and Gazing Nightshade. With all of the references to “Patch” (an alias of Wolverine), I expected them to be some deep cut from his original solo series or something, but they were created new for X-Men Blue.
The art was really great for the most part. I was acutely aware of Craig Yeung being the inker in issue 25. Everything was mostly the same as when Jorge Molina was inking his own work, but it was just slightly off (in a bad way). Nothing horrible, but still a small step down. R. B. Silva, Marcus To, and the rest of the art team did well on the other half of the issues as well. I also wasn’t a huge fan of the “Meanwhile, in space” segments by Mike Perkins and Andy Troy, but I appreciated what they were going for.
I was a little nervous about this after the last volume, but luckily this brought me back. Not too much left before we send these young X-Men packing back to their original timeline. I can’t wait to see how it goes.
October 14, 2018
I suppose technically there was a warning about the missing issues in the list of books to read leading up to this in the front cover, but I'm still old school enough that I forget Marvel does that now, and so dove straight into reading book. While internally consistent the story felt slightly incoherent until I thought to check that new reading list feature, and then I at least new I was missing some story involving the original X-Men--the primary X-team in this book up till now--and that they must be off somewhere else. This wasn't confirmed until the cutaway to "deep space" with the four boys and Venom halfway through the third issue in the volume, but at least then I got some picture of what had removed the protagonists I'd expected from the scene.
The book in the mean time shows Magneto attempting to deal--alone--with the threat posed by the loosely allied Emma Frost, Bastion, Miss Sinister and the still-evil-because-of-Axis Havok. The material between Magneto and Polaris is fascinating, well-handled character work. And when Polaris sets out to gather a team to help/support her father and face down the Mother vine cabal she pulls together a very interesting group--Xorn, Bloodstorm, Jimmy (does he even have a last name? The blonde alternate reality son of Wolverine), one of the Madripoor ninja trained by Wolverine as Patch, Gazing Nightshade, and...Daken. I admit I've read almost nothing on Daken, and he still strikes me as a really strange character--that and I don't remember how it is that he's alive when I distinctly remember Logan killing him. Anyway, that was another slight peeve--do we really need both Daken and Jimmy when the plot doesn't demand it? Seemed a strange choice.
Still it's a fascinating and unexpected choice of characters to round out an X-roster and one that proves believably effective in dealing with the threat, especially when Magneto calls in a few ringers and returns personally to the field toward the end of the book. It's a good read. Just read the Venom/X-Men: Blue crossover first.
The book in the mean time shows Magneto attempting to deal--alone--with the threat posed by the loosely allied Emma Frost, Bastion, Miss Sinister and the still-evil-because-of-Axis Havok. The material between Magneto and Polaris is fascinating, well-handled character work. And when Polaris sets out to gather a team to help/support her father and face down the Mother vine cabal she pulls together a very interesting group--Xorn, Bloodstorm, Jimmy (does he even have a last name? The blonde alternate reality son of Wolverine), one of the Madripoor ninja trained by Wolverine as Patch, Gazing Nightshade, and...Daken. I admit I've read almost nothing on Daken, and he still strikes me as a really strange character--that and I don't remember how it is that he's alive when I distinctly remember Logan killing him. Anyway, that was another slight peeve--do we really need both Daken and Jimmy when the plot doesn't demand it? Seemed a strange choice.
Still it's a fascinating and unexpected choice of characters to round out an X-roster and one that proves believably effective in dealing with the threat, especially when Magneto calls in a few ringers and returns personally to the field toward the end of the book. It's a good read. Just read the Venom/X-Men: Blue crossover first.
December 29, 2025
Taking the Mothervine storyline from The Ultimate Universe, Havoc, Emma Frost, Bastion, and Miss Sinister are unlikely allies out to make mutants the dominant species on Earth, no matter the consequences. Shockingly, this gets the ire up of former wannabe-dominant mutant, Magneto. While he battles the villains on one front, a team of Polaris, Jimmy Hudson (Wolverine Junior from The Ultimate Universe), Bloodstorm, Daken, one of the many Xorns that have been floating around since New X-Men by Grant Morrison: Ultimate Collection, Book 1, and...Gazing Nightshade? fight sentinels and try and rescue/prevent a whole new surprise generation of mutants from getting powers and prevent current mutants from getting potentially dangerous secondary mutations. We see a few cameo secondary mutations, such as the long forgotten Beak, but Unconscione is the main returning character, which means Cullen Bunn has been dropping his bucket deep into the creative well of lost X-Men.
This is a fun story, even when Bunn suddenly remembers the characters he dropped off in Venom by Cullen Bunn: The Complete Collection, and we see the time traveling X-babies: Cyclops, Jean Grey (who was dead again last time I checked), Iceman, Beast, Angel and...Venom? return and deal with the aftermath of the Magneto vs Havoc's cabal storyline.
There are a lot of side plots and a ton of characters but this was a surprisingly fun arc in a series that started with a lot of stale rehashing. If you're looking for a lesser-regarded X-story that still has continuity and fun, this is a solid read.
This is a fun story, even when Bunn suddenly remembers the characters he dropped off in Venom by Cullen Bunn: The Complete Collection, and we see the time traveling X-babies: Cyclops, Jean Grey (who was dead again last time I checked), Iceman, Beast, Angel and...Venom? return and deal with the aftermath of the Magneto vs Havoc's cabal storyline.
There are a lot of side plots and a ton of characters but this was a surprisingly fun arc in a series that started with a lot of stale rehashing. If you're looking for a lesser-regarded X-story that still has continuity and fun, this is a solid read.
December 13, 2018
Continuing the great x-read of 2017/18...
So, does each X-book basically have their own continuity at this point? Seriously, there are all of these huge earth-shaking stories and they don't impact the other books at all? (Not to mention dead characters showing up as alive in sister books...) It is all a bit of a mess.
Continuity aside, this volume is its own sort of mess. There are just so many stories taking place that it becomes hard to care about one before you are whisked into another. And so many characters that none of them receive enough attention (not to mention how many of them are alternate reality versions of existing characters. Enough, Marvel. Ugh.)
Listen, there were moments that I enjoyed. Malice vs Polaris and how easily Polaris took her down, Emma turning in a rather kick-ass fashion, Seeing Elixer and Exodus again... The whole book definitely has its moments. But Bunn should have slowed down a bit, given the moments their time. This feels like ADD literature on steroids.
So, does each X-book basically have their own continuity at this point? Seriously, there are all of these huge earth-shaking stories and they don't impact the other books at all? (Not to mention dead characters showing up as alive in sister books...) It is all a bit of a mess.
Continuity aside, this volume is its own sort of mess. There are just so many stories taking place that it becomes hard to care about one before you are whisked into another. And so many characters that none of them receive enough attention (not to mention how many of them are alternate reality versions of existing characters. Enough, Marvel. Ugh.)
Listen, there were moments that I enjoyed. Malice vs Polaris and how easily Polaris took her down, Emma turning in a rather kick-ass fashion, Seeing Elixer and Exodus again... The whole book definitely has its moments. But Bunn should have slowed down a bit, given the moments their time. This feels like ADD literature on steroids.
December 26, 2019
This was a fun read. Still not very memorable, but it managed to keep me going.
It kinda throws me off, though, that both Gold and Blue teams face similar circumstances. First, both teams went off into space. Now, both teams get a complete membership shake—. I think keeping them separate would be best, but that’s not in my hands.
Anyway, I like Polaris and the way she took over. The other Blue members don’t get that much exposure, it was as if they weren’t even there (except for Jimmy and Bloodstorm, who actually were part of the original team).
Havok and the White Queen also played interesting roles. Havok became some sort of mystery to me. I hope we get to explore him a bit further.
My rating would be 3.5, but I upped it to 4, because many of the x-books were pretty bad at the moment, and the light should fall somewhere.
It kinda throws me off, though, that both Gold and Blue teams face similar circumstances. First, both teams went off into space. Now, both teams get a complete membership shake—. I think keeping them separate would be best, but that’s not in my hands.
Anyway, I like Polaris and the way she took over. The other Blue members don’t get that much exposure, it was as if they weren’t even there (except for Jimmy and Bloodstorm, who actually were part of the original team).
Havok and the White Queen also played interesting roles. Havok became some sort of mystery to me. I hope we get to explore him a bit further.
My rating would be 3.5, but I upped it to 4, because many of the x-books were pretty bad at the moment, and the light should fall somewhere.
September 21, 2021
Episode ini ditandai oleh absennya X-Men orisinil yang menjadi ciri khas X-Men Blue. Para X-Men orisinil masih berada di luar angkasa setelah menyelesaikan misi mereka menyelamatkan ayah Cyclops, Corsairs. Misi itu membawa korban tewasnya Jean Grey dan rusaknya Danger, robot yang juga bisa berubah menjadi pesawat Blackbird. Sementara itu, musuh-musuh X-Men (Emma Frost, Miss Sinister, Bastion, Sebastian Shaw, dan Havok) bersatu untuk melaksanakan Proyek Mothervine, proyek yang bisa mengubah DNA manusia biasa menjadi mutan dengan tujuan meningkatkan populasi mutan di muka Bumi sampai empat kali lipat. Masalahnya, ada dampak mengerikan dari mothervine dan Magneto telah melihatnya dengan mata kepala sendiri. Ancaman itu membuat Magneto menyusun X-Men pengganti selama X-Men orisinil belum kembali.
May 15, 2019
The Mothervine arc mercifully ends after a pretty sloppy final arc. With the exception of Miss Sinister, nobody on the bad guy team seemed to have any real motivation to do what they were doing. Like, beyond beyond being invertedly evil, what was Havok’s whole deal? Bastion wanted to make more mutants so he wouldn’t run out of any to kill? And Emma? What even were you doing? Sigh. Regardless, we got some cool new X-costumes, Gazing Nightshade joined up, and Daken and Jimmy got some brotherly scenes together. Plus, that Axis nonsense is finally done with (except possibly Savretooth over in Weapon X, though not the way Pak’s been writing him). And look! Exodus, Elixir, and Unuscione! Plus, Wildside, because reasons.
February 16, 2020
This arc is everything that can be wrong in an X-Men book. The main cast of time-displaced X-Men is thrown out (because they are still in space for some reason), and instead we get a new team of the hitherto supporting characters, as well as a bunch of seemingly random newbies to the title. This book expects you not only to remember stuff from way earlier arcs, but also the Axis event, the Ultimate universe, and dozens of other X-bits. It is a mess of continuity and poorly re-introduced characters. No wonder that the X-titles required someone like Hickman to restore them to glory. I still want to know what happened to the time-displaced X-Men before the reset, but this arc made me want to quit.
January 31, 2019
I had been really enjoying this series so far. I liked the young X-Men concept. The idea of them working with Magneto on the shadier sides of the tracks, recruiting mutants refuges from other Earths (like Jimmy Hudson and Bloodstorm) but then you get to volume three and...
... and it really falls apart. On the one hand I hate when bit from crossovers and old dangling plots are just left unresolved. Only in this case it seems this entire story exists to tie up loose ends from not only two huge crossovers Axis and Secret Wars but pave the way for Extermination. So it's not really its own story per se. More like torn between three crossovers.
... and it really falls apart. On the one hand I hate when bit from crossovers and old dangling plots are just left unresolved. Only in this case it seems this entire story exists to tie up loose ends from not only two huge crossovers Axis and Secret Wars but pave the way for Extermination. So it's not really its own story per se. More like torn between three crossovers.
January 14, 2023
So, the best thing about this series was the time-displaced original X-Men involved in hijinks while becoming heroes. So editorial and author Cullen Bunn decide the best move is to remove those five characters. Their replacements...almost no one you want. The plot here was all over the place. SO much happening and almost none of it mattered. I'm a sucker for throwback X-Men nostalgia and there were some interesting characters here that you would think would excite but it was a train wreck that I hope isn't revisited any time soon. The art was okay but not special. Overall, not to remembered fondly, to say the least.
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