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X-Men: First to Last HC – Review

Written by Chris Yost; Now: Penciled by Paco Media, inked by Juan Vlasco, and colored by Mrate Gracia; Then: Art by Dalabor Talajic, colored by Juan Vlasco. The Story: One of the apes who got the crap beaten out of him with a femur bone in 2001: A Space Odyssey has his own bone to [...]

Quick-Hit Reviews: Week of Jan. 26, 2011

Got-dang! There were a lot of comics that came out last week!  Even with all the reviewers at WCBR burning the midnight oil, it’s not always possible to get a full review up on everything when Marvel decides to release all of their Avengers and X-books in one week.  Sheesh!  But, still, we endure…. Uncanny [...]

X-Force: Sex + Violence (Graphic Novel Review)

Written by Criag Kyle and Christopher Yost, Art by Gabrielle Dell’Otto I rarely start with price, and even more so, I never recommend a book that the price costs more than the individual issues (like the Siege hardcover edition)…but in this case, I have to change my stance. Sure, Sex + Violence is only a [...]

X-Men: Second Coming – Review

Writers: Craig Kyle, Christopher Yost, Matt Fraction, Zeb Wells, and Mike Carey Pencillers: David Finch, Terry Dodson, Ibraim Roberson, Greg Land, and Mike Choi with Stuart Immonen, Lan Medina, Nathan Fox, and Esad Ribic. And so here it is: the last installment of the “Messiah Trilogy” or Messianic X Cycle (Say it. Make it catch [...]

X-Force/Cable: Messiah War – Review

Written by Craig Kyle, Christopher Yost, and Duane Swierczynski, Art by Mike Choi, Sonia Oback, Ariel Olivetti, and Clayton Crain So far, we’ve looked at Endangered Species (the tone-setter to the Messiah Trilogy), and Messiah Complex, the first actual part of the trilogy. This week we’ve got Messiah War, the often-criticized second installment. Being hailed [...]

X-Men: Messiah Complex – Review

Writers: Ed Brubaker, Peter David, Craig Kyle, Christopher Yost, and Mike Carey Pencilers: Mark Silvestri, Billy Tan, Scot Eaton, Humberto Ramos, and Chris Bachalo There probably will be spoilers in this about the entire Messiah Trilogy. Thou hath been warned! Last week I wrote about Endangered Species and how it set the tone for Messiah [...]

X-Necrosha (Hardcover) – Review

writers: Mike Carey, Craig Kyle, Zeb Wells, Christopher Yost pencils: Kalman Andrasofszky, Carlo Barberi, Clayton Crain, Leonardo Manco, Clay Mann, Diogenes Neves, Mike Norton, Ibraim Roberson, Mateus Santolouco, Alina Urusov Necrosha, an X-Force story that affected both New Mutants and X-Men: Legacy as well, was criticized for being the Blackest Night of the Marvel Universe—an [...]

X-Men: Second Coming #2 – Review

by Matt Fraction, Craig Kyle, Chris Yost, Mike Carey & Zeb Wells (writers), Terry Dodson, Ibraim Roberson, Esad Ribic, & Greg Land (artists) The Story: With Bastion’s assault on Utopia and the X-Men over, the mutant community mourns their fallen and ties up loose ends.  By the end of it all, friendships lie shattered and [...]

X-Force: Sex and Violence #1 – Review

by Craig Kyle & Chris Yost (writers), Gabriele Dell’Otto (artist) The Story: Domino, like most, had a past before the X-Men.  And in that past, she just might have done a job for the infamous Assassins’ Guild.  And that job just might have had something to do with the also infamous Hand ninja clan.  She [...]

X-Force #28 – Review

by Craig Kyle & Chris Yost (writers), Mike Choi & Sonia Oback (art) Spoiler Alert, people. —————— While in chapter designation, this issue serves as the penultimate installment of the Second Coming crossover, it might as well be the conclusion because the only thing that’s left after the events of X-Force #28 is the clean-up.  [...]

X-Force #27 – Review

by Craig Kyle & Chris Yost (writers), Mike Choi (artist), Sonia Oback (colorist) The Story: Bastion begins instituting his final plan as he unleashes the first wave of his Nimrod army upon the X-Men, causing several members to suffer devastating losses.  When the mutants discover that the villain has actually opened a portal to a [...]

X-Force #26 – Review

by Craig Kyle & Chris Yost (writers), Mike Choi (artist), Sonia Oback (colorist) The Story: While the X-Men’s Alpha Team helps Cable act as a decoy to Bastion’s forces and the New Mutants hurry home after one of their own has been gravely injured, Rogue and Nightcrawler race to get Hope to Utopia before it’s [...]

X-Force #25 – Review

by Craig Kyle & Chris Yost (writers), Clayton Crain (artist) The Story: The members of X-Force have been having a crappy day. Immortal witch Selene has resurrected millions of dead mutants and laid siege to their island home of Utopia. While big daddy general Cyclops and the rest of the X-Men hold down the fort, X-Force has [...]

X-Men: Second Coming #1

by Craig Kyle & Chris Yost (writers), David Finch (Pencils), Matt Banning (Inks) The Story: Ever since House of M, there had been no mutant births. Suddenly, a baby named Hope was born, the first, and last, new mutant since.  Time traveller Cable took her to the future to safeguard her.  He now finally returns [...]

X-Force Annual #1 – Review

Main Story by Robert Kirkman (Writer), Jason Pearson (Art), and Dave Stewart (Colors) “Undeadpoool” by Craig Kyle & Christopher Yost (Writers), Carlo Barberi (Pencils), Sandu Florea (Inks), and Edgar Delgado (Colors) The Story: Robert Kirkman’s story that takes up the bulk of the X-Force Annual is about Wolverine breaking into a Hydra base in order [...]

X-Force #21 – Review

By Craig Kyle & Chris Yost (Writers) and Clayton Crain (Artist) Some Thoughts Before The Review: Thanks to the Necrosha one-shot and a compelling New Mutants chapter, the latest “X” crossover has gotten off to a solid start. Can Necrosha go from being solid to being good? Time to find out. The Story: The X-Men [...]

New Mutants/X-Force/X-Men Legacy: Necrosha One-Shot – Review

Necrosha: Chapter 1 by Craig Kyle & Christopher Yost (Writers) and Clayton Crain (Art) Necrosha: Binary by Zeb Wells (Writer), Ibraim Roberson (Art), and John Rauch (Colors) Necrosha: The Foretelling by Mike Carey (Writer), Laurence Campbell (Art), and Matt Milla (Colors) Some Thoughts Before The Review: Since the first chapter of Necrosha takes up the [...]

X-Force #19 – Review

By Craig Kyle & Chris Yost (Writers) and Mike Choi & Sonia Oback (Art) Some Thoughts Before The Review: Things were looking pretty grim for X-23– one of my favorite characters, at the end of last month’s issue of X-Force. Craig Kyle and Christopher Yost wouldn’t actually kill her, would they?! The Story: X-23 is [...]

Dark X-Men: The Confession #1 – Review

By Craig Kyle and Chris Yost (writers), Bing Cansino (Penciller), Roland Paris (Inker) The Story: Secrets that have been eating at both Scott and Emma– secrets that could break them apart and exile them from the X-Men, must surface. What’s Good: Kyle and Yost deliver some very fine character and relationship work in this one-shot. [...]

X-Force #18 – Review

By Craig Kyle & Chris Yost (Writers) and Mike Choi & Sonia Oback (Art) Some Thoughts Before The Review: The last issue of X-Force gave me the feeling that the creative team behind it was desperately trying to get the series back up to speed after the miserable Messiah War storyline. I look forward to [...]

X-Force #17 – Review

By Craig Kyle & Cristopher Yost (Writers) and Mike Choi & Sonia Oback (Artists) Some Thoughts Before The Review: The less said about the Messiah War, the better. I still have *shiver* flashbacks from the trenches. So instead of diving into my nightmares, let’s just move forward… The Story: X-23 attempts to rescue Boom-Boom from [...]

X-Force #16 (Messiah War Chapter 7) – Review

By Craig Kyle & Christopher Yost (Writer), Clayton Crain (Art), and Duane Swierczynski & Ariel Olivetti (Epilogue) Some Thoughts Before The Review: One… more… comic… Just one more… The Messiah War is almost over… The Story: The Messiah War comes to a close as everything comes to a head. Apocalypse, followed by Death, seeks to [...]

X-Force #15 (Messiah War Chapter 5) – Review

By Craig Kyle & Christopher Yost (Writers) and Clayton Crain (Artist) Some Thoughts Before The Review: The “Messiah War” storyline has been extremely hit or miss. It’s had a few good moments but as a whole, it’s been rather unsatisfying. I’d love for it to find some sort of consistent, quality groove, but at this [...]

Cable #14 (Messiah War Chapter 4) – Review

By Duane Swierczynski (Writer) and Ariel Olivetti (Artist) Some Thoughts Before The Review: I’ve pretty much given up on any hope that Messiah War is going to end up being a truly worthy follow-up to the fantastic Messiah Complex event. While the crossover has been entertaining enough, it lacks the sense of urgency and intensity [...]

X-Force #14 (Messiah War Chapter 3) – Review

By Craig Kyle & Christopher Yost (Writers) and Clayton Crain (Art) Some Thoughts Before The Review: The Messiah War crossover event really hasn’t even started yet. So far, it’s been a whole lot of expositional dialogue and very little action. I’d expect that to change in chapter three, especially considering how chapter two ended. The [...]

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