Dead X-Men #4
(W) Steve Foxe (A) Vincenzo Carratu (CA) Lucas Werneck
Rated T+
In Shops: Apr 17, 2024
SRP: $3.99
EVERYTHING ENDS!
Prodigy, Dazzler, Frenzy, Cannonball and Jubilee have gone farther and have risked more than any X-Men team before. Now, at the end of everything, the final fate of Krakoa rests on these five mutants. Will the Dead X-Men save the seed of the future…or kill it before it can even be planted?
Dead X-Men #4
(W) Steve Foxe (A) Vincenzo Carratu (CA) Lucas Werneck
Rated T+
In Shops: Apr 17, 2024
SRP: $3.99
EVERYTHING ENDS!
Prodigy, Dazzler, Frenzy, Cannonball and Jubilee have gone farther and have risked more than any X-Men team before. Now, at the end of everything, the final fate of Krakoa rests on these five mutants. Will the Dead X-Men save the seed of the future…or kill it before it can even be planted?
Dead X-Men #3
(W) Steve Foxe (A) Bernard Chang (CA) Lucas Werneck
Rated T+
In Shops: Mar 13, 2024
SRP: $3.99
FAR, FARAWAY! Rachel Summers recruited the Dead X-Men for a seemingly impossible mission…and now they’re about to discover the REAL reason behind their task. As the walls of reality start to bend, will anyone survive the revelation?!
It was new comic book day yesterday! What’d you all get? What did you like? Dislike? Sound off in the comments below. While you think about that here’s some comic related news and comic reviews from around the web to start the day.
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Reviews
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Dead X-Men #3
(W) Steve Foxe (A) Bernard Chang (CA) Lucas Werneck
Rated T+
In Shops: Mar 13, 2024
SRP: $3.99
FAR, FARAWAY! Rachel Summers recruited the Dead X-Men for a seemingly impossible mission…and now they’re about to discover the REAL reason behind their task. As the walls of reality start to bend, will anyone survive the revelation?!
Dead X-Men #2
(W) Steve Foxe (A) Guillermo Sanna (CA) Lucas Werneck
Rated T+
In Shops: Feb 28, 2024
SRP: $3.99
THE IMPOSSIBLE TEAM ON AN IMPOSSIBLE QUEST!
The Dead X-Men leap across time and space in a last-ditch effort to prevent catastrophe, but they’re not the only ones breaking through the fabric of reality! As these five mutants go places no one has gone before, a cloaked figure stalks them from the shadows…and nothing will survive if she reaches her goal!
With mutant-kind attempting to fend off the eventual success of machines and the threat of Enigma inching closer, the previously dead X-Men travel through the various timelines of Moira X to gain a fighting chance. But after running into an alternate cyborg, Moira, and giving her the time-jumping technology, she plans on achieving her ultimate goal by traveling to her past lives. With the odds stacking against them even more, the six mutants must fight for the future in Dead X-Men #2.
With Fall of X signaling the end of Krakoa, Dead X-Men interacts closely with Rise of the Powers of X and the previous House of X and Powers of X due to the mutants going to the various timelines explored in those two titles. Considering how difficult the odds are for mutant-kind to overcome, Steve Foxe conveys how important the mission is and how this team is suited for it. I did not enjoy seeing the new X-Men team killed unceremoniously at last year’s Hellfire Gala, so I like Foxe bringing them back to play a significant role in this overarching story. You can tell that he loves these characters cause each gets a moment to shine while demonstrating their specific role in the mission.
Considering how much this series utilizes the past timelines from HoX/PoX, Foxe fleshes out the timeline where Moira killed the Trash family and showed the aftermath of it. And while similar events from the main timeline have occurred, they come across more as echoes than direct replications. As a result, it presents the later part of the timeline as a snapshot that the X-Men are dropped into and have to find out when and where they are. Having a cybernetically enhanced Moira instead of Moira X as the villain adds an exciting twist where she is not directly connected to the machines but is still working to achieve their goals.
An exciting aspect of Dead X-Men #2 is having three artists for the issue, Peter Nguyen, Bernard Chang, and Guillermo Sana, to showcase the explored timeline and locations. Each of their art pieces feels ideally suited for the timeline they’re presenting while meshing well and helping the reader not be taken out of the story. Frank Martin’s colors complement the differing art while providing visual cohesion across the story. VC’s Cory Petit lettering matches the story and emphasizes essential words within the speech bubbles.
Dead X-Men #2 perfectly complements Rise of the Powers of X by showcasing Xavier’s other plans to fight the dominion. Considering how the newly elected X-Men were quickly taken away from the table, they are in great hands with Foxe as he demonstrates their combined power and prowess. Along with his strong knowledge of X-Men history, he has proven to be the perfect writer for this series. Even with the horrible future looming in front of mutantkind, someone has to take a stand and fight for the future. Foxe shows why this team of mutants is the X-Men.
Story: Steve Foxe Art: Peter Nguyen, Bernard Chang, and Guillermo Sana
Color: Frank Martin Letterer: VC’s Cory Petit
Story: 8.2 Art: 8.4 Overall: 8.3 Recommendation: Read
Marvel provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review
Purchase: Zeus Comics – Kindle
Dead X-Men #2
(W) Steve Foxe (A) Guillermo Sanna (CA) Lucas Werneck
Rated T+
In Shops: Feb 28, 2024
SRP: $3.99
THE IMPOSSIBLE TEAM ON AN IMPOSSIBLE QUEST!
The Dead X-Men leap across time and space in a last-ditch effort to prevent catastrophe, but they’re not the only ones breaking through the fabric of reality! As these five mutants go places no one has gone before, a cloaked figure stalks them from the shadows…and nothing will survive if she reaches her goal!
It was new comic book day yesterday! What’d you all get? Dislike? Like? Sound off in the comments below. While you think about that, here’s some comic related news and comic reviews from around the web to start the day.
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Reviews
Comicbook – Dead X-Men #1
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When the world turned against Krakoa, these five mutants lost their lives… but their mission as X-Men is just getting started. To preserve Xavier’s dream, they must accomplish the impossible – or die again trying! Dead X-Men #1 spins out of Rise of the Powers of X and that is its weak point.
Written by Steve Foxe, Dead X-Men #1 features the team of Frenzy, Prodigy, Jubilee, Dazzler, Cannonball, and Askani. The team make-up catches the attention, it’s an odd one we haven’t really seen before. That opens up a lot of potential as how the X-Men teams gel together is part of the fun. We get a little bit of that here but the main focus of the comic is the mission. Towards the end of Rise of the Powers of X, Professor X hinted at his plan to attempt to right the nightmare timeline that has been spun. It seems that Dead X-Men will focus on that mission.
The mission is interesting and involves hopping around various timelines trying to data dump Moira McTaggert’s memories to figure out a perfect point to engage her. The goal is to stop the madness before it starts. It’s the usual time traveling/timeline destroying insanity that is the X-Men and their current era is full of. It feels rather appropriate in a way to end it all like this. But, if you’re not fully bought into the current Fall/Rise storylines, then the series is one to ignore. It feels like it’s the core mission of what’s happening that’ll lead to what happens next.
Unlike say Wolverine (which I’m enjoying) or Resurrection of Magneto (which I am not), Dead X-Men feels like the “core” story for Rise of the Powers of X, that to itself is a series itself. It’s not a side story tie-in, it’s a vital piece of information. It can’t be picked up and enjoyed on its own, like the first two series mentioned, or the other “main” X-Men comics, it’s very much tied deep into one of the two main “event” comics, almost like an extra storyline that can’t be fit within those pages.
The team itself is interesting and while seemingly and odd one for this sort of important mission, that’s part of the story. Unfortunately due to the rather rushed urgency of the mission, we don’t get quite the personalities playing off of each other, it’s not quite the “fun” type of X-Men team you’d expect. They’re serious. This is serious.
The art features the trio of Jonas Scharf, Bernard Chang, and Vincenzo Carratu with color by Frank Martin and lettering by Cory Petit. It all looks pretty good but beyond the new settings and new takes on familiar characters, the visuals never quite pop. There’s some muddled moments actually and moments that should really hit, don’t quite do it. It’s one where the art services the story but doesn’t stand out from it.
Dead X-Men #1 isn’t a bad comic but it’s an “event” comic in every way. If you’re not bought into the current X-Men transition story, it’s one that won’t jump out. But, if you’re completely here for it, it’s a vital chapter of what happens next and how it happens.
Story: Steve Foxe Art: Jonas Scharf, Bernard Chang, Vincenzo Carratu
Color: Frank Martin Letterer: Cory Petit
Story: 6.75 Art: 7.25 Overall: 6.8 Recommendation: Read
Marvel provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review
Purchase: Zeus Comics – Kindle
