Big Action and No Soul Drags Down X-Men #16 (Review)

X-Men #16 Review - The Super Powered Fancast

X-Men #16 Marvel Comics Written by Jed MacKay Art by Netho Diaz Inks by Sean Parsons, JP Mayer and Livesay Colors by Fer Sifuentes-Sujo Letters by Clayton Cowles The Rundown: The team finds themselves facing off against another team of mutants calling themselves the X-Men. Cyclops and his team find themselves staring down a new […]

REVIEW: ‘X-Menʼ #16 - Copies, Chaos, and Kaiju-Scale Comebacks

The X-Men are pushed to their limit, and it feels earned. The cliffhanger surrounding the fate of Merle is a perfect hook, and I’ll definitely be back next issue to see what happens to both the town—and our heroes.

Big Action and No Soul Drags Down X-Men #16 (Review)

The X-Men‘s “From the Ashes” publishing initiative has had its ups and downs, and X-Men is ground zero for all the problems with it. While Uncanny X-Men has found a way to tap into the core of the X-Men and tell great stories, X-Men has been stuck rehashing the ’90s and ’00s and issue #16 keeps up this distressing tendency. X-Men owes a lot to the greatness of New X-Men, but this issue also shows a callback to a classic ’90s story. It’s definite…