Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Book Review for the A-Z Title Challenge: X-Men vol #2


Book: X-Men volume #2: Muertas (issues #7-12) by Brian Wood 

Issue #7: illustration by Terry Dodson (lines) and Rachel Dodson (ink) and color by Jason Keith
Issues #8-9: illustration by Terry Dodson and Berry Kitson and color by Jason Keith
Issue #10: illustration by Kris Anka and Clay Mann and color by Jason Keith and Paul Mounts
Issues #11-12: illustration by Kris Anka and color by Jason Keith


Edition: Single print issues


Rating: 3 stars

Review:

This was good but not as good as the first volume. There was a lot of action in these issues but the story felt scattered and a little thin. It just seemed like an excuse to have the female X-Men go up against a group of female villains.

In this volume, the X-Men were going up against Arkea yet again (see volume #1) as the alien technological virus has found another host body with help from the new Lady Deathstrike (a.k.a. Ana Cortes). On the villains side are Amora the Enchantress, Typhoid Mary, Selene Gallio (The Black Queen) and Madalyne Pryor.

As the X-Men try to stop Arkea they are assisted by Monet St. Croix (she's another character that tends to get whitewashed, thankfully not too much in this) and Karima Shapandar who was still dealing with the ordeal of no longer being controlled by Arkea.

I wish there had been more thought into this group of issues because there was no explanation why Ana would turn herself into Lady Deathstrike, it just seem as if in the end the author didn't know what to do with the character.

However one of the things I did like about this volume was Monet got to shine, she's like the Wonder Woman of Marvel Comics and I also enjoyed Psylocke's scenes, she's totally amazing. I thought the scenes with Jubilee and her team as they took down the Arkea powered sentinels were some of the best ones wish there had been more of them.

Volume #2 was an okay read but it definitely could have been better.

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