Review: X-Force #15

Yes, the Mutant Messiah is still cause for a whole lot of fervor. Everyone's out to kill her or save her, because the fate of the world depends on it. It's a tired concept that doesn't seem able to evolve into anything new, and "X-Force" #15 just gives us more of it.

Clayton Crain's doing some pretty nice work on this issue, though, taking his style into more of an expressionistic realm, giving a deranged look to the proceedings.

Yet, it's just a whole lot of fuss over the Mutant Messiah and do we really want to see more of that, with Cable, Deadpool, and Stryfe thrown into the X-Force mix? I don't think I do.

Check out my CBR review of the issue for more details: X-Force #15

What do you think about this Kyle/Yost/Crain confection?

X-Men: Kingbreaker #2 Review

Recently reviewed by me at CBR: X-Men: Kingbreaker #2, about which I write the following sentences: "Yost fills the book with inane dialogue like 'I am not here to surrender.' 'You should not have come here, Empress! You know what I must now do!' And it's endless. These characters prattle on and on about their desperate situations without the story ever rising to meet them. They are blank, space-hero mannequins given lines to recite, and none of it amounts to anything."

Read the entire review HERE.