rmgebhardt's review
2.0
I'm baffled. After reading Fraction's run on Iron Man, which I absolutely loved, this entire X-Men run was such a complete turn down garbage lane. The tone was uneven at times, the pacing all over the place (no doubt because it so often had to have crossover BS tied in), plot lines were dropped or added at will, and I rarely felt any connection to any of the characters. It's unfortunate to see things fall apart so badly when Fraction was given so much time to work with these characters.
renatasnacks's review
4.0
oh god I fell victim to cataloging on this one: my library catalog listed this as "Uncanny X-men : the complete collection" and so I put a hold on it, and then I got it and it was volume 3, and I was like, whatever, I know X-Men, I'll read this?
IDK, I do know X-Men stuff pretty well, but this is a WEIRD volume to jump into the middle of. But the #cool thing about comics is that even though I did not know about all of the weird shit that was happening, it didn't really matter. What matters is that Matt Fraction & Kieron Gillon are really masters of humanizing these archetypal characters.
That said, I'm definitely uh, ordering volumes 1 and 2 for my library and reading those ASAP. Continuity WHAT??
IDK, I do know X-Men stuff pretty well, but this is a WEIRD volume to jump into the middle of. But the #cool thing about comics is that even though I did not know about all of the weird shit that was happening, it didn't really matter. What matters is that Matt Fraction & Kieron Gillon are really masters of humanizing these archetypal characters.
That said, I'm definitely uh, ordering volumes 1 and 2 for my library and reading those ASAP. Continuity WHAT??
squidbag's review
4.0
Fraction wraps up his run with the return of Kitty from space, (which had me a little misty, I ain't gonna lie) and the designer drug X-Men, which was the "Quarantine" storyline that I had read already. Other than that, there's some other good stuff in here, and the whole volume reads a little more smoothly than the previous two. I enjoyed this massive trek through the Fraction X-Men more than I thought I would.
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