A review by crookedtreehouse
Civil War X-Men: A Marvel Comics Event by David Hine, Yanick Paquette, Aaron Lopresti
3.0
The conclusion to the O*N*E/Decimation/198 storyline in the X-Men books is fairly dull, but it puts the sentinel story to rest for a while, and moves the mutant players to new places on the Chinese Checkerboard of continuity.
The art is lazily house style. Paquette tells the story he's given, but often doesn't bother giving background characters eyes or distinctive facial features, and there's a really poorly executed pinup page of many of the characters standing around for no reason after the big fight, but he has a few good action sequences, and occasionally draws Bishop like he were a Chris Bachalo character, and I enjoyed that.
Apart from happening during the Civil War, and showing the X-Men interact with both Iron Man and Captain America's camps, this is much more of a Decimation book than a Civil War story. There's no need to pick it up if you're looking for more Civil War stories, but if you're keeping up with the post House Of M X-Men shenanigans, this is a perfectly servicable story. Not Hines's best, but not terrible, either.
The art is lazily house style. Paquette tells the story he's given, but often doesn't bother giving background characters eyes or distinctive facial features, and there's a really poorly executed pinup page of many of the characters standing around for no reason after the big fight, but he has a few good action sequences, and occasionally draws Bishop like he were a Chris Bachalo character, and I enjoyed that.
Apart from happening during the Civil War, and showing the X-Men interact with both Iron Man and Captain America's camps, this is much more of a Decimation book than a Civil War story. There's no need to pick it up if you're looking for more Civil War stories, but if you're keeping up with the post House Of M X-Men shenanigans, this is a perfectly servicable story. Not Hines's best, but not terrible, either.