A review by crookedtreehouse
Dawn of X Vol. 9 by Benjamin Percy, Jonathan Hickman, Gerry Duggan
3.0
A bit of a disappointment after the last volume, this collection features an interesting New Mutants story where we get to see Magma in a mentor position helping Boom Boom and Armor recover from the fallout of their adventures with Beak and Angel. It's a solid downtime story that introduces some new threats to the Krakoan population.
The Marauders issue takes a break from the Kitty Pryde mourning to deal with a potential infestation. Apart from the flagship title, Marauders has consistently been the highlight of the new X-Men books. I'm enjoying how they show why Sebastian Shaw is useful to the Krakoan population, and not entirely a villain, even though he continues to play by rogue rules (not to be confused with Rogue rules).
I don't care about the new Cable title. It was fine. I like Armor. I like Pixie. But the whole children's folk tale/Space Knight angle doesn't interest me in the least.I hope it gets better.
The two X-Men issues in this could have been consolidated into one and then crossed into the New Mutants (which it sort of does). I do enjoy seeing how Vulcan fits into the Summers clan/Krakoan community in thie New Normal, but I thought these issues spent a lot of time spinning their wheels and being proud to be mired in X-mythology/Guardians mythology/Starjammers mythology and not advancing the plot too much until the very end. I DO enjoy where it ended up, though.
The issues of X-Force in the last volume were fantastic. I was somewhat intrigued that this issue was going to be all Down Time with the team coming together in a new and unClaremont like fashion (drinking and playing ... Krakoan Roulette?) but once the adventure started, my interest waned. The whole Flower/Plant aspect of this new X-World isn't that interesting to me. I care much more about how the culture has shifted than I do about battling the Plant Cartel's many ... petals.
I'm still enjoying the series and the way these volumes are collected, and recommend them to all X-fans, but when a series goes beyond five trades or so, there's always going to be a couple of volumes that don't live up to the quality of the others. This is one of those volumes.
The Marauders issue takes a break from the Kitty Pryde mourning to deal with a potential infestation. Apart from the flagship title, Marauders has consistently been the highlight of the new X-Men books. I'm enjoying how they show why Sebastian Shaw is useful to the Krakoan population, and not entirely a villain, even though he continues to play by rogue rules (not to be confused with Rogue rules).
I don't care about the new Cable title. It was fine. I like Armor. I like Pixie. But the whole children's folk tale/Space Knight angle doesn't interest me in the least.I hope it gets better.
The two X-Men issues in this could have been consolidated into one and then crossed into the New Mutants (which it sort of does). I do enjoy seeing how Vulcan fits into the Summers clan/Krakoan community in thie New Normal, but I thought these issues spent a lot of time spinning their wheels and being proud to be mired in X-mythology/Guardians mythology/Starjammers mythology and not advancing the plot too much until the very end. I DO enjoy where it ended up, though.
The issues of X-Force in the last volume were fantastic. I was somewhat intrigued that this issue was going to be all Down Time with the team coming together in a new and unClaremont like fashion (drinking and playing ... Krakoan Roulette?) but once the adventure started, my interest waned. The whole Flower/Plant aspect of this new X-World isn't that interesting to me. I care much more about how the culture has shifted than I do about battling the Plant Cartel's many ... petals.
I'm still enjoying the series and the way these volumes are collected, and recommend them to all X-fans, but when a series goes beyond five trades or so, there's always going to be a couple of volumes that don't live up to the quality of the others. This is one of those volumes.