A review by crookedtreehouse
Reign of X Vol. 6 by Benjamin Percy, Al Ewing, Jonathan Hickman, Gerry Duggan
4.0
I didn't find any weak spots in this collection.
SWORD #4: I hadn't recognized Cable as the symbiote villain in his first appearance as such but I liked his use once they identified him. I also enjoyed the focus on Manifold, which I hadn't in the previous issue. There was a lot of X-continuity porn in this whole volume, but particuarly in this issue, and I enjoyed it. I am tentatively excited to read the King In Black book. 4/5*
X-Men #18 & 19: I've missed seeing Hickman's work in the last couple of trades. The story here about Wolverine (formerly X-23), Darwin, and Synch trying to invade and then escape from the vault was well told and engaging, and mercifully brief. 4/5*
Marauders #18 & 19: We last saw Madripoor in the pages of Wolverine, and it was the usual desolate, anti-mutant wasteland, but in the pages of Marauders we see it becoming a welcoming place as Emma Frost opens the Moira Mactaggert Memorial Hospital. There are a ton of fun winks to the larger Krakoan story, and [a:Gerry Duggan|594966|Gerry Duggan|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1442471582p2/594966.jpg] writes with some of the best sense of character in modern comics. 4/5*
X-Force # 17, with a focus on Quentin Quire, was also fantastic. Obviously I'm reading these in trades, and not issues, but it really feels like they're writing a lot of these X-books as either standalone issues or two-parters. This peek into Quire's psyche is clearly a setup to a larger story but it also felt contained and well constructed. 4/5*
SWORD #4: I hadn't recognized Cable as the symbiote villain in his first appearance as such but I liked his use once they identified him. I also enjoyed the focus on Manifold, which I hadn't in the previous issue. There was a lot of X-continuity porn in this whole volume, but particuarly in this issue, and I enjoyed it. I am tentatively excited to read the King In Black book. 4/5*
X-Men #18 & 19: I've missed seeing Hickman's work in the last couple of trades. The story here about Wolverine (formerly X-23), Darwin, and Synch trying to invade and then escape from the vault was well told and engaging, and mercifully brief. 4/5*
Marauders #18 & 19: We last saw Madripoor in the pages of Wolverine, and it was the usual desolate, anti-mutant wasteland, but in the pages of Marauders we see it becoming a welcoming place as Emma Frost opens the Moira Mactaggert Memorial Hospital. There are a ton of fun winks to the larger Krakoan story, and [a:Gerry Duggan|594966|Gerry Duggan|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1442471582p2/594966.jpg] writes with some of the best sense of character in modern comics. 4/5*
X-Force # 17, with a focus on Quentin Quire, was also fantastic. Obviously I'm reading these in trades, and not issues, but it really feels like they're writing a lot of these X-books as either standalone issues or two-parters. This peek into Quire's psyche is clearly a setup to a larger story but it also felt contained and well constructed. 4/5*