I’ve really enjoyed all the other episodes in this Giant Size story arc, but this one was easily the weakest and most disappointing to me. Very little plot happens, and Legion barely appears. This comic just feels flat to me and lacking in substance. I’m still looking forward to the conclusion of this story, but this chapter feels almost entirely skippable.

It pains me to say it, but this was purest trash. The big scenes with Dazzler and Siryn are totally unbelievable, and the “romances” feel more forced and arbitrary than almost any on memory in X-Men comics. What happens to Dazzler simply would not be permitted by the X-Men—ever—and the whole “Graymalkin is a mutant prison now and the X-Men do nothing” story feels artificial and silly. This book badly needed editing and streamlining before it was ever allowed to be published. more

This last issue is the weakest of the series by far and brings down the story as a whole. An absolute mess of a climax that fails to deliver on moments that should be tremendously fun. Disastrous.

I like Gail and I like her new mutants and I like the social commentary she’s inserted into this book. But I did not like this ending to the major story arc. All of the talk and action in this ended up feeling too incoherent for my taste. I like what Gail was going for in this arc, but I don’t think it really stuck the landing.

I love Lanzing and Kelly, and NYX was a pure delight. That said, this comic feels a little too fast and a bit incoherent to me. I’m very intrigued by all the developments regarding the Phoenix and the White Hot Room, but this book was tough to follow nonetheless. I don’t regret buying it, but it was on the weaker and more confusing side in my opinion.

Boring comic book with flat characters. The art is fine, but the writing is incredibly dull. You’d expect a comic about an 80s toy line of metal-covered cyborg bird people to be fun, but this just isn’t. Dynamite’s other licensed comics are straight-up better than this.

I’ve loved Silverhawks toys from the 80s all my life, but this comic feels so lifeless and uninspired that’s it’s made me apathetic toward the franchise. I doubt Ed Brisson will create any new Silverhawks fans with this slow-moving, decompressed origin telling.