This second issue is my jumping off point for this title. Compared with groups of burgeoning mutants rom New Mutants to Young X-Men to Generation Hope, the young mutants in this book feel like the dullest and most caricature-ish batch to date. With an almost infinite number of existing teenage mutants to pick from, creating yet more needlessly feels derivative—especially with how flat this assortment is. As much as I love Kate Pryde and Emma Frost, this book feels too juvenile and too played-out to retain its spot in my pull list.

This bulk of this issue is basically a big fight scene that may be of limited interest or comprehensiveness to those not reading the Sentinels series. I always enjoy seeing Fabian Cortez, but I have less than zero interest in Mystique gaining the type of powerup seen in this issue. I’m still enjoying this more than the majority of the “From The Ashes” books, but I outright hate the new Sentinels team and the apparent direction of Mystique’s power-set. I’ll certainly finish out this limited series, but some of the choices being made here are likely to put off readers rather than bring more in.

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.

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.

If Jonathan Hickman wrote an issue of Star Trek, it would be this one. A brilliant, complicated masterpiece.

Words cannot express how offensive and horrendous I find this post-Krakoan era of X-Men. The battles and events of this issue feel out of place and utterly unbelievable, if not incomprehensible. The writing here is just poor, and it makes no sense to me why Scott would just abruptly give up his pursuit of Xavier between panels, more or less negating the plot of this entire story arc. If this story is just to line up a better upcoming comic by Jonathan Hickman, that’s fine, but on its own it is a dreadful failure. This feels like a story meant to promote and empower the rest of the X-line, but with literally half the books already cancelled in the next few months, it even fails at that. Abhorrent.

Insulting to anyone who loved the end of the Krakoan era. A blatant and sloppy hack job to retcon away one of the most poignant portions of the Fall of X. Reeks of editorial mandate to sweep the Fall of X under the rug at any cost.