X-Men #23
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| Writer | Gerry Duggan |
| Artist | Joshua Cassara |
| Cover Price | $3.99 |
THE SENTINELS GET AN UPGRADE! Anti-mutant fantasist Feilong has taken control of Tony Stark's businesses and devoted Iron Man's technology toward the next generation of Sentinels! These Stark Sentinels are as hard to beat as old Shell-head himself and are fully devoted to crushing the X-Men!
Rated T+
CRITIC REVIEWS
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ComicsOnline - Matt Sernaker
Jun 06, 2023X-Men #23 (Legacy 688) is a damn good read, encapsulating everything great about mutantkind and their ongoing fight against injustice. The creative team has channeled their magic (and Magik) to create a must-read issue. Read Full Review
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9.2
AIPT - jonathan jones
Jun 07, 2023Action-packed and filled to the brim with drama, X-Men #23 is excellent. In a time when the looming FALL OF X has made many new fans anxious, well made comics like this instill confidence that the X-Office has plenty of great stories to tell and is not slacking off anytime soon. There's a lot of X-Men coming out this week, but this issue cannot be missed. Read Full Review
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8.7
The Comicbook Dispatch - Dispatchdcu
Jun 07, 2023Overall, X-Men #23 does an outstanding job of making multiple titles and storylines feel important. From Ms. Marvel to Tony Stark and the other X-books, Duggan writes like a team player that's paying attention. He dabbles in all of Marvel Comics and puts all the pieces together nicely. Read Full Review
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8.0
COMICON - Tony Thornley
Jun 12, 2023The X-Men's struggles are getting better and better, especially with Fall of X looming. It's the best this series has been in a long time. Read Full Review
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7.2
The Super Powered Fancast - Deron Generally
Jun 07, 2023Cassara delivers some fantastic visuals throughout the issue. The action is visually exciting and I actually loved seeing Cyclops in his old costume. Read Full Review
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7.2
Comic Watch - B. Radtz
Jun 12, 2023In what can be called easily be called the lead up to the new era for the X-Men, the battle between the mutants and the new Stark Sentinels, its the least interesting pieces to this story. The real meat here is the rift thats developing between Scott and Jean, as well as the upcoming war thats going to deal with all of the myriad clones of Sinister. What role will they play? Will the X-Men be able to deal with ORCHIS, AND the cornerstone that Scott and Jean provide to their fellow X-Men? Read Full Review
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7.0
ComicBook.com - Jamie Lovett
Jun 07, 2023The series still feels like it's in a holding pattern as it waits for Fall of X to begin, but it's a stellar issue in its own right. Read Full Review
USER REVIEWS
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9.5
Phenomenal book with a tried and true classic x-men storyline with a modern twist.
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8.5
This series is hit and miss, but I enjoyed what they are setting up here.
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7.5
This was a step-down following the highly interesting Issue 22. I really liked what was being set up there, but this doesn't do that much to follow up on it, in my opinion. We get some nice stuff with Mother Righteous in the beginning, but then we cut to the X-Men fighting a Stark Sentinel. It was an entertaining battle, but I'm not entirely sure why it was there after little-to-nothing being said about his sentinels in the series beforehand. Perhaps I missed something, but the only reason I wasn't surprised to see this machine here was because I look at solicitations and I knew Tony's involvement with Fall of X is up ahead. It could also be the fact that, at the time of this writing, I haven't read anything from Duggan's Invincible Iron Ma more
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7.0
Duggan delivers some OK X-Men stuff here but it feels like a time wasting stand in. Cassara has great pages and some not so detailed as his usual stuff but the hectic schedule of comics would get to the best artist. It's looking like I'm starting to tire of this X-Men drama post Sins of Sinister. I'll ride it to Fall of X but it's getting stale for me and we need a real shake up but knowing Marvel, these things will be formulaic to the T.
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7.0
Pretty much just an action issue which is fine because Duggan writes this team really well. The overall Orchis plot is starting to feel like it is spinning its wheels though. And I guess I would need to read Duggan's Iron Man (not really that interested tbh) to see how the anti-mutant organization gained control of his tech. Overall this is an okay issue but not one of Duggan's best.
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6.5
Wherever its subject matter overlaps with another title (with Invincible Iron Man and with Immortal in particular), this issue suffers in comparison. And where it stands alone--in the Big Sentinel Fight„¢--it entertains, but it fails in its most important job. It desperately wants to portray the Stark Sentinels as new and different. It does not, at least in my opinion, do so.
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6.0
An awful lot of stuff happening, but since Duggan's X-Men are short on interiority I don't know as I care about any of it. And while Jean & Scott separating is a thing that's been set up, it's kind of weird to skip the actual process and just have him mention it in passing to Emma afterwards. I had to poke around and confirm that I hadn't just missed something in another issue or even another comic. At times this book feels like reading the plot summary of everything but the fight scenes. Whereas Hickman's X-Men was quiet and introspective to a fault, Duggan treats all character work as an accessory to the punching; an odd and unsatisfying tack to take on a book that's always been at its strongest with soap opera
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