X-Men #4

This is the promise of the summer's dual mini-series fully realized and everything I want from X-Men comics going forward. Bravo. Read Full Review

Leinil Francis Yu brilliantly complements the contrasting character moments with art that is filled with detail. The scenes in the delegate chamber are subtle and beautiful as they focus on the people in the room along with shots of the food being served. The action is handled perfectly as well as the pace of the story switches between the brutal fights and the political theater. Read Full Review

A heavy dialogue issue like this can turn a lot of readers off. But there's so much tension going on in this issue and that's what makes it so fun to read. Read Full Review

What a tremendous series - there's no way to predict what happens next, and that's the highest praise any comic could receive! Read Full Review

This is one of my favorite Dawn of X books yet! This issue captures the new world stage very well via Magneto's impressive speech and Xavier's honest and loving perspective. Hickman has done well to capture a very complex situation and making it fit into one very quick dinner. At the same time, the book feels huge in scope, while also small in its character work. With a sharp edge, X-Men cuts deep expertly drawing your interest and making you thirsty for more. Read Full Review

Overall this is the best issue to be released in this series. I really feel that if this book continues to stay in the political realm it could be the best book in the ‘Dawn of X’ line-up. This is definitely a must read issue. Read Full Review

Dawn of X finally does something truly new and unique, and it's great! Read Full Review

Humanity isn't likely to roll over and play dead either. There is evidence of that in this issue, as Cyclops and Gorgon are tasked with taking out two strike teams that were staged to enter and eliminate the mutant delegates. All of this is building up as the stakes for the X-Men and mutant-kind get ever higher. Hickman is taking the struggles of a race and putting on the world stage in a way that fans have never seen before. A compelling narrative that is a must-read. Read Full Review

"Global Economics" ends without much being specifically decided, but there is a clear line drawn in the sand by the final page. While there is a minor sense of redundancy here " much of what Magneto says echoes his words in House of X #1 " it also gives the Krakoans a chance to stand firm in the face of some of the setbacks they've suffered like Xavier's assassination in X-Force. That refusal to back down in the face of adversity is one of the most essential traits of X-Men, and it allows this issue to give X-Men its momentum back as one of Marvel's books with top of the line potential. Read Full Review

The decades long parallels to civil rights in the X-Men needed this updated critique and plan. Not to be absolutely cynical, Professor X lets them know that he hasn't given up on his dream of coexisting peacefully with humans. "Do you think I don't love you? Because I do. There's a part of me that will never stop believing in you." I'm interested to see how these X-Men stories play out with the Professor, Magneto, and Apocalypse all united in a peaceful plan instead of beating the hell out of each other. Hell, we should probably take notes in case we can find ourselves a black Krakoa. Read Full Review

X-Men #4 was more about establishing the current standing of Krakoa than having a huge status quo shaking event take place. And as he has shown in the past, Jonathan Hickman knocks it out of the park thanks to incredible writing for Magneto, Charles Xavier and Gorgon. Hickman's writing is strengthened by Leinil Francis Yu's artwork putting over how impactful the words spoken are during the latest World Economic Forum. Read Full Review

Being four issues into the main book, nothing eventful or even mind-blowing has happened. It appears that Hickman continues to use this series has a set up leaving the other X-writers to dive deeper into the overall story" and thats not what this Hickman fan was looking forward too, especially after how fantastic HOXPOX was. Ultimately, this reviewer left the issue tired, bored and expecting something more. My hope is that issue five leads to more excitement, energy, action, and some gravitas. But, we will have to wait too see. Read Full Review

Dinner is served! Your main courses are fine art, an excellent plot, and a heaping side-order of unexamined misogyny. Read Full Review

Miguel2004

Jan 01, 2020

This is why X-Men is the Dawn of X's flagship book.

Ryan

Jan 01, 2020

Apocalypse in a suit🤩🤩. Anyways, X-Men 4 was light on action but somehow had me absorbed from start to finish. Unbelievably good.

M1sf1r3

Jan 01, 2020

Prelude: Two weeks later than all the other #4's but I have faith in Hickman's work. Judging from the cover and solicit, I'm looking forward to this issue. The Good: Literally everything. Ok, I need to more exact. The characters are all great, especially our three main leaders of Krakoa. I love the political side of things here. Loved it in HoX/PoX, and I love it here. Those infographics.... a mix of fun and serious and it works greatly. Ever wonder what they're eating? Hickman did too and made an infographic for it. Leinil Francis Yu's art did not disappoint. I love how the humans enacted their actions and how easily and competently Cyclops and Gorgon stopped it. Erik and Charles' speeches were absolutely great. T he Bad: Wait...... you think there is one? Conclusion: A masterclass of an issue. I came into this with high expectations and Hickman just blew me away once again. more

Grifter

Jan 03, 2020

Only Hickman can do pages full of speech bubbles look much more exciting than action scenes

Psycamorean

Jan 04, 2020

This may be my favorite issue so far. It's full of talking heads and politics, but it's so entertaining and intriguing.

sebastianorellana95

Jan 18, 2020

One of the best issues of this series to the date.

W_himself

Feb 15, 2020

Well, THIS is how you do a political comic. Bravo!

Señor Smokey

Aug 13, 2020

-Magneto looking clean as fuck in da all white -Apocalypse with the gucci suit -"my other names are not fit for you to utter" -"Loved magneto/wakandan king's dialogue -Jesus magneto killed it this issue -Great page of gorgon -Worth the wait to hear the professor speak -Yu's art did everything id want it to do

Miracleman92

Sep 10, 2020

The first truly great issue of Hickman's post-HOX/POX X-Men run. I loved everything about X-Men #4 from the international political intrigue to Cyclops and Gorgon taking down the would-be surprise ambush. Just a great book all in all.

Screaming Enigma

Nov 13, 2023

What do I even say about this one? This is just a truly outstanding issue and definitively the best issue of the series yet. Of course, the politics of this is what stands out. Magneto basically telling everyone their plan to gain control over the rest of the world was amazingly done, as was the dialogue from Charles afterwards. Apocalypse had his moment as well, specifically when telling the politicians that is was him who ended the Bronze Age. Yes, the political aspects of this issue are what will really stick with me and what I will primarily remember this for, but you also have Cyclops and Gorgon countering the attempted attack against the trio in that room. The two of them were handled nicely as well as said trio and I think they only made the issue better. None of what I said mentions Yu doing another great job with his art throughout this issue. All things considered, this was a truly amazing read all around. more

allenquanobi

Jan 01, 2020

Love this issue, the series is still one of the strongest x series from dawn of x and marvel rn. It feels tough to read along with a book like this since it's setting up so much stuff, which in a sense is rewarding to keep reading month to month. It's just fun to see the dialogue back and forth between the mutants; Hickman writes all of these characters really well

jbong

Jan 08, 2020

The parallels to how Krakoa is governed and the real world are...might I say...uncanny. It's as if X-Men has become a dark reflection of today's human world. A lot of people are complaining about the slow burn in the X-books right now. We finally get a good look of what the long game will be, and it absolutely delivers.

Kalaoui

Jan 09, 2020

It only gets better. Hickman brings all aspects of international politics, economics and world history together to give us the best X-men issue yet of Dawn of X. The speeches are delivered so well that the action scenes underneath work great too. Yu, Alanguilan and Gho were a perfect art match for this story!

cincyfan

Jan 17, 2020

fantastic book amazing dialog

BloodyNinja

Jan 01, 2020

This was probably the best Dawn of X's issue so far. Concerning the art, when does Leinil Yu's art work? In a story in which most of the panels consist of people speaking on a table in a white room. Particularly, I hate Yu's style nowadays, it's poor and ugly in most scenes. But it works here. The text is splendid, and each character has unique and precise moments and lines. The way Magneto's speech relates to adaptation and a silent economic war is amazing. In one issue we have an interesting subjacent concept, character development, and an interesting and complete story. The downside is that Hickman rarely delivers a good action sequence... Cyclops' moments are kind of lame when compared to action scenes from other current X-book s for instance. And we don't even see the so lethal Gorgon fighting. more

ohhaimark

Jan 02, 2020

THE GOOD: -Solid issue. I love political X-Men. -This just proves you don't need action to tell a good story. This issue is essentially people sitting in a room talking and its great. -Yu's art was probably at its best here. He's clearly becoming more comfortable working with Hickman. -Hickman's writing was top-notch here. After an okay-written last issue, we get an issue that works solely on the talent of the writer. -I liked the juxtaposition of the conversation that makes up most of the issue and Cyclops taking out the soldiers. That made for a fun read. -The humor was really nicely integrated here. I laughed out loud several times. -I like Gorgon a lot. -Charles' scene towards the end was fantastic. -This issue was nicely wrapped up. Well done. THE BAD: -I wish this series was more consistent. I think that's why X-Force and Marauders are my favorite DoX comics, because every issue thus far has been great. more

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Hislight - Jan 6, 2020

Gorgon Made this issue for me

ohhaimark - Jan 7, 2020

I still loved many of the other aspects of the issue, but, yeah, Gorgon is great.

Hislight

Jan 06, 2020

Hickman trades in family dinosaur rides for some politics and it works! The threat is clear and you can feel by the pacing of these issues how excellent this is all going to taste once it boils over. Again Yu perfectly compliments the story, Xaviers facial expressions made that scene. Suits, Philosophy, Literature and Economics all wrapped up in a classy Xmen attire. Check this title out, especially if you are new to Xmen.

mrDovydas

Jan 07, 2020

It's just such a different book from all the other DoX books. I loved every single panel here.

Spacey Medicine

Feb 07, 2020

This was a pretty great issue.

Tony

Jun 17, 2020

Spectacular. Maybe I am in the minority but Yu´s artwork sometimes is great, since issue 1 he has amazing panels, just beautiful but he has too, in my personal opinion, some bad, very bad panels just say again I think his style doesn´t fit with this X-Men line.

I Review Comics

Jul 12, 2020

After a string of mediocre Dawn of X titles, a surprisingly strong comic came across my desk in X-Men #4. I have plenty of thoughts on the issue. Some of my opinions may be considered wrong-think and they may not all make it into the review. I will make a video about this comic when I get a moment. I do want to mention at the outset of any derision in the review that this script is amazing. This issue would have been great even if it had been written in prose or if it had another IP that had nothing to do with the X-Men. The main thrust of the comic is that the leadership of Krakoa (Xavier, Magneto, Apocalypse) has been invited to a delegation of world leaders to discuss Globalization and Stability. The Krakoan delegation arrives and plays the situation entirely straight while using the event as a means of establishing dominance over their human counterparts. While the meeting is taking place Krakoan Captains Cyclops and Gorgan split up to deal with human assault teams stationed on the floors above and below. Seeing Apocalypse in a suit is pretty slick and is one of the coolest moments we've seen from the IP in a long while. The dialogue and exposition are balanced nicely against the action taking place in the background. Apocalypse also gets some of the best lines of the issue. He clearly isn't bothered by anything going on in the proceedings. It becomes painfully obvious that any of the three men could have mangled the human opposition with little effort. Having Cyclops and Gorgan do the heavy lifting just illustrates the point. Any mutant on the loose and unchecked could be a major problem for a community. The idea reminds me of the Mage situation in Dragon Age. The elephant in the room is that the humans have a legit reason to be frightened here. Mutant leadership is very direct in its intentions and longterm goals and depending on your personal values you may see the X-Men as straight-up villains. The comic was released before the COVID-19 Pandemic and the protests following the Murder of George Floyd so it's kind of surreal reading the dialogue in the comic and then applying it to real-world events. Some of the demands and ideas being put out there by the more extreme activists aren't far from what we see from the X-Men. There is also no doubt that the outcomes would be similar if the real-world extremists had actionable power. At the conclusion of Dawn of X, my working theory was that these weren't the real X-Men and that they were somewhere being held prisoner but based on what we're seeing in the real world and the political leanings of the creators and Marvel Comics, in general, I wouldn't be surprised if there isn't a twist and that these are the real X-Men repurposed for the current year. I wanted to give the comic a 10/10 but Leinil's art while great when drawing the characters fall apart when depicting backgrounds. As I was reading I noticed that there were little to no backgrounds anywhere in the book and I couldn't ignore it. I don't think he's phoning it in but it's a really odd omission once you notice it. For More, subscribe GTMediareviews.com more

CrazyforRAMU

Jul 18, 2020

I love the parallel between fiction and meta-fiction here. In the panels, three high-caliber mutants gently spank humanity for getting squirrely and let them know how things are going to be. On the meta side, Jonathan Hickman is demonstrating that his hand is still firmly on the Dawn of X tiller, and he's got no shortage of ideas for how the big picture story should develop.

DDJamesB

Jan 02, 2020

Overall a really good entry to the series. I liked the whole idea of it. There were some flaws that were more my opinions on how things could have went which didnt hinder the story too much for me. I do enjoy Yu's art.

egonnn244

Jan 04, 2020

"This really was fantastic" Well, Magneto said it best and he was terrifying while doing it. Compliments to the writer for making a guy eating dinner so frightening. It was also nice seeing the "old" Charles back for a moment. When he took off Cerebro it felt like his more kinder, gentle side took over. Great writing here again. One thing that confused me about this issue was that one soldier's gun. Has Magneto made it evaporate or something? Didn't know he could do that. Last thing. I don't know much about Gorgon, but someone really has to tell him that he has a very twisted definition of mercy. Very.

EDiakota

Jan 04, 2020

" This really was fantastic. My compliments to the chefs. " - MAGNÉTO

Micky H

Jan 05, 2020

Better, 1st 3 issues were kinda slow

Comics Code Authorities

May 22, 2020

This was my last issue of X-Men. No comic book goes through more new "eras" than X-Men. Some good, some bad. Sadly I find this one to be even worse than the "Utopia" era. If you like it, enjoy it, I say, but as for me, I'll be finding a book I feel to be more worth $3.99.