X-Men: Gold #13

X-Men Gold is one of the most entertaining books on the rack this week. Read Full Review

The X-Men books don't always have the best records when it comes to crossovers, especially in recent history. But Marc Guggenheim and Mike Mayhew really do an excellent job in this opening chapter. Read Full Review

"Mojo Worldwide" gets off to a strong start. The Gold/Blue crossover features a giant cast of mutants, politically relevant antagonist, and an X-Men comic history lesson. There's not much more you could want! Read Full Review

Ultimately, though, it's the story and the weirdly compelling nature of that stories seeming metatextual commentary carries X-Men Gold #13, and sets up a good start to the crossover. It will be interesting to see how it plays out. Read Full Review

The issue isn't bad but there's just too much to make things go smoothly. Writer Marc Guggenheim does what he can with everything and it might have been better to keep things more focused on each team for this storyline to come next. A rough start that plays a lot with nostalgia. Read Full Review

An okay outing for the Gold Team, which (given it's track record) makes this like the third best issue of the series. There are some art issues here and some silly character moments, but overall this issue is fine. Read Full Review

In the end though, this comic provided many of the same problems which Blue had. The story is trying a little too hard to be cute. The art is good, but Gold brought no spin to the proceedings to justify the problems. I unfortunately cannot recommend this one either. Read Full Review

the green death

Oct 10, 2017

A fun back to the basics issue, I thought this was a good reintroduction to the modern X-Men for me as a lapsed reader. The characters were instantly recognizable with the dialog and actions and I'm good for a little Mojoverse "greatest hits" craziness.

Spock's Brain

Oct 25, 2017

I've got a pile of unread copies of "X-Men Gold" and "X-Men Blue" here, having a hard time staying on top of the relentless X-schedule. I haven't read since #4 or #5...? Anyway, I cut in with this issue, and it was...okay. It was okay. The Mojo bits were amusing, but having just finished reading it, I can't think of much that stood out, storewise. The Mike Matthew art looks good at times, other times pretty dicey. It kind of feels like someone attempting copy the vibe of X-Men books from the 90s rather than writing organic stories, which I guess is what it really is. So, yeah.

Vanguard

Oct 05, 2017

(sigh)........

Clay3232

Jul 28, 2018

The artwork for the most part looked great, but the story structure was a bit of a mess.

ModestMoonMan

Oct 10, 2017

The cover art is beautiful. And that's about the only positive thing I can say about this issue. What an utter disappointment. The inner artwork was abysmal. The artist chose to trace 3D models as opposed to creating the art on his own, and it really shows. The characters are stiff and locales dull and uninteresting. I may have given this a pass if the writing was great, but alas it was just as mediocre. This was supposed to be Marvel's great jumpstart to the X-Men with Legacy. This is a complete joke. As a lifelong X-Men fan, I can no longer support Marvel phoning it in with this series. X-Men should be so much more. It should have a top-tier artist and writing team, but is given neither. Just makes me sad.

Br'er Lapin AKA 20-Ish Ceiln

Nov 09, 2017

Too much happening for too little pages. Almost next to no depth in the story, it's honestly a bit of a mess.

CrazyforRAMU

Apr 20, 2018

Mojo strikes just as the Blue team drops by to visit the Gold team. His meta-aware blathering about Legacy *should* have been the cringiest thing in the issue, but Marc Guggenheim mangled the entire script with formidable ineptitude. Both character interactions and the basic air traffic control matters of "X-Men X, Y, and Z respond to crises A, B, and C" are hopelessly muddled. Mike Mayhew's art has a little nice polish to it, but the sterile bones of 3D modeling show through both his architecture and his characters. With charity I can just about believe the creators were earnestly trying to tell a good story; I cannot say they came anywhere close to succeeding.

joe

Oct 04, 2017

The art was awfull , why artists use 3d model and trace over it?