X-Men United #1
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| Writer | Eve Ewing |
| Artist | Tiago Palma |
| Cover Price | $4.99 |
WELCOME TO GRAYMATTER LANE, LEARN TO SURVIVE THE EXPERIENCE! "Build a school," Charles Xavier told them, and the X-Men have done so - but in a manner nobody saw coming! Welcome to Graymatter Lane, a place where mutants anywhere in the world can come together in unity to teach one another the skills needed for their survival! With instructors including Wolverine, Beast, Prodigy, Magneto and more, and a campus unlike any before seen, it's the crossroads of the X-Universe as a student body from across the globe works to take mutantkind to the next step in their evolution - and to cope with a brewing threat to all of their number!
CRITIC REVIEWS Back to Top
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But Why Tho? - William Tucker
Mar 11, 2026X-Men United Issue 1 feels like a new home. With the mutants so scattered, it’s such a reward to have a place for them all to come back. Read Full Review
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Nerd Initiative - Megan Nichole
Mar 11, 2026This comic was made with the X-Men fans in mind. There’s an incredible essence of what makes the X-Men who they are, while introducing new factors. This was an absolute home run! Read Full Review
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9.0
Fanlight Zone - Josh Allen
Mar 11, 2026Thank you for taking the time to check out my review. Be sure to reach out to me on Twitter, and let me know what you thought of the issue! Read Full Review
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8.6
The Super Powered Fancast - Deron Generally
Mar 11, 2026Palma creates some beautifully detailed and visually stunning art throughout the issue. I really like the visuals and character designs. Read Full Review
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8.0
AIPT - David Brooke
Mar 11, 2026X-Men: United #1 lays the foundation for a new direction that blends classic X-Men themes with a bold new setting. Eve L. Ewing builds on the groundwork from Exceptional X-Men, bringing her newer characters forward while giving Emma Frost a fascinating role as architect of a psychic school meant to protect and guide mutantkind. The idea of a shared mental space where mutants can learn and connect is imaginative and full of storytelling potential. Tiago Palma’s art captures the character drama and surreal environments effectively, even if the action moments feel restrained. The issue reads primarily as a setup chapter, but the tension between Emma’s optimism and Cyclops’ suspicion hints at a larger ideological clash ahead that should drive the series forward. Read Full Review
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8.0
You Don't Read Comics - Russ Bickerstaff
Mar 11, 2026Things are big and complicated in the extended X-Men end of the current Marvel Universe. Lots of characters. Lots of moving parts. Lots of inner and outer conflicts. It would seem kind of absurd to try to cram everyone under a single cover the way this title seems to be attempting. Thankfully...the series seems to be in remarkably good hands with Ewing. She’s done an admirable job keeping everything well-composed. Read Full Review
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7.8
Comic Watch - Marcell Hines
Mar 11, 2026Despite a few questionable narrative choices, X-Men United is off to an entertaining start as we continue into the Shadows of Tomorrow. Read Full Review
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5.0
Weird Science Marvel Comics - mrgabehernandez
Mar 11, 2026X-Men United #1 assembles an ambitious institutional reboot with visually imaginative world-building and timely thematic hooks about collective leadership and mental health-focused recruitment, yet it stumbles by prioritizing setting over story. Ewing constructs Graymatter Lane as a psychic marvel, a nowhere-everywhere school that elegantly sidesteps physical vulnerability, and Palma renders that concept with surreal architectural flair that distinguishes the mind palace from standard superhero campuses. However, the issue’s fatal flaw is its lack of a clear protagonist whose internal journey and emotional stakes anchor the sprawling ensemble. Read Full Review
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3.0
ComicBook.com - David Harth
Mar 11, 2026X-Men United #1 is a disappointment, yet another misstep from the X-office. It doesn’t do anything interesting with the first issue and doesn’t really fix the problems that most of the X-books have been having; in fact, it just repeats the “Cyclops is mad that people don’t do what he says” arc that has been the main “From the Ashes” idea. If you liked Exceptional X-Men, you might like this comic. If you didn’t, just read Uncanny X-Men instead. Read Full Review
USER REVIEWS Back to Top
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2.5
Eve L Ewing attempts to reinvent the current situation the X-men are in with this soft reboot attempt. Of all writers on the X team , and believe me I know talent is very scarce ...Why give it to someone who sells no books and wrote the terrible Exceptional X-men that was canceled? This is a soft reboot full of rehashed ideas that haven't worked. Cyclops is still angry Cyclops, Kitty and Emma seem to be all over X-men leadership in recent years. I'm not sure why. Wasn't Kitty a Barista unable to balance coffee and dating women? wasn't she also a pirate? wasn't Emma married to Tony Stark? Yeah... modern X-men comics are terrible and this book does little to change anyones mind and this creative team was never going to do it. X-men are br more
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First of all: what kind of message does this comic give younger readers by telling them that the only safe space is the virtual (astral) world? But even if we ignore the fact that this is basically transhumanism for kids, it is also a bad idea from a writing point of view to have all your characters interact in an imaginary space that for some reasons functions just like the regular world - complete with toilets for the disabled and hospital ward - but isn't the regular world. This is just stupid, confusing and unnecessary. It almost goes without saying that the creative execution of this horrible idea isn't great either. Not only does Eve Ewing's writing for this issue reach a whole new level of stupid, the art by Tiago Palma is equally more
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