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I thought this was a really poor effort, especially as a new #1 issue. I bought almost every issue of the previous volume and still food the story here to be choppy and hard to follow.

Truly dreadful stuff. This is the last issue, but nothing in the comic itself would indicate such. It's hard to follow what's going on and even harder to care. To me, this is among the worst of the Age of Revelation series.

I generally enjoy this book, but this episode felt like filler and didn't have much content. At this point, it's getting hard to understand why the core Thundercats, who have Bengali now, are not out actively searching for these Lost ones. Not the best chapter.

I've purchased every Thundercats comic Dynamite has published, and this was no exception. I thought this was a decent origin/spotlight for Pumyra, but it felt shockingly thin for a $6 comic. What's here is "fine", though.

The conclusion feels emotional if not ever so slightly rushed, but still hits all the right beats and leaves a tiny bit open-ended for when Rainbow Rowell (hopefully) writes her next Runaways series. These characters deserve at least one more series.

I love Dani Moonstar, but this still feels like a load of meaningless filler for the sake of itself. I won't be back for issue 2, even though I am a huge New Mutants fanboy.

A rushed and sloppy unsatisfying end to a series that deserved a more fulfilling climax. We get a gobbledygook answer to the main mystery of the final arc, and then a poorly explained conclusion.

This series is the most I've ever connected with Jason Todd as Robin. I feel like I finally have a genuine understanding of the Robin that is traditionally my least favorite. Thank you, Jeff Lemire.

Rainbow Rowell knows these characters and writes them so well it almost brings me to tears. It's heartbreaking that this mini isn't selling well enough to give the Runaways another crack at life in a longer series. This is magnificent stuff for fans of these characters.

Comics don't need to be saturated with words to be filled with emotion, love and hope. This issue is another triumph.

I've really enjoyed all the other episodes in this Giant Size story arc, but this one was easily the weakest and most disappointing to me. Very little plot happens, and Legion barely appears. This comic just feels flat to me and lacking in substance. I'm still looking forward to the conclusion of this story, but this chapter feels almost entirely skippable.

It pains me to say it, but this was purest trash. The big scenes with Dazzler and Siryn are totally unbelievable, and the "romances" feel more forced and arbitrary than almost any on memory in X-Men comics. What happens to Dazzler simply would not be permitted by the X-Men-ever-and the whole "Graymalkin is a mutant prison now and the X-Men do nothing" story feels artificial and silly. This book badly needed editing and streamlining before it was ever allowed to be published.

This last issue is the weakest of the series by far and brings down the story as a whole. An absolute mess of a climax that fails to deliver on moments that should be tremendously fun. Disastrous.

I like Gail and I like her new mutants and I like the social commentary she's inserted into this book. But I did not like this ending to the major story arc. All of the talk and action in this ended up feeling too incoherent for my taste. I like what Gail was going for in this arc, but I don't think it really stuck the landing.

I love Lanzing and Kelly, and NYX was a pure delight. That said, this comic feels a little too fast and a bit incoherent to me. I'm very intrigued by all the developments regarding the Phoenix and the White Hot Room, but this book was tough to follow nonetheless. I don't regret buying it, but it was on the weaker and more confusing side in my opinion.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.