X-Men Noir #2 Reviews
Summary of the two reviews for X-Men Noir #2, provided by IGN and Comicsbulletin.
X-Men Noir #2
COVER BY: DENNIS CALERO
WRITER: FRED VAN LENTE
PENCILS: DENNIS CALERO
INKS: DENNIS CALERO
COLORED BY: DENNIS CALERO
LETTERED BY: NATE PIEKOS
THE STORY:
“Chief Detective Magnus had never seen Sebastian Shaw so angry before. The vein pulsating in the man’s forehead threatened to burst as he swept one arm around what remained of his looted Hellfire Club.
“‘Look at this!’ Shaw seethed. ‘Just look! They stole everything that wasn’t nailed down — and then they took the nails out of the rest of it and stole that, too!
“‘If you can’t catch these ‘X Men,’ Eric, I can just as easily shift my…support to someone who will…”
Parental Advisory …$3.99
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IGN
Excerpt: Minor quibbles aside, I’m having a blast with X-Men Noir. The series is a huge dose of fun, even as it offers one of the darkest and most depressing takes on the merry mutants I’ve ever seen. At this point, I think a few of the core X-books could stand to take a page or two from X-Men Noir. Read More from IGN.com
[rating:4.5]
ComicsBulletin
Excerpt: No, this series will not have any bearing on the ongoing X-titles. Instead, Van Lente and Calero are giving us a fully realized alternate world, where the X-Men tropes and characters are filtered through a noir sensibility. So instead of mutant powers, these versions have criminal skills that reflect their mainstream names and personalities. It’s a lot like Neil Gaiman’s 1602, without the shoehorned-in links to actual continuity and super-powers. Read more from comicsbulletin.com
[rating:3.5]
ComiXtreme
Excerpt: The series feels fairly predictable, and by the numbers. Ultimately, it feels like I’ve seen something like this already, and that there’s not a lot here that’s actually original or inspired. Whereas the Spider-Man: Noir focuses as much on setting as character to feel deeply entrenched in the time period, and then develop how the characters fit into that setting, this series doesn’t bother with that. It just throws in characters without grounding them in this reality and it ends up not quite working. Read More from cX
[rating:3/5]
Overall Rating for X-Men Noir #2
Although not a canonical comic in 616, X-Men Noir provides much entertainment and the like.
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