X-Men: Gold #5 Review
Writer: Marc
Guggenheim
Art Team:
R.B. Silva, Adriano Di Benedetto, Frank Martin
Marvel Comics
Release
Date: June 7, 2017
Cover Price:
$4.99
Sentinel, Sentinel,
Sentinel
X-Men: Gold
is back for another two issues this month. Now before going into this Resurrection
relaunch this was the title I was most excited about believe it or not … but
the book just hasn’t lived up to my own hype I guess. The stories have lacked that certain pizazz I
was hoping for I guess you could say but I remain hopeful, along with last
issues cliffhangers, we are treated to something interesting.
The issue
starts where #4 left off with Gambit at the mercy of the ‘Nanotechnology’
enhanced Sentinel. The Sentinel talks
shit in binary code as it nudges Gambit off the edge he’s grasping onto all
before Storm swoops in to save her longtime friend alerting him to the fact the
Gold team has arrived.
The rest of
the team is split up by Kitty to take care of various tasks on scene, saving
who and what they can, after the destruction the enhanced Sentinel caused. Prestige,
Kitty, and Colossus are the first of the team to run into this new and improved
Sentinel and courtesy of a good joke, and mostly a fastball special, are
seemingly able to handle the situation for now. Although Prestige does seems to
be greatly affected by the whole situation … because ‘psychics’ are weird I
guess.
The story
continues as the X-Men try to track where this Sentinel vanished and ran off
to. Night crawler ends up lucking out
and tracking the thing down but it has become noticeably smaller than it was
previously. Everyone decides to fight
and keep it busy while they deduce further what’s exactly occurring. Although there are cool artistic moments in
this issue the art isn’t as consistent as the first several issues happened to
be.
Nightcrawler
ends up coming up with the answer for the team leading us into the
cliffhanger. As the team takes some
punishment Nightcrawler reveals groups of nanites controlled by the Sentinel
are attacking elsewhere in the city killing people with simple imperfections or
mutations are they’re referred to here, like color blindness, baldness, and cancer. The Sentinel is basically going crazy and targeting
everyone for various reasons it deems fit as our issue concludes and the X-Men
seem helpless to stop it.
Overall this
issue is a slight improvement story wise although I wish they would do away
with the TV new personality altogether that solely shows up to spew hate. The art however on the other hand remains a
bit inconsistent throughout the issue and might be the weakest effort in the series
to date. By no means is it terrible or
not well done it just wasn’t to the quality of previous efforts if you separate
the controversy that came with it.
Bits and
Pieces
X-Men: Gold
rebounds a bit this week in the story department with a nice twist on Sentinel
technology run amok. The art however is starting to show signs of a bi weekly
release schedule.
7.0/10
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