Extraordinary X-Men #9 Review: Apocalypse Wars Part 2

By D. Goodman | Apr 20, 2016

The Apocalypse Wars continue in Extraordinary X-Men #9, if you can call one long, very unenjoyable flashback as continuing.

Extraordinary X-Men #9
Written by Jeff Lemire
Art by Humberto Ramos and Victor Olazaba
Colored by Edgar Delgado
Published by Marvel Comics

Last time in Extraordinary X-Men: When Colossus and his team of X-Men-in-training show up to stop the Sugar Man, who has managed to grow 600 mutant embryos, they are sent into the future. Storm and the X-men arrive to try to help only to discover that Colossus is now a Horseman of Apocalypse!

It is very rare that I read a comic book and come away angry.

Not upset because the story wasn’t as good as I thought it would be, or disappointed because the art wasn’t up to my expectations, but angry. Really pissed off and aggravated that I just wasted 15 minutes of my time reading some piece of garbage that is masquerading as a comic book.

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I finished Extraordinary X-Men #9 and I was seeing red.

Extraordinary X-Men #9 is easily the worst thing Marvel has published in I don’t know how long. A tired, stupid, joke of a comic book that left me wondering if I even want to bother reading the rest of “The Apocalypse Wars”, much less continue reading Extraordinary X-Men.

What did I get for my $4? Did I get to see the X-Men battle the Horsemen of Apocalypse? Did I get to discover how Colossus became a Horseman? Did we finally get to see Apocalypse himself in the flesh?

No, no and no.

Instead, we get 20 pages of the young trainee X-Men, the least interesting part of the story, traveling around for a year. In what can only be called the most blatant Secret Wars ripoff I have ever seen, in the future there are different worlds in globes all ruled by Apocalypse and the junior X-Men spend the book going from one to another looking for help.

Seriously?

But wait, there’s more! In between, we get jokes about virginity, Glob’s crush of Jean Grey and the trials and tribulations of being a brain in a jar.

You have got to be f*cking kidding me.

By the time we get back to the present and the X-Men facing off against Colossus and the Horsemen, the issue is over and “To Be Continued!” shows up to let us know we just wasted our money and time.

Look, I understand what Jeff Lemire was going for here, but did he need to waste and entire issue on this garbage? I read Extraordinary X-Men to see the X-Men, not a bunch of useless cast-offs from Grant Morrison’s New X-Men run. This story could have been told in a handful of panels and been done with but instead we get page after page of inane nonsense that gets very old very fast.

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The Bottom Line: Worst. Comic. Ever. I recommend leaving a gap in your collection instead of buying this pathetic excuse for an X-Men comic.

I seriously don’t know if I’m even going to bother reading Extraordinary X-Men anymore, so if you don’t see a review for issue #10, you will know why.