I loved the Magento issue, very deep and heavy, I love when comic books tackle tough topics.The mojo volume I thought would be the worst thing ever, it turned out to be pretty funny and informative.Mystique is insane wow, I have always liked evil Mystique, hope she continues to be writing like this. That Juggernaut issue was ... something. I always thought he worked only as supporting muscle and after that, I think I was right. Never cared too much for Emma but after this issue shes seems like a...

[Read in single issues]So it was a bunch of one shots but some just felt more unnecessary that others.

Six vignettes revolving around some of the X-Men's biggest foes. I thought Chris Claremont's Magneto story worked best, followed by Scott Aukerman's goofy story about Mojo falling for a young woman. The art outside the Mojo and White Queen stories was suspect.

These are a series of vignettes that plays with the villains of the X-team rooster that are morally ambiguous and have been on both sides of the X-men's team. The artists and the writers vary greatly, and aside from being part of the end of the three colored X-titles (Gold, Blue, Red), it seems both refreshing and slight. Chris Claremont and Dalibor Talajic take on Magneto, which does use some of the X-men blue continuity, has normal verbosity of Claremont and doesn't move the plot along, but do...

X-Men Black is a series of 6 stories featuring typical X-villains and what is going on with them in their current continuity. Summaries:Magneto - Befriending a diner waitress, Erik shows her there is no need to fear mutants. Unfortunately, between some unruly townspeople and an attack from O.N.E., Magneto does little to change the minds of all... yet is still an ultimate badass...Mojo - Stuck on Earth, Mojo is getting lonely. When he is able to see how New York can accept others (via Glob of the...

This was a fun little collection of short stories. Not much else to say except for, I enjoyed the different art styles.

Did I only read this for Emma Frost? Absolutely. Was it worth it? Nah. This is an anthology book featuring Juggernaut, Magneto, Mojo, Mystique, Apocalypse, and Emma Frost. The stories vary wildly in quality, with Mystique having the most coherent and interesting entry. Readable at best, and mind-numbingly boring at worst, it's not a great selection...

Pretty much the next steps for Magneto, Juggernaut and Emma Frost; a great day in the life story for Mystique and a pointless Mojo story, which at least for a change was actually funny. One of those books you don't is worth reading until you see what happens here feeds into main continuity?

a mixed bag of short stories involving some of the x-mens villians. Some stories I liked, the emma frost, mojo and apocalypse are fun. The magneto and Juggernaut felt under developed and just too short. The mystique story I'm indifferent about, it was good but i pretty much forgot about it. The art is all over the place, mostly bad, i did enjoy Bachalo. You can skip this and you wont miss it.

Read as individual issues.I love the concept but any collection of shorts by various creators is going to be a mix of high points, low points and averageness. That said, overall, I enjoyed this collection and highly recommend it. Normally, I wouldn't badmouth something but the low point for me of this collection is the Apocalypse story. He's one of my favorite X characters and the story didn't really work for me. The art was gorgeous, which is the only other bad mark I'll give. The Emma Frost st...

A really good collection of one shot stories from the perspective of the X-men's villains. Villians like; magnito, emma frost, mystique, jaugernut, mojo and apocalypse. Each story was felt completed, was true to the character and showed them improving on themselfs (albeit in a varying levels of crual/horrifying). Which is to be expected because their villians. Spoilers-----------------------*Magneto story was rather sweet, in which he delts with young humans who ethier accepted or hated mutants....

A little uneven, as these sorts of anthologies tend to go. The Magneto and Mystique stories were probably the best of the bunch.

While the X-Men are away, the villains will play - with X-Men Blue, Red, and Gold all going on, some of the villains are feeling a bit neglected, and they decided to band together and get their own series of one-shots instead so you don't forget who they are. Or something like that. Who knows?We open with a Magneto story by Chris Claremont and Dalibor Talajic, which I thought was going to be extremely wordy and frustrating, but it was actually pretty good. It's very light on the Magneto and focu...

I'm intrigued by this villains/anti-heroes anthology! It's kind of a mixed bag for me. Chris Claremont's Magneto story didn't really break any new ground for that character, but whatever, I'm not mad about more of Magneto's reflections about injustice.I liked the Mystique and Emma Frost stories. The Mojo one was funny (written by Scott Aukerman so it should be!) but also kind of gross (not just because of Mojo's whole deal but also the way he was rewarded for his terrible behavior with a cute ge...

This was an anthology series with different creative teams on each issue. None of them were particularly bad, though the Apocalypse backup stories were definitely my least favorite part. I think because he’s just not a sympathetic character. No matter what he goes through, I don’t care. I like Apocalypse for what tends to surround him in a story (the Horsemen, the world building, the stakes, etc.). The others were all really well done, though, and unique in their approaches. Magneto managed to a...

A miXed bag of authors and artists present the whereabouts of the X-men's greatest villains, setting the stage for the final phases of X-men titles before the House of X minis this summer.

X-Men Black was a collection of short stories about various members of the X-Men series. As such the strength of the volume is a direct result of the quality of the stories. To me it was rather a hit or miss proposition. The Magneto story? It was a meh story which exists to virtue-signal pretentious SJW tropes. The Mojo story also suffers from the same brand of stupidity. Seriously? Mojo is in love with some stupid hipster girl? yeah? What's worse is the hipster girl likes the bloated yellow ali...

The X-Men are full of superb gray characters, many of whom started out as pure villains but gained nuance and redemption at the hands of great characters. Unfortunately, most of them have been re-blackened in more recent years at the hands of much less proficient craftsmen. This is the story of several of those interesting, once-gray characters. Also Mojo, who's never been the least bit interesting.The Magneto story has the nuance and graying that you'd hope for this character, which perhaps sho...

five stars for all save apocalypse (and extra stars for emma); which was a cool story and probably also deserves 5 stars, but he makes me nauseous with how horrible he is so I can't trust myself to judge accurately.

Some nice stories about Magneto and Mojo that 'humanize' them and make them more relatable. Apocalypse takes a journey of discovery.