Some thoughts about All-New X-Men #17

The war is about to begin once again.

The Inhuman and the X-Men is coming and Bobby needs to keep his new boyfriend out of it.

Okay, this was a good use of the tie-in admitedly but still suffers from some of the usual problems.

For one, Dennis Hopeless creates another chapter focusing on, you guessed it, character work. This time focusing on Bobby and his new Inhuman boyfriend Romeo. The relationship is handled solidly due that Hopeless uses the premise of the conflict to develope their interactions and showing a logical route for them.

The problem is that barely anything happened here in terms of plot, even less than the usual issues. Maybe Hopeless is just buying time until the cancellation of this book but it still feels pretty decompressed and I wish he would have included more content.

Mark Bagley's artwork is still decent at delivering character expressions and actions.

Not bad but not great, or even that good, in the middle maybe.