this was a badass event, I mean it's a XMen event in the fact it's all Xmen titles but a damn good one,
So what happens when the mutant race is in trouble No more are popping up, The XMen are losing their minds, Everything is slowly coming apart, OH SNAP here we go a baby is born! The future might not be as bad as we thought, However, every single mutant group wants in on this including nonmutants who like to kill mutants, Now it's a race to whomever can get to this baby first and what they will do,
Good: Love, love, love the way all these Xmen titles mix and flow so well, XFactor,New Xmen, Uncanny and Xmen all work really well together surprisingly, While there's a few writers they all mesh well together, I loved the tense and chasing feel the entire story gave, As if time is running out, and everyone in scrambling, It felt like it had a ton of stakes too as people would die a lot, and not just minor characters, Each faction of the Xmen had something to do which made it even better,
Bad: Some of the art was tough to follow making the action hard to understand, I also thought the big death at the end had been done so many times it was getting a little tiring,
Overall this was great, Exciting, fun, great dialog, with some awesome plotting, I really enjoyed this one a ton and easily give it aout of, The first mutant to be born since Scarlet Witchs curse on “MDay” see “House of M” by Brian Michael Bendis No More Mutants is named Hope and could signal the salvation of the mutant species.
But the race is
on to capture this baby: the XMen want to protect her, Mr Sinister want to use her for his infernal plans, Cable is on a mission from the future to Sarah Connor the baby, and a mutant hunting beast called Predator X is on the loose.
There is a lot going on in the book that isnt really explained so if youre jumping in blind then you might find yourself a bit lost.
Having too many series has always been a problem with XMen: Uncanny XMen, New XMen, XForce, XFactor theres too many storylines intersecting to have a standalone book make sense and reading “Messiah CompleX” I kept wondering what was going on.
Why are Cyclops and Prof X fighting Were Mystique and Rogue a couple Mystique seems to be trying to save Rogue from some comatype state how and when did that happen Is Hope Cyclops daughter whos the mother
I felt there was too much going on which made the book seem overstuffed and more than a bit jumbled.
For one thing, the futuristic mutants in concentration camps idea has been done many times before and is trotted out again here to no real effect, I think the point was that if Hope lived, this would become reality but its unclear how or why this is another storyline which I expect was addressed in future books.
Predator X was one big Macguffin what was the point in having this robotic dinosaur running rampant What is it, who sent it, why is it included That storyline just ends nowhere.
As does the Mr Sinister storyline I thought Sinister would play a much larger role than he actually did, and we never find out what his motives are anyway! Its another story point that ends in a culdesac.
The best storyline was easily Cables, Hes a futuristic mutant fighter whos come to the present to save Hope I know, its basically Tbut I dont care, Its him and a baby against everyone, good and bad, and I really wanted to read more about his fight for survival against the odds, I thought the Predator X storyline was created just for Cable to fight at the end but no, Instead we catch brief glimpses of Cable throughout before the final pages where I really wanted to pick up a book devoted entirely to Cable and Hopes survival rather than read more of the convoluted adventures of the XMen.
The book is a pretty decent and fun read as theres a lot going on so youre never bored, Its just that with so many questions about whats going on, I couldnt really enjoy it fully, I also thought there were far too many characters involved I dont know who XFactor or XForce are, and frankly I dont care, If youve read all the books leading up to this event though Im sure its more satisfying,
And on a sidenote, a major character dies at the end, I wont say who but if youve been following the more recent “Avengers Vs, XMen” title that character dies again! I guess the old rule that only Peter Parkers Uncle Ben stays dead is well and truly still enforced, Kind of undermines the shock of the ending to “Messiah CompleX” though and makes killing off characters in comics somewhat laughable, A new mutant is born and the XMen head to its location, arriving too late to a battle site waged by the Purifier and the Marauders, They must find out who has the baby by confronting the Marauders, .
Infiltrating the purifiers. .
Sending Jamie Madrox to the future for info while the rest of XFactor help the XMen,
. . and Predator X gives the New XMen MORE trouble after a year of hell,
An XMan returns, another turns traitor, . another dies . A major villain death.
Its a fun read,
Bonus: Amazing covers!
Rereadyears later after I read all the XTitles leading into this crossover, and to place it in a time, .
Before the Crossover starts:
Iceman is the last Xman standing from Mike Carey's XMen, Half his team turned Marauders, like Mystique and Lady Mastermind while Omega Sentinel was possessed by Malice, Team leader Rogue is a hostage of the Marauders, Cannonball is on the injured list and Cables dead, And See: Wolverine Evolution for the fate of Sabretooth,
It doesn't help that Sinister's Marauders are joined by Gambit, Sunfire after the whole Blood of Apocalypse thing, Random, Exodus AND his Acolytes, Making it a 'Marauder Army',
Half of Havok's Uncanny XMen team stayed in space and are in the 'XMen: Emperor Vulcan' mini and half are about to join a new XTeam, I was never a big fan of that team but "Unleash the spoiler!, " was badass, yes. . im a special kind of geek
And the Astonishing XMen are present as usual I mean they live there,
The mini sequel 'Messiah War' was ok but can be skipped,
'Second Coming' concludes the story in an epic way, One of the last great XMen events, . . Purifiers, Marauders with a few shock members and the Xpeople are all after the first mutant birth since House of M, A wonderfully put together event, that runs smoothly through all the books involved, makes sense and is gripping!out offor this! In the aftermath of House of M and Decimation, there are only a couple hundred mutants left.
It's in doubt if any will even appear again, So it's a big deal when the XMen detect a mutant baby born in Alaska, which they immediately go to safeguard, They arrive to a town on fire and all but one of the children dead at the hands of enemies of the XMen, the Purifiers and Mr, Sinister's Marauders. The XMen go on the offensive, tracking the groups back to their sources and discovering that things are not quite as they seem,
A mostly satisfying crossover Xevent, filled with good action, some interesting glimpses of an alternate future, and a strained dynamic between Cyclops and Professor X, On the other hand, there are a huge number of characters between the four Xtitles and a manythreaded plot that seemed unnecessarily complex, The art by Billy Tan, Humberto Ramos, and Chris Bachalo is excellent and is probably the redeeming factor for this story, .
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