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brandonadaniels's review
adventurous
fast-paced
2.25
Lemire’s run continues, but many threads are getting tied up as it approaches its end. Entertaining enough.
saskiacb's review against another edition
3.0
Things to highlight:
Illyana's guilt over Sapna, her and Ororo travelling dimensions to find her only to find she's been corrupted by her own power and by this "world-eater". In the end, Illyana is forced to end Sapna, kill her? The ending is ambiguous.
Illyana and Ororo depending on each other.
Kurt and Piotr's friendship.
I love Logan as an old man, drinking beer and his nicknames for everyone.
Illyana's guilt over Sapna, her and Ororo travelling dimensions to find her only to find she's been corrupted by her own power and by this "world-eater". In the end, Illyana is forced to end Sapna, kill her? The ending is ambiguous.
Illyana and Ororo depending on each other.
Kurt and Piotr's friendship.
I love Logan as an old man, drinking beer and his nicknames for everyone.
crookedtreehouse's review against another edition
2.0
Jeff Lemire is a better writer than is evident in these pages. The X-Men being forced to run the school out of limbo makes for the most interesting conceit of the three major X-titles of this era (Uncanny and All-New being the others), but what Lemire did with it was so tropey and overdone that it felt wasted. Another Apocalypse future? Another young, powerful mutant gets possessed and has to be put down, making the rest of the X-Men very sad about the sacrifice of a new character. It's nothing new or exciting.
Add to this the weird characterization changes of Nightcrawler and Colossus (the former with a barely touched upon PTSD, the latter a horesman of Apocalypse), and there isn't a lot that works.
Lemire's run, as a part of continuity is pretty terrible. As an elseworld? It's ok. But it still doesn't have anything new to say.
I recommend it if you can't get enough of X-books that deal with the aftermath of alternate futures that haven't happened yet (see Age Of Apocalypse, Messiah Complex, Age Of X, Days Of Future Past), or if you were a huge fan of Bendis's Uncanny X-Men run because it had Magik as a central character.
Add to this the weird characterization changes of Nightcrawler and Colossus (the former with a barely touched upon PTSD, the latter a horesman of Apocalypse), and there isn't a lot that works.
Lemire's run, as a part of continuity is pretty terrible. As an elseworld? It's ok. But it still doesn't have anything new to say.
I recommend it if you can't get enough of X-books that deal with the aftermath of alternate futures that haven't happened yet (see Age Of Apocalypse, Messiah Complex, Age Of X, Days Of Future Past), or if you were a huge fan of Bendis's Uncanny X-Men run because it had Magik as a central character.
mjfmjfmjf's review against another edition
2.0
Bad writing. Worse art. Dumb story. Almost every character is written wrong. Some are at least somewhere in the ballpark like Forge. But Jean Grey and Old Man Logan were complete misses. The prison breakout at least had potential. Just go ahead and skip.
pickett22's review against another edition
2.0
Mostly it was just super boring. I blame part of this on the fact that we're largely going over the same ground we've trod a thousand times. Apocalypse, someone gets turned into a horseman, time-travel, demonic possession, children die...
At this point, if you want me to care about this stuff again, it has to be written really well, because buddy, I have seen it before with all the same characters. There is nothing new under the X-Men sun.
The book ends off with X-Haven being destroyed, so the mutants are going to have to return to Earth and here begins IvX, because super-hero-infighting is something totally new that we're definitely not bored of yet.
wanderlustlover's review against another edition
3.0
Summer 2021 (July);
I totally spaced and meant to send these through in July. This was more of my Time!Displaced Baby Jean Read while I was waiting between my computer keyboard being out and the ownership of my new computer that I could actually type on. This collection of 4 was okay, but the Time!Displaced X-Men were more side pieces in my opinion in these than really the focus of them.
I totally spaced and meant to send these through in July. This was more of my Time!Displaced Baby Jean Read while I was waiting between my computer keyboard being out and the ownership of my new computer that I could actually type on. This collection of 4 was okay, but the Time!Displaced X-Men were more side pieces in my opinion in these than really the focus of them.
woodenpersonality's review
adventurous
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
2.0
saskiac's review against another edition
3.0
Things to highlight:
Illyana's guilt over Sapna, her and Ororo travelling dimensions to find her only to find she's been corrupted by her own power and by this "world-eater". In the end, Illyana is forced to end Sapna, kill her? The ending is ambiguous.
Illyana and Ororo depending on each other.
Kurt and Piotr's friendship.
I love Logan as an old man, drinking beer and his nicknames for everyone.
Illyana's guilt over Sapna, her and Ororo travelling dimensions to find her only to find she's been corrupted by her own power and by this "world-eater". In the end, Illyana is forced to end Sapna, kill her? The ending is ambiguous.
Illyana and Ororo depending on each other.
Kurt and Piotr's friendship.
I love Logan as an old man, drinking beer and his nicknames for everyone.
murderbot42's review
4.0
Okay, that's what I'm talking about! Even though this particular comic doesn't have my favorite X-Men, I still expect a certain level of enjoyability from an X-Men comic (call me spoiled). So the last volume of this series was a pretty big disappointment for me. I am so glad I continued on with it though! The artist hit it out of the ballpark, and the cliffhanger at the end? Genius! (And creepy.)
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