FOR THE CHILDREN
As Cerebro does as it was intended to do, Sinister does what Sinister does best and the future comes to an end. Superstar writer JONATHAN HICKMAN (FF, NEW AVENGERS, INFINITY) continues his reshaping of X-history alongside breakout artist R.B. SILVA (UNCANNY X-MEN). The Future of the X-Men begins here!
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Fabian Cortez
Nathaniel Essex
Rossovich
Arkady Rossovich
Charles Xavier
Namor McKenzie
Carmella Unuscione
Emma Frost
Charles Xavier
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The discussion in the first scene was the best part of this issue to me. The politics and explanations are a little dry. And still not sure why I care about X^3
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HoX gets the meat of the story while PoX is the bones that help explain everything so well.
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This issue shows how you can read one or the other and understand the story of X , HoX & PoX. It's been great so far and I can't wait for the final two issues. Any word on the new Dawn of X story?
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Yeah it seemed strange to me that the cover doesn't have much obvious connection to the story. I feel like the previous HOX/POX covers were pretty story accurate.
Was kind of expecting Sinister to play a bigger role in this.
I found the Xavier quote at the beginning quite intriguing. Who is the "they" here? Humanity? I almost felt like it was directed at the reader, like "You have all these theories about what's going on, but what's really going on is totally different."
Wonder when Xavier replaced his mind with a legacy version. It's kind of crazy how these text pages just drop stuff like that out of nowhere. Also, I guess we know where Moira is now.
Interesting that Magneto uses the word inferno as this series has made several references to that storyline.
I like that we got an explantation why Emma is now the White Queen when she was previously the Black King.
Hickman likes using the word "quiet."
As an astrophysicist, I have to question the utility of creating a machine intelligence that is so dense it collapses into a black hole. But it's a cool idea anyway.
I may not be enjoying what Hickman is doing with the X-Men, but one thing I never said along the way was that an issue was boring. Until now. This issue was a snoozefest. 16 pages of business dealings followed by 4 pages of nearly incoherent computer rambling. And this is very clearly now #notmyxmen.
I've come to place Hickman up on the same plane as Alan Moore when it comes to storytelling. Particularly as he's evolved into creator-owned works like Black Monday Murders. He wants it to be serial novel style, rather than sequential storytelling. There are definitely moments when I appreciate it. And other times when I think, "I could just be reading a regular book."
I really enjoyed this one. Superhero politics are exactly my jam lol
@Forthekids15 - That is not a comparison I'm willing to accept. :)
@masterofcomicsfu - More power to you. When comics start reading like my day job they aren't escapism anymore, which is comics only job for me.
Ludicrous. This issue gave us so many answers. Yeah maybe it was info dump but it was needed. We are nearing the end so it was good it explained some things. Just because nobody punched someone else doesn't mean it wasn't good.
I do agree. It feels part self-indulgent and part padding.
@gferg1991 - Answers to what questions? And you are bringing action into the equation; I just said the business chat was boring to me. And those last four pages were absolutely self-indulgent nonsense to tell us the Phalanx would eat the world in a future that doesn't mean anything.
@SwiftMann - HAHAHAHA...I wondered how that would go over. It really only occurred to me this morning.
To everyone else: I love both HoX and Pox. I think Hickman has breathed new life into the X-Men.
@SwiftMann re: your reply to gferg, I wasn't as hot on those last four explainer pages either but someone on Twitter reminded me that Cerebro is becoming a collection of millions of mutant minds, almost like one of those machine intelligences in the data pages. I'm thinking Cerebro will get the Phalanx's attention. That reference to the Phoenix was no mistake either! All this weird stuff seems very much like teasers for what will come down the line. I find it more interesting than exciting for now.
I agree I hope the new X-Men title doesn't read like a novel because it is worse than a regular book and way worse than a comic book. I feel like the story it is just in the first act and it won't have a compelling resolution.
Still a little confused on how the Phalanx are attached to the HoX story ?
Damn that ending confused me.
What I took from it was the Phalanx absorbing that society like other societies is not unlike Cerebro holding all of the mutant selves within its memory banks. If Cerebro continues to grow, it'll no doubt reach the point of being an intelligence so advanced it might catch the eye of the Phalanx.