THE UNCANNY LIFE OF MOIRA X
Learn the truth about one of the X-Men’s closest allies…and then begin the fight for the future of mutantkind! Superstar writer JONATHAN HICKMAN (AVENGERS, SECRET WARS, FANTASTIC FOUR) continues reshaping the X-Men's world with Marvel Young Gun artist PEPE LARRAZ (EXTERMINATION, AVENGERS)!
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Well, maybe a couple panel with Magneto and the Cuckoos and with Raven and Xavier, both cases with no characterization whatsoever. Horridly overrated, so far.
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HOXPOX exists to establish a new era for the X-Men, less so to provide a whole lot of growth over the course of these 12 issues that really take a high-level look at what's happening. I think Hickman gets to the core of each character, but if you're looking for deep character development you'd be better off skipping to the Dawn of X series.
2 weeks ago
This review contains spoilers. Proceed at your own risk.It has been a while, probably since Batman New 52 that I have felt, the cover price was well worth the story inside. This story, for this issue is worth that price and much more. Hickman has given such a elaborate...It's a pretty big turn. I like what it sets up. Some of the formatting of these books kind of feels like it's stretching the material. Like "two series that are one" could almost just be one-
Well, the truth is all pop culture is being stretched. Every Netflix producer is asking the creative team to "make more". Make them watch more for less content. Same with comics. Make them buy more books with less content. I am just numb to it now. Now I expect everything I see or read to be "decompress". The mighty dollar always rules.
11 months ago
Brilliant. I feel like it's not a stretch to say this might have been one of the best single issues of any comic that I have ever read. Also, that Yasmine Putri Connecting Variant is FIRE.With the simple establishment of one character being a mutant with relatively easy powers to explain, Hickman has successfully given an in canon reason for any previous inconsistencies in the very convoluted X-Men continuity,...This review contains spoilers. Proceed at your own risk.An issue that adds so much to the charater of Moira MacTarrert and in the grand scheme of things the entire history of the X-men.This review contains spoilers. Proceed at your own risk.I thought I would open this issue and see a continuation of #1, and when that did not happen i was annoyed, but then quickly intrigued to figure out what was going on, and once I did....WOW...Just read it. That is my Review.... -
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Double shipping at $4.99? Marvel is pushing it.
They have been for awhile....
A couple years back they released 2 or 3 Deadpool issues that were $9.99 each!
Damn I thought they were gonna drop after the first issue... come on. Could have bought a trade for the price of issue 1&2.
It's more pages. It's a bigger book. You don't get more pages for the same or less money. Not to mention the stuff inside is so dense.
Right! This price was not pushing it for issue #1.
Love it. Two six issue miniseries finished in three months.
Is that Dr Mactaggert in the hat?
I think that's everyone's current assumption. Only other character I can think of is Kitty but that hat definitely doesn't seem to be her style haha
I think it is. She is showing up on a lot of covers and promotional material.
House of X 3# has a cypher
I believe the symbols at the end of the books just reveals the title for the next issue.
This is FAR from a Time Travel story. check out the spread, do the addition, that is why it is not a Time Travel Story.
I can see your point, and it is in a way.
It feels more like the movie Groundhog Day. Reliving the same thing over and over and trying to find a way to make things right.
I'm more interested in how they got to where they are. How did they come across making Krakoa? How did all the mutants come together this time?
I feel we have just cracked the surface, and this is just one way of setting up the backstory to move forward.
Do you even know what time travel is? This is the furthest thing from time travel. It seems you just WANT to dislike this so you've come up in your mind silly reasons to not like it. This HAS NOT been done before, at least not in such a manner. It really does change a lot about the X-Men and maybe that scares you and that's what you don't like. But then just say that and not I hate time travel, when it clearly is not a time travel story.
@Jeffbrandie I agree, this is like Groundhog Day, I can see how they will learn their lesson this time otherwise we know what is happening in 100 years.
I can not WAIT to learn what most fans will accept as the definitive truth about Krakoa, and by extension (lucky for him) Vulcan. Hickman has already shown that his X-Men title will include Vulcan (and the entire Summers family plus Jean and Wolverine, meaning this feels like search for answers story after whatever happens in Power of X #6 happens.), so expect a full correction of his actual origin. All their memories being messed up, and ours as well, can easily be attributed to Xavier or Moria messing with them and we will eat it up as long as it is thought-provoking and entertaining, but Hickman will come up with someway where it wasn't just simply Xavier messing with their memories...but killing them and then regrowing them on Krokoa maybe? (doubtful but it is fun to think about).
This.
Blew.
My.
Mind.
This issue alone explains a lot of where we are and how we got there. I did not see this coming at all and I like how it is setting up the future story for sure!
Between this and Absolute Carnage, it was a rough day for just 2 issues, but dear god they were 2 of the best reads I have had in I do not know how long. Really hard to pick just 1, but this issue reinvents so much without actually changing anything.
Absolute Carnage had me literally sitting on the edge of my seat. I couldn't get enough. Then I read this and felt exhausted. Wonderful story telling from both books, and in totally different styles. So good!
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I don't understand one thing about the timeline. According to the timeline in the back of the issue, Charles and Moira meet for the fist time in timeline X when she is 17, this has to be where they meet at the fair. This event is denoted as, "The Dream," X to the 0 power in Powers of X #1. Then in that same issue, it shows Charles with the Cerebro helmet as X to the first power (10 years later) denoted as "The World." But according to the timeline in the back of House of X #2, "House of X" doesn't happen until Moira is 52, which would be 35 years after they meet. Am I missing something?
I think the point of this issue is to show her latest effort, we don't know what is the complete timeline yet at this point because we are living it from her point of view. The past issue of Powers of X might be past failed futures shown in the timeline you reference.
Wow.
This incinerated my wig.
I was actively losing my mind while reading it.
This was FANTASTIC. I can't wait for the rest of this. Now I gotta add all the Dawn of X books to my pull. RIP my wallet
Well, it's been years since I have bought any of the X-books other than Mr. & Mrs. X. I have been keeping up with synopsis of whats been going on and I also have a very long history with the X-Men as I started reading with issue 171 oh so many years ago and took the time to read everything that came before. This issue broke me in so many ways. I loved it. I have so many questions about everything now. Hickman is doing some amazing work as usual.
The cover was even better after reading the issue! For once a cover properly conveys the story inside the book
I would guess to show you where you are in the reading order?
The ones in red are ones that are supposed to be big turning points that kinda change everything that you thought you knew before
This was amazing! Hickman is playing 3D chess with the X-men. Some might say he is playing XD chess.
Just freaking amazing! There was so much to take in there! Groundhog-esque, and explains a lot, but also leaves more questions that I feel will be answered later. Hickman is just killing it!
It's good. It's Goundhog Day on a longer scale, but it's good. That said, Hickman has gotten $15 out of us, used 135 pages and has yet to actually tell any particular story or adventure. It's all been background info table setting.
Question?
Is Moira stuck in a time loop, or creating different realities each time she dies/reborn?
It's like the movie Groundhog day I feel.
She is living the same life over and over during the same time period.
Like rebooting a video game sorta.
That's what I figured, and it's pretty awesome!
Really enjoyed how issue #2 turned out and excited to see where this goes!
Loved this issue. Now I'm gonna go back and read the other s again. Like some people I see how it looks like a time travel story....hopefully it's just for the exposition and they don't go any further.
Slightly bummed it's 4.99 and only had 22 pages of comic...
It actually has 33 pages of comic hence why it's a dollar more.
Just went through and counted 22 pages of illustrated comic. Not counting the graphs and text as comic
You can't do that. The text and graphs are literally PART of the comic. Just because it's not pictures doesn't mean it's not part of the comic. It's 33.
It's not a matter of debate. There are literally two pages of text that without you miss story. There's nothing to disagree about. The graphs are absolutely 100% part of the comic. How can you not see this?
If you don't read the graphics... You are missing the story and will get very confused. I would suggest reading them. Maybe reread this issue with the graphics?
I actively avoided reading X-Men titles because I felt that they were horrible jumping on points. BUT THIS. THIS is how you help the reader learn about the convoluted history while making it easily accessible.
PAS: This is NOT time travel.
For time travel stories please see:Paper Girls.
This is so good it has me reading week to week. This issue reminded me of one of my favorite Star Trek The Next Generation episodes titled Cause and Effect.
I loved every single page of this issue. The way Hickman guides the reader is simply magnificent. When I was half through it and I started to realized what was going on and by the end of it I was mind blown. I think Jonathan Hick man is the right guy for X-men books!
I was confused at first with Moira different Lives. But I guess it explains more in the back of the book. Every new life Moira lives, she goes back in time, and then reborn, she just keeps all her memories from every life she has lived. I love the concept.
So Moira's powers are pretty similar to Deadpool's daughter's.
Edit: Still reading the issue, but had to take a look at her history, and my gosh, here Wikipedia page is packed! 10 different lives!
Edit 2: Finished the issue. Was an interesting read. Don't know much about Moira, but such a power could be seen as a curse, very truly, since she would never get to see her children again, and even if she had began a family with Kenneth again, they wouldn't be the same kids. A normal person would go insane from having memories of 9 different lives.