X-Manhunt

The Uncanny X-Men (2024)

by Gail Simone, Javier Garrón (Artist), Matthew Wilson (Colorist)

The first blockbuster crossover of the "From the Ashes" era of X-Men begins, as every X-Men team under the sun races against time to find Charles Xavier!

The world’s most dangerous mutant is on the run! Charles Xavier surrendered himself to the authorities at the end of the Orchis War and was willingly imprisoned in Graymalkin Prison, but now something has spurred him into action — into escaping his incarceration and embarking on a mad scramble across the nation! What has caused Professor X to take this drastic action? And will his assorted pupils move to protect him, recapture him...or kill him? The answer, of course, is all of the above! Alliances will be battle-tested, and the blades of betrayals will cut deep. And when the dust finally settles, Charles Xavier will have to make a tectonic-shifting choice — with the fate of all mutantkind in the balance!

COLLECTING: Uncanny X-Men (2024) 11, NYX (2024) 9, Storm (2024) 6, X-Men (2024) 13, X-Factor (2024) 8, X-Force (2024) 9, X-Manhunt Omega (2024) 1

Genres: Comics, Marvel, Graphic Novels, X Men, Superheroes

208 pages, Paperback

Published November 25, 2025

About the author

Gail Simone is a comic book writer well-known for her work on Birds of Prey (DC), Wonder Woman (DC), and Deadpool (Marvel), among others, and has also written humorous and critical commentary on comics and the comics industry such as the original "Women in Refrigerators" website and a regular column called "You'll All Be Sorry".

Reviews

[Frédéric · Rating 2 out of 5]

The idea wasn't uninteresting, on the contrary, but the execution is disastrous. The plot is more or less shoehorned into each series, resulting in a narrative that is indigestible and chaotic, and would undoubtedly have benefited from being a whole mini-series instead.

So: to save his daughter in space, Xavier escapes and behaves like a real asshole level 12 throughout the run. He is seconded in this by Storm, who is detestable and arrogantly out of line, and to a lesser extent by Sage, who is nothing but a stupid devotee.
The X-Men and Uncanny X-Men teams fare better. Although Cyclops and Rogue disagree on what to do with Charles, they keep their feet on the ground, each with arguments that are understandable from their respective points of view.
The X-Factor episode serves no purpose but is reasonably well written, focusing on Havok rather than the fights—even if there are some—and Exceptional X-Men is just a fraud with no connection to the event.

In short, another poorly executed event by the Marvel stable, which clearly doesn't know what to do with the mutants since the end of Krakoa

[Kaylin (The Re-Read Queen) · Rating 1 out of 5]

As someone reading the current line who had to scramble to get all these issues— I wish I hadn’t

It is 8 issues of contrived fight after contrived fight. There’s literally a panel where a character stabs another character and it’s a whole page and big and shocking— until you turn the next page and they are fine and it meant nothing

How this whole cross over was… it meant nothing for the current stories at all and didn’t even conclude any of the previous stories well

[Dakota Morgan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not the absolute worst mini-series, but it's certainly strange and disjointed due to being spread across single-issues in several different ongoing series. Basically, it details how Professor X broke out of his prison, obtained a Krakoan egg, used it to rebirth his daughter, and then jet off to his long-forgotten space wife.

Some parts were more fun than others, especially the early going in which Xavier is more present. Xavier being devious in the NYX crossover was a hoot, as were his backdoor dealings with Sage in the X-Force crossover. The Exceptional X-Men crossover...didn't actually include Xavier at all? Odd.

The Omega issue featured a big dumb battle between the various X-beings regarding whether Xavier should be allowed to leave the planet or remain to atone for his late-stage Krakoa crimes. Cyclops emotes as hard as he can, which would be lame except his version of big emotions is a laser eye-blast that evaporates the landscape.

X-Manhunt easily could have been a one-shot, but most of the weird, wide-ranging journey was fine. Definitely it'll be nice to have Xavier off-scene for a while - though I'd happily follow his space adventures.

[Atomread W. Megaforce · Rating 3 out of 5]

Der Klappentext nennt es einen "Schlüsselmoment der neuen X-Men-Ära"; ICH raffe die meiste Zeit absolut nicht, was gerade passiert.

Aber irgendwann prügeln sich mal zwei riesige Roboter während Bibelverse zitiert wurden, das fand mein innerer 13-jähriger fast so cool wie Laservelociraptoren, daher kann ich guten Gewissens 3 Sterne geben

[Paul · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.6 stars

[Ruben · Rating 2 out of 5]

Me siento tan a disgusto con este libro, el blanqueamiento a Xavier, el hecho de hacer retcon con las atrocidades que hizo en Fall of x, el redimir a Xavier diciendo que tenía cáncer y que no sabía lo que hacía pero ahora que le han extirpado el tumor, She is free, hola?

Y lo que creo que es peor, echar por tierra el desarrollo y caracterización de otros personajes, Emma Frost dándole un beso llorando es lo menos Emma Frost que he leído nunca, que Storm esté súper puesta en ayudar a Xavier cuando lo último que le dijo fue que no le consideraba ni siquiera un amigo y le cerró las puertas de Arakko

En conclusión siento que este evento es un Retcon muy poco orgánico y forzado por la mano de la industria, supongo que se acercan las pelis de X-men y hay que busca la sinergia con el UCM, me quedo muy desganado con la X-office actual

[Aisling · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5

Professor X should stay in space.

[Adam Fisher · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is what I have been waiting for in the whole "From the Ashes" era of X-Books! The plot is pretty simple to understand, but is phenomenal in execution.
Story: Charles Xavier telepathically receives a distress call from Xandra (his and Liliandra's daughter) that she needs his help, so he escapes Greymalkin Prison (proving that he could have at any time). Some of the X-Men want this, some do not. They fight each other about it, all while Xavier finds the last Krakoan resurrection egg left. He brings back Liliandra (not sure when she died last) and they prepare to leave the Earth to rescue Xandra in the Shi'Ar region of space. Xavier meets with some of the X-Men, claims he is retiring and his dream has failed, asking them to make a new dream and rebuild a school for mutants.
Where this story excels is in not only how the overall story is able to take place during what all the other individual titles have going on, but how epic it is when X-Men teams fight each other. Mutants fighting mutants on this scale has been missing since pre-Krakoan Era.
I loved this! Strong recommend.

(Now the burn towards Age of Revelation....)

[Jason · Rating 1 out of 5]

1.75
Shockingly terrible. An accurate testimony to post-Krokoa X-Men. A return to a lackluster and tired status quo but determined to be much worse in all new, all different ways. And here's me, the fool reading every month dutifully.

[Tyler Jenkins · Rating 3 out of 5]

I’m not sure why this got so poorly reviewed I enjoyed it a good deal. Seeing all of the current teams interact in some form for such a big deal was cool. I get why they fought each other but I guess I don’t get why Xavier just didn’t tell them what was going on. This man holds way too many secrets for no reason. He said all he ever wanted to be was a professor, so how did we lose the plot and become an asshole. I do like cosmic Marvel so I’m excited to read Imperial and find out what’s going out in space that caused all this to happen. And I’m excited to see where the mutants go next. This was a devastating blow for them that I don’t see them recovering from soon. It had some solid action and started some cool stories for a couple teams.

[Joselyn]

Me abstendré de calificar esto porque no tengo idea de como calificarlo y no me atrevo a intentarlo honestamente. Además, creo que este evento ya ha recibido suficientes bajas calificaciones. Sin embargo, aquí va mi reseña.

Es un evento malo, eso sin duda pero, es tan malo como toda esta era lo es pues, peca de lo mismo que las demás series: es soso, sin chiste, repetitivo y hasta pretencioso.

Son 8 números en total y, en ellos, de alguna forma no pasa nada y a la vez pasa de todo. No pasa nada porque en más de la mitad de estos números la historia es la misma pero pasa de todo porque, sin desarrollo alguno, los personajes pasan de odiar a Charles a amarlo. Lo cierto es que, no considero que ninguno de estos personajes haya odiado verdaderamente a Charles en algún momento pero, eso no significa que no se hayan sentido decepcionados, molestos y hasta enemistados con él en múltiples ocasiones. Es el amor que los X-Men le tienen a Charles el que complica la relación entre ambos y potencia el nivel de decepción que puedan llegar a experimentar. No es lo mismo que un desconocido mate a miles de humanos a que lo haga tu figura paterna y, aunque puedo ver qué los escritores de este evento entienden un poco de eso, ninguno tiene ni la mínima idea de como abordar una relación TAN compleja. Es por eso que me atrevo a calificar este evento como pretencioso.

Lo más grave de este evento es que pasa por alto todo el desarrollo que se dio en Krakoa y eso en lo que respecta a, literalmente, CUALQUIER personaje. El último número de la serie de X-Men nos dió reflexiones interesantes sobre como Charles encontró cierta paz en que sus estudiantes, a diferencia de él, se hayan convertido en héroes excepcionales. Su interacción con Jean es la que más evidencia esto pues, además de que es ella la que mejor ha seguido sus ideas, es también de los pocos personajes que son conscientes de todo lo que el hizo para destruir a Enigma. Hay todo un mundo de posibilidades ahí planteado y, sin embargo, está serie no toma en cuenta NADA de eso en lo absoluto. Ninguno de los eventos sucedidos en Rise of the Powers of X se mencionan, ninguno de los personajes ahí incluidos como Exodus, por ejemplo, aparecen ni tampoco otros personajes relevantes en el desarrollo de personaje de Charles como Magento son, siquiera, referenciados, mucho menos explorados. ¿De verdad pensaban estos escritores que tendrían éxito en contar esta historia sin tomar en cuenta esos elementos? ¡Me cuesta creer que si!

Leí por ahí que la relación de Charles con Magneto fue omitida para enfocarse en la relación entre Charles y Scott pero, no es como que esta última esté muy bien desarrollada como para justificar lo primero. En realidad, es todo lo contrario pues, son pocas las interacciones entre ambos y ninguna es sustanciosa. Scott se la pasa insistiendo en que Charles debe regresar a prisión y, aunque entiendo su motivación detrás de esta insistencia, me cuesta creer que Scott, entre todos los mutantes, no tenga problema con la existencia de la prisión Graymalkin donde mutantes, no solo Charles, son básicamente abusados y privados de su libertad injustamente. En verdad me fastidia que ningún personaje se preocupe por la existencia de esa prisión lo suficiente como para hacer algo al respecto.

Otro aspecto que, sin duda, odié, fue el tumor de Charles. ODIO este tipo de tramas en las que intentan borrar las acciones de un personaje mediante elementos absurdos. Simplemente no me gusta que hagan como que ese desarrollo de personaje no existió o le quiten peso bajo la premisa de "no estaba siendo el mismo". El desarrollo que Charles tuvo en Krakoa fue de los aspectos que más disfruté de la era y de los que me parecieron más complejos e interesantes. Es de pésimo gusto que hayan tirado ese desarrollo a la borda en un vano intento por redimirlo. Ni siquiera creo que fuera necesario en este momento redimirlo y mucho menos de forma tan apresurada. Además, para lograr eso, primero tendrían que entender a él y los demás personajes, lo que claramente no hicieron.

En cuanto a aspectos positivos se refiere, admito que me gustó el primer número, la pelea entre Cyclops y Storm, algunas frases de Charles en el número final y el papel de su hija Xandra como su motivación principal. Sin embargo, esto último me lleva a otro elemento que no me gustó: la resurrección de Lilandra. Todo propósito narrativo que Lilandra pueda llegar a tener, Xandra lo puede satisfacer y de una forma mucho más interesante y novedosa. Además, la relación entre Charles y Lilandra no funcionó en su momento y no veo porque ha de funcionar ahora. Estoy segura de que los escritores se quedaron sin creatividad y recurrieron a esta trama absurda como una manera de profundizar en el personaje de Charles. Obviamente fracasaron.

Sin embargo, lo anterior me lleva a otro aspecto que si me gustó y con ello me refiero al anuncio final de Hickman dándole continuidad a la historia de Charles en su nuevo evento Imperial. Tengo mucha fe así que, al menos puedo decir que este evento tuvo un final feliz para mí :DDD.

Por último, no les recomiendo que lo lean a menos que quieran saber que ha sido de los X-Men últimamente.

[Joey Nardinelli · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ugh I want to hate this more than I do! My major problem with this crossover event is that it isn't much of an event -- there are about 6-7 comics pulled from a variety of related X-Men series post-Krakoa, all individual issues, that feed into this one singular event comic at the end of the volume. It's SO silly. It's almost impossible to judge the art and writing since it employs so many different artists and authors, but I was blown away by a) how little I remember of these storylines in the issues I had already read and b) how effective the final issue is in spite of the issues leading up to it being pretty flat. There just isn't any real tension between the character, and having read pretty much EVERYTHING up to this point, I couldn't really fathom strong reasons for why Storm was supporting Xavier and why Rogue was throwing in with him too, nor why Cyclops and Magik and Quentin seemed to hellbent on keeping Xavier imprisoned (Quentin I get, I guess). Knowing this all then feeds into Imperial and what a wet fart that event is...just makes me care less about where this story ends up. Without that, however, it's a touching sendoff, albeit a rushed one, for Xavier after the fall of Krakoa -- I just know there's no sense of permanence here since he pops back up immediately in Imperial and when the writers inevitably want him back on Earth, they're sure going to find a way to make that happen.

It's not necessarily sloppy, but it just feels devoid of stakes in many ways. Revealing resurrection still exists essentially if a character wants it to bad enough is also going to hamstring the plot of future narratives, since they've now crossed the bridge of making that too easy. It's a fine concept and when Hickman mined it the best, it was asking more about why certain deaths mattered and what it means to suffer before dying and then have to deal with the sudden loss of time and memory before a resurrection and...yeah, essentially, I liked the status quo change of Krakoa generally better than where we're heading now. Anyone reading this is likely VERY unsurprised by this from me at this point!

[Chris Lemmerman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Charles Xavier has broken out of prison. Some X-Men want him back in. Some want him out. And Charles? He just wants to be a nuisance.

The problem with this crossover is that it takes place in the penultimate issue of three of the books it drags into its craziness. So while Xavier's gonna Xavier his way across the story, the writers of those books (NYX, X-Factor, X-Force) are trying to tell their own stories at the same time. Some are more successful than others, like X-Factor, which manages to fold everything in quite neatly, while X-Force basically puts a big finger up to the reader and says "Hang on, we need to check in on this plot" at least twice an issue.

My other problem is that there's this big hang-up about making the X-Men forgive Xavier, and there's an ongoing debate about whether he's a good man or not. I think we've all known for a long time now that while Xavier may have the best of intentions, the man's a dick, and will do whatever he wants if it means he achieves what he thinks is best for everyone. I don't buy that everyone is as heartbroken about him leaving Earth ~forever~ as they act here. Yeah, he's got a long history with all of them, but the guy fucked up one of the best things they've had going for them in years, and some of the sorrow comes across as insincere.

Fine, I guess, but hampered by a lot of problems. Might have been better as a separate event mini-series, honestly.

[Craig · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is kind of a mess, to be honest. Professor X escapes from Graymalkin Prison and some mutants want to capture him and put him back, while others want to help him. Also, it's not really clear what Xavier's goals are. Does he want to track down the last seed of Krakoa? The last resurrection egg? Help his daughter fight back against revolutionists in space? Or is all of this being caused by a tumor on his brain? And it doesn't help that this was all shoe-horned into the "From the Ashes" storylines in the immediate X-books that sprang up after the fall of Krakoa, all or most of which are meeting early conclusions. The conclusion of this story, which does kind of wrap things up, strives for some unearned emotional buy-in, only to serve as the launching pad for another series (which, to be honest, I'm looking forward to. Does the name Jonathan Hickman ring a bell?). If you're an X-Men completist, you'll want to read this. Otherwise, it isn't really essential.

[Chad · Rating 2 out of 5]

The X-books have been pretty good in the From the Ashes era. Well at least until now. This was just a bloated attempt to heighten sales for a bunch of books that are already canceled as of issue #10. At least, that's all I can figure out that's what it is because there's not much story. Professor X escapes from Graymalken so he can go help his daughter in space. Each issue of the crossover, he lies to and pisses off another group of mutants. Professor X has become such a dick that I'm glad he's leaving Earth and I hope he never comes back. Then you get to the end and find out the whole thing is just a teaser for Hickman's Imperium event which makes me just want to ignore it. This is exhibit A in how not to do a crossover.

[Shannon Appelcline · Rating 2 out of 5]

For the most part, X-Manhunt is a _terrible_ crossover. Even worse than Raid on Graymalkin, which was honestly quite bad.

But this time around, Xavier walks through almost every mutant title, and just does random things that don't really make a coherent plot. And in the meantime he badly disrupts all of their plotlines, damaging every single comic in the From the Ashes era, by forcing them to work around this bad crossover. (The result is often pointless issues while authors spin their wheels until after the crossover.)

The only saving grace is the final issue, which actually feels its about the main plot and which actually makes good use of the teams brought together. But it's not enough to save this arc-wrecking crossover, that's Marvel intrusion at its absolute worse.

[Chris · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was pretty epic and feels like a logical continuation.

There’s 2-3 weak issues (NYX is atrocious) but there’s enough of a spine to provide a reasonable standard of quality.

I found the ending surprisingly emotional.

Overall im happy with this crossover but it would have been so much better if they weeded the crap writers out of it.

The transition between chapters is also quite poor, which suggests a level of oversight. It was as if some of the writers had not read the script for the preceding chapter and were just given a rough outline.

Still, it hits a good number of highs and memorable moments.

[Jourdy · Rating 3 out of 5]

I get why some arcs go across multiples titles but it’s genuinely annoying not only because it feels disjointed but because you don’t know the motivations for everyone unless you’re reading every single title. I’m glad the professor is gone, I do think he’s earned retirement and idk how Lilandra died but I am happy they’re together and they can be with their daughter. I would be interested to know what’s happening there, but this was just fine. Mostly, out of everyone, I’m sad for Scott. He had every right to want to keep the professor in prison AND he also didn’t have time to understand what all was happening to make the professor act how he did.

[Andrew Alvis · Rating 3 out of 5]

As an overall arc it was underwhelming, just another time the Professor passes the buck.

I found the usual characters in this collection ranging from entertaining to tolerable except NYX team member Axo (the bloody gullible idiot).

Overall I am content with both art and writing but I wish to make special mention of Netho Diaz and Jed Mackay (Artist and Writer respectively of X-Men #13) who both once again outshine their fellow colleagues, though I do tip my hat as well to Geoffrey Thorne and Marcus To (Writer and Artist for X-Force) for their efforts too.

[Ross · Rating 2 out of 5]

Already an asshole...
Locked away and sedated...

Xavier can suck it.
The attempted capture and/or murder of Xavier's daughter could have been its own thing and it might not have sucked as much.

No amount of 'brain tumor' could repair the image of Xavier. He's lied to pretty much everybody in the MU. Even if it's for the greater good, his time as a hero is ashes.
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Bonus: PTSD Cyclops has to get STABBED to calm down?!

[Marta · Rating 1 out of 5]

miscaracterizacion, pelea entre ellos sin sentido tras pelea entre ellos sin sentido, y resolución del conflicto haciendo lo que se podría haber hecho en el primer numero; HABLAR. la despedida del profesor hasta me ha dado pena pero podría haber sido un stand alone y no una serie de 5-6 numeros que aportaban enrtre cero y shitpost italiano

[Steven desJardins · Rating 1 out of 5]

Meh. Crossover as an excuse for a series of fights, none of which really matter much, with character beats that are only mildly interesting. It's the sort of book that I come into with low expectations and an "okay let's check in and see if these books I am skipping are actually worth reading" attitude, and am still disappointed by.

[Matt Sautman · Rating 2 out of 5]

As an event, X-Manhunt is underwhelming, containing content already present in other trade paperbacks without providing any closure regarding the plot’s core focus on Charles Xavier’s quest to find his daughter. This book really should not exist given the amount of repeated content and lack of cohesion across each comic.

[Courtney · Rating 5 out of 5]

Definitely a lot of fighting in all but the last issue. The last issue was the most heartfelt of the series, and I don’t know how I feel about him saying goodbye to everyone. I’m sure going to be reading the next one with the professor in it.

[Elessar · Rating 3 out of 5]

Un petit 3, j'ai trouvé très poussif et artificiel, vraiment tout ça pour ça, meh, belle déception...

[Kamen Rider Ben · Rating 2 out of 5]

no entiendo porque Marvel está obsesionado con intentar blanquear a Xavier... es una obsesión

[Andres Pasten · Rating 1 out of 5]

Aburrido e interminable

[Andrew · Rating 2 out of 5]

What do I do with this? I don’t know.

[canivetepreto]

(read all the chapters separately)

[Paola Melendez · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars