X-Men: Years of Future Past

Years of Future Past (2015) #1-5

by Marguerite Bennett, Mike Norton (Illustrator)

In the dystopian nations of BATTLEWORLD, the mutants of New York City must fight to survive the rule of the Sentinels. At their center is Kate Pryde, a heroine tried and tested by war, and mother of the last mutant ever to be born before the purges of the Mutant Control Act. With revolution in the wind, the X-Men are not a broken team with nothing left to lose, but a desperate family with more at risk than ever before!

COLLECTING: YEARS OF FUTURE PAST

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Marvel, X Men, Superheroes, Comic Book, Fantasy

128 pages, Paperback

First published November 17, 2015

Reviews

[Terence · Rating 3 out of 5]

Baron Kelly has sterilized mutants to ensure their genes aren't passed on. Chrissie Pryde, the daughter of Kitty Pryde and Colossus, was the last mutant ever born. She's been raised to be the Savior of mutant kind and the moment has arrived.

Years of Future Past is an odd combination of humor and philosophizing. The volume throws out dated jokes

and later goes into how jokes can turn into tragedy in enough time.

There is a story here worth telling, but five issues isn't enough time to truly develop the points being made. There also wasn't enough time to explain the massive personality changes some of the characters displayed in the series.

In the end Years of Future Past was just an ok story. If I had any doubt about that the open ended ending sealed my opinion. It's a shame to see potential squandered and this story is certainly an example of wasted potential.

[Paul · Rating 3 out of 5]

As much as I normally like Mike Norton's work, this Secret Wars based re-imagining of the X-Men classic Days of Future Past (and, no, newbies, I don't mean the film) just comes across as a watered-down version of the original.

It's not actually bad, it just doesn't really bring anything new to the table. The thing I liked the most about it is the ambiguous ending, which is something you don't get much in comicbooks.

Oh, and the Art Adams covers were nice.

[Sesana · Rating 3 out of 5]

So this is a retelling of one of the most well known comic book stories, and to call it a tribute to a better book is not entirely unfair. It does follow a lot of the story beats of the original, but it at least puts a new spin on them. It just isn't the most original or interesting of spins. The one really good thing this book does offer is its main characters, Chrissie and Cameron. Chrissie is the relatively sheltered daughter of Kitty Pryde and Colossus, and Cameron was raised on the streets by Logan. And they're actually some of the most realistically and sympathetically written teenagers I've encountered in comics in a long time. It's kind of a shame that these characters will almost certainly never be seen again, because Chrissie in particular ended up being way more interesting than I had thought she would be. These two kids absolutely made this book worth reading for me. There's also a truly unexpected plot twist towards the end of the book that livened it up a bit, and I really appreciate the ambiguous and distinctly less than hopeful ending. Not one of the best Secret Wars miniseries, but there's at least some good stuff in here.

[Scott · Rating 3 out of 5]

" . . . at fourteen, you're old enough to read the Communist Manifesto and Brave New World, but you're young enough to still watch cartoons, cry over Harry Potter, and eat cereal for every meal" - Chrissie Pryde, adorably sounding just like her mother Kate ("don't call me 'Kitty'")

Serviceable story featuring a middle-aged version of the 80's-era team. In a hellish future New York City all remaining mutants are driven underground as Sentinels and escaped tigers(!) roam the streets.

[Gavin · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is terrible. So see through, paper thin. Gee, who could the kids be? Gee who could be the one who "betrays" them? Gee Logan is the outsider?

Yawn. This is supposed to be worth reading? I almost put it down about 10 times.

[Sonic · Rating 2 out of 5]

The art is excellent, and the premise pretty solid, but it was not what I would call a fun read. Expositional excesses mixed with unexplained mysteries, and maybe too much emphasis on overwrought emotion, made my experience of this book feel like much promise, with not much delivery….

[Dan · Rating 4 out of 5]

I know a lot of people didn't like this because it mentioned little of Battleworld. But this was great in the fact that it revisited a world that now we can see what happened after the original story ended.
For more on this book - https://youtu.be/dl_CYctpWRs

[▫️Ron S. · Rating 2 out of 5]

big nope

[Charles · Rating 1 out of 5]

I haven't reviewed many comics because I have hated very few of them as much as I hate this one. I've been assured the writer's other works are very different, but the main problem can be summed up very quickly: the writer knows less about the characters and story here than wikipedia does.

The main character is "Chrissie" Pryde. This sets of red flags. Chrissie is short for Christina, a rather...odd choice of name for the daughter of Kitty Pryde, one of the most visible Jewish characters in all of comic books. Moreover the plan to "save" mutantkind is that she die for them. This is in terrible taste, and erases a fundamental aspect of the character of Kitty Pryde. It would have been more appropriate to name her Esther or any of a number of other Jewish names that would indicate her role of saving her people from death.

Aside from the spoiler above, which was bad enough, but other aspects of the characters involved were also REALLY off. Magneto, Kitty, Colossus and Wolverine were the other major characters, with guest appearances by Storm and Rachel Summers.


A good chunk of the plot revolves around Cameron, raised by Wolverine. It turns out, that we was secretly Kitty and Piotr's son, but NONE OF THEM TOLD HIM and no reason was ever given. Him being raised by Wolverine made sense, he was outside of the camps and free that way, whereas Kitty, Piotr and Chrissie were stuck inside. And Chrissie was raised as an only child, never told that she had a brother. The reason for this? I have no idea, it wasn't explained!

And then of course there's Magneto. The Holocaust survivor. Who lives in a Concentration Camp (with his powers dampened so that he's just an old man). Who never mentions Nazis or the fact that he's in a concentration camp. And who plans to sacrifice a little Jewish girl to save them all. Though I guess she might not be Jewish?


This whole thing was gross and poorly written, and I can't advocate that anyone read it ever.

[Adam Stone · Rating 3 out of 5]

Original 2020 Review:

The X-Men's future time line stories are often exhausting, and this one is no exception. It's children of X-Men, your favorite X-Men aged way up, internment camps, Sentinels, lots of dead mutants.

I enjoy that they choose not to go with a Romeo & Juliet story with "the last mutants" but their actual reveal isn't very interesting and impactful and the idea that Holocaust survivor and then interned Jewish mutant Magneto would sacrifice the youngest Jewish mutant in order to gain sympathy from humans is Way Out Of Character for every version of Magneto, and left a bad taste in my mouth, much like her book, InSEXts Vol. 1: Chrysalis, so I think I'm just going to stay away from Marguerite Bennett books for a while).

Even forgetting the problem hidden by the spoiler warning, this is just another dull slog through a part of X-continuity that was briefly interesting in the early 1980s. I don't recommend it unless you really enjoy the Days Of Future Past universe, and can get past a pretty major flaw in how she writes a major X-Man character.

***

Updated During 2025 X-reread:

The spoiler from my original review still really irks me but the rest of this story is pretty solid. I think there was real burnout trying to read all the Secret Wars in a month, and it caused me to mentally check out of this last time. The dialogue is good, and it's pretty fun for a future timeline-esque story (what does the future even mean during Secret Wars when a billion Marvel universes are happening at once).

[Michael · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really wanted to like this comic. I grew up loving the x-men. I always want to love every x-men comic made, but you can't.

I was hoping for a good "what if" story as pretty much almost all the secret wars side books are. I knew the book wouldn't matter in the long run, so making something awesome. This was not awesome. It was okay at best.

The story is about two love crossed mutants. One is Logan's kid; the other is Kitty and Colossuses kid. They have twist and turns as they are trying to save the mutant race. They even have multiple surprise reveals about themselves.

This comic is a love letter to a better comic. A story that has been resisted so many times, that every time we go back it's just not as good. If you're like me and just read as many x-men/marvel comics as you can, read it. If you don't care, pass on it. You're not missing anything.

[Shannon Appelcline · Rating 3 out of 5]

Future Past does a good job of updating the original story with new characters, while also incorporating Senator Kelly and the Brotherhood into the single ("future") time frame of the story. It's as good as you'd expect for figuring out how to fit the no-longer time-traveling story into Battleworld.

However, what it's missing is the heart of the story. The original "Future Past" was shocking, and although this new one includes some shocking character moments in it, the setting itself feels pretty mundane. We've seen all of this before, and the new revelations are more of the same, not an evolution of the original concept.

The result is, sadly, yet another mediocre Secret Wars mini-series that'll be soon forgotten as the event ends.

[C · Rating 2 out of 5]

Continuing the great x-read of 2017/18...

There are some interesting moments of philosophy and some decent character work at points in this pseudo-retelling of days of future past, but there's a whole lot of slow-paced writing, not-surprising surprises, and some things that are just downright possibly problematic (Would Kitty as a Jewish person really name her daughter Christina? And then what the plot tries to do with her? It's an odd savior-arc that just seems maybe not that great....).


This is the first of the warzones books where I think nostalgia for the storyline might hurt it rather than help, as well. I think one might like it better if they had never read the original, honestly.

[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ha! What a great ending! Didn't see that coming at all!

Mike Norton is awesome. He should have a regular gig at Marvel. He's one of the best artists in the business. Loved all the Arthur Adams covers.

Really great little story here. Loved this one.

[Little Timmy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very nice mini series building on the alternate future presented in the early issues of Uncanny X-men. Very recommended

[Simone · Rating 3 out of 5]

Se volete leggere la mia recensione, cliccate qui! http://ascwblog.blogspot.it/2017/11/a...

[James · Rating 1 out of 5]

The setting, dialogue and characterization for this one feel pretty generic. Not much life in the alt-world characters and plotting.

[Scott Rees · Rating 2 out of 5]

Remakes and re-boots, enough is enough. Days of future past is a classic, this was just bad

[Fizzgig76 · Rating 3 out of 5]

Reprints Years of Future Past #1-5 (August 2015-November 2015). The future of mutants rests in Christina Pryde. She is the daughter of Kate Pryde and Peter Rasputin and the last mutant born. As mutants are rounded up and imprisoned, a plot against President Kelly could mean a death knell for mutantkind if Kelly turns his Sentinels on the last surviving mutants. All isn’t what it seems with the planned assassination attempt, and it could be that Kelly is targeting himself to rouse anti-mutant sentiment…time is running out and the X-Men must find the answer before it is too late.

Written by Marguerite Bennett, Warzones!: Years of Future Past is a Marvel Comics event series. A tie-in with the Secret Wars limited series, the collection features art by Mike Norton.

Secret Wars itself was kind of a drag, but I did like some of the spin-off titles because they were allowed to explore old writing styles, old stories, and alternate “What If?” type characters while giving them a more expanded background. Years of Future Past isn’t my favorite tie-in series, but it is a logical tie-in.

X-Men: Days of Future Past which ran in Uncanny X-Men (1) #141-142 (January 1981-February 1981) was a big deal. It set the stage for X-Men comics for decades and still reverberates today through individual characters. This is kind of a mini-return with aspects of Days of Future Past mixed in for a new story and a mystery of who is trying to kill Kelly. While the story twists a few times, the final twist (involving Cameron’s decision) feels a bit over the top and unrealistic.

While I don’t love the story choices, I commend the ending of the series. Rather than neatly wrapping up the story, the story become a bit more of a metaphor involving the tigers that prowl the city. Often comic books go for the “here’s the end” and they all walk off or mourn the dead. Years of Future Past didn’t really do that and instead leaves the story in a bit of a free-fall for the mutants. The events of Secret Wars was never going to last and treating the ending as more of a mystery or thoughtful at least didn’t leave you waiting for the next adventure.

Overall, Warzones!: Years of Future Past was a bit of a slog to get through. It tried hard to be creative, and I admire that it didn’t always take the easy route, but overall it suffers from the same things that many of these Secret Wars limited series suffered from and that was the vagueness of Secret Wars. You didn’t really get to commit to any of the series, there were too many to follow as the main series came out, and once Secret Wars was over, the door to the “world” was going to essentially be sealed so investing in the characters seems a bit pointless. Years of Future Past suffers from all of this, and it might not be worth the ride for many…even X-Men fans.

[anne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Marvel stories are Marvel stories and this one doesn't break the mold. It takes place 15 years after the purges of the Mutant Control Act, and centers on Kitty Pride's daughter, Chrissy, who's never known a life outside the walls of the mutant interment camp. The story is very well-written, we see a lot of our favorite X-Men (and the gravestones of many others) and while the ending was predictable it was also simultaneously satisfying and troubling.

A book about war shouldn't be anything else.

I was drawn to read the story by one specific point, though -- a monologue of sorts, a life lesson told by Colossus to Chrissy and Wolverine's son Cameron, on how the war against the mutants began.

A joke? This all began as a joke, you know, children.

It always begins as a joke. Listen to me, both of you.

One sees a father or a mother of whom they do not approve—and their brats won’t shut up and the parents are so exhausted that they just let their children scream, all sticking, and crying and hitting and wild.

And you say to your friends “you should have to pass a test to breed.” Do you understand? “You should have to get licensed to have kids.”

It starts as a joke.

It is one of the most important pieces of writing I've found in comics. It single-handedly explains why I do my best to fight against racism, sexism, ableism... "Human hate can adapt to anything", Colossus explains, "You think you are safe. But if someone hates you, they will come up with the reason after the fact."

For that reason alone, this book is worth the read. Marguerite Bennett captures an important lesson, and to her I am grateful.

[Roshan · Rating 2 out of 5]

X-Men: Years of Future Past (2015)
Writer – Marguerite Bennett
Illustrator – Mike Norton
Series - Years of Future Past #1-5

Synopsis: Taking place in the future during the Secret Wars, the X-Men are on their final stand as the government is about to eradicate them.

This is a spinoff version of the original story arc which saw Kitty Pryde travel into the past. But in this version, taking place entirely in the future, Kitty’s daughter, Chrissie Pryde is the one in charge of changing the future.
The story starts off on the same steps on the original and branches out to a wholly different story arc which has an altogether different theme. It dwells more deeply into the setting of the future and a brief touch up on the various characters.
Unfortunately, it is a convoluted mess towards the last two issues. The dialogues most the time drag and the characters end up half-baked with everything falling apart in the end. There are some unnecessary twists which almost derail the main story. Chrissie as the main lead is poor and the hype around her is over stated. There was nothing new to the usual threat faced by the X-Men and this further drained my interest.
The major highlight are the artwork by Mike Norton who does a great job bringing an action packed grim post-apocalypse setting to life.
Overall, going into this thinking of a time travelling aspect would be a major mistake. And reading through this was more of a chore than a page turning thriller.

RJG Rating – 2.25/5
Goodreads – 3.17/5

[Jonathan Pongratz · Rating 3 out of 5]

I adore most X-Men stories, but this one didn't quite hit the mark.

This is a remake of Days of Future Past, with a modern spin. Victor Von Doom is in a seat of power and has eradicated nearly all of the mutants across the world. Kitty Pryde, Colossus, their daughter Christina, and others are under the control of their captors, while the rest of mutantkind struggles to survive in an increasingly apocalyptic landscape. Forces collide in a last attempt to save humanity and mutantkind alike.

Honestly, this just felt like an incomplete story.

I did love the apocalyptic landscape and the intense power struggles of the last mutants versus the powers that be. It just screamed X-Men action, and there was plenty of that to entertain and keep me engaged.

Christina's powers were really cool, a mix of Kitty and Piotr's abilities, though it felt like she grew into them way too easily for having never experiencing them before. But she and other characters just didn't really have a lot of depth to them or all that much progression.

What really didn't work for me was how things concluded. It felt like a low blow to go through all of the events only to leave things unfinished. I wanted some kind of resolution or ending to the story, and there really wasn't one.

If you can't get your hands on enough X-Men stories, then sure, give this a try. Otherwise, there are plenty of other ones out there that do a better job.

[Krzysztof Grabowski · Rating 2 out of 5]

X-meni mają przy okazji Secret Wars całkiem sporo tie-in'ów, ale ten właśnie omawiany wydał mi się chyba najsłabszy ze wszystkich. Nudna opera mydlana, gdzie okazuje się że ten jest córką tej, tamten jest synem tego i w ogóle to jest rodzeństwo. Nie lubię czegoś takiego. Owszem, całość ma swoje momenty, ale Years of Future Past pomogło mi skutecznie zasnąć niż się rozbudzić z nadmiaru emocji wynikającą z wolt fabularnych.

Mutanci są ciemiężeni przez ludzkość. Nad ich karnością czuwają Sentinele, ale w końcu musi dojść do momentu wrzenia. Za powstanie w głównej mierze odpowiada Kitty Pryde, której towarzyszy m.in. fajnie opisana córka, stareńki Magneto czy outsider Wolverine. Historia jakich wiele w Marvelu.

ach te poświęcenia dla większego dobra mutantów. Zdecydowanie sam bym ubił przyrodniego brata, jakby był taką gadatliwą pierdołą...

[Connor · Rating 2 out of 5]

I thought the premise was good, but the execution wasn't great. Basically I liked the first issue and then after that I lost interest. Instead of focusing on the X-Men in a totalitarian, apocalyptic (not that Apocalypse) world like in X-Men: Days of Future PastDays of Future Past, this book focuses on the kids of the X-Men in a tough world. Kitty Pryde and Colossus have two kids, one they raise themselves in a camp and one that Wolverine raises in the wild.
Guess which one wants to kill the president.

[RumBelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Days of Future Past has always been one of my favorite X-Men plot-lines, but I had managed to miss this particular comic. It came across my library desk and I snapped it up, and I am so glad I did! This was a story focused around Kitty Pryde and her daughter Christina. They and other mutants including Wolverine and his son Cameron, were working together to try and save President Kelly and stop Mutant persecution. There were so many secrets, layers and interwoven story-lines that made this such a rich and engrossing story. There was action, heroism, loss and such a taut level of tension it kept you on the edge of your seat. An amazingly wonderful graphic novel.

[Sleepseeker · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a Secret Wars tie-in. It was a little slow to start and trying to figure out the state of things, but once I got to know the new characters, I was liking this world. I feel like this could have been better suited as an alternate series instead of a Secret Wars tie-in and it ended on a cliff hanger.

If you like X-men and the Years of future stories, this is the book for you.

You don't need to read this for the Secret Wars event, it only shows you a little bit of what's going on in the Doom occupied planet, with this sector.

[Greg Coleman · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love me some classic X-Men. This was An interesting retelling of Days of Future Past. Mostly just a What If...set in the Battle worlds of Secret Wars, which, frankly I should probably look up on a wiki but just don't care enough. The series gave me all I really needed to know that it's an alternative future and Dr. Doom rules supreme as some kind of god.

I thought it was engaging. Characters were solid. Old favorites sounded like they "should." Art was good. A few nice twists and turns, but something's missing.

Oh and Nightcrawler as priest is fine. As a present for Doom? No. Just...no.

[Sean · Rating 2 out of 5]

This Battleworld tale takes us to a world in the X-Men's Days Of Future Past and its an incredibly bad connection to that historic story. This pales in comparison. Author Marguerite Bennett introduces us to a couple of the X-Men's kids and they're insufferable. The storyline is sad and pathetic with no gravitas or weight. The characters we are familiar with act terribly out of character. I feel bad for anyone who's never read the X-Men and picks this up. Mike Norton's art is decent enough to keep this from being rated lower. Overall, an enormous waste.

[Namrac · Rating 3 out of 5]

A re-imagining of the Xmen classic Days of Future Past. Interesting premise, 15 years after a species war, Mutants are endangered living in prison camps or in hiding The story itself didn’t live up to the potential. Simplistic with a twist at the end, it ultimately doesn’t live up to the original.

[Benja Calderon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bebiendo del ya archiconocido futuro que vislumbramos en Days of the Future Past, tenemos una historia donde ahora el protagonismo lo tienen la hija de Kity Pryde y Colossus, Chrissie Pryde y el hijo de Wolverine, Cameron

Buena historia, dibujo excelente. Vale la pena revisar