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Extraordinary X-Men
Extraordinary X-Men, Vol. 3: Kingdoms Fall
An ancient evil stirs in the periphery of Limbo, consuming mystical realms, and little does Magik suspect that the X-Men's newest charge is drawing it straight to X-Haven! Meanwhile, Colossus is rampaging across Earth...as a Horseman of Apocalypse. Can Nightcrawler and Iceman stop their longtime friend and teammate and wrest him from Apocalypse's grasp?
Collecting: Extraordinary X-Men 13-16, Annual
Collecting: Extraordinary X-Men 13-16, Annual
128 pages, Paperback
First published February 15, 2017
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Jeff Lemire
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Jeff Lemire is a New York Times bestselling and award winning author, and creator of the acclaimed graphic novels Sweet Tooth, Essex County, The Underwater Welder, Trillium, Plutona, Black Hammer, Descender, Royal City, and Gideon Falls. His upcoming projects include a host of series and original graphic novels, including the fantasy series Ascender with Dustin Nguyen.
There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name
Jeff Lemire is a New York Times bestselling and award winning author, and creator of the acclaimed graphic novels Sweet Tooth, Essex County, The Underwater Welder, Trillium, Plutona, Black Hammer, Descender, Royal City, and Gideon Falls. His upcoming projects include a host of series and original graphic novels, including the fantasy series Ascender with Dustin Nguyen.
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June 5, 2017
I've not really been all that enamoured with 'Extraordinary', to be honest... Probably because it's been anything but. The plots have all been not only done before but done to death. Did we REALLY need yet another alternate future story in the pages of the X-Men? I really think not.
I'm giving this three stars mainly on the strength of Victor Ibañez's artwork, which I liked a great deal.
I'm giving this three stars mainly on the strength of Victor Ibañez's artwork, which I liked a great deal.
February 10, 2017
[Read as single issues]
God, this series. Just...why.
This third arc sits nestled between the Apocalypse Wars and Inhumans Vs. X-Men tie-in arcs, and focuses mostly on Sapna and her relationship with Magik, which should be a fun idea but is instead turned into a bland story with an uninspired and faceless villain that ends as badly as it begins. The subplot about Apocalypse shows promise, but resolves itself too easily with no lasting impact.
The art is provided by Victor Ibanez, and it's pretty good, if a little safe. After Humberto Ramos' zany style, this feels like a Marvel house style that's about as adventurous as the story.
Yawn.
God, this series. Just...why.
This third arc sits nestled between the Apocalypse Wars and Inhumans Vs. X-Men tie-in arcs, and focuses mostly on Sapna and her relationship with Magik, which should be a fun idea but is instead turned into a bland story with an uninspired and faceless villain that ends as badly as it begins. The subplot about Apocalypse shows promise, but resolves itself too easily with no lasting impact.
The art is provided by Victor Ibanez, and it's pretty good, if a little safe. After Humberto Ramos' zany style, this feels like a Marvel house style that's about as adventurous as the story.
Yawn.
June 22, 2020
Two missions to save Colossus from his Future-Apocalypse infection and to stop Sapna destroying Limbo!!! A tad disjointed at times, especially with complete disappearance of the Iceman coming out sub-plot. Overall the writing is OK and the art is fair to middlin' with its horrible portrayal of Kurt! 6 out of 12.
November 25, 2017
The Extraordinary X-Men head out on rescue missions. Magik is tracking Sapna
while Iceman and Nightcrawler try to locate Colossus.
This entire Kingdom Falls volume was a mess. It largely focuses on Sapna, but it also attempts to mop up the mess that was the Apocalypse Wars. Sapna discovers portals in Limbo and heads off forcing Magik to follow her. Of course Sapna runs into more dangerous things that threaten everything and everyone. The whole story was largely set up to force the Extraordinary X-Men from X-Haven.
while Iceman and Nightcrawler try to locate Colossus.
This entire Kingdom Falls volume was a mess. It largely focuses on Sapna, but it also attempts to mop up the mess that was the Apocalypse Wars. Sapna discovers portals in Limbo and heads off forcing Magik to follow her. Of course Sapna runs into more dangerous things that threaten everything and everyone. The whole story was largely set up to force the Extraordinary X-Men from X-Haven.
November 28, 2025
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.
September 7, 2021
While Nightcrawler and Iceman go looking for Colossus, who is currently a horseman of Apocalypse, Magik and Storm try to save Sapna as she is consumed by an evil that wants to destroy X-Haven.
This volume throws you right into the plot without much setup. It's basically a continuation of the last volume and its plot threads. It isn't really reader friendly, but then again maybe reading a comic starting from volume 3 isn't the best idea either so... Anyways, I felt both plots were just ok. I mean, hearing the banter between Kurt and Bobby was interesting, but when it came to finding Colossus, the plot resolves pretty conveniently, even if it did take tricking Apocalypse. Also, the second plot regarding Sapna was supposed to be emotional, but ended up feeling a bit flat.
I think Jeff Lemire is an amazing writer, he is one of my modern day favorites, but here the stories feel a bit strained. I think both plots could've been resolved in a couple of issues, but instead stretching them out feels unnecessary and frivolous at times.
I'm definitely still on board to see what happens next, as things are shifting towards Inhumans vs X-Men.
This volume throws you right into the plot without much setup. It's basically a continuation of the last volume and its plot threads. It isn't really reader friendly, but then again maybe reading a comic starting from volume 3 isn't the best idea either so... Anyways, I felt both plots were just ok. I mean, hearing the banter between Kurt and Bobby was interesting, but when it came to finding Colossus, the plot resolves pretty conveniently, even if it did take tricking Apocalypse. Also, the second plot regarding Sapna was supposed to be emotional, but ended up feeling a bit flat.
I think Jeff Lemire is an amazing writer, he is one of my modern day favorites, but here the stories feel a bit strained. I think both plots could've been resolved in a couple of issues, but instead stretching them out feels unnecessary and frivolous at times.
I'm definitely still on board to see what happens next, as things are shifting towards Inhumans vs X-Men.
April 7, 2019
Kingdoms Fall is the penultimate chapter before Extraordinary X-Men concludes its run, and sets the stage for the Inhumans vs X-Men event that's been simmering the background since issue one.
Although Kingdoms Falls is primarily focused on its own story, a lot of the B-side is all about Jeff Lemire putting his toys back in the box before the series wraps up and relaunches under a new title following volume 4. The issues collected here deal with the Sapna/Illyana story, and pick up the pieces from the prior volume's Apocalypse War storylines as the team seeks a cure for Colossus. The A-side of the book is a nifty bit of cosmic horror as a dangerous entity known as The World Eater sets its eyes on Limbo.
Lemire forces some of his characters in a corner as the climax ramps up, and you can feel the heartache of consequence over the decisions they're forced to make. This is a pretty solid credit to Lemire's writing, and the artwork penciled by Victor Ibanez. The change in penciler's means Extraordinary X-Men has a more realistic appearance compared to Huberto Ramos's wild cartoonish style. It makes for a nice payoff as everyone is forced to confront the hard choices they've made over the course of the series thus far, and must prepare to confront new hardships still on the way (like, you know, war with the Inhumans).
Reading these three volumes back to back has been a pretty good experience, but now I've come to a resting point. It looks like the Death of X and IvX miniseries are on the docket, prior to reading volume four, and I'm also feeling like I want to explore the first three trades of the second big X-Book, All-New X-Men before hitting the crossovers and subsequent finales. Stay tuned for thoughts on those, true believers!
Although Kingdoms Falls is primarily focused on its own story, a lot of the B-side is all about Jeff Lemire putting his toys back in the box before the series wraps up and relaunches under a new title following volume 4. The issues collected here deal with the Sapna/Illyana story, and pick up the pieces from the prior volume's Apocalypse War storylines as the team seeks a cure for Colossus. The A-side of the book is a nifty bit of cosmic horror as a dangerous entity known as The World Eater sets its eyes on Limbo.
Lemire forces some of his characters in a corner as the climax ramps up, and you can feel the heartache of consequence over the decisions they're forced to make. This is a pretty solid credit to Lemire's writing, and the artwork penciled by Victor Ibanez. The change in penciler's means Extraordinary X-Men has a more realistic appearance compared to Huberto Ramos's wild cartoonish style. It makes for a nice payoff as everyone is forced to confront the hard choices they've made over the course of the series thus far, and must prepare to confront new hardships still on the way (like, you know, war with the Inhumans).
Reading these three volumes back to back has been a pretty good experience, but now I've come to a resting point. It looks like the Death of X and IvX miniseries are on the docket, prior to reading volume four, and I'm also feeling like I want to explore the first three trades of the second big X-Book, All-New X-Men before hitting the crossovers and subsequent finales. Stay tuned for thoughts on those, true believers!
March 27, 2017
I take it back. I reread the first three volumes of Extraordinary X-Men and you know what? They totally work. It's all a bit lopsided and it's over almost before it starts, but it's good. In this volume, Lemire figures out how to tie the one storyline he's had time to develop (innocent x-child is actually eeeevil) into the Apocalypse storyline that felt very thrust upon him in the volume prior. It's not perfect -- a lot of times its success feels like a happy accident more than something with intent -- but there's something about the way he makes a nice X-Men souffle out of a bunch of continuity curveballs that just warms my heart.
It retrospect, it makes a lot of sense that this run is the last one before the 00's X-era ends with Inhumans vs. X-Men. Everything about this series is very most -- the most insane, the most bleak, the most lush. It's just trying to do too much at once, without enough space to do much at all. But the chaos works for it, too.
It retrospect, it makes a lot of sense that this run is the last one before the 00's X-era ends with Inhumans vs. X-Men. Everything about this series is very most -- the most insane, the most bleak, the most lush. It's just trying to do too much at once, without enough space to do much at all. But the chaos works for it, too.
November 7, 2020
Nothing against Lemire, but I just don’t love this title. The tone doesn’t do it for me. It feels lightweight, low stakes, adventure of the week... not heavy duty and powerful like his simultaneously running Old Man Logan series.
The art isn’t for me either.
I think this is a fine comic for people who like that sort of thing, but to me it was dull and boring.
The art isn’t for me either.
I think this is a fine comic for people who like that sort of thing, but to me it was dull and boring.
May 24, 2019
victor ibañez's art is just perfect.
& this volume might be one of my favs ever.
& this volume might be one of my favs ever.
January 9, 2017
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.
August 14, 2017
Looks like I'm in the minority because i liked this book. Im just looking for some quick fun reads with current x-men books and it works for me. Of coarse the book features Magik and Nightcrawler and they are some of my favorites so it was right up my alley. Magik is tracking down Sapra who has run away from X-haven. Nightcrawler is tracking down Colossus who has become a horseman for Apocalypse. Lemire's writing is fine it isnt anything distinguishable but it works. The art from Ibanez is cool he has some great skills with facial expressions. Ill keep reading.
April 12, 2017
More mediocre X-Men. Ties up the loose ends from the previous volume with Colossus, Apocalypse, and Sapna. But it's all just boring. You know exactly where it's headed because it's all been done before. Victor Ibanez's art falls into the same mediocre category.
March 15, 2017
Disappointing. Lemire can do so much better than this, and it's a shame that he's chosen to squander what should be an interesting background for new stories.
July 5, 2018
Mediocre at best. The Apocalypse storyline is finished as is Sapna's. Annual #1 was the better part of this volume. Still no answers. Not gonna expect them anymore.
November 22, 2020
Another, meh, book. It wasn't bad but I wasn't impressed. The story arc does end with this volume, though. So keep on keeping on if you've come this far. Plus, the last two issues are one, a jail break story that sets up the next volume, and two, a story of Forge and a young genius girl who's been made even smarter from the Terrigen mists. The young black girl trope, a la Riri Williams (the new Ironman, er, Iron Heart rather) seems one trope Marvel likes to lean on. Those last two are a little better.
Now, for some spoilers.
Now, for some spoilers.
March 13, 2017
I've long thought that Lemire's Extraordinary X-Men had the most potential in the ANAD age, and this is the volume that best fulfills it.
That's in large part because a fractured story lets Lemire play to his character strengths by focusing each part of the story on just a couple of characters. But, all the plots are quite intriguing too, between saving Colossus, dealing with Old Apocalypse, and traveling the Lattice.
Lemire's introduction of the Lattice is another thing that makes this volume work. Yes, the idea of a bunch of heroes all from destroyed worlds, has been done before, most recently in Secret Wars. But the idea of ring of worlds surrounding Limbo is great, and the sort of innovative world creation that's been badly missing in the ANAD era.
Overall, a strong book with good characters, good plots, and good inventiveness.
(Oh, and there's an annual here, too, and it mostly sucks. Remember when annuals were special events written by the creative team? Nope, this one is a bunch of filler stories by authors I don't know and who aren't that good.)
That's in large part because a fractured story lets Lemire play to his character strengths by focusing each part of the story on just a couple of characters. But, all the plots are quite intriguing too, between saving Colossus, dealing with Old Apocalypse, and traveling the Lattice.
Lemire's introduction of the Lattice is another thing that makes this volume work. Yes, the idea of a bunch of heroes all from destroyed worlds, has been done before, most recently in Secret Wars. But the idea of ring of worlds surrounding Limbo is great, and the sort of innovative world creation that's been badly missing in the ANAD era.
Overall, a strong book with good characters, good plots, and good inventiveness.
(Oh, and there's an annual here, too, and it mostly sucks. Remember when annuals were special events written by the creative team? Nope, this one is a bunch of filler stories by authors I don't know and who aren't that good.)
August 11, 2018
We do get some resolution in this volume, which is something at least. We find out the truth behind Sapna's evil turn, and we also resolve the Colossus as a four horsemen issue as well. It's not bad but to me it just seems to lack a spark that could take it from okay to good. The series started out pretty strong but then it got weaker and never quite reached the starting level again.
April 19, 2017
Kind of meh. I don't really care about the characters, since no effort is going I to fleshing them out. Also, the X-men' s school has been destroyed so many times it has no impact when it happens now.
May 1, 2018
Started a little slowly but picked up pretty decently by the end.
June 28, 2018
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the dumbest of them all?
This would make a more fitting title for this volume. Let's ignore the lack-luster plot, the plotholes and the uninspired, uncreative and generally predictable plot, the mere fact what dumbasses these characters are even though they really should know better is damning enough. Not that the writing itself isn't bad enough. I mean the lady in a cyber armor is called "Anne Tenna", the old guy in jeans "Jack Craw", the green kind of ghostly woman is "Spectra" and the goat man on steroids is "Enoch"… Who chose those names? Only "Spectra" at least fits. Couldn't they just google satyr names and chose them for the goat man? Just name him Silenus.
But back to the idiocy of the characters:
Suddenly Forge can build a cage to hold Apocalypse… How? And how come he never did that before? Apocalypse was usually so overpowered that no cage could hold him.
Not to mention that they should kill him. This guy has done things, just in the last few issues prior to this that would put Hitler, Mao and Stalin to shame. Even someone like Vegeta from Dragon Ball is less of a mass murderer than him. Not to mention that if the Marvel universe wouldn't be full of powerful magicians and highly intelligent engineers I may have sympathy with Forge's plight when it comes to dealing with Apocalypse. And asking as Nightcrawler and Iceman did as to whether Clan Akhaba can see the future is sooooo stupid. Ozymandias (a seer) led them once, so why even ask?
Right after I had no idea what was dumber here, Nightcrawler falling for the obvious trap by Collosus or Iceman trying to attack the steel covered horseman of Apocalypse with ice shards instead of encasing him in ice right away.
Sure Forge shutting Apocalypse up with tape later is funny, but it really lacks weight as Apocalypse's attempts at "seduction" were utterly ridiculous.
And my gosh, Sapna was in league with an evil power that looks ripped out of Hellboy, what a surprise... And based on this crap Illyana could not have known what would happen to Sapna. Even though the girl absorbed all the magical knowledge of Limbo (a hellish dimension) and was able to tame demons right away. Illyana deserves a punch in the face already for the fact alone that she was not dragging Sapna to Stephen Strange right away. Only an idiot did not see the disaster coming a mile away!!!
And right after this idiocy we have the great idea of putting the loyal horseman of Apocalypse right next to his master, as if there is no way that could ever end in disaster. Sure it does not here, but only because everyone involved, even Apocalypse is a giant moron.
However, even though Colossus is now a horseman of Apocalypse, Iceman and Nightcrawler not only don't attack him with full strength but they only have a few kids as back-up and only catch him because Forge happened to have finished the sentinel in time.
Furthermore the only thing they can do to change Priotr back is set Apocalypse free? How about trying to contact someone else first? Even Spiderman at least tried to reach others before he made a deal with the devil.
Speaking of hellish minions: There is a demon invasion and coming end of the world out there and they fight about fixing Piotr? Can the writers not even try to make this appear serious? Not to mention that the terrible world eater that already destroyed several and could never be stopped before was taken down by one stab with a soul sword and it does not automatically possess the now free Apocalypse… Yeah it is as stupid as it sounds.
The last two stories are about Jean, Illyana, Wolverine and Nightcrawler trying to break out two mutant criminals from a British prison before the Terrigen Mist kills them. Which sounds like a good story was quickly ruined: The Brits are comically non-chalant not just about the death of two prisoners but the Terrigen Cloud in general. I mean sure, the prison has power dampeners, but what about anyone in it without powers and who can leave? What if the cloud mutates them or even one of the inmates? Who knows what effects that will have? And isn't Illyana a sorceress? Can't she do a spell to cloak them? I doubt power dampeners work on magic. So why rely on Jean so much? And Nightcrawler is knocked out by some random guy as if he is a newbie and so old and decrepit Wolverine has to carry him…. oh boy, this is going to be a bad one won't it?
That last story with Forge and Moon Girl was definitely the high point of this volume. But that is not saying much.
PS. Why is it that American comics in postapocalyptic scenarios so often have big church-like buildings and here what looks like Big Ben's tower? If they don't have some decrepit modern city, why not ... I don't know try something from Mesoamerica or Ethiopia?
And speaking of this shit: Oh come on, why run away, this is the Marvel universe, a demon invasion connected with the coming end of the world is what in this universe is called Tuesday.
This would make a more fitting title for this volume. Let's ignore the lack-luster plot, the plotholes and the uninspired, uncreative and generally predictable plot, the mere fact what dumbasses these characters are even though they really should know better is damning enough. Not that the writing itself isn't bad enough. I mean the lady in a cyber armor is called "Anne Tenna", the old guy in jeans "Jack Craw", the green kind of ghostly woman is "Spectra" and the goat man on steroids is "Enoch"… Who chose those names? Only "Spectra" at least fits. Couldn't they just google satyr names and chose them for the goat man? Just name him Silenus.
But back to the idiocy of the characters:
Suddenly Forge can build a cage to hold Apocalypse… How? And how come he never did that before? Apocalypse was usually so overpowered that no cage could hold him.
Not to mention that they should kill him. This guy has done things, just in the last few issues prior to this that would put Hitler, Mao and Stalin to shame. Even someone like Vegeta from Dragon Ball is less of a mass murderer than him. Not to mention that if the Marvel universe wouldn't be full of powerful magicians and highly intelligent engineers I may have sympathy with Forge's plight when it comes to dealing with Apocalypse. And asking as Nightcrawler and Iceman did as to whether Clan Akhaba can see the future is sooooo stupid. Ozymandias (a seer) led them once, so why even ask?
Right after I had no idea what was dumber here, Nightcrawler falling for the obvious trap by Collosus or Iceman trying to attack the steel covered horseman of Apocalypse with ice shards instead of encasing him in ice right away.
Sure Forge shutting Apocalypse up with tape later is funny, but it really lacks weight as Apocalypse's attempts at "seduction" were utterly ridiculous.
And my gosh, Sapna was in league with an evil power that looks ripped out of Hellboy, what a surprise... And based on this crap Illyana could not have known what would happen to Sapna. Even though the girl absorbed all the magical knowledge of Limbo (a hellish dimension) and was able to tame demons right away. Illyana deserves a punch in the face already for the fact alone that she was not dragging Sapna to Stephen Strange right away. Only an idiot did not see the disaster coming a mile away!!!
And right after this idiocy we have the great idea of putting the loyal horseman of Apocalypse right next to his master, as if there is no way that could ever end in disaster. Sure it does not here, but only because everyone involved, even Apocalypse is a giant moron.
However, even though Colossus is now a horseman of Apocalypse, Iceman and Nightcrawler not only don't attack him with full strength but they only have a few kids as back-up and only catch him because Forge happened to have finished the sentinel in time.
Furthermore the only thing they can do to change Priotr back is set Apocalypse free? How about trying to contact someone else first? Even Spiderman at least tried to reach others before he made a deal with the devil.
Speaking of hellish minions: There is a demon invasion and coming end of the world out there and they fight about fixing Piotr? Can the writers not even try to make this appear serious? Not to mention that the terrible world eater that already destroyed several and could never be stopped before was taken down by one stab with a soul sword and it does not automatically possess the now free Apocalypse… Yeah it is as stupid as it sounds.
The last two stories are about Jean, Illyana, Wolverine and Nightcrawler trying to break out two mutant criminals from a British prison before the Terrigen Mist kills them. Which sounds like a good story was quickly ruined: The Brits are comically non-chalant not just about the death of two prisoners but the Terrigen Cloud in general. I mean sure, the prison has power dampeners, but what about anyone in it without powers and who can leave? What if the cloud mutates them or even one of the inmates? Who knows what effects that will have? And isn't Illyana a sorceress? Can't she do a spell to cloak them? I doubt power dampeners work on magic. So why rely on Jean so much? And Nightcrawler is knocked out by some random guy as if he is a newbie and so old and decrepit Wolverine has to carry him…. oh boy, this is going to be a bad one won't it?
That last story with Forge and Moon Girl was definitely the high point of this volume. But that is not saying much.
PS. Why is it that American comics in postapocalyptic scenarios so often have big church-like buildings and here what looks like Big Ben's tower? If they don't have some decrepit modern city, why not ... I don't know try something from Mesoamerica or Ethiopia?
And speaking of this shit: Oh come on, why run away, this is the Marvel universe, a demon invasion connected with the coming end of the world is what in this universe is called Tuesday.
July 22, 2021
Storm looks fantastic! Victor Ibañez art is spot on. Not Alex Ross, Silvestri, Lee level, but the rendering of the characters do owe him with added interest to the the narrative. Nice to have Forge around, he reminds me of a poor man’s Tony. Wait he’s an engineer, but still. Kurt’s chain mail and sword strap look with long hair and goatee, is nice. Embraces a pirate knight motif.
Still, Ibáñez style taps into certain facial expressions that seem to predominantly appear on Illyana’s face. Whether it’s teeth clenched angst whilst lightning branches out of her eyes, which admittedly, if that happened to my eyes, I would make such a face. He can capture the emotion.
Sepna has the Regan boiled egg eye look from the Exorcist, complete with teeth and Medusa strands! Then Storm pulls a father Karras!
Wow! The twin panel spread of two outcomes was awesome and you could feel the urgency and the emotion of the consequences! The heel of a fallen Cerebra in the foreground with a mist, great work!
The annual is a drop off with the quality of storyline and the art. Not too steep, but not congruent to what was going on. There was so much emotional withdraw, but then we move on to something else, which can be the nature of an annual. The stories were ok, but the only thing they had in common was the mist.
Still, Ibáñez style taps into certain facial expressions that seem to predominantly appear on Illyana’s face. Whether it’s teeth clenched angst whilst lightning branches out of her eyes, which admittedly, if that happened to my eyes, I would make such a face. He can capture the emotion.
Sepna has the Regan boiled egg eye look from the Exorcist, complete with teeth and Medusa strands! Then Storm pulls a father Karras!
Wow! The twin panel spread of two outcomes was awesome and you could feel the urgency and the emotion of the consequences! The heel of a fallen Cerebra in the foreground with a mist, great work!
The annual is a drop off with the quality of storyline and the art. Not too steep, but not congruent to what was going on. There was so much emotional withdraw, but then we move on to something else, which can be the nature of an annual. The stories were ok, but the only thing they had in common was the mist.
November 4, 2018
Continuing the great x-read of 2017/18...
Alright, so I am behind on this project. A little bit behind on the reading (I have to finish this by the end of '18 so that I can get back to reading more novels and poetry - my to read backlog has grown immensely this past year) and quite a bit behind on the reviewing. So the next batch of reviews are most likely going to be quick and dirty takes on these books that I have read over the last few weeks.
This one had its moments. It's hard for me to love it when I detest the overarching plot (I have gone on at length about how I hate the terrigen mists story and I just don't care for the Inhumans at all...) but Lemire manages a few moments in the midst of all of this mess that have some good character bits and a few interesting twists. One of the better books from this IVX mess, in my opinion.
Alright, so I am behind on this project. A little bit behind on the reading (I have to finish this by the end of '18 so that I can get back to reading more novels and poetry - my to read backlog has grown immensely this past year) and quite a bit behind on the reviewing. So the next batch of reviews are most likely going to be quick and dirty takes on these books that I have read over the last few weeks.
This one had its moments. It's hard for me to love it when I detest the overarching plot (I have gone on at length about how I hate the terrigen mists story and I just don't care for the Inhumans at all...) but Lemire manages a few moments in the midst of all of this mess that have some good character bits and a few interesting twists. One of the better books from this IVX mess, in my opinion.
July 19, 2017
Vaguely annoying. The primary arc deals with two separate threads, saving Colossus, and trying to find Sapna, with team on each mission. What's frustrating to me is that in the middle of the volume a world annihilating threat is introduced. And by the end of the volume it's dead, and through a mechanism that's way to obvious to accept the idea that this thing has killed a massive number of worlds without anyone thinking of/pulling it off before. Ugh. I'm a bit frustrated with all the X-books right now. None of them really sit right. There's something....wrong with the flavor. I don't know.
May 17, 2017
Not bad, but not unseen for a 100 times.
Jeff Lemire concludes the subplots opened before, i.e. Sapna's fate and Colossus transformation into a horseman of Apocalypse.
It's correctly handled with good visuals from Victor Ibanez but as I said, it's kinda been done before and the ending is all-too predictable.
3* because it's well penciled and because compared to the mess that is All-New X-Men it looks like it's awesome. But it's not.
Now, to Inhumans vs X-Men.
Jeff Lemire concludes the subplots opened before, i.e. Sapna's fate and Colossus transformation into a horseman of Apocalypse.
It's correctly handled with good visuals from Victor Ibanez but as I said, it's kinda been done before and the ending is all-too predictable.
3* because it's well penciled and because compared to the mess that is All-New X-Men it looks like it's awesome. But it's not.
Now, to Inhumans vs X-Men.
March 6, 2021
This X-team is still not my favorite. I like pieces of it but as a whole its not coming together. We get another group of new characters created and they fall flat. The biggest thing the team has going for them some of the interpersonal drama, like good team books do. Sapna's issues are interesting but never felt developed enough. The art by Victor Ibanez was nice. Overall, an okay read that needs to focus on what works.
August 29, 2021
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.
February 20, 2017
Weird-ish X-men series. For noobs, as if written by children. Centering mostly on Magik and a new character. These X-men are much too disconnected from their own history. As it is with all the current X-books - they need a steady guiding hand that knows their history much better.
June 25, 2017
The Sapna storyarc seemed rushed, which was unfortunate (also, another thing that's eating all the magic? were the Empirikul not available?). I liked the two stories in the Annual, especially the with Moon Girl. I miss Bachalo's art.
July 30, 2019
Las series de X-Men de All New All Different Marvel NOW sufren el grave problema de ser formadas por cuatro volúmenes, de los cuáles 2 volúmenes son tie ins de eventos, Apocalypse Wars e Inhumas Vs X-men. Eso nos deja sólo con dos volúmenes para contar alguna historia interesante y original. Ese sería el papel del tercer volumen, Kingdoms Fall.
Lamentablemente si bien tiene cosas interesantes este tomo, la historia es genérica, no lleva a ninguna parte y el desarrollo de personajes se siente un poco forzado.
Lemire vuelve a usar la técnica de separar al equipo, esto lo utilizó en los dos volúmenes anteriores. Para mí eso no funciona, ya que lo que queremos ver es una historia del equipo y aunque está bien que narrativamente haya sub líneas y el hecho de que estén huyendo de la niebla terrígena los obliga a comportarse como si estuvieran en guerra, no me terminó de agradar ni siquiera en este tomo.
Los equipos se dividen, tenemos a Magik y Storm buscando a Sapna. Forge y Logan buscando solucionar el problema de Colossus experimentando sobre Apocalipsis; y Bobby Drake y Kurt buscan a Colossus. El final me pareció bueno, fuerte y emotivo como uno esperaría de una historia de Lemire, pero el desarrollo es un poco soso, introducen unas dimensiones raras y un enemigo parásito inter dimensional muy extraño que no tiene desarrollo que es simplemente malvado.
No le di cuatro estrellas porque aunque el final me gustó, lo sentí sacado de la manga para causar impacto. Y lo logra, pero no sé que tanto desarrollo tenga. Ahora, si bien Lemire nos da un momento de desarrollo de Magik interesante, antes de escribir esta reseña, comencé a leer el cuarto volumen, y en los primeros dos números no se menciona para nada el impacto que tuvo lo que hizo Magik en ella misma. Ni una sola mención, nada.
Lo que sí debo de admitir es que disfruté más este volumen que los dos anteriores.
Lamentablemente si bien tiene cosas interesantes este tomo, la historia es genérica, no lleva a ninguna parte y el desarrollo de personajes se siente un poco forzado.
Lemire vuelve a usar la técnica de separar al equipo, esto lo utilizó en los dos volúmenes anteriores. Para mí eso no funciona, ya que lo que queremos ver es una historia del equipo y aunque está bien que narrativamente haya sub líneas y el hecho de que estén huyendo de la niebla terrígena los obliga a comportarse como si estuvieran en guerra, no me terminó de agradar ni siquiera en este tomo.
Los equipos se dividen, tenemos a Magik y Storm buscando a Sapna. Forge y Logan buscando solucionar el problema de Colossus experimentando sobre Apocalipsis; y Bobby Drake y Kurt buscan a Colossus. El final me pareció bueno, fuerte y emotivo como uno esperaría de una historia de Lemire, pero el desarrollo es un poco soso, introducen unas dimensiones raras y un enemigo parásito inter dimensional muy extraño que no tiene desarrollo que es simplemente malvado.
No le di cuatro estrellas porque aunque el final me gustó, lo sentí sacado de la manga para causar impacto. Y lo logra, pero no sé que tanto desarrollo tenga. Ahora, si bien Lemire nos da un momento de desarrollo de Magik interesante, antes de escribir esta reseña, comencé a leer el cuarto volumen, y en los primeros dos números no se menciona para nada el impacto que tuvo lo que hizo Magik en ella misma. Ni una sola mención, nada.
Lo que sí debo de admitir es que disfruté más este volumen que los dos anteriores.
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