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House of M
House of M: Uncanny X-Men
The return of Captain Britain! Brian Braddock is released from his duties as protector of the Omniverse to deal with a threat of even greater proportions - as if that was even possible! Meanwhile, Psylocke and Rachel find themselves trapped in a situation with no way out!
Collects: Uncanny X-Men #462-465, and Secrets of the House of M.
Collects: Uncanny X-Men #462-465, and Secrets of the House of M.
96 pages, Paperback
First published January 25, 2006
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Chris Claremont
3,279 books892 followersChris Claremont is a writer of American comic books, best known for his 16-year (1975-1991) stint on Uncanny X-Men, during which the series became one of the comic book industry's most successful properties.
Claremont has written many stories for other publishers including the Star Trek Debt of Honor graphic novel, his creator-owned Sovereign Seven for DC Comics and Aliens vs Predator for Dark Horse Comics. He also wrote a few issues of the series WildC.A.T.s (volume 1, issues #10-13) at Image Comics, which introduced his creator-owned character, Huntsman.
Outside of comics, Claremont co-wrote the Chronicles of the Shadow War trilogy, Shadow Moon (1995), Shadow Dawn (1996), and Shadow Star (1999), with George Lucas. This trilogy continues the story of Elora Danan from the movie Willow. In the 1980s, he also wrote a science fiction trilogy about female starship pilot Nicole Shea, consisting of First Flight (1987), Grounded! (1991), and Sundowner (1994). Claremont was also a contributor to the Wild Cards anthology series.
Claremont has written many stories for other publishers including the Star Trek Debt of Honor graphic novel, his creator-owned Sovereign Seven for DC Comics and Aliens vs Predator for Dark Horse Comics. He also wrote a few issues of the series WildC.A.T.s (volume 1, issues #10-13) at Image Comics, which introduced his creator-owned character, Huntsman.
Outside of comics, Claremont co-wrote the Chronicles of the Shadow War trilogy, Shadow Moon (1995), Shadow Dawn (1996), and Shadow Star (1999), with George Lucas. This trilogy continues the story of Elora Danan from the movie Willow. In the 1980s, he also wrote a science fiction trilogy about female starship pilot Nicole Shea, consisting of First Flight (1987), Grounded! (1991), and Sundowner (1994). Claremont was also a contributor to the Wild Cards anthology series.
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February 16, 2021
Arggggggggh! The final nail in Claremont's X-Men coffin - whilst Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Waid tell amazing House of M stories in the Avengers, Wolverine and Spider-Man books - Chris Claremont is writing some backdoor Omniversal old-school Excalibur and focusing on the old/past comic book reality wise. Do not read, do not pass go, get a refund! 4 out of 12, and that's being very generous!
August 19, 2017
I loved the fact that Claremont and Davis used the House of M crossover event as a sneaky way of doing a Captain Britain story! It's just a shame Davis bowed out halfway through... although they got a pretty good replacement artist in Bachalo, to be fair...
January 31, 2015
really terrible. The story makes no sense. The dialogue is some sort of anti-shakespearean reality tv dialect.
January 23, 2018
Claremont's very brief re-launch of Excalibur III seemed to lead to Davis and Claremont turning the Uncanny X-men into a backdoor for the original Excalibur characters to come out and play: Captain Britain's role as protector of the Multiverse collapses in the House of M and in that reality, the Braddocks are the royal family of Britain. The result is fun but seems completely out of place as Uncanny X-Men title and barely related to Bendis's House of M. It is, however, worth the price of admission to see Claremont and Davis work together again.
May 28, 2024
I like Psylocke and Marvel Girl, but the story is a convoluted mess. Even the artist gave up on it half-way through. Having the synopsis page helped for the first half, then it too was gone. The pictures were pretty, but nothing else grabbed my attention. I guess I just don't care about these characters. Mental note: tie-ins suck.
Psylocke and Marvel Girl end up in the White Hot Room. Brian Braddock must stop the Chaos Wave that is destroying dimensions indiscriminately. Roma gives him 2 days to do it before she is forced to destroy the universe with the Celestial Nullifier to save the multiverse.
Psylocke and Marvel Girl end up in the White Hot Room. Brian Braddock must stop the Chaos Wave that is destroying dimensions indiscriminately. Roma gives him 2 days to do it before she is forced to destroy the universe with the Celestial Nullifier to save the multiverse.
November 23, 2022
This House of M crossover was one of the more creative, functioning as an Excalibur reunion of sorts, starring Captain Britain, Psylocke, Rachel, and Meggan. Unfortunately, it was also really hard to follow. Maybe I'd like it if I'd read more Excalibur, but I'm not confident.
May 12, 2021
The best part of this is when Alan Davis left as artist and Chris Bachalo stepped in. The worst part is the whole Otherworld part of the story.
January 22, 2012
This book collects Uncanny X-Men 462 - 465. It was written by long-time X-Men writer Chris Claremont and pencilled by two of my favourite arists - Alan Davies and Chris Bachalo. I know Claremont's work from various X-Men books but primarily from the original Excalibur series from the late eighties. Davis also worked on that series as well as the fabulous, Alan Moore penned, D.R. and Quinch from 2000AD. I loved Bachalo's work on the two Death mini-series on Vertigo as well as Shade, the Changing Man and The Witching Hour - in fact my favourite t-shirt to this day remains one that features a Bacholo image of Death.
This is the first book in the spin-offs from the main story that I have really loved. I think part of it is nostalgia for the original Excalibur series that I liked back in the day - and this story feels like an Excalibur story rather than an X-men story as a lot of the characters and the setting come straight from Excalibur. The other part of it is due my love for the two pencillers' work who both have two chapters each in this story. The story from Claremont is good but the plot line featuring Juggernaut and Nocturne on the run from a bunch of Magneto's hunters is left largely unexplained - possibly to be resolved in one of the remaining books. An early splash page shows Captain Britain and Meggan being blasted across the omniverse and shows familiar characters in unfamiliar setting and guises - some of these look intriguing and I wish there was a series that explored some of these further (like a Marvel version of DC's Elseworlds books).
This is the first book in the spin-offs from the main story that I have really loved. I think part of it is nostalgia for the original Excalibur series that I liked back in the day - and this story feels like an Excalibur story rather than an X-men story as a lot of the characters and the setting come straight from Excalibur. The other part of it is due my love for the two pencillers' work who both have two chapters each in this story. The story from Claremont is good but the plot line featuring Juggernaut and Nocturne on the run from a bunch of Magneto's hunters is left largely unexplained - possibly to be resolved in one of the remaining books. An early splash page shows Captain Britain and Meggan being blasted across the omniverse and shows familiar characters in unfamiliar setting and guises - some of these look intriguing and I wish there was a series that explored some of these further (like a Marvel version of DC's Elseworlds books).
January 12, 2022
What... what did I just read?! Okay, what... but seriously... WHAT?! So much for Uncanny X-Men and more geared towards Captain Britain and Excalibur, which is fine, but you can't stamp Uncanny X-Men on the cover and then not, well, do that..? I don't know, maybe I'm out of my element here.
Although most of the House of M stories are fantastic, what with The Scarlet Witch's mental breakdown unraveling all of reality and replacing it with a world ruled by Magneto where mutants are not only the genetically superior "race" but also the rulers, this story falls flat. Story wise, I DID like that there was a rift in reality that had to be sealed which would suggest that something is very amiss here, but the rest of the story is, in a sound, ho-hum.
To put it in perspective, there wasn't even enough material to fill the 128 pages of this installment. The last few pages are dedicated to updated profiles on the main players of the House of M and their altered reality histories along with a few details about places like Genosha and Mutopia which are part of the landscape of these stories.
Honestly, I just wasn't impressed overall despite some of the other magnificent stories applied to the House of M story arc. If you buy this as a set, sure, read it... but don't go out of your way.
Although most of the House of M stories are fantastic, what with The Scarlet Witch's mental breakdown unraveling all of reality and replacing it with a world ruled by Magneto where mutants are not only the genetically superior "race" but also the rulers, this story falls flat. Story wise, I DID like that there was a rift in reality that had to be sealed which would suggest that something is very amiss here, but the rest of the story is, in a sound, ho-hum.
To put it in perspective, there wasn't even enough material to fill the 128 pages of this installment. The last few pages are dedicated to updated profiles on the main players of the House of M and their altered reality histories along with a few details about places like Genosha and Mutopia which are part of the landscape of these stories.
Honestly, I just wasn't impressed overall despite some of the other magnificent stories applied to the House of M story arc. If you buy this as a set, sure, read it... but don't go out of your way.
November 2, 2017
Continuing the great X-read of 2017…
Another lackluster entry in the House of M series. While I love seeing a few of the characters from the old Excalibur run make their return, this one is easily skippable.
The plot is a convoluted mess that seems to go in circles a lot of the time without ever giving the characters a whole lot of true danger (or depth).
It’s just not good.
Another lackluster entry in the House of M series. While I love seeing a few of the characters from the old Excalibur run make their return, this one is easily skippable.
The plot is a convoluted mess that seems to go in circles a lot of the time without ever giving the characters a whole lot of true danger (or depth).
It’s just not good.
March 25, 2021
I think I jumped into a comic mid story! I was confused and I think there was more happening than I was aware of, but I can't knock it down a star just because I joined the conversation/adventure mid story.
June 6, 2024
The House of M hits the Uncanny X-Men in a wave of -- chaos? I found this run very confusing, but I will try my best to explain what I think was going on. When Scarlet Witch altered reality, she unleashed a chaos wave that threatens to destroy the entire multiverse. Roma, the Celestial Guardian, dispatches Captain Britain to seal the breach and save our dimension. Meanwhile, Rachel and Psylocke escape the Scarlet Witch's altered world by slipping into the White Hot Room. All three of them, however, forget their mission when they return to Earth and enter the House of M timeline, but time is ticking before Roma is forced to destroy this reality to protect the Omniverse.
This was not a fun read for me. I continue to have a hard time keeping up with Chris Claremont and Alan Davis when they delve into their Otherworld storylines. I don't fully understand the concepts, and I haven't kept up enough with the tangled tales to even know the different characters or their relationships. There was no real connection to the House of M, and plot elements (like Nocturne) are jarring and never explained. I was lost from the beginning and never caught up. The only positive was that Chris Bachalo joined the creative team as the regular artist.
I would also not call this an Uncanny X-Men book. It feels like a continuation of Excalibur with the sole focus on Rachel Summers, Psylocke, and Captain Britain. I later read that this run sets up the launch of New Excalibur.
This was not a fun read for me. I continue to have a hard time keeping up with Chris Claremont and Alan Davis when they delve into their Otherworld storylines. I don't fully understand the concepts, and I haven't kept up enough with the tangled tales to even know the different characters or their relationships. There was no real connection to the House of M, and plot elements (like Nocturne) are jarring and never explained. I was lost from the beginning and never caught up. The only positive was that Chris Bachalo joined the creative team as the regular artist.
I would also not call this an Uncanny X-Men book. It feels like a continuation of Excalibur with the sole focus on Rachel Summers, Psylocke, and Captain Britain. I later read that this run sets up the launch of New Excalibur.
February 21, 2023
Rachel Summers and Betsy Braddock travel between realities and wind up in one where Magneto, the mutant master of magnetism, has become the ruler of that particular Earth (thus the title "House of M" since he is the ruler, British-monarch style). The only problem is a "rift in causality" that is wreaking havoc with other different realities, threatening to destroy them all. Brian Braddock (Betsy's twin brother) is the ruler of one of these alternate realities where they realize the problem and his people threaten to destroy his home reality. Brian goes to the House of M reality where he will work with Rachel and Betsy to seal the rift.
The story is very convoluted and borrows a lot of technical jargon from science (there's a sidereal something or other), trying to paper over the dubious mechanics of what's going on. A lot of other mutant characters are brought in, which is fun if you know the roster but even I was unsure of a couple of them. I found the story hard to follow, especially when characters started possessing each other or speaking through each other. It's a bit of a mess and not up to Claremont's usual standards.
Not recommended unless you are up on your X-Men lore.
The story is very convoluted and borrows a lot of technical jargon from science (there's a sidereal something or other), trying to paper over the dubious mechanics of what's going on. A lot of other mutant characters are brought in, which is fun if you know the roster but even I was unsure of a couple of them. I found the story hard to follow, especially when characters started possessing each other or speaking through each other. It's a bit of a mess and not up to Claremont's usual standards.
Not recommended unless you are up on your X-Men lore.
February 28, 2022
When Wanda changes the reality of the 616 universe, the multiverse is affected in more ways than she or anyone, could have imagined. In this volume, Captain Britain learns that this shift is really threatening the entire multiverse, and unless something can be done to stop or change it back, then the 616 universe will have to be culled.
Honestly, I thought the idea of this story was pretty strong, and it started off strong enough, but man this devolves into a bit of a nonsensical and meandering mess. There's so much that Claremont throws at us, all with this pseudo-scientific explanation of things, that it just gets bogged down in the details. The characters themselves are going through crisis' of their own, and that just adds more details to the already over abundant shit soup that Claremont is cooking.
Honestly, I would say only read this if you're really dying to know what is going on with some of the Uncanny team during house of M. Otherwise, you can skip it.
Honestly, I thought the idea of this story was pretty strong, and it started off strong enough, but man this devolves into a bit of a nonsensical and meandering mess. There's so much that Claremont throws at us, all with this pseudo-scientific explanation of things, that it just gets bogged down in the details. The characters themselves are going through crisis' of their own, and that just adds more details to the already over abundant shit soup that Claremont is cooking.
Honestly, I would say only read this if you're really dying to know what is going on with some of the Uncanny team during house of M. Otherwise, you can skip it.
August 6, 2020
This was a weird little side story. Hard to believe that the Uncanny X-Men book in the "House of M" crossover—a crossover specifically about Magneto taking over the world—was actually this little Excalibur thing.
And they don't even go all out. They introduce a Mad Jim jaspers-Fury combo and then the rest of the book consists of the protagonists struggling to remember what they're doing. Tat part was pretty uninteresting because we know what they're doing. And it doesn't seem like they really do anything once they do remember.
And they don't even go all out. They introduce a Mad Jim jaspers-Fury combo and then the rest of the book consists of the protagonists struggling to remember what they're doing. Tat part was pretty uninteresting because we know what they're doing. And it doesn't seem like they really do anything once they do remember.
October 15, 2021
Peristiwa House of M dimana Scarlet Witch melakukan perubahan pada realitas yang ada ternyata tidak hanya berdampak pada Bumi. Di dunia Omniverse yang merupakan jembatan antardimensi dan saat ini menjadi tempat tinggal Brian Braddock alias Kapten Britain, perubahan itu juga berdampak besar. Roma, penjaga realitas-realitas yang ada mengutus Braddock untuk membereskan masalah yang disebabkan oleh Wanda dan hanya memberikan waktu selama dua hari. Jika tidak, maka tidak ada jalan lain kecuali Bumi dan realitasnya dimusnahkan untuk selamanya. Seluruh semesta menjadi taruhan saat ini.
March 7, 2024
Horror of Horrors!! "The fate of all creation is at stake!" (Of course it is not so clearly stated until about halfway through this awful volume.) Although it is not so clear who or what is proffering this interdimensional threat. Oh my, what to do? Superheroes are powerless in the face of this unimaginable threat. Or are they? Rinse repeat ad nauseum. Gag! Mostly gibberish, which makes the repetition even less appealing. Even the horrendously dark illustrations reinforced by lots of "Faboom" lend nothing to this at best dubious garbage.
February 19, 2019
As a stand alone story, this wasn't the best in the whole world, but it does make me want to dig into the stories of the Excalibur crew. Some how I always wrote them off as X-Men spinoffs, but I hadn't realized how much they were tied into the fabric of the multiverse with Roma and Saturnyne and Otherworld. These characters all seem so rich with possibility (though this story doesn't necessarily show all of that off if you're not already acquainted with them).
August 11, 2019
Great start. Brian Braddock is called upon to step off the throne of Otherworld and become Captain BritIn to save all timelines. He wi dis up in one where Magneto is king of the world and Braddock and Meggan are king and queen of England. Ultimately her remembers why he came and it’s up to his twin, crazy brother, Meggan, and Rachel to save the day. Juggernaut even helps out. This sets up the New Excalibur after Scarlet Witch’s break down.
July 23, 2020
This was a fine tie-in, with basically 1/2 dedicated to a run down of each player in the House of M main event and specific information about them, what side they are on, spouses, etc. so that the reader can see some of the differences between House of M and the world before. I'm not sure why I DNF it in 2015; I assume that I didn't know enough about the cast at that time to understand what was going on in the Uncanny issues.
September 26, 2020
3.25 stars. Seems like the House of M event, what Scarlet Witch did, has caused all the different dimensions to begin to merge into one another. Some sort of rift seems to have opened. Captain Britain, Meggan, Betty and Rachel try to close it off while dealing with authorities that work for Magneto trying to stop them. Another decent entry.
January 13, 2022
”He beholds in his beloved the personification of glory.”
I would too would be as whipped if Meggan was my queen.
So… I don’t know who any of these people are but I know that I want you Meggan…
I would too would be as whipped if Meggan was my queen.
So… I don’t know who any of these people are but I know that I want you Meggan…
June 17, 2018
Story was interesting and I liked the art.
March 31, 2020
A pretty cool "what if" type thing featuring Captain Britain, was super happy to see the Bachalo as the artist. I'm thinking about collecting all the comics he's drawn, he's definitely my favorite.
November 23, 2020
This is my favorite of the House of M tie-ins so far.
April 26, 2021
can't say I was that bothered by this to be honest
September 8, 2021
I have no idea what’s going on but I’m having a good time
March 10, 2022
Truly unhinged but in a way I love
December 1, 2022
3.5 stars!
This followed some characters I'm not super familiar with, but I really liked the bonus section with character bios and new reality histories.
This followed some characters I'm not super familiar with, but I really liked the bonus section with character bios and new reality histories.
October 7, 2023
Probably would have felt like a more powerful ending if I hadnt already seen it overturned
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