It all ends here!!! The original five X-Men have taken the fight back to Ahab…but at what cost? Who lives? Who dies? The X-Men will never be the same again.
Credits include: COMEBACK, SHELTERED, THE FIELD (Image Comics), SECRET AVENGERS (Marvel), ROBOCOP, SONS OF ANARCHY, HELLRAISER (BOOM!) and X-FILES/TMNT: CONSPIRACY (IDW). Plus, you know, a bunch of stuff I can’t talk about yet.
Not a terrible ending, but it kinda seems like Marvel just doesn't really care about this story anymore since they've already moved onto the next "status-quo-forming-X-Men-cross-over". I guess if you've been following along with the time-displaced X-Men, then this might've been a good conclusion to their story.
The story of the time-displaced original X-Men was one of the defining stories that I attribute my love of comic books and graphic novels to, and this five-issue event was a pretty perfect send-off to these characters (though at least one of them has recently returned...)
The time-displaced X-Men are the only hope for saving the future from mutant hunter Ahab. In the finale of Extermination, how will the group recover from the death of one of their own?