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Uncanny X-Men by Chuck Austen
Uncanny X-Men, Vol. 3: Holy War
The return of the Canadian super team Alpha Flight... but do they return as friends or foes? The hunt for the mysterious religious sect known as the Church of Humanity concludes, but what secrets will they have in store for one of the X-Men? Plus: A wedding between two of the X-Men's longtime members
192 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2003
About the author
Chuck Austen
448 books16 followersChuck Austen (born Chuck Beckum) is an American humor novelist, comic book writer and artist, TV writer and animator. In comics, he is known for his work on X-Men, War Machine, Elektra, and Action Comics, and in television, he is known for co-creating the animated TV series Tripping the Rift.
In his most recent prose novels, Chuck Austen has been going by the name Charles Austen.
In his most recent prose novels, Chuck Austen has been going by the name Charles Austen.
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June 22, 2021
Yowser! Some high drama with crucified mutants! Husk & Jubilee's return. And the fate of this very dangerous incarnation of the Church of Humanity. Add a mutant wedding and a mutant gone mad, and you've got some solid Chuck Austen work (despite the bad art, in my opinion) with his customary character led approach - that's an easy 8 from 12 from me.
March 11, 2020
Issues 421, 422, & 427 are actually pretty good. 421-422 focus on personal drama at the X Mansion including Juggernaut turning over a new leaf by bonding with a young mutant student. 427 is the best issue hands down with a mostly contained story about Jubilee and Husk dealing with mutant bigotry and Angel trying to use his new healing factor to help people.
However issues 423-426 are just awful. 423-424 is the legendary bad and poorly researched story where the Church of Humanity tries to make Nightcrawler Pope so he can be mistaken for the Antichrist in order for the CoH to fake the Rapture with teleporting communion wafers. It's even stupider than it sounds, trust me. 425-426 involves the aborted wedding of Havok and Polaris which was caused by a bizarre romantic subplot with an anti mutant nurse.
421-422 (4/5)
423-424 (0.5/5)
425-426 (1/5)
427 (4/5)
However issues 423-426 are just awful. 423-424 is the legendary bad and poorly researched story where the Church of Humanity tries to make Nightcrawler Pope so he can be mistaken for the Antichrist in order for the CoH to fake the Rapture with teleporting communion wafers. It's even stupider than it sounds, trust me. 425-426 involves the aborted wedding of Havok and Polaris which was caused by a bizarre romantic subplot with an anti mutant nurse.
421-422 (4/5)
423-424 (0.5/5)
425-426 (1/5)
427 (4/5)
April 5, 2007
i kept reading because I needed to catch up on my recent X-History, but it was sort of like drinking castor oil.
June 22, 2008
Tripe. Bad stories, bad art. Three words: Exploding communion wafers.
March 5, 2011
Interesting concept, Nightcrawler as a priest.
September 22, 2022
Okay, so first off. It is very difficult to become a Catholic priest. You need to attend seminary for 4-8 years, depending on if you have a bachelor's degree, serve as a transitional deacon for a year, and then finally be ordained by a bishop.
It is much more difficult to become the pope. While, you do not technically have to be a bishop to become pope, the last time that happened was in 1831. You then need to be elected by the college of cardinals. And of course this all occurs only after the current pope has died or resigned.
Other fun facts about Catholics. They do not believe in dispensationalism or the rapture. These are relatively recent Protestant beliefs.
All this to say, it wouldn't have been that hard for Austen to do a little bit of research before he wrote this comic. Sure, it was before Wikipedia but since he was writing an arc about Catholicism he could of, I don't know, had a 5 minute conversation with a Catholic?
In this comic, Nightcrawler, who was recently ordained as a priest, discovers that his ordination was fake. The church he was ordained in wasn't real and all of the friends he remembered at his ordination ceremony weren't really there. Investigating this they discover that this was all an evil plot by the Church of Humanity, an anti-mutant cult. They intended to have Nightcrawler elected as pope, while using an image inducer to appear human. Once he is in place, they will initiate a false rapture by having people eat communion wafers that cause them to instantly disintegrate, convincing everyone that they are in the Great Tribulation. Finally, Nightcrawler's image inducer will fail, revealing him to have the appearance of a demon and thus be the Antichrist. At this point, the pope of the Church of Humanity, a woman, will appear and declare them to be the true Church, destroying and replacing Catholicism.
This is so stupid it physically hurts. Maybe it could have worked a bit if Austen had chosen an evangelical denomination as his target, but as it is, it's just exhausting.
There's lots of other dumb things in this volume that deserve some mention as well:
- Stacy X leaves the X-Men, leaving behind a video for Angel of herself skipping rope naked.
- Alpha Flight shows up and acts so vastly out of character that I briefly assumed they were skrulls.
- The X-Men all visit a strip club for Havok's bachelor party, where Scott hires a shapeshifting stripper to look like Annie and later Beast requests she appear as "something underage" for Warren, making his relationship with Husk way more disturbing than it already was.
- Havok awakes from his coma and immediately gets engaged to Polaris but then discovers he's in love with the perverted nurse who lusted after him while he was comatose and leaves Polaris at the altar, causing Polaris to go insane and try to kill them. I kind of enjoy psychotic Polaris but it's definitely not good writing.
It is much more difficult to become the pope. While, you do not technically have to be a bishop to become pope, the last time that happened was in 1831. You then need to be elected by the college of cardinals. And of course this all occurs only after the current pope has died or resigned.
Other fun facts about Catholics. They do not believe in dispensationalism or the rapture. These are relatively recent Protestant beliefs.
All this to say, it wouldn't have been that hard for Austen to do a little bit of research before he wrote this comic. Sure, it was before Wikipedia but since he was writing an arc about Catholicism he could of, I don't know, had a 5 minute conversation with a Catholic?
In this comic, Nightcrawler, who was recently ordained as a priest, discovers that his ordination was fake. The church he was ordained in wasn't real and all of the friends he remembered at his ordination ceremony weren't really there. Investigating this they discover that this was all an evil plot by the Church of Humanity, an anti-mutant cult. They intended to have Nightcrawler elected as pope, while using an image inducer to appear human. Once he is in place, they will initiate a false rapture by having people eat communion wafers that cause them to instantly disintegrate, convincing everyone that they are in the Great Tribulation. Finally, Nightcrawler's image inducer will fail, revealing him to have the appearance of a demon and thus be the Antichrist. At this point, the pope of the Church of Humanity, a woman, will appear and declare them to be the true Church, destroying and replacing Catholicism.
This is so stupid it physically hurts. Maybe it could have worked a bit if Austen had chosen an evangelical denomination as his target, but as it is, it's just exhausting.
There's lots of other dumb things in this volume that deserve some mention as well:
- Stacy X leaves the X-Men, leaving behind a video for Angel of herself skipping rope naked.
- Alpha Flight shows up and acts so vastly out of character that I briefly assumed they were skrulls.
- The X-Men all visit a strip club for Havok's bachelor party, where Scott hires a shapeshifting stripper to look like Annie and later Beast requests she appear as "something underage" for Warren, making his relationship with Husk way more disturbing than it already was.
- Havok awakes from his coma and immediately gets engaged to Polaris but then discovers he's in love with the perverted nurse who lusted after him while he was comatose and leaves Polaris at the altar, causing Polaris to go insane and try to kill them. I kind of enjoy psychotic Polaris but it's definitely not good writing.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
January 7, 2024
2.5/5.0
February 21, 2022
Things do not really get all that much better in this third volume of Chris Austin's Uncanny X-Men run. There are some interesting topics explored in these three stories but they come across to me as a little too forced.
Rules of Engagement: Canada's superhero team Alpha Flight arrives with the FBI and local police to remove mutant children from the school. Of particular interest is Sammy Pare who has befriended Juggernaut, a known international criminal.
Holy War: The Church of Humanity crucify six mutants on school grounds leading to a final confrontation and the truth behind Nightcrawler's ordainment.
Sacred Vows: Havok finally confronts his true feelings about Annie and calls off his wedding with Polaris during the ceremony. His fiance does not take the news well and dramatically lashes out endangering the guests.
Chris does a great job capturing the humanity of the characters he is focused on, but he continues to portray the rest of the team in a cynical light. Juggernaut grows very close to a young outcast mutant who must return to his troubled home while Nurse Annie must deal with her prejudice against mutants in order to help them and her mutant son. Both of them receive plenty of unexpected attitudes from the X-Men.
Adding to the characters acting out of their norm is Polaris. She is uncharacteristically mean and reacts in a way reminiscent of her time merged with Malice. I am glad to see Chris doesn't go with the normal superhero soap-opera tropes (it is not Malice), but I have a hard time believing that suddenly being a snotty, entitled jerk ready to kill anybody who disagrees with her is a natural reaction to recent traumas.
Finally, a pet peeve. The Church of Humanity plot includes an awful conspiracy that just feels too far-fetched, even for comic books. It was a clumsy way to address Nightcrawler's priesthood and a waste of a really good villain setup using religious zealotry. The story also includes the deaths of Skin (of Generation X) and Jesse Aaronson (of X-Force). Why? We haven't seen these characters since their titles ended, and now they were killed to prove a needless point? Very disappointing.
Rules of Engagement: Canada's superhero team Alpha Flight arrives with the FBI and local police to remove mutant children from the school. Of particular interest is Sammy Pare who has befriended Juggernaut, a known international criminal.
Holy War: The Church of Humanity crucify six mutants on school grounds leading to a final confrontation and the truth behind Nightcrawler's ordainment.
Sacred Vows: Havok finally confronts his true feelings about Annie and calls off his wedding with Polaris during the ceremony. His fiance does not take the news well and dramatically lashes out endangering the guests.
Chris does a great job capturing the humanity of the characters he is focused on, but he continues to portray the rest of the team in a cynical light. Juggernaut grows very close to a young outcast mutant who must return to his troubled home while Nurse Annie must deal with her prejudice against mutants in order to help them and her mutant son. Both of them receive plenty of unexpected attitudes from the X-Men.
Adding to the characters acting out of their norm is Polaris. She is uncharacteristically mean and reacts in a way reminiscent of her time merged with Malice. I am glad to see Chris doesn't go with the normal superhero soap-opera tropes (it is not Malice), but I have a hard time believing that suddenly being a snotty, entitled jerk ready to kill anybody who disagrees with her is a natural reaction to recent traumas.
Finally, a pet peeve. The Church of Humanity plot includes an awful conspiracy that just feels too far-fetched, even for comic books. It was a clumsy way to address Nightcrawler's priesthood and a waste of a really good villain setup using religious zealotry. The story also includes the deaths of Skin (of Generation X) and Jesse Aaronson (of X-Force). Why? We haven't seen these characters since their titles ended, and now they were killed to prove a needless point? Very disappointing.
September 22, 2015
So much better than V2, but far from great. The female characters are written poorly and out of character, as is Bobby Drake, the wrap up to Casey's church storyline is beyond ridiculous, Stacy X's exit is both silly and mysoginistic, and I don't even know why Wolverine was included in the book. Ron Garney's art was decent, but Philip Tan was pretty abysmal. This is completist reading only, and again it isn't as bad as I've heard due to lowered expectations, but it's not good.
I hate Annie the nurse too. And her son. And Havoc for caring about either.
I hate Annie the nurse too. And her son. And Havoc for caring about either.
May 20, 2016
I should maybe rate this a little less, because there were some pretty large plot holes and the use of psychics to make Kurt think he had been ordained to the priesthood (which is kind of lazy), but I really enjoyed the story and Lorna-Annie-Alex dynamic.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
August 10, 2020
Misogynistic junk that reduces so many characters to cartoon caricatures.
"I want to be naked with him"
What the actual fuck was happening in the Editorial team?
"I want to be naked with him"
What the actual fuck was happening in the Editorial team?
August 23, 2021
In this one we get to the root of Nightcrawlers crisis of faith, the government gets involved with the school, and Havoc and Polaris' wedding gets cancelled for an unexpected revelation.
So first, I got to start with this to get it off my chest... how old is Husk in this volume? Everyone keeps making underage jokes and laughing it off, but it's pretty weird that the relationship between Husk and Angel seems to be developing, even though its super creepy. I think Austen needs to move on from that story because its weird and kind of derails the rest.
Not that the rest is all that good if I'm being honest. Certainly better than last volume, but still a bit stiff and strange at times. There's good moments, like Juggernaut angry for taking away his friends and Jubilee joining the cast. But there's moments in this that are very mapped out, and they don't really go with the character's past motivations/personalities. I think Austen writes women as plot points and not really as characters. Things like the whole Husk thing, Stacy X leaving a ...essentially a porn video for angel where she skips rope naked, even Polaris' turn felt very forced. It's all bizarre and a little too mapped out.
I'm still reading through the rest of this run in the interest of completion, but I can safely say this is turning into my least favorite run so far in my chronology read.
So first, I got to start with this to get it off my chest... how old is Husk in this volume? Everyone keeps making underage jokes and laughing it off, but it's pretty weird that the relationship between Husk and Angel seems to be developing, even though its super creepy. I think Austen needs to move on from that story because its weird and kind of derails the rest.
Not that the rest is all that good if I'm being honest. Certainly better than last volume, but still a bit stiff and strange at times. There's good moments, like Juggernaut angry for taking away his friends and Jubilee joining the cast. But there's moments in this that are very mapped out, and they don't really go with the character's past motivations/personalities. I think Austen writes women as plot points and not really as characters. Things like the whole Husk thing, Stacy X leaving a ...essentially a porn video for angel where she skips rope naked, even Polaris' turn felt very forced. It's all bizarre and a little too mapped out.
I'm still reading through the rest of this run in the interest of completion, but I can safely say this is turning into my least favorite run so far in my chronology read.
November 13, 2021
3.5* rounded up because it doesn't deserve the 2.6 rating its got at the moment.
Rules of Engagement- 4* for art (Ron Garney) and story. I love the development of Cain this run and his relationship with Sammy is great.
Holy War - 3* story, 4* Ron Garney's art. Crucified mutants! I never really understood the Chruch of Humanity/Nightcrawler storyline. It was spread out too far (and I was reading other things) for me to keep up with it as a plot point. Maybe I need to read just those issues to understand it (but I can't be arsed).
Sacred Vows - 3* story. 2* Tan's art. Maybe the story of Havok and Polaris's ill fated non-wedding would have been better if someone else had drawn it. As it was the art was so bad I couldn't really enjoy it. Not even Cain saving the day. Or Laura's revelation that her and Bobby never slept together (BECAUSE HE'S GAY!).
The Dead Have No Rights - 3* story and art. Yes the art was more kid friendly/de-aged characters but it felt so much better following Tan's clusterf**k art.
Rules of Engagement- 4* for art (Ron Garney) and story. I love the development of Cain this run and his relationship with Sammy is great.
Holy War - 3* story, 4* Ron Garney's art. Crucified mutants! I never really understood the Chruch of Humanity/Nightcrawler storyline. It was spread out too far (and I was reading other things) for me to keep up with it as a plot point. Maybe I need to read just those issues to understand it (but I can't be arsed).
Sacred Vows - 3* story. 2* Tan's art. Maybe the story of Havok and Polaris's ill fated non-wedding would have been better if someone else had drawn it. As it was the art was so bad I couldn't really enjoy it. Not even Cain saving the day. Or Laura's revelation that her and Bobby never slept together (BECAUSE HE'S GAY!).
The Dead Have No Rights - 3* story and art. Yes the art was more kid friendly/de-aged characters but it felt so much better following Tan's clusterf**k art.
September 14, 2022
Mimo niskiej średniej przy tym tytule bawiłem się całkiem nieźle. Były fragmenty męczące, ale też i takie, które dało się czytać z przyjemnością.
Począwszy od nalotu Alpha Flight, którzy chcieli zabrać młodocianych obywateli Kanady, będących w szkole Xaviera, przez ukrzyżowanie mutantów, po nieudane wesele, na którym niedoszła panna młoda wpada w szał. No czegóż tu nie ma...
Mamy za to sporo obyczajówki, która okraszona jest różnej maści kreskami i cześć z nich "wchodzi", a część nie, wyglądając zwyczajnie ok-ro-pnie. Zresztą całe te sercowe dramy też mnie mało tu kręciły, bo były zwyczajnie słabo zarysowane. Najlepiej wyszedł pewien trójkącik sercowy i relacja pomiędzy Sammy'im i Juggernautem. Złoto.
To co mi się nie podobało, to Scott drżący japę na Kurta. Po co to? Aby pokazać jakim bucem jest jeden z Summersów? I prawie całe tytułowe wydarzenie oparte na uprzedzeniach religijnych ludzi do mutantów też wypadło tak sobie.
Tytuł mocno po środku stawki, który potrafi dać ubaw zarówno relacjami, jak i rzetelna bitką, ale zaraz obok znajdziemy też elementy które wieją nudą.
Począwszy od nalotu Alpha Flight, którzy chcieli zabrać młodocianych obywateli Kanady, będących w szkole Xaviera, przez ukrzyżowanie mutantów, po nieudane wesele, na którym niedoszła panna młoda wpada w szał. No czegóż tu nie ma...
Mamy za to sporo obyczajówki, która okraszona jest różnej maści kreskami i cześć z nich "wchodzi", a część nie, wyglądając zwyczajnie ok-ro-pnie. Zresztą całe te sercowe dramy też mnie mało tu kręciły, bo były zwyczajnie słabo zarysowane. Najlepiej wyszedł pewien trójkącik sercowy i relacja pomiędzy Sammy'im i Juggernautem. Złoto.
To co mi się nie podobało, to Scott drżący japę na Kurta. Po co to? Aby pokazać jakim bucem jest jeden z Summersów? I prawie całe tytułowe wydarzenie oparte na uprzedzeniach religijnych ludzi do mutantów też wypadło tak sobie.
Tytuł mocno po środku stawki, który potrafi dać ubaw zarówno relacjami, jak i rzetelna bitką, ale zaraz obok znajdziemy też elementy które wieją nudą.
July 1, 2017
Continuing the "great" x-read of 2017...
This one wasn't nearly as bad as Austen's last volume. But unfortunately, there are still just so many problems. Far too many to list (popes don't work that way, explosive communion wafers, Bobby isn't himself at all - neither are Paige, Polaris, Havok.... I could go on for pages.) Also, why does Austen have this weird thing for people coming and going from the team nearly every issue? The team is basically a revolving door at this point.
But I would say that I at least had a little fun at points in this story - definitely not something I can say for the last volume.
This one wasn't nearly as bad as Austen's last volume. But unfortunately, there are still just so many problems. Far too many to list (popes don't work that way, explosive communion wafers, Bobby isn't himself at all - neither are Paige, Polaris, Havok.... I could go on for pages.) Also, why does Austen have this weird thing for people coming and going from the team nearly every issue? The team is basically a revolving door at this point.
But I would say that I at least had a little fun at points in this story - definitely not something I can say for the last volume.
June 28, 2018
This was decent, but the "love interest" thing was laid on pretty thick. I wasn't sure if I was reading X-Men or watching Dawson's Creek (which I've never actually watched so maybe I'm way off here). I felt like they were just going to make everyone hook up in every possible combination. It was like, "Oh no! Villains are trying to destroy the universe, damn Angel is hot." Or 'The Earth is literally about to explode! I'm not sure if I really love Lorna, what should I do?"
I liked the Juggernaut story line a lot and the mutant strip club scene was hilarious.
I liked the Juggernaut story line a lot and the mutant strip club scene was hilarious.
June 28, 2025
I’ve often heard it said that X-Men is, at its core, a soap opera. This is a fair statement and honestly I often enjoy that aspect of their stories but Chuck Austen consistently takes that to the extreme in the worst possible way. Nearly every single character is horribly written and it really gives the impression that the writer is a horribly sexually frustrated teenager. I cannot recommend this to anyone unless you’re simply interested in knowing how some of the worst comics in X-Men history went down (and this is not even close to the worst part of Austen’s run).
November 20, 2021
The 2parter of X-Men v. Alpha Flight over the custody of Squidboy is great, but everything else in this volume is unspeakably awful: Jubilee, Bedlam, Skin, & Magma crucified, Scott screaming at Kurt, Alex's & Lorna's aborted wedding, & the Warren -Paige-Jono triangle
September 4, 2017
Wow, the characterizations now seem to be totally going off the rails. Not the worst X-Men read, but its going downhill quickly.
October 19, 2019
I don't really remember this volume. The Austen stuff blurs together a lot. It's, like, hookup city and sometimes lacks a clear core story. Did this one lack a clear story? I don't know.
December 20, 2020
Holy misogynist tosh batman!
December 2, 2023
"CATHOLICISM DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY! GOODNIGHT!"
- Morbo
With wasted artwork by Ron Garney, who has Jean Grey's hair change to green in one panel, this story arc should be sent straight to hell because of poor research on religion and Catholicism in particular. It begins with the discovery of Jubilee and several other X-Men members crucified in the backyard of the X-Mansion, which is exactly as disturbing as it sounds. The storyline is bizarre in that it tries to hypo-criticize mutants by religion. Scott Summers/Cyclops is still the same jerk that he was towards Wolverine.
No X-Men-related villains appear in this 2-part story, just the evil Catholic group called the Church of Humanity, whose "pope", by the way is just another "generic doomsday villain" that wants to eradicate all mutants because she was a Catholic nun who was assaulted and accused of infidelity by a priest and removed by church officials, thus she believes that her God abandoned her and wants to win him back by making mutants appear to be agents of the antichrist that would turn down Catholicism and go to their church. Seriously. She often crushes her followers' heads, which means she might be a mutant or not. And after that story arc, the Church are forgotten.
It states that Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler was brainwashed by the Church of Humanity into thinking that he was ordained as a priest, but that situation doesn't make any sense. It is also notable for ruining Nightcrawler's character arc such as it tries to be the pawn of a bizarre conspiracy theory by the Church of Humanity. It gets overly convoluted, as the Church of Humanity wants Nightcrawler to be placed as their next pope rather than a priest and then initiate a false rapture (since Catholics don't believe in that, anyway). They do this by feeding people a diet of holy wafers, bread disks that "represent the body of Christ" in the Communion ritual and then have them "vanish in the twinkling of an eye" by disintegrating their bodies into dust. After Father Whitney died in his arms, Nightcrawler does not show any emotion mourning. Since Whitney's death, he is later forgotten.
I could go on and on, but I really don't want to waste my time. Just like The Godyssey, it shows a crucifixion on a wooden cross without chains, which is impossible even with nails driven into the palms. The fight scenes from issue 424 are not good. Oh, and the covers are boring to look at.
With wasted artwork by Ron Garney, who has Jean Grey's hair change to green in one panel, this story arc should be sent straight to hell because of poor research on religion and Catholicism in particular. It begins with the discovery of Jubilee and several other X-Men members crucified in the backyard of the X-Mansion, which is exactly as disturbing as it sounds. The storyline is bizarre in that it tries to hypo-criticize mutants by religion. Scott Summers/Cyclops is still the same jerk that he was towards Wolverine.
No X-Men-related villains appear in this 2-part story, just the evil Catholic group called the Church of Humanity, whose "pope", by the way is just another "generic doomsday villain" that wants to eradicate all mutants because she was a Catholic nun who was assaulted and accused of infidelity by a priest and removed by church officials, thus she believes that her God abandoned her and wants to win him back by making mutants appear to be agents of the antichrist that would turn down Catholicism and go to their church. Seriously. She often crushes her followers' heads, which means she might be a mutant or not. And after that story arc, the Church are forgotten.
It states that Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler was brainwashed by the Church of Humanity into thinking that he was ordained as a priest, but that situation doesn't make any sense. It is also notable for ruining Nightcrawler's character arc such as it tries to be the pawn of a bizarre conspiracy theory by the Church of Humanity. It gets overly convoluted, as the Church of Humanity wants Nightcrawler to be placed as their next pope rather than a priest and then initiate a false rapture (since Catholics don't believe in that, anyway). They do this by feeding people a diet of holy wafers, bread disks that "represent the body of Christ" in the Communion ritual and then have them "vanish in the twinkling of an eye" by disintegrating their bodies into dust. After Father Whitney died in his arms, Nightcrawler does not show any emotion mourning. Since Whitney's death, he is later forgotten.
I could go on and on, but I really don't want to waste my time. Just like The Godyssey, it shows a crucifixion on a wooden cross without chains, which is impossible even with nails driven into the palms. The fight scenes from issue 424 are not good. Oh, and the covers are boring to look at.
July 4, 2025
I understand why the Austen run on Uncanny X-Men gets a lot of flack. His dialog isn't great, the Church Of Humanity angle was pretty stupid, and Ron Garney's work on this title is capable but not as exciting as what was going on in the New X-Men run.
Apart from the silly Church Of Humanity storyline (which briefly works when they crucify Generation X on the lawn of the Xavier school, but falls apart with the whole "We mind controlled Nightcrawler into thinking he was a priest!" angle), and the teeth-gnashing turn of Polaris as the story unfolds, Austen does a lot of interesting interpersonal work. Even teeth-gnashing Lorna sort of makes sense, given her past storylines and the trauma of Genosha.
The Juggernaut arc in this volume, especially as it relates to Professor X and Sammy, is fantastic. The Havoc and Annie portion of the Havoc/Lorna/Annie love triangle is believable, Kurt's faults as a team leader ring true, and Cyclops interactions with Havoc is as well-written as his overreaction to Nightcrawler is ill-conceived.
Garney's art is fine and while I like Phillip Tan's work, it feels out of place in this volume.
I recommend this for people capable of overcoming their hate for Chuck Austen, X-fans willing to accept interesting character developments despite a silly villainous plot, and enyone excited about Havoc returning to the X-Men books.
Apart from the silly Church Of Humanity storyline (which briefly works when they crucify Generation X on the lawn of the Xavier school, but falls apart with the whole "We mind controlled Nightcrawler into thinking he was a priest!" angle), and the teeth-gnashing turn of Polaris as the story unfolds, Austen does a lot of interesting interpersonal work. Even teeth-gnashing Lorna sort of makes sense, given her past storylines and the trauma of Genosha.
The Juggernaut arc in this volume, especially as it relates to Professor X and Sammy, is fantastic. The Havoc and Annie portion of the Havoc/Lorna/Annie love triangle is believable, Kurt's faults as a team leader ring true, and Cyclops interactions with Havoc is as well-written as his overreaction to Nightcrawler is ill-conceived.
Garney's art is fine and while I like Phillip Tan's work, it feels out of place in this volume.
I recommend this for people capable of overcoming their hate for Chuck Austen, X-fans willing to accept interesting character developments despite a silly villainous plot, and enyone excited about Havoc returning to the X-Men books.
February 2, 2016
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