crookedtreehouse's review against another edition
2.0
Some of the best 21st century X-Men scribes have a real problem with endings. Morrison's New X-Men run went way off the rails, Whedon's Astonishing X-Men run got a bit convoluted, Bedard's Exiles run flattened out. David Hine was quietly writing some of the better titles at the time. His District X, Mutopia, and Son Of M were among my favorites. This book is a bit of a coda to those storylines, and it was just a generic X-story. In an attempt to focus mostly on lesser-used X-Men like Magma and Empath, as well as fold his own characters: Mr. M, Lorelei (he didn't create Lorelie but he certainly used her more than any other modern X-writer), Johnny Cthulu-abs, and Jazz, while also shoehorning in the Decimation event, he ends up with a dull story.
Muniz's art is fairly lackluster, as well. There's some very poor anatomical choices, and uninspired panel layouts.
Muniz's art is fairly lackluster, as well. There's some very poor anatomical choices, and uninspired panel layouts.
mjfmjfmjf's review
3.0
Not a bad story but nothing fantastic. But still better than I was expecting. I've never really bit a fan of Piotr Rasputin. Never even considered the importance of his last name. But actually parts of his back-story made some sense. Not actually all that familiar with Sinister - I only ran into Nathaniel Essex recently. I did kind of like Piotr's self-portrait however - which made a lot more sense after this book. Anyway, the story was another opportunity for Kitty to appear at least in passing.
mjfmjfmjf's review against another edition
4.0
Pretty awesome story following the end of most mutankind. Followed by a pretty lame cataloging of the "198" mutants left. It's too bad because the story was well written and drawn and left me wanting more. And the catalog was just boring.
baxtercrabtree's review against another edition
4.0
this is great. resonates, even today (yes i know it's not that old). all the toys come out. and when the story is done, all the toys go back in the box.
witchofthemountains's review against another edition
2.0
I found this collection somewhat interesting, though I couldn't quite seem to get into it. I ordered it as a follow-up to House of M, but I think I must have missed part of the story somewhere, as this only seems to pick up with a few of the characters and does not address the big cliff hanger at the end of House of M. On its own it was marginally interesting, but I was a little frustrated with the overall story as well as its relation to House of M.
kfan's review
2.0
Kinnell picked this out at the library for us to read together, but it was too old for him. And not that interesting either way.
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