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jimmydean's review
5.0
Finally, after a few years, have come to the end of Hickman’s run on X-Men and all of the Dawn of X titles. There’s been some high points along the way, but Hickman’s writing was always the best, this is a wonderful conclusion, a reminder of how good Marvel comics can be.
ricoocri's review
5.0
So sad to see Johnathan Hickman leave the X-books but man, one HELL of a note to go out on!
jammasterjamie's review
5.0
See, this is why I hate that Hickman is leaving the X-titles. There was a lot of very satisfying payoff from plot threads that were started in House of X / Powers of X, and without spoiling anything I really loved who the ultimate hero of this story was as I've been a huge fan of this character for decades and always felt his power-set was under-utilized by his writers, and under-estimated by his peers. Hickman, however, really seems to get how much power and potential this character actually has and used it to full-effect in pulling off a great end to this story. I've been reading all of the other X-books and while some of them are pretty entertaining, none of them have come close to this level of story-telling for me, and that was under Hickman's direction, so now that he's gone, I'm not sure how I feel about things going forward. I personally came back to the X-Men books after a long hiatus because I was sold on the idea that Hickman had a beginning, middle, and end to the story he wanted to tell over what we were told would be a five or so year period, and now that we're in that middle and he's leaving and Marvel has pretty much said that this isn't just an era of X-Men books but rather the new status-quo moving forward, I don't know how much longer I'm going to stick around. I was kind of looking forward to an ending and now that I know I'm not going to get one in the true sense of the word, I'm probably going to go back to being a casual reader and only showing up for the big events, and going back to ignoring the books I really don't care about (looking at you, Children of the Atom).
haddocks_eyes's review
inspiring
mysterious
fast-paced
4.25
First half is amazing, second feels a bit narrow in comparison. Solid sendoff for Hickman.
weminence's review
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
5.0
Mystique and Destiny are back together and that's reason enough for this story, but all the moving pieces of the book make this story a lot of fun and a good time. Really loved this story.