Honestly the book is decent. Most of the books besides the one with cyclops have just been okay. These books are making me miss Krakoa.

Kwannon isnt white now. Not sure what the video title is referring to?

And nobody likes either one cause they both suck and are being force fed in the interest of DEI and lousy woke politics.

This was such a shallow issue. I was expecting WAY more. The “psychic rescue” was lame. They didn’t even extract the intel, it was offered freely by the “trap” I give it a 2/5

Honestly this new era hasn't been that interesting.

She become Betsy off panel?

Thank you very much

Great interview!

You can have a like for the intro, shit had me steppin

Yup. Not reading this! Great review!

I feel like Ckye could pull Illyana if he want to & it ABSOLUTELY makes sense Beast would go dark.

So he returned to his household after all

Would you consider making a video on how Marvel/Xmen keeps disrespecting Rogue please? It was bad enough that Blue Origins made her lesser than as the adopted kid and retconned her adoption reason to being "saved from pimps age four". But now they are going backwards with her only solo comic being a Savage Lands comic with Magneto. We are tired of seeing Rogue objectified, exploited, degraded by male writers and not given the same respect as Storm and Jean. To add insult to injury, Beau De Mayo is trying to "take credit" Also in 700 her mothers abandon her so it pretty much confirms they were just using her. She was supposed to be wanted for her powers initially but then when they raised her, actually grew to like her and wanted to be in her life. Apparently this is no longer the case. Even in Destiny's case, I recommend you check out her interaction with Rogue in Necrosha versus her interaction with Rogue when she gets resurrected and you will see how disjointed and cold attitudes towards Rogue/ her role in the family have become. All new meaning was given to the fact Claremont once wrote that Mystique could kill Rogue in a simulation but not Kurt. Claremont now said that was a hint to Kurt being their son. Which is actually more toxic now cause what he is saying is Mystique could kill the other kid because she was merely adopted. Not because she was mentally ill and random af like we all presumed. These Tom and Jerry moments are also exhausting and just constant pitting of Rogue versus Destiny & Mystique. Rogue cannot catch a break. Uncanny was the best of the lot so far and now Tim Seeley is doing this?? The backlash to Savage Lands reboot caused the Deputy Editor of Collider to jump to his defense on X. Owner of Bleeding Cool has publicly jumped to Claremont's defense too. Neither Tom Brevoort nor the media are listening to the actual fans.

I DON'T believe the real MCCOY is dead, I BELIEVE he is well hidden somewhere in his lab.Three people working together will find him BISHOP, ICEMAN AND WONDER MAN.THESE WARRIORS working together bringing in a brain would shock 😲 him and also bring him down a peg.

The art is good I thought the story was generic We've seen this kind of story a million times And, yes,, the Outliers come off as a new New Mutants team I like Calico and Deathdream Ransom and Jitter not so much Aren't the Outliers getting their own book? Why give them their own team name if they're just meant to join the X-Men?

The R Kelly line was funny. 🤪

Nice quick video!!! I would like to see a longer more in-depth video on this topic.

Hey,again friend. Not sure if you remember.

Things might change it is too soon to say but mutants were oppressed by everyone. Men,women, people of colour,pride community. Women were on that too.

That’s a common consensus because apparently he was supposed to know where his planet was and people really don’t like to think about how big the universe is

I don't think he's terrible. He didn't raise them because he thought they were dead and he was in a galaxy far away.

And I kinda liked the first issue

This was a solid start to her run! Glad to see someone praising it.

I like where the new comics are going overall but my biggest issue with Brevoort is he basically said he is the pretend it didn't happen type of editor rather than fix other writer's BS then pretend it never happened type. So it leaves the characters compromised in my opinion when we are pretending like it's 1990 again but some of the characters still have gaping problems and wild retcons left there by clueless writers which need resolving.

Good review, man. Keep it up. The issue was a bit boring for me personally. It felt like a lot of nothing, like a comic you'd have gotten from a cereal box as a kid.

I don't think wolvy is a bitch, I think writers painted future stories in a corner for him because they undid a lot of his growth from the 90. turning him back into a weapon means he has to start the same loop over of rebellion and mistrust of Scott. Schism was already a rehash of their beef but at least had the spin of wolverine being a headmaster. I'm looking forward to his solo series because Hellverine has been good and it's always felt different from his team books even when the writing wasn't great.

Gail Simone was a let down with Rogue in the end. I guess it shouldn't be surprising since she once did a poll pitting Kurt and Rogue against eachother because Kurt is her favorite. Also the fact she said in old tweets she didn't like Gambit now suddenly loves him because she is paid to. She overtly sexualized Rogue with her lines - one line by a kid and another by old man Logan in front of her husband no less. Add to that she also got sl*tshamed by a dragon. I am so tired of it. Why can't Marvel just once hire someone to write Rogue who actually likes her instead of telling people who openly admit to having other characters they favor to write her as a lead. It never ends well.

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I feel you that the X-Men should not look that young but Stegmen is going for 90s X-Men style and i dig it

I hate the black and gray hairstyle. His younger clone ( Joseph) has silver hair. So it makes no sense why this younger version has Black and silver.

I think a big problem Marvel and DC have is a lack of good editors and corporate oversite (Disney and WB)

There were so many parts of this that I agreed with, but it's not popular to say, saying some of these things that you canceled if you're a certain type of person. I'm glad you said it

Terrible. Full of mischaracterizations, inconsistencies and characters swapping personalities. Also resurrecting Destiny for Nightcrawler and quickly realizing she is still useless

My main issue with this era has been both in the setting, plot and characterization. The setting got broken apart during Krakoa with how many retcons it randomly chose to have. The timeline barely makes any sense to me now. As for the plot, you said it yourself, there were many elements set up only to be dropped completely like they were never there. And opposing that, there were moments where we had payoffs to no setups, making it all so underwhelming. Plenty of characters during Krakoa were rewritten from the ground up to fit the plot (as opposed to the plot being written for the characters), many acted out of character for no reason other than to go to the next plotpoint on a checklist and many were flanderized/reduced to one trait or motivation or thought process. Reading these characters during Krakoa and comparing them to who they were before this era is like night and day. Let's not talk bout the fandom, it's more split apart now than it's ever been and was the leading cause to many writing changes during the era from the backlash it kept generating when things didn't go its way. Social platforms during Krakoa really revealed how immature some at the X-Office could be and how easy fans could be manipulated by empty words of less than mid writers.

This next era needs to have better writing. It is especially true since the x-men are coming to cinema.

The way they do a fanfiction picnic as if this makes it all better. Some readers clearly arent here for the storyline. But I'm not one of those people. For me the storyline matters. It's lame to see all these characters be mischaracterized and mishandled for no good reason at all. Some use the excuse that Marvel do retcons all the time. But this extreme that people are getting completely mischaracterized? I'm not here for it. Bring Chuck Austen back.

Krakoa was too forgettable. I need to remind myself of everything that happened so I care about what happened. So much of it could have been trimmed down to only the good stuff.

X-men really needs to kick it into high gear. I also do not need a role swap of Xavier and Magneto like they are trying to set up. What do you want for Magneto, Xavier, and the X-men? Does kitty Prides father come back?

This issue makes you forget Exodus and Apocalypse are supposed to be fully grown adults who lived for centuries in the first's case and thousands of years in the latter's. It's almost like their temper tantrums are there to fill the page count.

I joked about this on your review of FoHoX#5 but Nightcrawler's brain really does run on Internet Explorer for him to start holding resentment against Destiny and Mystique *now* after Gillen and Spurrier had him be all forgiving, hugs, happy and want to play family with them these past months. Even in the story, too much time passed for him for suddenly have those feelings : The retcon was in Spurrier's one-shot during Uncanny Spider-Man when Nightcrawler was clean shaved. He grows a beard again in the meantime until Destiny escapes the WHR then shaved it again for the Wedding Special only to regrow it again for Claremont's story... At least half a year passed between the moment he found out the truth and started holding grudges after already stating he forgives them and wants them in his life. You were right : He's nuts.

To me,they're comparable after HoXPoX

7:18 You're one of the only comicbook reviewers I've seen who wasn't annoyed that Nightcrawler was holding a grudge against his new biological parents. Also the excuse Mystique used about Margali Szardos keeping Nightcrawler hidden from them if they had tried looking for him ? It falls flat the second you remember Nightcrawler was a famous circus acrobat known around Europe and who had his real face on posters around every town it travelled to. It falls more flat when Nightcrawler was allowed by his kind adoptive mother to have friends outside the circus who knew what he actually looked like. Nightcrawler's childhood human friend even found him randomly during one of his out of town travels by accident (and had him he meet his young son). Also Claremont using Nightcrawler and Mystique's first meeting (7:18) which was during DoFP, a story where Mystique and Destiny created a dystopian future with most of mutantkind dead including Nightcrawler (one of the firdt mutants to go out) is the cherry on this joke of a mini story. 7:17 I agree their situation was forced and weird. Very out of touch with how Mystique knows about their situation in AoA. 7:18 This would have been so much better if Si Spurrier remembered this about them when he showed Nightcrawler's hot fantasies about Rogue in LoX#2 and had her be older than him in his badly written one-shot.

3:05 It's not. + 3:06 It's really not. 3:48 It's a more than fair assumption to make and just so you know even tho Orchis is indeed an evil anti-mutant organization one mustn't sympathise with, most of the foot soldiers who joined it have been at the receiving end of mutant villains and had the all illness cure held above their heads by the Krakoa nation who welcomed said villains on their grounds. The humans who joined Orchis saw all the criminals, that either hurt them directly or their families and friends, go to Paradise Island and be pardoned with doing anything like jail time or community service. It's like watching the trial of a criminal who hurt your most loved one and ve pardoned by the Judge regardless of all the proof help against them. 7:18 Mother Righteous's death was as anticlimactic and predictable (the sollicites spelled out that all the Sinister clones would be gone) as the two different instances where Si Spurrier had her kill Nightcrawler's adoptive mother without putting much of a fight in one panel. Forgettable villain turned prop since you'd think Sinister would have given her the most powerful healing factor on Earth, seeing how she was made at the image of his deceased wife who died of sickness.

Any idea if the upcoming Ultimate X Men comic by Peach Momoko is going to be set in a canon timeline or alternate universe? Seems like Rogue is a kid on the cover and possibly set in Japan so I dont know what to expect

Man I hate all the retcon and post retcon stuff. Do you know of any Xmen writers who would not be on board with it who could undo it all if they came back? Cause it's getting really bad.

4:16 It is indeed a little too much. I sincerely think this was just done as a way to top the Onslaught Saga's finale by giving us the same show but with none of the substance it carried. Like how it thought about including Cardinal in there when the plot forgot he existed since PoX and made his existence a plothole for the Nightcrawlers run of Sins of Sinister. 4:54 They solved the immense betrayal Destiny did to and hid from Mystique (since she made her get a mind wipe for it) for 35 years in one panel. They had Nightcrawler forgive Destiny and consider both her and Mystique as the best people and parents ever while they were at it, even though his first death in DoFP was because of them and he already died once for nothing in 616. They did all of this to sell their Wedding special issue at $9.99 which has Nightcrawler on the cover officiating it, all smiles. Nothing more, nothing less. Contrary to Xavier, Destiny got to leave all the horrible things she did behind her and go on scoot free. 5:35 Actually it's way way worse than that. The mutants in the Hot White Room have been set back to Square One for some but even more backwards for others like the many Morlocks stuck there. At this point, they might as well have never went to Krakoa to begin with because they were in just as bad of a situation on the island : One issue from She-Hulk revealed that, by the second Hellfire Gala, the island still had problems like large scale housing issues, meaning homelessness was a thing on Krakoa, a living creature which can create tree like structures with ease. The place still didn't have hospitals either nearly three years into Krakoa stating to welcome mutants in. The island still didn't have basic infrastructure like roads even before it fell. The people stuck in the HWR are a mix of heroes, civilians and villains which was the same status quo for Krakoa and the place they are in is as much of a lawless land as the island since the Legionaries were incompetent and many things slipped under their noses on a daily. All the civilians were already once sacrificed during the AXE event so they could be resurrected again as Nightcrawler's pointless Immortal X-Men issue showed... And it was for nothing. This finale is the second time Gillen massacres an entire mutant nation for a plot that makes it seem like it is no biggie. 5:43 Seeing how the civilians in the HWR had to ask the Quiet Council members what to do for food as if none of them ever had a life or skill, or mind of their own to try and be self reliant before Krakoa and its government came to existence or were ever taught anything on how to use their powers as a way to get around a few things here and there in the three years they were on the mutant island... Yeah. They are all doomed. 5:59 This is exactly why the finale ended this way : The sollicites for the July relaunch spoiled that mutants were near extinct (again), spoiled Jean's return as the Phoenix, spoiled her quest following her return after winning and spoiled everything about both FoHoX/RoPoX. Overall, I am so glad I made my new year resolution not to read anything X-Men related because this conclusion sounds so unpolished and disappointing.

It has been my greatest pleasure following your reviews since the start of this year, like it has been the years before it : You always managed to elevate and be critical of the books you read as well as give some context and references to non-Krakoa storylines and runs for the watchers who might not know enough to realize the issues or plotholes with the way characters and stories were written. Your editing and videos have improved quite a lot since you started off too.

It was extremely lackluster and convoluted

It is finally over after all this time

The ending of this was weird...I felt like there was a page or 2 missing