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Uncanny X-Men (2013) (Collected Editions)
Uncanny X-Men, Vol. 6: Storyville
It’s the final explosive story in Brian Michael Bendis’ epic X-Men saga! Cyclops is on the edge! Recent events have driven this already tempestuous mutant to the point of disaster. Will Scott Summers save himself from ruin — or will he make that fateful leap?! Meanwhile, Kitty Pryde and Illyana Rasputin take on an assignment neither of them thought they would tackle: facing off against a legion of monsters! And Mystique returns, out for vengeance against Cyclops’ revolutionary team! Will Magik’s soulsword be enough to halt the shapeshifter’s wrath? Questions will be answered as everything builds to a head! The Jean Grey School, the New Xavier School, the time-tossed young X-Men — it’s all going to change! The X-Men are at a crossroads. And not everyone will make it through in one piece.
Collecting: Uuncanny X-Men 32-35, 600
Collecting: Uuncanny X-Men 32-35, 600
136 pages, Hardcover
First published November 17, 2015
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Brian Michael Bendis
4,411 books2,575 followersA comic book writer and erstwhile artist. He has won critical acclaim (including five Eisner Awards) and is one of the most successful writers working in mainstream comics. For over eight years Bendis’s books have consistently sat in the top five best sellers on the nationwide comic and graphic novel sales charts.
Though he started as a writer and artist of independent noir fiction series, he shot to stardom as a writer of Marvel Comics' superhero books, particularly Ultimate Spider-Man.
Bendis first entered the comic world with the "Jinx" line of crime comics in 1995. This line has spawned the graphic novels Goldfish, Fire, Jinx, Torso (with Marc Andreyko), and Total Sell Out. Bendis is writing the film version of Jinx for Universal Pictures with Oscar-winner Charlize Theron attached to star and produce.
Bendis’s other projects include the Harvey, Eisner, and Eagle Award-nominated Powers (with Michael Avon Oeming) originally from Image Comics, now published by Marvel's new creator-owned imprint Icon Comics, and the Hollywood tell-all Fortune and Glory from Oni Press, both of which received an "A" from Entertainment Weekly.
Bendis is one of the premiere architects of Marvel's "Ultimate" line: comics specifically created for the new generation of comic readers. He has written every issue of Ultimate Spider-Man since its best-selling launch, and has also written for Ultimate Fantastic Four and Ultimate X-Men, as well as every issue of Ultimate Marvel Team-Up, Ultimate Origin and Ultimate Six.
Brian is currently helming a renaissance for Marvel’s AVENGERS franchise by writing both New Avengers and Mighty Avengers along with the successful ‘event’ projects House Of M, Secret War, and this summer’s Secret Invasion.
He has also previously done work on Daredevil, Alias, and The Pulse.
Though he started as a writer and artist of independent noir fiction series, he shot to stardom as a writer of Marvel Comics' superhero books, particularly Ultimate Spider-Man.
Bendis first entered the comic world with the "Jinx" line of crime comics in 1995. This line has spawned the graphic novels Goldfish, Fire, Jinx, Torso (with Marc Andreyko), and Total Sell Out. Bendis is writing the film version of Jinx for Universal Pictures with Oscar-winner Charlize Theron attached to star and produce.
Bendis’s other projects include the Harvey, Eisner, and Eagle Award-nominated Powers (with Michael Avon Oeming) originally from Image Comics, now published by Marvel's new creator-owned imprint Icon Comics, and the Hollywood tell-all Fortune and Glory from Oni Press, both of which received an "A" from Entertainment Weekly.
Bendis is one of the premiere architects of Marvel's "Ultimate" line: comics specifically created for the new generation of comic readers. He has written every issue of Ultimate Spider-Man since its best-selling launch, and has also written for Ultimate Fantastic Four and Ultimate X-Men, as well as every issue of Ultimate Marvel Team-Up, Ultimate Origin and Ultimate Six.
Brian is currently helming a renaissance for Marvel’s AVENGERS franchise by writing both New Avengers and Mighty Avengers along with the successful ‘event’ projects House Of M, Secret War, and this summer’s Secret Invasion.
He has also previously done work on Daredevil, Alias, and The Pulse.
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December 7, 2016
And the Mutant Revolution never came.
I got this in its single comic book issues, but I chosen this TPB edition to be able of writing a better overall review.
This TPB collects “Uncanny X-Men” #32-35 + #600.
Creative Team:
Writer: Brian Michael Bendis
Illustrators: Chris Bachalo, Kris Anka, Valerio Schiti, Sara Pichelli, Mahmud Asrar, Stuart Immonen, David Marquez & Frazer Irving
UNCANNY NUMBERING AND ARTWORK
If you are wondering why the heck the numbering of the issues “jumped” from 35 to 600, well, it’s not a mistake, it’s just that since Uncanny X-Men “rebooted” the numbering back to #1, when the “Marvel Now” re-starting point for new readers happened, they kept that new numbering until reaching the final issue of the run before the Secret Wars 2016 Event, but since that very issue would be the #600 if the numbering hadn’t change and that kind of cabalistic numbers are relevant in comic book market, so they decided to use the previous numbering in that final comic book issue.
Also, since #600 issue was an important number and the finale of the run, the regular creative team invited several artists to contribute in certain pages of that very issue.
‘Nuff said! (About these topics, since about the storyline I am about to begin…)
CAN THE REAL REVOLUTION PLEASE STAND UP?
What was it?
What?
The Mutant Revolution. Did it happen and I missed it?
There is a Mutant Revolution. Scott Summers aka Cyclops is its face.
What was it, Scott? What was the Mutant Revolution supposed to be?
Alex Summers (aka Havok), brother of Scott Summers, questioned him about that so called Mutant Revolution, and I was glad of it, since honestly, I never met it, in the entire run of the title.
AND if Brian Michael Bendis think that I would be satisfied with a kumbaya reunion of mutants (heroes and villains) at Washington, D.C., besides pointless, unreal (as if such large assemble of mutant could be without fighting 10 minutes) and without any concrete purpose, after 36 issues…
…well, Bendis is WAY wrong…
…since according to several dictionaries (including Oxford’s)…
revolution
[rev-uh-loo-shuh n]
noun
1.
A forcible overthrow of a government or social order, in favour of a new system.
2.
A radical and pervasive change in society and the social structure, especially one made suddenly and often accompanied by violence.
3.
A sudden, complete or marked change in something.
SOOO…, you see my fair friends, I wasn’t wrong, I hadn’t the wrong picture of what a revolution should be…
…and NO, I didn’t get that in this run, not matter that I was promised of a Mutant Revolution since the first issue.
I’m serious… What was the revoultion?
I am sure that some wiseguy(or gal) can deliver some captious accepted meaning of the “revolution” noun to fit in a conveniently way into the Bendis’ development, but please don’t bother, don’t fool yourselves, you and me DO know what a revolution looks like, world’s history had already many of those, so please, just don’t…
However, playing devil’s advocate for Bendis’ case (since honestly I have nothing personal against him and I did like many of his comic books), maybe, just maybe, it wasn’t entirely his fault, since I wouldn’t be surprised that not only in Uncanny X-Men but also in many other Marvel titles (for not saying, all of them), the Secret Wars 2016 Event happened, rebooting the entire Marvel Universe and well, any long-term plans of developing storylines just gone to the toilet, in favor of a brand-new comic book universe.
In any case…
…not matter what the storyline, in this final TPB, tries to pull out…
…NO, we didn’t have a Mutant Revolution. Period.
SO WHAT WE HAD HERE ANYWAY?
We’re supposed to be the next step in human evolution, yet we’ve become an endangered species.
Xavier is dead. Logan is dead.
The dream is dead. The rage is dead.
Scott is alive, but he doesn’t know what he represents anymore. Not only his powers are broken, but also his vision (not in the sense of eyesight) but his vision of the future.
The New Charles Xavier School is dead and the students relunctantly sent to the Jean Grey School.
Eva Bell is gone (but she will be watching).
Emma Frost is pissed out.
Magik is even more pissed out.
Scott’s Mutant Revolution is dead even without having born.
And the X-Men (any version of team out there) is a (burning) house of cards, with so much inner strugglings, and having lost those leaders that were able to make the hard calls, and singing kumbaya in front of Lincoln’s Monument won’t solve the Mutant situation.
Humans still hate and fear the Mutants, and even more than before.
I got this in its single comic book issues, but I chosen this TPB edition to be able of writing a better overall review.
This TPB collects “Uncanny X-Men” #32-35 + #600.
Creative Team:
Writer: Brian Michael Bendis
Illustrators: Chris Bachalo, Kris Anka, Valerio Schiti, Sara Pichelli, Mahmud Asrar, Stuart Immonen, David Marquez & Frazer Irving
UNCANNY NUMBERING AND ARTWORK
If you are wondering why the heck the numbering of the issues “jumped” from 35 to 600, well, it’s not a mistake, it’s just that since Uncanny X-Men “rebooted” the numbering back to #1, when the “Marvel Now” re-starting point for new readers happened, they kept that new numbering until reaching the final issue of the run before the Secret Wars 2016 Event, but since that very issue would be the #600 if the numbering hadn’t change and that kind of cabalistic numbers are relevant in comic book market, so they decided to use the previous numbering in that final comic book issue.
Also, since #600 issue was an important number and the finale of the run, the regular creative team invited several artists to contribute in certain pages of that very issue.
‘Nuff said! (About these topics, since about the storyline I am about to begin…)
CAN THE REAL REVOLUTION PLEASE STAND UP?
What was it?
What?
The Mutant Revolution. Did it happen and I missed it?
There is a Mutant Revolution. Scott Summers aka Cyclops is its face.
What was it, Scott? What was the Mutant Revolution supposed to be?
Alex Summers (aka Havok), brother of Scott Summers, questioned him about that so called Mutant Revolution, and I was glad of it, since honestly, I never met it, in the entire run of the title.
AND if Brian Michael Bendis think that I would be satisfied with a kumbaya reunion of mutants (heroes and villains) at Washington, D.C., besides pointless, unreal (as if such large assemble of mutant could be without fighting 10 minutes) and without any concrete purpose, after 36 issues…
…well, Bendis is WAY wrong…
…since according to several dictionaries (including Oxford’s)…
revolution
[rev-uh-loo-shuh n]
noun
1.
A forcible overthrow of a government or social order, in favour of a new system.
2.
A radical and pervasive change in society and the social structure, especially one made suddenly and often accompanied by violence.
3.
A sudden, complete or marked change in something.
SOOO…, you see my fair friends, I wasn’t wrong, I hadn’t the wrong picture of what a revolution should be…
…and NO, I didn’t get that in this run, not matter that I was promised of a Mutant Revolution since the first issue.
I’m serious… What was the revoultion?
I am sure that some wiseguy(or gal) can deliver some captious accepted meaning of the “revolution” noun to fit in a conveniently way into the Bendis’ development, but please don’t bother, don’t fool yourselves, you and me DO know what a revolution looks like, world’s history had already many of those, so please, just don’t…
However, playing devil’s advocate for Bendis’ case (since honestly I have nothing personal against him and I did like many of his comic books), maybe, just maybe, it wasn’t entirely his fault, since I wouldn’t be surprised that not only in Uncanny X-Men but also in many other Marvel titles (for not saying, all of them), the Secret Wars 2016 Event happened, rebooting the entire Marvel Universe and well, any long-term plans of developing storylines just gone to the toilet, in favor of a brand-new comic book universe.
In any case…
…not matter what the storyline, in this final TPB, tries to pull out…
…NO, we didn’t have a Mutant Revolution. Period.
SO WHAT WE HAD HERE ANYWAY?
We’re supposed to be the next step in human evolution, yet we’ve become an endangered species.
Xavier is dead. Logan is dead.
The dream is dead. The rage is dead.
Scott is alive, but he doesn’t know what he represents anymore. Not only his powers are broken, but also his vision (not in the sense of eyesight) but his vision of the future.
The New Charles Xavier School is dead and the students relunctantly sent to the Jean Grey School.
Eva Bell is gone (but she will be watching).
Emma Frost is pissed out.
Magik is even more pissed out.
Scott’s Mutant Revolution is dead even without having born.
And the X-Men (any version of team out there) is a (burning) house of cards, with so much inner strugglings, and having lost those leaders that were able to make the hard calls, and singing kumbaya in front of Lincoln’s Monument won’t solve the Mutant situation.
Humans still hate and fear the Mutants, and even more than before.
December 5, 2023
The final arc of Bendis' impressive runs reveals the fates of the New Xavier School, the X revolution and Cyclops! A great end to a pretty good X-Men run. Thank you, yet again Brian Michael Bendis.
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January 8, 2016
Great end to Bendis's X-Men run. I've really enjoyed watching the way Bendis has shaped these characters. He's made Cyclops far more interesting than I'd ever thought he could be, and I loved the way that his revolution played out in the book. But that's really just the first and the last issues in the collection. In between, there's a bit of filler with Kitty and Illyanna finding a young mutant and bringing her safely to the school. It's basically meaningless in the larger scheme of things, sure, but this book has been pretty heavy for awhile, and it was nice to get a break from that. There's also Dazzler's big confrontation with Mystique, which had to be the single most meh thing in the entire book. I honestly don't think I've ever cared about Dazzler, and I'm not going to start now. Beast (the present day version) also gets a moment in the spotlight. It's kind of sad, to see how much his character has changed, but this is part of a steady progression that has been going on since well before Bendis took the reigns here.
In the last volume of All New X-Men, young Bobby came out as gay. This was a story element that I wasn't inherently opposed to, but I was uneasy with the way it was handled. Most of my issues were addressed in this volume. The conversation between the Bobbys was entirely believable to me. Because I could always buy older Bobby as gay but closeted, and Bendis did a decent job of having him explain himself. I don't think it will work for everyone, but it did make sense for me.
In the last volume of All New X-Men, young Bobby came out as gay. This was a story element that I wasn't inherently opposed to, but I was uneasy with the way it was handled. Most of my issues were addressed in this volume. The conversation between the Bobbys was entirely believable to me. Because I could always buy older Bobby as gay but closeted, and Bendis did a decent job of having him explain himself. I don't think it will work for everyone, but it did make sense for me.
May 9, 2016
So here we have the final volume of Brian Michael Bendis' run on the X-Men.
I've consistently very much enjoyed his work on All-New X-Men but his work on Uncanny X-Men has been much more variable in quality. There have been great issues but there have also been poor issues. This final volume contains a bit of both.
All in all, it's been an enjoyable run, but one that fell short of real greatness. I'm pretty sure it won't be remembered as a classic in years to come.
I've consistently very much enjoyed his work on All-New X-Men but his work on Uncanny X-Men has been much more variable in quality. There have been great issues but there have also been poor issues. This final volume contains a bit of both.
All in all, it's been an enjoyable run, but one that fell short of real greatness. I'm pretty sure it won't be remembered as a classic in years to come.
December 6, 2015
Much like its previous third volume, this was a collected series of standalone issues. I'm not really sure whether this volume is entitled The Revolution or Storyville. There are conflicting sources that say it's one or the other. Maybe the collection is yet to be finalized? I don't know. But this one does feature the fifty-two-paged special #600th issue of The Uncanny X-Men which effectively ends Brian Michael Bendis' run of UXM (and even ANXM). But before we discuss that prominent issue, let's get on with the other four first and how I thought about their content.
Now the only issue that actually had a solid tether to the actual ongoing plot was issue #32 which was a Scott-centered story that I did not like reading at all, mostly because I hated, JUST HATED, how Scott was characterized. After the fiasco concerning the powerful mutant Matthew Malloy whose very existence was stopped by time-traveling Eva Bell as she assisted a young Charles Xavier in doing so, Scott was bequeathed the Westchester place in Xavier's last will and testament--which he then refused and gave to Storm.
Afterwards, he went back to tell his students--the recruits--that he is closing down their secret school for good which means they are effectively disbanned as a team. Emma and Ilyana (especially Ilyana) is not pleased about this very inconsiderate and abrupt decision. She teleports herself and Kitty out there. Meanwhile, the recruits were just as angry. As far as I'm concerned, they have every right to be, and Scott clearly deserved that goldball in the face. This issue was told in a flashback perspective, with Scott telling (yet also not disclosing) the story to his brother Alex who had just resigned from the Uncanny Avengers team. So the two talked about the future.
This issue also dealt with the final break-up between Scott and Emma which is a darn shame because I've rooted for this couple to stay together since Whedon's Astonishing run. But with the way things have gone down after they got messed up by the Phoenix force, and the track record of Scott's unpredictable decision-making, they both need to end whatever lingering feelings they may have for each other because it's apparent they want so many different things now. I didn't like Scott in this issue because I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND HIM ANYMORE. I have a soft spot for Scott from the very beginning. I never truly despised him or liked him so much either. Now---I don't know! I can totally relate to everyone here because I also feel like I've been ain emotionally abusive relationship with a so-called man of principle who doesn't seem to give a damn about how his choices affect the people around him who believe in him every step of the way---especially Ilyana who showed her devotion to him, out of all his comrades, by always being there to be the supportive brawn or willing sounding board. I was surprised she didn't punch him the face because she deserved that. Instead, she walked away and had her bestie with her which was timely because those two have issues to resolve by themselves too.
Ilyana and Kitty's issue was a very nice break from the craziness that was Scott Summers' volatile flip-flop characterization. The besties found themselves in Monster Island and ended up rescuing a mutant child named Bo who was abandoned by her own father to die after she accidentally killed her mother. They succeeded in bringing her back to the Jean Grey school and Storm was glad to take her and enroll her there on the spot. The girl's powers could be something deadly, especially since she seemed to have easily attacked Kitty even when the latter was on phase mode. I certainly hope young Bo will make it and that she will grow up stronger once she has learned to control her abilities. The next issue was about the inevitable confrontation between Mystique and Dazzler which was...underwhelming somehow. It turns out that Mystique was probably still married to Xavier before he died (although thanks to Eva's intrusion, Xavier's will never mentioned the marriage anymore), and that Mystique still did those horrible things to Dazzler (pretty much used her a drug experiment). Dazzler (who is not so dazzling anymore with her new goth look) showed some compassion for Mystique and did not kill her, but instead she vowed to teach her a lesson--and then the issue just ends there. I don't fucking care what they do to Mystique anymore. I've lost any kind of investment on her character a long time ago. Like since she and Irene were finished. There are only so many times she can break my heart. MOVING ON!
Literally all I would say every time Mystique is on a page
The last issue was about the abandoned students of Scott's short-lived school program/revolution mission. These youngsters (plus the adult Hijack) decided to form their own team instead because no one said that they should be the new X-Men anyway. None of their previous mentors were there so they went on missions on their own to fight mutants who are causing trouble with the civilians. At first it worked out just swell--Goldballs even became an internet sensation (since he really learned to own his superhero name to the point where he screams it whenever he attacks, like a goddamn Pokemon or some shit). But the taste of freedom and fame have a price and during one mission, a few humans start egging on them, literally hitting Goldballs in the throat with a freaking glass shard of some sort, and the Steford sisters almost telepathically killed the attacker on the spot. They have never been faced with such a heated hatemongering assault from rabid anti-mutant assholes and of course they got scared shitless about it! The life of a mutant crime fighter is never glamorous. After realizing this, they all went to the Jean Grey school and Storm was only so willing to take them in because, OF COURSE WHY WOULDN'T SHE, THE MERCIFUL GODDESS THAT SHE IS?! All these standalone stories were enjoyable to read, except for the Scott one because GODDAMMIT, SUMMERS!
Now, for issue #600: a fifty-two paged loaded story that has one main plot all across the pages while sidestories were branched out across it. The main plot in question was about Present-Day Hank McCoy's intervention--oh, I'm sorry--TRIAL. Yes, his hubris is finally about to begin and take centerstage. Beast has really evolved--or devolved--into something unrecognizable, certainly not the one I love in the nineties cartoons. This erudite, level-headed and quirky scientist was such a warm presence back in the day, able to tickle us with his cleverness and sense of humor; someone who embodies values and principles and becomes the needed voice of reason for his compatriots. He worked both for the X-Men and the Avengers because he wanted to do more; he wanted to help and cure and discover awesome new things that could help the mutant race. And then, somewhere along the way, much like Scott Summers, he has lost that moral compass and he started doing questionable things, hiding behind his brilliance, justifying his atrocities by imposing intellectual superiority while nursing a hurt, envious ego usually directed at his old friend Scott. THOSE TWO DESERVE A PLACE IN INFAMY, I SAY. And it pains me to say it because I love Hank! I also kinda sometimes and often like Scott...on occasion. So seeing these two original X-Men just...being all over the goddamn place is...STRESSFUL! Look, I still feel for these boys but sometimes I just want to tell them off!
Anyway, Storm alongside everyone else like Kitty, Ilyana, Peter, Emma and Kurt all want to help him make amends but Hank is too blinded by rage and cowardice and kept pointing fingers at Scott--that it was all Scott's fault instead of claiming responsibility. Dude, Scott may have murdered Charles Xavier which is inexcusable, but YOU ARE TAINTING THE LEGACY OF YOUR DEAD MENTOR SO MUCH MORE THAN THE MURDER COMMITTED BY SCOTT HIMSELF! GOD! When Ororo Munroe tells you to get your shit together, you better get that shit together or else! So while this riveting discussion of Hank's assholery is going on, we get flashbacks of stuff that happen predating this intervention-trial, such as:
Young Bobby confronts Present-Day Bobby about their sexuality. Young Bobby came out as gay back in the All-New X-Men, thanks to Jean being a telepathic snoop, and now young Bobby feels the need to help his older counterpart deal with the fact that he is closeted. And guess what, Present-Day Bobby is, in fact, also gay! Um...I know I brought this up during that coming-out issue from ANXM but then decided to take it back anyway because I really wasn't ready to argue about it, but I feel like I should bring it up again because Bobby Drake has had relationships with women--a few of them I knew for a fact he genuinely loved. He had sex with those women. He had fallen in love with those women. He loved Kitty too. So, you know, I can buy young Bobby being gay but the current Bobby of this timeline? NO FREAKING WAY. How about he just came out as BISEXUAL? Would that be less of an empowering stance? Would that lessen his courage of coming out of the closet? BECAUSE EVERYONE KNOWS BISEXUALS ARE MYTHICAL CREATURES. You can only either be heterosexual or homosexual. Look, it just doesn't make any sense to me! It's clear that all the relationships Bobby had ever been with were all with females so he at least is capable of sexual and romantic attraction with them. Are you seriously telling me that he managed to fake and pretend his way through sex with them? None of these women were even aware that he is not into them that way at all? SERIOUSLY! I'm trying not to be a dick here but what's so wrong about Bobby Drake just coming out as BISEXUAL because his relationship history proves it?! Goddammit, I'm actually pretty pissed about this. I'm pissed because PD-Bobby just caved in like that and told his younger counterpart, "You're right, I'm a hundred-percent gay too and only like men" never mind the fact that he had been with women genuinely. So...basically, I'm supposed to believe those relationships are invalid then? That means that Bobby is not only lying to himself SO WELL AND EFFECTIVELY but also to these women whom he--you know what, fuck it. Whatever. I'm just...this review is going longer than I expected and I really need to trim my rants now.
My second rant is about young Jean Grey and Hank McCoy becoming the "official couple" while a young Scott looks on, forlorn and sad. I mean...I MEAN, clearly, CLEARLY it was demonstrated that SCOTT WAS THE ONE WHO WAS ALWAYS THERE FOR JEAN during ANXM. She and Hank kissed once, and when shit went down and she asked for Hank to trust her, he didn't help her while Scott fully trusted her and ran away with her all because she asked. That's all she did, she asked and Scott had her back. What the fuck was Hank doing? He decided to stay behind to observe stuff going down because he's such a scientist and all that shit. I mean, really, Jean? REALLY? How can you still like Hank when he's so unreliable and Scott is clearly more able to express his feelings for you? Why do this, Bendis? Because getting Scott and Jean together is too much of a cliché? So for novelty's sake we're doing Jean/Hank now? Again, fuck it. I need to stop ranting or I may start popping blood vessels here from the rate I'm going. *takes a deep, deep breath and releases*
Other nice stuff happened like that Colossus-Kitty-Ilyana friendly reunion. Kitty is getting married in space and joining the Guardians of the Galaxy. PD-Scott did this nice thing at Washington DC where he gathered all the mutants just to be present as a race and THEY DID NOT START ATTACKING HUMANITY AT ALL even though that was what the foolish humans feared, which was a victorious and uplifting show of strength and union for the mutants, especially with Magneto coming in and gracefully calling it a truce with Scott in front of the public. It was nice. Here are the actual scans of those pages. Behold the awesomeness:
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Bendis' run does end with some dread and even mild foreshadowing. Eva Bell is still around, traveling through time and whatnot, and I don't know what kind of shit she is capable of stirring up but I am not feeling optimistic at all about it. She vowed to keep an eye on Scott Summers after all, and to judge him accordingly. Meanwhile, Beast has left the school for good and is hiding somewhere and I have no idea what he intends to do next. Is it possible he might become the newest villain for the X-Men?
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Now the only issue that actually had a solid tether to the actual ongoing plot was issue #32 which was a Scott-centered story that I did not like reading at all, mostly because I hated, JUST HATED, how Scott was characterized. After the fiasco concerning the powerful mutant Matthew Malloy whose very existence was stopped by time-traveling Eva Bell as she assisted a young Charles Xavier in doing so, Scott was bequeathed the Westchester place in Xavier's last will and testament--which he then refused and gave to Storm.
Afterwards, he went back to tell his students--the recruits--that he is closing down their secret school for good which means they are effectively disbanned as a team. Emma and Ilyana (especially Ilyana) is not pleased about this very inconsiderate and abrupt decision. She teleports herself and Kitty out there. Meanwhile, the recruits were just as angry. As far as I'm concerned, they have every right to be, and Scott clearly deserved that goldball in the face. This issue was told in a flashback perspective, with Scott telling (yet also not disclosing) the story to his brother Alex who had just resigned from the Uncanny Avengers team. So the two talked about the future.
This issue also dealt with the final break-up between Scott and Emma which is a darn shame because I've rooted for this couple to stay together since Whedon's Astonishing run. But with the way things have gone down after they got messed up by the Phoenix force, and the track record of Scott's unpredictable decision-making, they both need to end whatever lingering feelings they may have for each other because it's apparent they want so many different things now. I didn't like Scott in this issue because I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND HIM ANYMORE. I have a soft spot for Scott from the very beginning. I never truly despised him or liked him so much either. Now---I don't know! I can totally relate to everyone here because I also feel like I've been ain emotionally abusive relationship with a so-called man of principle who doesn't seem to give a damn about how his choices affect the people around him who believe in him every step of the way---especially Ilyana who showed her devotion to him, out of all his comrades, by always being there to be the supportive brawn or willing sounding board. I was surprised she didn't punch him the face because she deserved that. Instead, she walked away and had her bestie with her which was timely because those two have issues to resolve by themselves too.
Ilyana and Kitty's issue was a very nice break from the craziness that was Scott Summers' volatile flip-flop characterization. The besties found themselves in Monster Island and ended up rescuing a mutant child named Bo who was abandoned by her own father to die after she accidentally killed her mother. They succeeded in bringing her back to the Jean Grey school and Storm was glad to take her and enroll her there on the spot. The girl's powers could be something deadly, especially since she seemed to have easily attacked Kitty even when the latter was on phase mode. I certainly hope young Bo will make it and that she will grow up stronger once she has learned to control her abilities. The next issue was about the inevitable confrontation between Mystique and Dazzler which was...underwhelming somehow. It turns out that Mystique was probably still married to Xavier before he died (although thanks to Eva's intrusion, Xavier's will never mentioned the marriage anymore), and that Mystique still did those horrible things to Dazzler (pretty much used her a drug experiment). Dazzler (who is not so dazzling anymore with her new goth look) showed some compassion for Mystique and did not kill her, but instead she vowed to teach her a lesson--and then the issue just ends there. I don't fucking care what they do to Mystique anymore. I've lost any kind of investment on her character a long time ago. Like since she and Irene were finished. There are only so many times she can break my heart. MOVING ON!
Literally all I would say every time Mystique is on a page
The last issue was about the abandoned students of Scott's short-lived school program/revolution mission. These youngsters (plus the adult Hijack) decided to form their own team instead because no one said that they should be the new X-Men anyway. None of their previous mentors were there so they went on missions on their own to fight mutants who are causing trouble with the civilians. At first it worked out just swell--Goldballs even became an internet sensation (since he really learned to own his superhero name to the point where he screams it whenever he attacks, like a goddamn Pokemon or some shit). But the taste of freedom and fame have a price and during one mission, a few humans start egging on them, literally hitting Goldballs in the throat with a freaking glass shard of some sort, and the Steford sisters almost telepathically killed the attacker on the spot. They have never been faced with such a heated hatemongering assault from rabid anti-mutant assholes and of course they got scared shitless about it! The life of a mutant crime fighter is never glamorous. After realizing this, they all went to the Jean Grey school and Storm was only so willing to take them in because, OF COURSE WHY WOULDN'T SHE, THE MERCIFUL GODDESS THAT SHE IS?! All these standalone stories were enjoyable to read, except for the Scott one because GODDAMMIT, SUMMERS!
Now, for issue #600: a fifty-two paged loaded story that has one main plot all across the pages while sidestories were branched out across it. The main plot in question was about Present-Day Hank McCoy's intervention--oh, I'm sorry--TRIAL. Yes, his hubris is finally about to begin and take centerstage. Beast has really evolved--or devolved--into something unrecognizable, certainly not the one I love in the nineties cartoons. This erudite, level-headed and quirky scientist was such a warm presence back in the day, able to tickle us with his cleverness and sense of humor; someone who embodies values and principles and becomes the needed voice of reason for his compatriots. He worked both for the X-Men and the Avengers because he wanted to do more; he wanted to help and cure and discover awesome new things that could help the mutant race. And then, somewhere along the way, much like Scott Summers, he has lost that moral compass and he started doing questionable things, hiding behind his brilliance, justifying his atrocities by imposing intellectual superiority while nursing a hurt, envious ego usually directed at his old friend Scott. THOSE TWO DESERVE A PLACE IN INFAMY, I SAY. And it pains me to say it because I love Hank! I also kinda sometimes and often like Scott...on occasion. So seeing these two original X-Men just...being all over the goddamn place is...STRESSFUL! Look, I still feel for these boys but sometimes I just want to tell them off!
Anyway, Storm alongside everyone else like Kitty, Ilyana, Peter, Emma and Kurt all want to help him make amends but Hank is too blinded by rage and cowardice and kept pointing fingers at Scott--that it was all Scott's fault instead of claiming responsibility. Dude, Scott may have murdered Charles Xavier which is inexcusable, but YOU ARE TAINTING THE LEGACY OF YOUR DEAD MENTOR SO MUCH MORE THAN THE MURDER COMMITTED BY SCOTT HIMSELF! GOD! When Ororo Munroe tells you to get your shit together, you better get that shit together or else! So while this riveting discussion of Hank's assholery is going on, we get flashbacks of stuff that happen predating this intervention-trial, such as:
Young Bobby confronts Present-Day Bobby about their sexuality. Young Bobby came out as gay back in the All-New X-Men, thanks to Jean being a telepathic snoop, and now young Bobby feels the need to help his older counterpart deal with the fact that he is closeted. And guess what, Present-Day Bobby is, in fact, also gay! Um...I know I brought this up during that coming-out issue from ANXM but then decided to take it back anyway because I really wasn't ready to argue about it, but I feel like I should bring it up again because Bobby Drake has had relationships with women--a few of them I knew for a fact he genuinely loved. He had sex with those women. He had fallen in love with those women. He loved Kitty too. So, you know, I can buy young Bobby being gay but the current Bobby of this timeline? NO FREAKING WAY. How about he just came out as BISEXUAL? Would that be less of an empowering stance? Would that lessen his courage of coming out of the closet? BECAUSE EVERYONE KNOWS BISEXUALS ARE MYTHICAL CREATURES. You can only either be heterosexual or homosexual. Look, it just doesn't make any sense to me! It's clear that all the relationships Bobby had ever been with were all with females so he at least is capable of sexual and romantic attraction with them. Are you seriously telling me that he managed to fake and pretend his way through sex with them? None of these women were even aware that he is not into them that way at all? SERIOUSLY! I'm trying not to be a dick here but what's so wrong about Bobby Drake just coming out as BISEXUAL because his relationship history proves it?! Goddammit, I'm actually pretty pissed about this. I'm pissed because PD-Bobby just caved in like that and told his younger counterpart, "You're right, I'm a hundred-percent gay too and only like men" never mind the fact that he had been with women genuinely. So...basically, I'm supposed to believe those relationships are invalid then? That means that Bobby is not only lying to himself SO WELL AND EFFECTIVELY but also to these women whom he--you know what, fuck it. Whatever. I'm just...this review is going longer than I expected and I really need to trim my rants now.
My second rant is about young Jean Grey and Hank McCoy becoming the "official couple" while a young Scott looks on, forlorn and sad. I mean...I MEAN, clearly, CLEARLY it was demonstrated that SCOTT WAS THE ONE WHO WAS ALWAYS THERE FOR JEAN during ANXM. She and Hank kissed once, and when shit went down and she asked for Hank to trust her, he didn't help her while Scott fully trusted her and ran away with her all because she asked. That's all she did, she asked and Scott had her back. What the fuck was Hank doing? He decided to stay behind to observe stuff going down because he's such a scientist and all that shit. I mean, really, Jean? REALLY? How can you still like Hank when he's so unreliable and Scott is clearly more able to express his feelings for you? Why do this, Bendis? Because getting Scott and Jean together is too much of a cliché? So for novelty's sake we're doing Jean/Hank now? Again, fuck it. I need to stop ranting or I may start popping blood vessels here from the rate I'm going. *takes a deep, deep breath and releases*
Other nice stuff happened like that Colossus-Kitty-Ilyana friendly reunion. Kitty is getting married in space and joining the Guardians of the Galaxy. PD-Scott did this nice thing at Washington DC where he gathered all the mutants just to be present as a race and THEY DID NOT START ATTACKING HUMANITY AT ALL even though that was what the foolish humans feared, which was a victorious and uplifting show of strength and union for the mutants, especially with Magneto coming in and gracefully calling it a truce with Scott in front of the public. It was nice. Here are the actual scans of those pages. Behold the awesomeness:
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Bendis' run does end with some dread and even mild foreshadowing. Eva Bell is still around, traveling through time and whatnot, and I don't know what kind of shit she is capable of stirring up but I am not feeling optimistic at all about it. She vowed to keep an eye on Scott Summers after all, and to judge him accordingly. Meanwhile, Beast has left the school for good and is hiding somewhere and I have no idea what he intends to do next. Is it possible he might become the newest villain for the X-Men?
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December 14, 2025
A bunch of stand alone books while we wait for issue 600. First we get a reunion of Cyclops and Havok as Cyclops disbands the school. Next up, Magik and Shadowcat head to Monster Island to rescue a new mutant. Then, Dazzler tracks down Mystique for stealing her life. After that, we see how the kids have decided to start their own team instead of going to Storm's school. Lastly, we have the trial of Hank McCoy where the rest of the X-Men confront him for doing whatever he wants without consulting anyone else. He seemed to be headed down the Dark Beast path in this book but then Charles Soule changed that in Uncanny Inhumans. Also, Iceman senior finally admits that he is gay.
The Good: Bendis excels at dialogue and relationships. His best issues are the ones that focus on just a couple of characters and that holds true here as well. The issues featuring Cyclops and Havok, and then Illyana and Kitty are absolutely fantastic.
The Bad: Issue 600 fell kind of flat.
The Ugly: Nothing was really resolved with Hank and then everything was reset after Secret Wars so it doesn't really matter anyway.
The Good: Bendis excels at dialogue and relationships. His best issues are the ones that focus on just a couple of characters and that holds true here as well. The issues featuring Cyclops and Havok, and then Illyana and Kitty are absolutely fantastic.
The Bad: Issue 600 fell kind of flat.
The Ugly: Nothing was really resolved with Hank and then everything was reset after Secret Wars so it doesn't really matter anyway.
March 5, 2022
This was alright I guess.
Bendis tries to wrap everything here. We have an issue with Cyclops and Havok hanging out and him thinking about what his revolution meant and it was alright, Kitty and Illyana teaming up to rescue this mutant "Bo" and it was a cute friendship issue and then Dazzler getting her revenge on Mystique was so fun and I loved it the way it resolves itself and then the thing with the new Uncanny X-Men and the rise of fame of Goldball and how it comes crashing down because "mutant" just highlights some problems that still exist in society and yeah its a great metaphor and really well done here and Bendis shines here because of his ability to write great natural dialogue and its awesome and makes for an awesome read so far!
BUT THE LAST ISSUE yeah its not that good not that bad but somewhere in the middle and sure he tries to wrap things up by doing trial of the beast but it never comes off as anything interesting, juts too much talk and its boring But I did like the character moments between Illyana and Colossus, whatever is happening with the Original X-Men of the past, Iceman and his coming out and accepting himself (its well done here for sure) and the ending with Cyclops proclaiming a new age for the X-Men before secret wars and great I guess but its not the greatest issue but is still a decent ending to his X-Men run.
Overall the volume had more highs than lows so makes for a great read and well Bendis time on X-Men ends and it was fun from what I read of it, nothing groundbreaking but still had a great time reading it! Plus Anka's art <3!
Bendis tries to wrap everything here. We have an issue with Cyclops and Havok hanging out and him thinking about what his revolution meant and it was alright, Kitty and Illyana teaming up to rescue this mutant "Bo" and it was a cute friendship issue and then Dazzler getting her revenge on Mystique was so fun and I loved it the way it resolves itself and then the thing with the new Uncanny X-Men and the rise of fame of Goldball and how it comes crashing down because "mutant" just highlights some problems that still exist in society and yeah its a great metaphor and really well done here and Bendis shines here because of his ability to write great natural dialogue and its awesome and makes for an awesome read so far!
BUT THE LAST ISSUE yeah its not that good not that bad but somewhere in the middle and sure he tries to wrap things up by doing trial of the beast but it never comes off as anything interesting, juts too much talk and its boring But I did like the character moments between Illyana and Colossus, whatever is happening with the Original X-Men of the past, Iceman and his coming out and accepting himself (its well done here for sure) and the ending with Cyclops proclaiming a new age for the X-Men before secret wars and great I guess but its not the greatest issue but is still a decent ending to his X-Men run.
Overall the volume had more highs than lows so makes for a great read and well Bendis time on X-Men ends and it was fun from what I read of it, nothing groundbreaking but still had a great time reading it! Plus Anka's art <3!
August 26, 2017
Review got erased so this will be a lot shorter. Good ending, not amazing, but felt like it tied up a lot of things. I personally enjoyed the last few volumes and believe Bendis did a goodjob overall with this series. Couple of duds but overall some real solid shit.
June 28, 2016
Um, that was a book.
Tied up a lot of loose ends.
Made it possible for us to see how schlocky Bendis can get when he's saying goodbye.
Left young Beast with quite the stiffie, and modern Beast with the sniffles.
Not much to say; it was decent but not his best work by a long shot.
And after a six-month delay, that 30-odd page finale was pretty trite. A short intervention with Beast, a polite "revolution" from Cyclops. No particular point to it all, and it creates no specific momentum to roll into Secret Wars with.
Way to show these characters how much you care.
Tied up a lot of loose ends.
Made it possible for us to see how schlocky Bendis can get when he's saying goodbye.
Left young Beast with quite the stiffie, and modern Beast with the sniffles.
Not much to say; it was decent but not his best work by a long shot.
And after a six-month delay, that 30-odd page finale was pretty trite. A short intervention with Beast, a polite "revolution" from Cyclops. No particular point to it all, and it creates no specific momentum to roll into Secret Wars with.
Way to show these characters how much you care.
July 24, 2016
[Read as single issues]
Cards on the table, I actually quite liked most of Brian Bendis' X-Men run. His All-New X-Men was solid superhero stuff, whilst Uncanny X-Men was more of an unorthodox book with new characters. However, post-Black Vortex, both series seemed to fall apart a little. As if they were in a holding pattern waiting for Uncanny X-Men #600 to drop and supposedly conclude Bendis' stories, they all had mostly done-in-one stories that didn't really go anywhere.
Uncanny X-Men was probably hit harder than All-New, with this final volume collecting issues 32-35 and 600.
Issue 32 which reunites Cyclops with his (still inverted? Maybe? It's not clear, well done Bendis) brother Havok and moves the pair of them off the chessboard, whilst issue 33 features Magik and Kitty Pryde going monster hunting, which is fun but of no real consequence other than to remind you that these two are actually really good friends, despite being on different teams for a while. Issue 34 brings Mystique back for one last hurrah, and issue 35 is an awkward 'a few months later...' epilogue type of issue that just shuffles most of Bendis' new characters out of the spotlight in time for them to be forgotten about during the next relaunch. Sigh.
Uncanny X-Men #600 is probably the biggest disappointment. Touted as 'the trial of Hank McCoy' for his actions in bringing the All-New X-Men from the past to the present, it's mostly all of Hank's friends shouting at him so much that he leaves, solving nothing and leaving loads of plot lines unresolved. Jean Grey outs Iceman in one of the most controversial storylines of last year, and there are some other inconsequential stories in there too which mostly just leave an unsatisfied taste in your mouth.
Say what you want about his writing, but Bendis always attracts the best artists in the business, with Chris Bachalo, Kris Anka, and Valerio Schiti all drawing issues in this volume. Top talent on display as always for Bendis.
It seems that by this point of his X-Men story, Bendis had worn out his welcome, similar to what he did with the Avengers. It's not strictly 'bad', the material collected here, but it's not what you want as the end of a run, especially for a writer as prolific as Bendis.
Cards on the table, I actually quite liked most of Brian Bendis' X-Men run. His All-New X-Men was solid superhero stuff, whilst Uncanny X-Men was more of an unorthodox book with new characters. However, post-Black Vortex, both series seemed to fall apart a little. As if they were in a holding pattern waiting for Uncanny X-Men #600 to drop and supposedly conclude Bendis' stories, they all had mostly done-in-one stories that didn't really go anywhere.
Uncanny X-Men was probably hit harder than All-New, with this final volume collecting issues 32-35 and 600.
Issue 32 which reunites Cyclops with his (still inverted? Maybe? It's not clear, well done Bendis) brother Havok and moves the pair of them off the chessboard, whilst issue 33 features Magik and Kitty Pryde going monster hunting, which is fun but of no real consequence other than to remind you that these two are actually really good friends, despite being on different teams for a while. Issue 34 brings Mystique back for one last hurrah, and issue 35 is an awkward 'a few months later...' epilogue type of issue that just shuffles most of Bendis' new characters out of the spotlight in time for them to be forgotten about during the next relaunch. Sigh.
Uncanny X-Men #600 is probably the biggest disappointment. Touted as 'the trial of Hank McCoy' for his actions in bringing the All-New X-Men from the past to the present, it's mostly all of Hank's friends shouting at him so much that he leaves, solving nothing and leaving loads of plot lines unresolved. Jean Grey outs Iceman in one of the most controversial storylines of last year, and there are some other inconsequential stories in there too which mostly just leave an unsatisfied taste in your mouth.
Say what you want about his writing, but Bendis always attracts the best artists in the business, with Chris Bachalo, Kris Anka, and Valerio Schiti all drawing issues in this volume. Top talent on display as always for Bendis.
It seems that by this point of his X-Men story, Bendis had worn out his welcome, similar to what he did with the Avengers. It's not strictly 'bad', the material collected here, but it's not what you want as the end of a run, especially for a writer as prolific as Bendis.
September 14, 2020
Bueno, pues con "Revolución" (que es como se tituló aquí el arco "Storyville"), acababa la etapa de Bendis en los equipos mutantes, pues con la llegada de Secret Wars toda la línea editorial de Marvel iba a revisarse y modificarse (con algunas aberraciones de por medio, las cosas como son), y los mutantes fueron de los que más cambios sufrieron. Aún así, a pesar de que el último número del arco (y de la colección) salió con posterioridad al evento, su cronología es anterior, es decir, el final de Imposibles X-Men es anterior a Secret Wars.
En fin, después de lo ocurrido en el arco anterior con el Mutante Omega, Cíclope había soltado la bomba y había decidido cerrar la Academia Xavier, trasladando a sus alumnos al Instituto Jean Grey, y en este arco vamos a asistir a las consecuencias de esta decisión, y es que aunque todo queda recogido en el arco "Revolución", se trata de historias autoconclusivas en las que vamos a ver como Bendis va cerrando tramas que tenía pendientes y algunos de sus célebres números de conversaciones. Así por ejemplo vamos a tener una nueva charla entre Cíclope y Emma Frost, vamos a ver a Magik y Gatasombra reforzando su amistad en la mismísima Isla de los Monstruos, vamos a ver cómo se resuelve el tema pendiente entre Dazzler y Mística, y vamos a ver como se desenvuelven los alumnos de la Academia Xavier convertidos en un nuevo grupo de héroes y con Bolas Doradas como una celebridad.
Y todo esto, va a servir de preludio para la auténtica bomba de Bendis, su último número en la colección, con un mogollón de dibujantes como invitados especiales, donde curiosamente el peso de la historia va a recaer no en Cíclope sino en Hank McCoy, la Bestia de "nuestro tiempo", que tendrá que hacer frente a una especie de juicio por parte de sus compañeros. Además, vamos a tener momentos dedicados a los jóvenes X-Men, con Jean Grey dejando el equipo; o la esperada charla entre los dos Hombres de Hielo para comentar su homosexualidad, así como el reencuentro entre Cíclope y su hermano, Kaos, que busca refugio frente a los acontecimientos de Axis (ya llegaremos a ello en su momento). Y tendremos la Revolución, por fin... descafeinada, quizá incluso forzada y sin demasiado sentido... pero bueno, en fin, tampoco es que con lo que se les venía encima se pudiera hacer mucho más, por muy Bendis que fuera, y es que después de Secret Wars los mutantes iban a tener que pasar por un via crucis particular y con un trasfondo muy retorcido, y es que desde Disney no se quería dar protagonismo a unos personajes cuyos derechos cinematográficos estaban en Fox en aquel momento.
Y aunque quizá no fuera el final épico que a mi me hubiera gustado ver y aunque creo que los argumentos de Bendis hay boquetes como la Catedral de Burgos... creo que es una etapa que merece ser leída y disfrutada.
A pesar de Bachalo.
En fin, después de lo ocurrido en el arco anterior con el Mutante Omega, Cíclope había soltado la bomba y había decidido cerrar la Academia Xavier, trasladando a sus alumnos al Instituto Jean Grey, y en este arco vamos a asistir a las consecuencias de esta decisión, y es que aunque todo queda recogido en el arco "Revolución", se trata de historias autoconclusivas en las que vamos a ver como Bendis va cerrando tramas que tenía pendientes y algunos de sus célebres números de conversaciones. Así por ejemplo vamos a tener una nueva charla entre Cíclope y Emma Frost, vamos a ver a Magik y Gatasombra reforzando su amistad en la mismísima Isla de los Monstruos, vamos a ver cómo se resuelve el tema pendiente entre Dazzler y Mística, y vamos a ver como se desenvuelven los alumnos de la Academia Xavier convertidos en un nuevo grupo de héroes y con Bolas Doradas como una celebridad.
Y todo esto, va a servir de preludio para la auténtica bomba de Bendis, su último número en la colección, con un mogollón de dibujantes como invitados especiales, donde curiosamente el peso de la historia va a recaer no en Cíclope sino en Hank McCoy, la Bestia de "nuestro tiempo", que tendrá que hacer frente a una especie de juicio por parte de sus compañeros. Además, vamos a tener momentos dedicados a los jóvenes X-Men, con Jean Grey dejando el equipo; o la esperada charla entre los dos Hombres de Hielo para comentar su homosexualidad, así como el reencuentro entre Cíclope y su hermano, Kaos, que busca refugio frente a los acontecimientos de Axis (ya llegaremos a ello en su momento). Y tendremos la Revolución, por fin... descafeinada, quizá incluso forzada y sin demasiado sentido... pero bueno, en fin, tampoco es que con lo que se les venía encima se pudiera hacer mucho más, por muy Bendis que fuera, y es que después de Secret Wars los mutantes iban a tener que pasar por un via crucis particular y con un trasfondo muy retorcido, y es que desde Disney no se quería dar protagonismo a unos personajes cuyos derechos cinematográficos estaban en Fox en aquel momento.
Y aunque quizá no fuera el final épico que a mi me hubiera gustado ver y aunque creo que los argumentos de Bendis hay boquetes como la Catedral de Burgos... creo que es una etapa que merece ser leída y disfrutada.
A pesar de Bachalo.
March 21, 2016
"Hay un Scott Summers ahí que admiro con cada célula de mi cuerpo". El desenlace de una de las grandes derrotas de Scott Summers líder de los X-Men, el grupo se ha disuelto y dividido. Emma abandona el grupo luego de una charla tensa con Scott, Kitty y Magik por su parte van al rescate de una nueva mutante como un asunto catárquico y los más jóvenes a tratar de crear su propio grupo de superhéroes.
Es la conclusión de toda esta saga de Bendis que realmente me gustó pero considero algunos "errores" en el manejo de los X-Men. Bendis tiene unas ideas que trata de plasmarlas en el cómic variando algunos esquemas (por ejemplo él creó el Spiderman de raza negra) y esta vez el indicado fue Iceman a quien cambiará de un modo que para mí es radical. La inclinación final de la joven Jean Grey.
El balance de todo el arco argumental es positivo, historias intrigantes y gráficos interesantes en muchos de sus números. Y el capítulo final la redención de Scott Summers luego de la Revolución.
Es la conclusión de toda esta saga de Bendis que realmente me gustó pero considero algunos "errores" en el manejo de los X-Men. Bendis tiene unas ideas que trata de plasmarlas en el cómic variando algunos esquemas (por ejemplo él creó el Spiderman de raza negra) y esta vez el indicado fue Iceman a quien cambiará de un modo que para mí es radical. La inclinación final de la joven Jean Grey.
El balance de todo el arco argumental es positivo, historias intrigantes y gráficos interesantes en muchos de sus números. Y el capítulo final la redención de Scott Summers luego de la Revolución.
February 15, 2016
The end of Bendis's run on UXM. I read this before finishing out All-New X-Men, plus the Black Vortex story, so I guess I spoiled some things for myself. Here, though, the X-Men gang accuses Beast of messing with so many elements of time and space, that he's become reckless. This was rather awful, as the X-Men are always doing stuff that's a bit outside the norm. It seems rather hypocritical, much in the way they have treated Scott Summers. Summers, though, tries to redeem himself, but I"m not sure what good it does. Time will tell.
The digital version of the last issue, #600, included a black and white tale from the early 80s starring Iceman. I actually had that magazine, Bizarre Adventures, I think it was. No credits though I'm sure it's Claremont and Cockrum. Basically, Iceman is in college and finds acceptance with his peers. I don't know why this tale was included, though. Seems very out of place.
The digital version of the last issue, #600, included a black and white tale from the early 80s starring Iceman. I actually had that magazine, Bizarre Adventures, I think it was. No credits though I'm sure it's Claremont and Cockrum. Basically, Iceman is in college and finds acceptance with his peers. I don't know why this tale was included, though. Seems very out of place.
January 21, 2016
Bendis tries to wrap both his All-New and Uncanny X-men runs here (the All-New is mostly covered in 600). There's some good writing from him, but it ends on a thread with Beast that you kinda want to see more of, but it's something the next writer might just ignore. It is also a position we've seen Beast in before, so it's not that major of a revelation.
I think Bendis sticks to what he does best here, and that's giving characters long multi-speech bubble dialogue parts were they're all thinking out loud. It's light on action (though Magick and Kitty do go to monster island), but very character focuses.
I think Bendis sticks to what he does best here, and that's giving characters long multi-speech bubble dialogue parts were they're all thinking out loud. It's light on action (though Magick and Kitty do go to monster island), but very character focuses.
December 13, 2015
I started reading All-New X-Men and Uncanny X-Men because Brian Michael Bendis is one of my favourite writers. I've never been a big X-Men fan. Never really read comics as a kid, and I got into Marvel because of the MCU films, which is why I was never pulled into the X-Men books before now.
So that being said, I have no real stake in the X-Men continuity, which may be why I was able to enjoy these books. Especially the All-New X-Men stuff.
That being said, I don't think it's as good as his fantastic Avengers run.
So that being said, I have no real stake in the X-Men continuity, which may be why I was able to enjoy these books. Especially the All-New X-Men stuff.
That being said, I don't think it's as good as his fantastic Avengers run.
September 12, 2019
FINALLY. the issue where Bobby comes out.
January 15, 2017
Uncanny survives the end of its run with a bit more self-respect than Bendis' All-New X-teens did -- I get the sense that I need to read AXIS, the last big whooperdoo crossover, to get a complete picture, but that paperback doesn't come out til March so, until then, I'm doing my best with what I've got.
I'm not going to say that everything in Uncanny's final arc makes sense, but things are at least happening and you get the sense that Bendis has maintained a level of interest in the weird nooks and crannies of this weird, weird series, which is more than can be said of All-New. The book's first ending (there are two) shows Cyclops finally doing something mildly admirable in an honest attempt to unite mutantkind, after fifteen years (real world time) of basically becoming an insane cult leader. His character arc is an interesting one, because he doesn't really redeem himself and he's still a total schmuck, but at least we come to understand that he's a schmuck with heart, and somehow that's more believable than having him die in a hail of gunfire to save his people (which doesn't happen) or go 'full-evil' (which also doesn't happen). The ending Bendis goes for, instead, isn't really satisfying and the other X-Men aren't really satisfied, but it feels very true, and that might be enough.
The book's second ending is an 'intervention' with Hank McCoy about the fact that he, like Cyclops, has somehow moved from being the team's stable core into being a totally conniving bastard. His arc is even less satisfying, and ends on a note that feels desperate and sad. I found myself ultimately wondering why Bendis set out to write the saddest goddamn X-series ever, and if X-Men is an inherently sad series about sad things, and if I'm okay with that. But in going through Bendis' run, I inadvertently reread a few tie-in issues from Jason Aaron's Wolverine and the X-Men , and I was like, 'wait! That's right! There's such a thing as a fun X-Men comic!' because honestly I had totally forgotten.
My final verdict on Bendis' two X-series is that, pretty obviously, he could have/should have combined All-New and Uncanny into one ongoing title. Most of the time it feels very much like the books take turns cooling their heels or being in the spotlight, and it also seems like most of All-New could have been handled in a few crossovers or miniseries, instead of a monthly book. As it stands, there's a lot of interesting stuff in Uncanny that felt totally half-baked, and whole story arcs of All-New that were completely unnecessary. I understand that Bendis' whole writing practice is basically, "Why do one thing well when you can get paid to do five things sort of half-competently?" and that is definitely not the world I want to live in, but Bendis is the dude writing X-Men and I'm the one writing on Goodreads, so that's kind of where we are.
Uncanny X-Men is a pretty good, very sad superhero comic that is unfortunately in a symbiotic relationship with a sister series that sucks the air out of the room. It feels like a logical, if melancholy, place to end the giant modern arc of X-Men, which was about, more than anything, trying to survive against both idealogical and biological extinction. It is not a fun comic, but I think that at times it is trying to explore something honest, interesting, and new.
I'm not going to say that everything in Uncanny's final arc makes sense, but things are at least happening and you get the sense that Bendis has maintained a level of interest in the weird nooks and crannies of this weird, weird series, which is more than can be said of All-New. The book's first ending (there are two) shows Cyclops finally doing something mildly admirable in an honest attempt to unite mutantkind, after fifteen years (real world time) of basically becoming an insane cult leader. His character arc is an interesting one, because he doesn't really redeem himself and he's still a total schmuck, but at least we come to understand that he's a schmuck with heart, and somehow that's more believable than having him die in a hail of gunfire to save his people (which doesn't happen) or go 'full-evil' (which also doesn't happen). The ending Bendis goes for, instead, isn't really satisfying and the other X-Men aren't really satisfied, but it feels very true, and that might be enough.
The book's second ending is an 'intervention' with Hank McCoy about the fact that he, like Cyclops, has somehow moved from being the team's stable core into being a totally conniving bastard. His arc is even less satisfying, and ends on a note that feels desperate and sad. I found myself ultimately wondering why Bendis set out to write the saddest goddamn X-series ever, and if X-Men is an inherently sad series about sad things, and if I'm okay with that. But in going through Bendis' run, I inadvertently reread a few tie-in issues from Jason Aaron's Wolverine and the X-Men , and I was like, 'wait! That's right! There's such a thing as a fun X-Men comic!' because honestly I had totally forgotten.
My final verdict on Bendis' two X-series is that, pretty obviously, he could have/should have combined All-New and Uncanny into one ongoing title. Most of the time it feels very much like the books take turns cooling their heels or being in the spotlight, and it also seems like most of All-New could have been handled in a few crossovers or miniseries, instead of a monthly book. As it stands, there's a lot of interesting stuff in Uncanny that felt totally half-baked, and whole story arcs of All-New that were completely unnecessary. I understand that Bendis' whole writing practice is basically, "Why do one thing well when you can get paid to do five things sort of half-competently?" and that is definitely not the world I want to live in, but Bendis is the dude writing X-Men and I'm the one writing on Goodreads, so that's kind of where we are.
Uncanny X-Men is a pretty good, very sad superhero comic that is unfortunately in a symbiotic relationship with a sister series that sucks the air out of the room. It feels like a logical, if melancholy, place to end the giant modern arc of X-Men, which was about, more than anything, trying to survive against both idealogical and biological extinction. It is not a fun comic, but I think that at times it is trying to explore something honest, interesting, and new.
August 24, 2017
And so Bendis's Uncanny X-Men run, and his overall run on X-Men in general, ends not with a bang, but with a big, wet thud. Loose ends are not wrapped up. Character arcs are not explored. It's mostly just a bunch of unearned plot moves that function as "finales" of sorts, but are almost exclusively people talking to each other instead of doing anything.
In addition, the Big Question, "Why can't the original X-Men return to their own time?" is not even mentioned in the final issue here, even though it's basically a big intervention for Beast. It's now clear Bendis introduced this not as a question, but just as an excuse to keep the X-Men in the present when it made no sense for them to do so. It's extremely lazy plotting. If you can't organically explain why your characters are doing what they're doing, don't have them do it!
Also, it doesn't even make sense. Other characters are time traveling CONSTANTLY in this series, so there's clearly no moratorium on that. It's just convenient for Bendis to keep his characters here, so, boom, they can't go back.
Even beyond this gripe, this series has essentially been building to a big idealogical showdown between the Xavier School and the Jean Grey School, and this doesn't even happen. Everyone just changes their minds and starts getting along for no reason.
I would say don't even bother with any of this run. It's just a big dead end, and I'm sorry I wasted my time on it.
In addition, the Big Question, "Why can't the original X-Men return to their own time?" is not even mentioned in the final issue here, even though it's basically a big intervention for Beast. It's now clear Bendis introduced this not as a question, but just as an excuse to keep the X-Men in the present when it made no sense for them to do so. It's extremely lazy plotting. If you can't organically explain why your characters are doing what they're doing, don't have them do it!
Also, it doesn't even make sense. Other characters are time traveling CONSTANTLY in this series, so there's clearly no moratorium on that. It's just convenient for Bendis to keep his characters here, so, boom, they can't go back.
Even beyond this gripe, this series has essentially been building to a big idealogical showdown between the Xavier School and the Jean Grey School, and this doesn't even happen. Everyone just changes their minds and starts getting along for no reason.
I would say don't even bother with any of this run. It's just a big dead end, and I'm sorry I wasted my time on it.
April 5, 2016
a strong volume from Bendis, almost gave it 5 stars. The volume is jam packed with story and it progresses the main story arc with cyclops, x-men, and the results of the time traveling nicely. The art is from various artists but they're all good, to me Bachalo is awesome.
Recap for future reference:
So now that the timeline is altered again and most of them are not dead thanks to a young xavier and Eva Bell. Cyclops is leaving his team with the school for bigger plans. Magik and Kitty have a cool little detour looking for a mutant which I actually liked the reunion a lot, they later track down colossus (double cool for me), I enjoy magik's new story quite a bit (training with Strange). Dazzler plots her revenge on Raven because well ... dazzler was pissed she impersonated her, dazzler's new story is also interesting. Then we get Cyclops owning up to his past and moving forward with a revolution that would make Xavier proud. But even more interesting is the X-men confronting Beast with his unchecked desires to do whatever he wants with time and space. really awesome watching them confront him, because Beast is pretty much a jerk even the watcher knew it. Side note: at first i was like WTF with the iceman revelation about him being gay only because it felt forced but Bendis has an awesome conclusion to that and its handled well here. dying to read the next volume.
Recap for future reference:
So now that the timeline is altered again and most of them are not dead thanks to a young xavier and Eva Bell. Cyclops is leaving his team with the school for bigger plans. Magik and Kitty have a cool little detour looking for a mutant which I actually liked the reunion a lot, they later track down colossus (double cool for me), I enjoy magik's new story quite a bit (training with Strange). Dazzler plots her revenge on Raven because well ... dazzler was pissed she impersonated her, dazzler's new story is also interesting. Then we get Cyclops owning up to his past and moving forward with a revolution that would make Xavier proud. But even more interesting is the X-men confronting Beast with his unchecked desires to do whatever he wants with time and space. really awesome watching them confront him, because Beast is pretty much a jerk even the watcher knew it. Side note: at first i was like WTF with the iceman revelation about him being gay only because it felt forced but Bendis has an awesome conclusion to that and its handled well here. dying to read the next volume.
January 3, 2016
Serious weak sauce..
November 4, 2025
I’ve found that I get more excited by the thought of reading X-Men titles than I do while actually reading them. If it weren’t for Bendis writing this, I don’t know if I could’ve stuck it out. And this is one of his more dialogue-heavy titles I’ve read. I know the way Marvel arcs work require every hero/group to have a certain cycle, but it X-Men always feels extra repetitive. Mostly good though, some mediocre here.
November 1, 2017
Bendis fakt překvapil, závěr Uncanny se mu daří a konečně píše dobré postavy a dialogy. Závěrečné číslo bylo místy meh, ale jinak pěkné zakončení.
February 5, 2016
Kind of a letdown. I expected something else and most of all something more. Clean enough for Lemire to tale over but a little bit stale nonetheless.
December 6, 2016
Very Bendis feel. Good ending to his run, but would have liked some more of a concentrated storyline in the volume.
May 29, 2025
Note: The end of Bendis' run on this book (although All New continued). Wondering where to go next? Use this link to find what comes after "Storyville": https://www.comicbooktreasury.com/x-m...
Review: What a disappointing end of a great era for X-men and especially Cyclops. The so-called "mutant revolution" that has been so discussed and feared for this whole run fizzles out with a sappy squeak. For this whole run, Scott has been building up a team, fighting for mutants, rescuing young mutants and training them, all while even his former teammates are against him. He claimed from the start to be preparing for a "mutant revolution," although what that was hadn't been explained.
And, after the whole reading of the will incident that resulted in Scott closing his new training school, he seems completely lost and disoriented. This volume of issues, all of which seem to be centering on different characters as Scott's team spins out of control, seems like a disorienting tailspin that eventually results in nothing at all, not even an interesting crash.
You're just left wondering... what was it all for? What was the point? Very disappointing.
The art is fine though.
Issue-by-Issue:
If that was the revolution, I am extremely disappointed.
Review: What a disappointing end of a great era for X-men and especially Cyclops. The so-called "mutant revolution" that has been so discussed and feared for this whole run fizzles out with a sappy squeak. For this whole run, Scott has been building up a team, fighting for mutants, rescuing young mutants and training them, all while even his former teammates are against him. He claimed from the start to be preparing for a "mutant revolution," although what that was hadn't been explained.
And, after the whole reading of the will incident that resulted in Scott closing his new training school, he seems completely lost and disoriented. This volume of issues, all of which seem to be centering on different characters as Scott's team spins out of control, seems like a disorienting tailspin that eventually results in nothing at all, not even an interesting crash.
You're just left wondering... what was it all for? What was the point? Very disappointing.
The art is fine though.
Issue-by-Issue:
If that was the revolution, I am extremely disappointed.
November 19, 2017
There are so many fabulous moments in this volume. Alex and Scott Summers together. Kitty and Illyana rekindling their friendship. Illyana and Piotr making nice. Scott and Emma acting like adults with a history again. Dazzler and Mystique hashing out their...”issues.” Freaking GOLDBALLS! Eva Bell being a total boss. Finally figuring out how the X-Men are going to stage a full scale mutant revolution.
Seriously, there were several moments that had me almost jumping for joy. I actually laughed multiple times. Most emphatically when the Hero Squad (Cyclops’ team of X-Recruits, don’t worry, I don’t think the name will stick) took out their first villain in Issue #35. Sidebar, anyone else annoyed that the issue had absolutely NOTHING to do with what was on the cover? Not just a slight misinterpretation of the point of the story, but Emma and Scott weren’t even in the issue. Regardless, it was awesome. I kept waiting for Fabio/Goldballs to wake up from a dream, but it was real and awesome.
I’ve been learning a lot more about Kitty and Illyana’s history recently (thanks to the podcast Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men, which I very much recommend). Seeing them come together for an issue was pretty sweet, in both the touching and badass interpretations. Plus I loved watching Kitty choose skip a fight out of spite for Illyana.
If there was any issue that wasn’t a standing ovation for me, it was #34. That said, it was still freaking incredible. I won’t get into spoilers, but it wrapped up another of the dangling threads from this series (again, things preparing before kicking off Secret Wars) in a really satisfying way that was also pretty fun. That’s what was great about wrapping up a series that had actually mostly run its course. Sure, things were pushed toward an end, but it was an end that meant something. Every one of these issues had a point.
Minor sort of spoiler, for those who didn’t know about this, but the young Iceman was recently outed as being gay by the young Jean Grey in the pages of All-New X-Men. I didn’t like how it was handled there. I don’t generally like the idea of “outing” someone (even when it was done in private with just the two of them). Something about it took away the sense of pride that could have accompanied that moment. It also kept it as something to be hidden or dealt with. It was an internalized struggle that the character never got to truly process in his own way. Well, in #600 young Iceman confronts his older self about this topic, with the support of Jean, and it goes a little differently. There’s no denial, there’s no second guessing. It’s still somewhat of an “outing,” but it’s handled very very differently. For this gay X-Men fan, it was also extremely powerful. I also recently read a great article (https://www.tor.com/2015/04/23/iceman...) about how Iceman sort of maybe tried to come out in Uncanny X-Men 319 that shed some light on the whole situation for me. The scene here is only a couple of pages, but it carries some real weight, in my opinion.
The ending of the volume...phew. I loved it. I don’t want to spoil it, but know this much: I had very definite opinions on what it seemed like Scott’s mutant revolution meant, or seemed to mean, and those were mostly positive, no matter what. This went in a different direction than I expected, and it was still truly something to behold.
Speaking of something to behold, the art team is, again, superlative. Bachalo and Anka have proven themselves time and again on this series. I love both of their styles (especially Bachalo) and they way they draw and treat these characters. There were a few other artists that participated in #600, as it was a super sized issue, and it all fed into making it feel like a real event.
I loved this volume, and I loved this title in general. If you’re a fan of X-Men or anyone in this book, you should check out the whole run.
Seriously, there were several moments that had me almost jumping for joy. I actually laughed multiple times. Most emphatically when the Hero Squad (Cyclops’ team of X-Recruits, don’t worry, I don’t think the name will stick) took out their first villain in Issue #35. Sidebar, anyone else annoyed that the issue had absolutely NOTHING to do with what was on the cover? Not just a slight misinterpretation of the point of the story, but Emma and Scott weren’t even in the issue. Regardless, it was awesome. I kept waiting for Fabio/Goldballs to wake up from a dream, but it was real and awesome.
I’ve been learning a lot more about Kitty and Illyana’s history recently (thanks to the podcast Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men, which I very much recommend). Seeing them come together for an issue was pretty sweet, in both the touching and badass interpretations. Plus I loved watching Kitty choose skip a fight out of spite for Illyana.
If there was any issue that wasn’t a standing ovation for me, it was #34. That said, it was still freaking incredible. I won’t get into spoilers, but it wrapped up another of the dangling threads from this series (again, things preparing before kicking off Secret Wars) in a really satisfying way that was also pretty fun. That’s what was great about wrapping up a series that had actually mostly run its course. Sure, things were pushed toward an end, but it was an end that meant something. Every one of these issues had a point.
Minor sort of spoiler, for those who didn’t know about this, but the young Iceman was recently outed as being gay by the young Jean Grey in the pages of All-New X-Men. I didn’t like how it was handled there. I don’t generally like the idea of “outing” someone (even when it was done in private with just the two of them). Something about it took away the sense of pride that could have accompanied that moment. It also kept it as something to be hidden or dealt with. It was an internalized struggle that the character never got to truly process in his own way. Well, in #600 young Iceman confronts his older self about this topic, with the support of Jean, and it goes a little differently. There’s no denial, there’s no second guessing. It’s still somewhat of an “outing,” but it’s handled very very differently. For this gay X-Men fan, it was also extremely powerful. I also recently read a great article (https://www.tor.com/2015/04/23/iceman...) about how Iceman sort of maybe tried to come out in Uncanny X-Men 319 that shed some light on the whole situation for me. The scene here is only a couple of pages, but it carries some real weight, in my opinion.
The ending of the volume...phew. I loved it. I don’t want to spoil it, but know this much: I had very definite opinions on what it seemed like Scott’s mutant revolution meant, or seemed to mean, and those were mostly positive, no matter what. This went in a different direction than I expected, and it was still truly something to behold.
Speaking of something to behold, the art team is, again, superlative. Bachalo and Anka have proven themselves time and again on this series. I love both of their styles (especially Bachalo) and they way they draw and treat these characters. There were a few other artists that participated in #600, as it was a super sized issue, and it all fed into making it feel like a real event.
I loved this volume, and I loved this title in general. If you’re a fan of X-Men or anyone in this book, you should check out the whole run.
October 12, 2017
This volume has a bunch of unrelated stories that follow the aftermath of the closing of Cyclops's school. They may satisfy true fans of the X-Men, but the lack of a connecting story will leave others bored. I wish I had skipped this.
Cyclops gives up everything he gained up to this point: the inheritance from Xavier, the school, the students and his revolution. His brother, Havok, also seems to be a quitter. He left the Avengers and now joins his brother as they walk into the sunset.
Magik teleports herself and Kitty to Monster Island in anger for Cyclops's decision. Magik is looking for a mutant who turns out to be a small child. After surviving in the wild for a week, being taken to the mutant school is a heaven-send.
Dazzler is still looking for Mystique after the latter imprisoned her in Madripoor and used her blood to make mutant growth hormone.
The students from Cyclops's school decide to go their own way instead of joining the Jean Grey school.
The 600th issue is the icing on the drama cake. It's dripping with all those characters I was never a fan of. There are reunions, talks of marriage, a trial/intervenion, basking in the sun, admissions about one's sexuality and feelings... hugging. It's got it all, really. I expected someone to suddenly reveal they are a long-lost twin brother finally returned to their real family after living for 20 years with foster parents who are clones of time travelling swingers from the 80's. That might have been more fun than all the drama that leads to nothing. A wasted final issue.
Cyclops gives up everything he gained up to this point: the inheritance from Xavier, the school, the students and his revolution. His brother, Havok, also seems to be a quitter. He left the Avengers and now joins his brother as they walk into the sunset.
Magik teleports herself and Kitty to Monster Island in anger for Cyclops's decision. Magik is looking for a mutant who turns out to be a small child. After surviving in the wild for a week, being taken to the mutant school is a heaven-send.
Dazzler is still looking for Mystique after the latter imprisoned her in Madripoor and used her blood to make mutant growth hormone.
The students from Cyclops's school decide to go their own way instead of joining the Jean Grey school.
The 600th issue is the icing on the drama cake. It's dripping with all those characters I was never a fan of. There are reunions, talks of marriage, a trial/intervenion, basking in the sun, admissions about one's sexuality and feelings... hugging. It's got it all, really. I expected someone to suddenly reveal they are a long-lost twin brother finally returned to their real family after living for 20 years with foster parents who are clones of time travelling swingers from the 80's. That might have been more fun than all the drama that leads to nothing. A wasted final issue.
May 11, 2017
Scott Summers’s decision to leave his students and hand them and ownership of the New Xavier School for Mutants over to Ororo doesn’t turn out quite like he hopes. His new students are startled, rebellious and angry at his apparent abandonment and they go careening off on their own with predictable and unpredictable results.
New mutants, old mutants, past and present X-Men, friends, family and enemies clash as they all try to sort out their new roles and how they fit in the world. With Scott gone, do matters settle down at the New Xavier School for Mutants? No, of course not! Large and small dramas wend their way across the pages (which are laid out in such a way that I have to keep re-scanning to understand the dialogue).
It all culminates in a scene of startling tension—yet there’s such joy on that page that I found myself actually smiling and crying a little. It’s not a happy ending. It’s not an ending at all; it never is with comics. But it’s a realization of a long-held dream. Who wouldn’t smile at that?
New mutants, old mutants, past and present X-Men, friends, family and enemies clash as they all try to sort out their new roles and how they fit in the world. With Scott gone, do matters settle down at the New Xavier School for Mutants? No, of course not! Large and small dramas wend their way across the pages (which are laid out in such a way that I have to keep re-scanning to understand the dialogue).
It all culminates in a scene of startling tension—yet there’s such joy on that page that I found myself actually smiling and crying a little. It’s not a happy ending. It’s not an ending at all; it never is with comics. But it’s a realization of a long-held dream. Who wouldn’t smile at that?
December 17, 2025
With this volume, Bendis steps down as the Uncanny X-Men writer.
So this volume contains the big 600th issue and the issues leading up to it wrap up a few of the plot points left dangling from Bendis' time on the book. Things like, where is Mystique now? Will Magik and Colossus stay estranged? Is the school really shutting down? And most importantly, what about the revolution?
There's so much to cover and Bendis does a good job on touching on each of these subjects and more. And while there isn't much time to fully flesh out the details, I think he gives adequate updates on each in order for the title to feel like a natural stop - yet entice you towards the next era.
At this point, Bendis is a comic legend in my opinion, and this series is a testament. The weaving of story lines between this and All New X-Men was so entertaining and also - bold. There's a lot of risk taken during Bendis' tenure and for the most part - it pays off. So while it is sad he is leaving, he is leaving the title(s) in a good spot. Now let's see what the new creative teams do from here!
So this volume contains the big 600th issue and the issues leading up to it wrap up a few of the plot points left dangling from Bendis' time on the book. Things like, where is Mystique now? Will Magik and Colossus stay estranged? Is the school really shutting down? And most importantly, what about the revolution?
There's so much to cover and Bendis does a good job on touching on each of these subjects and more. And while there isn't much time to fully flesh out the details, I think he gives adequate updates on each in order for the title to feel like a natural stop - yet entice you towards the next era.
At this point, Bendis is a comic legend in my opinion, and this series is a testament. The weaving of story lines between this and All New X-Men was so entertaining and also - bold. There's a lot of risk taken during Bendis' tenure and for the most part - it pays off. So while it is sad he is leaving, he is leaving the title(s) in a good spot. Now let's see what the new creative teams do from here!
April 25, 2019
++Emma/Scott confrontation
+Bachalo
++Weight of Cyclops choices
+Xavier/Logan gone
-abrupt capture of Pryde by former teammate
++Banter between Magik/Pryde is well done...
---this whole setup just seems so off. I like new mutants, but what a pointless deviation besides some good dialogue changes
-middle issue kind of just meanders and takes away a cool character moment for a gimmick
++Goldballs
-issues don't seem like they're building to anything, just filler, speedily wrapping up loose ends
-Beasts trial seemed...half thought up. Didn't seem like a smart move pegging him for all their problems
+Iceman facing Iceman
+/- Love triangle
++Scott Summers showing his revolution. Bittersweet. Not sure if it was worth the chaos he began but dang if it isn't a cool encap.
-there is part of me that wishes Cyclops would have kept his trajectory and see where it would have taken us.... But maybe it's better this way
+Bachalo
++Weight of Cyclops choices
+Xavier/Logan gone
-abrupt capture of Pryde by former teammate
++Banter between Magik/Pryde is well done...
---this whole setup just seems so off. I like new mutants, but what a pointless deviation besides some good dialogue changes
-middle issue kind of just meanders and takes away a cool character moment for a gimmick
++Goldballs
-issues don't seem like they're building to anything, just filler, speedily wrapping up loose ends
-Beasts trial seemed...half thought up. Didn't seem like a smart move pegging him for all their problems
+Iceman facing Iceman
+/- Love triangle
++Scott Summers showing his revolution. Bittersweet. Not sure if it was worth the chaos he began but dang if it isn't a cool encap.
-there is part of me that wishes Cyclops would have kept his trajectory and see where it would have taken us.... But maybe it's better this way
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