All-New X-Men: Inevitable, Vol. 4: IvX

All-New X-Men: Inevitable #4

by Dennis Hopeless (Writer), Mark Bagley (Illustrations)

Since the discovery that the Terrigen Mists-the key to unlocking an Inhuman's hidden potential and powers-are lethal to mutants, the X-Men and Inhumans have been locked in a cold war.
But as the Terrigen seeps into the Earth and reaches an irreversible tipping point, the X-Men are spurred into action to ensure the future of their species! And for Jean Grey and Fantomex, this means taking out of commission the Inhumans' deadliest weapon: Karnak!

Collecting: All-New X-Men #17-19, Annual #1, X-Men Prime #1

Genres: Comics, Marvel, X Men, Graphic Novels, Superheroes, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book

128 pages, Paperback

First published August 15, 2017

About the author

Dennis "Hopeless" Hallum is an American comics writer from Kansas City, Missouri who has written for Marvel Comics, Image Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Boom! Studios, Arcana Studio, and Oni Press.

See also under Dennis Hallum

Reviews

[Baba · Rating 3 out of 5]

Even the idea that the All New team joined in on the war against the Inhumans is a stretch, as is the whole IvX event's main concept. Anyways this is all about Bobby's (gay) dating life which also feels forced and whether; this volume also centres around whether or not the team can return to their place in time. 7 out of 12, Three Stars.

2019 read

[Chad · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was the best of the 3 X-Men titles with their obligatory IvX stories. The annual with the best story of the bunch with Idie going out on a date. The Iceman and Romeo story was decent, the story about whiny cyclops was awful. (They need to launch him back out to outer space.) The last issue was OK, giving us a wishy-washy reason about why they are never going home. Again, they all kind of just feel like filler until the title ends.

[Jackie · Rating 1 out of 5]

Another Marvel event ruins another series that could have been great.

[Anna Quilter · Rating 3 out of 5]

Again..this Volume feels a little disjointed ..the last few issues of this series..an Annual and the start of a new series: Prime.
I did appreciate a couple of scenes where Ilyana was talking to Dani...and then Kitty...reprising their friendships from New Mutants in the 1980s.

[Shannon Appelcline · Rating 4 out of 5]

Like the other IvX volumes, All-New X-Men Vol. 4 tells singular stories set during the IvX war. None of them are as standout as the best IvX tales, but this is probably the most consistent volume of the set: Bobby is conflicted in the war; Scott faces his future; the A-N X-Men face their past. The Annual continues this theme of single stories: Idie goes on a date; Dani and Illyana search for a dying mutant. Every story is an excellent character story for the focus character, and the Annual is particular good for its attention to neglected friends.

[Travis Duke · Rating 3 out of 5]

Better than vol.2 with lots more story. The book picks back up with Iceman and his relationship with Romeo and transitions into the IVX storyline, it is fine and pushes the plot along. At least we get a main story with IVX and not these sidestories that don't always wow me. The inhuman Mosaic then enters Cyclops and gives him the truth about older Cyclops death, it is a nice full circle moment that was long overdue. Also overdue was the conclusion to young beast trying to get his team back to "their" time. Both of those moments helped finalize this series. However the book dips back down with a rather boring Idie love story and a moonstar story that was meh. The ending does bounce back with Kitty Pride returning and what seems to be a fresh start with the school. I think this was the end of the series and it makes way for blue and gold... could be wrong

[Kurt · Rating 1 out of 5]

As a collection, this is a 2-star, because it’s the build-up & then bland, uninteresting aftermath of an event not included in the book. But it gets knocked down to a 1-star due to the X-Men dance party, which I believe is the worst thing I’ve ever seen in a comic.

[Chris Lemmerman · Rating 2 out of 5]

[Read as single issues]
My review for all three of the X-Men tie-in volumes to IvX will be exactly the same. These are one-shot stories that tie into the events of IvX, and they're not particularly compelling on their own. There's an attempt to try and tie-up the rest of the storylines that the writers have laid down, but their hands are tied in terms of how much they can do.

Certain issues are worth looking into, like the Romeo/Iceman issue in All-New X-Men, or the Monet focused issue of Uncanny X-Men, but I honestly am having trouble remembering what was going on in most of these books at this point. This era of the X-Men can really be summed up like that - not particularly memorable, but with some good ideas hidden in the depths that aren't allowed to breathe due to excessive events every few months.

Yawn. Read the Inhumans tie-ins instead, they're much better.

[Sesana · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mixed feelings. On one hand, the issue featuring Romeo and Bobby is really good, and the characters, especially Scott, handle the big revelations in reasonable ways. But the annual isn't great, and most of the characters just don't seem to understand that this is a literal life and death situation for themselves and every other mutant. Bobby's reaction is understandable, because he's dating an Inhuman. But there's a difference between wanting to be peacemakers and wanting to be martyrs.

[Alex E · Rating 2 out of 5]

The young X-Men team have to come to terms with how they feel about the whole IVX situation, especially Bobby and Cyclops, who each have a more personal take on the battle.

So, this is a obligatory tie in volume with the stories not really being vital to the main crossover event. However, it rounds out a bit more of the vested interest of the All New team. Specifically with Bobby, he just starts dating a new Inhuman character, Romeo, who isn't a fighter in any way, and doesn't care about the fight at all really. When the battle happens, Iceman takes Romeo away from the fight, as their love is what is most important. To me, this storyline came off as a bit whiny and simplistic, but then again, those are two words that are sometimes used when describing young love. But it just read like two kids who are not grasping the importance of the fight, and being kind of selfish, in an indirect way.

The other storyline has to do with Cyclops and him finding out the truth about what really happened to the older Cyclops. He basically is one of the first ones to find out about the true villain of the series, and then is determined to confront the person. I thought this was a more thoughtful and more essential tie in, as it deal directly with the legacy of Cyclops, and what it means to this kid. However, it doesn't really lead to anything, as when the confrontation happens, everyone already kind of knows the deal.

A bit of an uneven volume, I would say read these tie ins if you are a completionist like me.

[Frédéric · Rating 3 out of 5]

2,5*

Of this volume the 2 tie-ins are actually the best. One is centered on Iceman and Romeo and the choice they have to make with the ongoing battle, the other on Scott and his difficulties to deal with what is older self has done before learning the truth about Emma's trick.
Both are correctly played, with legitimate anguish and reactions to the events at handicap.

The finale and annual are way too teenagery for my taste. The "impromptu dance" of the last page felt too much like the Disney Channel (hey, I have a 9 yo daughter so I have an excuse!)
The former kinda explains why the young X-Men can't go back when they come from and incidentally justifies their new series for those interested.
I'm not sure I am.

[Timothy Pitkin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Most of this is ok but what made it confusing is that they reveal that the young X-Men, the younger versions of Beast, Angel, Cyclops, Jean, and Ice-Man are permanently stuck here because their was always a version of their past selves that never traveled in time. It is really confusing but the rest of it was ok.

[David · Rating 3 out of 5]

The All-New X-men team deserves better than this. It's not horrible but it's not great either. Hopeless can do better than this. A bit of the author's talent shines here and there but I'd love to see Hopeless cut loose on the X-World and do whatever he wants. Little opportunity for that here.

[Michael Church · Rating 3 out of 5]

I actually enjoyed parts of this more than I expected to, considering how I’ve felt about the last couple of volumes. I think what made it work for me was that it focused on smaller scale stories with just Iceman and Cyclops and their perceptions of the whole IvX debacle.

I still wasn’t a huge fan of the writing overall, just because a lot of it felt forced as far as dialogue. There were also parts that seemed very anachronistic. Like, I get that the original 5 have been hanging out in the present for a while, but it didn’t make sense how they were using so much present day slang and seemed to know a lot of pop culture references.

I also didn’t much care for the Cyclops characterization. They focused so much on how poorly the public reacted to what Emma did to his legacy, and kind of started to ignore what happened in AvX (which was what he was originally horrified about after coming to the present). I get that comics are cyclical in nature, but just because AvX came out 7 years ago doesn’t mean it didn’t affect his reputation.

The Annual with Idie’s date actually had a lot of potential and a couple of nice moments. However, it turned into a kind of generic tale about right place and right time. The Moonstar story was alright (and I was thrilled to see Dani again), but it ended up being kind of preachy in a way that didn’t quite sound genuine or earned.

The art was not really my favorite. Everyone has looked just a smidge too cartoonish for my taste throughout this run, which is just Mark Bagley’s style. I did like Paco Diaz one issue 19, though. Something about his style, particularly how he drew Cyclops, just felt like a throwback to a more classic style that I was used to. It wasn’t perfect, but it was a welcome change.

Overall, I’m glad there is a new direction coming and a new creative team. I hear that X-Men: Blue wraps up the story of the original X-Men, and I’m curious to see what happens. Though, X-Men: Prime was not a great way to sell me on it.

[Kay · Rating 2 out of 5]

What a disappointing end to a wonderful (but too short) series.

I literally don't understand the main plot point of this book, which is the X-Men attacking the Inhumans. Apparently, the Terrigen mist will soon cover the entire planet making it impossible (deadly) for Mutants to live on Earth. So, while the X-Men are trying unsuccessfully to figure out how to solve the Terrigen mist problem, they decide to attack the Inhumans. But, why??? How is that going to solve anything? It literally makes no sense. To show the Inhumans how serious they are? Great! They're serious. Now get your butts back into the lab and keep working. Why are you wasting time with this nonsense? To cause more MARVEL Drama? Just so you can Reboot it all over again? Ugggg.
*rant over*

Another joy this volume brought, was Jean. Blech.
I liked this title so much because she wasn't in it...
Scott and Jean were "horribly awkward" (their own words), and now Angel is in on it too? Ugggg.

The one-off with Idie was good (which is why this gets 2 stars at all, and not 1), and even the issue with Magik and Dani (Mirage?) was OK, though out of place without the kids.
Worse is the last issue, where it's just a tack on to the volume with terrible art. Kitty apparently is no longer engaged to Starlord, but it's OK because there's another Peter around who now lives in her old room...
The Mansion is also now in Limbo because they needed a "place on Earth" where Mutants would be safe, but somehow Earth is safe enough for the OG 5 X-Men to move into the middle of Central Park. Huh?

Yeah, this volume did NOT feel like an All-New X-Men: Inevitable volume at all, and I'm going to say the ending of this series suffered greatly because of it.
Damn it, Marvel. What a waste.

[Villain E · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fricken collections editors.

First we get two issues which happen during IvX. They're character driven and well done, even if they are inconsequential. Then the final issue setting up the next series. This is followed by an annual issue which happens BEFORE the other three issues, again character driven, well done, but inconsequential. And then we get X-Men Prime, which was also collected in Extraordinary X-Men: IvX.

I always enjoy Dennis Hopeless's writing and Mark Bagley's art. I wish this combination was on the main books.

[Lillian Francis · Rating 4 out of 5]

The best of the side issues to IvX.

The displaced guys are better than the most of the original. Love Bobby and Romeo. Their issues were my favourite. And so glad Bobby reacted the way he did in the battle.
And I liked Cyclops' issue too. Glad he found things out the way he did.

Annual - doesn't follow on in continuity. Takes place before IvX. Preferred the first story of the two.

Prime - same story as in Extrordinary X-Men.

[Andy · Rating 1 out of 5]

Okay, I am ready to go off in 3...2...1...
For the love of god or any sane person who keeps greenlighting these events, YOU ARE RUINING THESE COMICS. Trying to get the groove going in comics, especially Marvel has become an impossible task. There is no way to avoid some world ending eye rolling garbage fest anymore. Every 4 issues you have a crossover, every 5 issues there is a huge war, every 10 issues there is a reboot. For the love of god, these characters are barely holding peoples interest as it is, stop kicking the poor things into the ground. Why do the inhumane exits, it's something I have always asked myself, if they where DC I would understand, they want an answer to the X-Men, but why does Marvel have Mutants and Inhumans. I am so tired of having these characters thrown in my face so much. The poor things can't even have their own storylines or chance to shine cause they are always up everybody's business. Nobody is winning. There are so many obstacles being placed in front of artists and creators, it is a miracle anything of quality still comes out of this company anymore, stop forcing creators to do dumb shit like this.
Okay, rant over.
In response to this last book in this shortlived series, wow what a stinker. What an awful way to end the already mediocre and mundane series. These poor characters tried so hard, but unfortunately nothing happened to them. There was no chance for any of them to have anythign going on, whenever character development or a moment to shine appeared so did a weak storyline involving world ending villains. Like the villains are not even interesting, they just want to end the world....so interesting. These series did not have a magneto, that's for sure. The books were all separated by their own storylines, none showed any huge promise. The people with the lead stories were the most boring, yay cyclops contemplating his "evil" future every 3 panels. Talk about a shell of a character. Beast obsessed with time travel for 19 issues only to get the payoff in this book, and what a payoff it was, sigh. They literally gave up on giving X-23 and Angel "screentime", they just stopped appearing lmao. The only characters I can truly say I liked a lot where Iceman who was the only one having an actual story going on, Kid Apocolypse who literally did the "Future me can be evil" storyline better than Cyclops, and Idie who lucky for her was not involved in any of the annoying mess. The only thing Idie did was the annual and that's the only thing we got from her, that's it, the annual was probably the best things this series had from beginning to end and it was just a simple story about a date. By the way, things were left off I guess Jean is back? Maybe that will change things for the next series in the franchise. The only negative is more Cyclops, yawn. In all honesty, this was one of the worst comic books I have ever read, thankfully I like the characters enough to keep reading, but holy shit do they need fresh talent to write something interesting. The poor X-Men can only take so much.

[Adam Fisher · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the last All-New X-Men graphic novel before it switches to X-Men: Blue, and wraps up a lot of loose ends. We have:
- Their contributions to IvX (which mostly involves Bobby's love story with Inhuman Romeo)
- Cyclops finding out that Emma Frost is to blame for all his current public backlash (and the start of the war with the Inhumans)
- Beast working a spell that takes them to the past where their current selves are still adventuring in the past (you are really going to have to give a better explanation for this Marvel.... these X-Men HAVE TO go back to their time at some point. If not, someone at Marvel needs to go back and read how bad time travel affects everything in a ton of the 90's storylines...)
-Cyclops confesses his love for Jean, though this time it appears it isn't meant to be for them
-Jean is put in charge of the team, officially
- Idie gets a date.... which goes in an odd direction involving M-Pox
- Dani Moonstar returns for a side story involving Magik and Lady Mastermind

Overall, a decent end to this title.... already loving X-Men Blue. Recommend.

[Adam Stone · Rating 3 out of 5]

The beginning of Hopeless's run on the rerererererererererererebooted All New X-Men showed the most promise of any of the post-Secret Wars X-books. Sadly, by the time we get to the end of the run, it's been editorialized into blandness. The idea of young Iceman in gay love, and of Idie going on her first date should be interesting, but Iceman's boyfriend is named Romeo? Uggggggggggggggggggh. He and Iceman are pitted against each other because their families (mutants and Inhumans) are fighting? Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarf.

It's forgettableness makes it the best of the X-books from this era. That's a sad, sad, shame. THis series doesn't so much wrap up as abruptly stop. And, like the other collections of the time, it tacks X-Men Prime #1 to the end to let you know that everything you might have disappointedly gotten used to is about to change again, And not for the better.

I recommend it for people who really enjoy Shakespearean cliches, anti-hero vs anti-hero enthusiasts, and people who just really wanted to watch this era end.

[Dean · Rating 2 out of 5]

bobby just got an inhuman boyfriend Romeo. storms new attilan to check on him. it's fine. inoffensive.

Cyclops issue. learns that frost manipulate everyone to think cyclops was still alive and giving orders when she was the monster.

McCoy gets the original five together to show them they can't go back to their original time because they never left? just go back to the instant you were taken. I'd be interested to see a series where these guys go back eith all these new memories and experiences. would krakoa defeat them still. would Jean become the phoenix? go theough the claremont years and big storylinesz leading to bew/different storylibes.

idie/temper gets an issue. goes in a date. hopeless is okay to good at writing teenagers and then awful. all at the same time. all they do is go on dates apparently. these are the most confident children around. I guess they defend humanity for a job but they must do more than talk about boys and worry about dates.

[Scott Lee · Rating 4 out of 5]

Much like Extraordinary X-Men's IvX tie-in volume, these are smaller character driven stories told around the edges of the IvX mini-series' main line. As such, they lend themselves to the relatively stand-alone format the collection follows. We get in the heads of various time-lost X-Men, and we get an official "we're not from this timeline statement" on the All-New kids. I'm hoping that X-Men Prime leads to some really good stuff with the launch of X-Men: Blue and X-Men: Gold. More character driven stories like this, big or small would be a wonderful start for one of Marvel's biggest comic families. None of the other A-Level books have successfully made that switch yet. Here's hoping that the hints of that style in this volume and Extraordinary volume four lead to some great stuff.

[Laura · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5/5

A run I was pretty much enjoying peters out with a bit of a whimper. Having now read X-Men Blue I'm very glad it walks back on the twist that the young X-Men we've been following aren't actually from the main timeline's past because that took away a lot of what I found emotionally compelling about this scenario. In terms of the IvX crossover issues I think Hopeless does what he can to make it interesting but I'm still not a fan of these big superhero punchup crossovers that force their way into comics I'm reading. The annual was a bit of a mess - it relies on my believing that a girl would find it attractive to be told by a guy she's never seen before that she's ~different~ and ~special~ because she reads in public - which is a shame because it was the only time Idie really got much attention.

[C · Rating 3 out of 5]

Continuing the great x-read of 2017/18...

Possibly my favorite of the tie-in books to IVX. Like the others, this is mostly a series of character vignettes loosely tied to the events of the crossover. This one, though, is probably the least random, the least scattered of the three main x-books.

I enjoyed Idie's date considerably (I am going to miss her and Evan in X-Men Blue. They were odd inclusions in this series in the beginning but I really think they added something to the story.) as well as Iceman and Romeo's short romance. It was nice to see Dani again (and working with fellow new mutant Magick as well...).

Overall, I just enjoy these characters and am saddest to see this book go of all of the main X-Men titles from this overall lackluster time in X-history.

[Willow · Rating 5 out of 5]

IvX was... surprisingly good? I don't know what I was expecting per se... or, well, I do. AvX was so drastically one-sided. The X-Men were right and the Avengers were dicks and caused the entire mess that then had to be cleaned up. This one though, it was actually legitimately complicated with logic and ambiguity and complexity on both sides and I really enjoyed it!

And! All the tie-ins were relevant and interesting and expanded on the story in fun and interesting ways (barring a few small "that character definitely wasn't at that battle" art inconsistencies at places).

Now specifics, All-New gave us some sweet Bobby moments, some catharsis for Scott, a wonderful epilogue and a bunch of other story points. All in all, a great ending to Hopeless's fantastic run on this book.

[Juan · Rating 2 out of 5]

I read these issues along side the larger Inhuman vs XMen story arc and books. Of the 4 series, this is the weakest. One issue deals with Bobby Drake and his crush. Mostly ignorable. The most important issue is a good one, young Scott Summers learning the truth about the events seen in Death of X. This issue by itself is critical to the overall story and follows up an issue of Uncanny XMen. The only other important thing to pick up from this volume is seeing how the series ends with a reunion of sorts. Do yourself a favor and don’t read this volume by itself. Read it along with the larger story arc.

[Rocky Sunico · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a rather odd wrap-up book that also had the challenge of partially being an event crossover book. The Inhumans vs X-Men part of the arc was mostly just Ice Man being lovestruck and Cyclops being in his head. The subsequent stories tried to address the time travel issue that started this All-New adventure to begin with and then.

Then the end of the book was more focused on setting up the new status quo for the X-titles beyond this series, which was a shame since it didn't really give us a nice wrap-up for the time-displaced X-Men.

[Sean · Rating 2 out of 5]

The time displaced original X-Men's series ends here and its unimpressive to say the least. IVX was a basic crossover and this tie-in was less than that. Seeing young Bobby deal with his ties to his team and Romeo, his new Inhuman boyfriend, was good to see but seemed to be resolved, if you can call it that, much too easily. The ending Prime story was a good set up for the new X-titles. The art was good throughout. Marc Bagley rarely disappoints. Overall, this is a side note in a bigger story and it never felt like it mattered.

[Adan · Rating 4 out of 5]

A couple more individual stories, the first featuring Bobby and his Inhuman boyfriend Romeo. The second featured Scott moping a bit, and then learning the truth about old Scott. The last issue of the series reveals the truth of why the young X-Men can’t go back to their time. But the real gem of this collection is the annual, which features Idie going on a date and then beating down a bunch of violent bigots.

[José · Rating 3 out of 5]

Aunque le ponga tres estrellas, por todos los números en general, me alegra que por fin alcanzara el nivel del primer volumen de All-New X-Men (2013-15) en su último número. Cómo se nota que se recuperan aquellos personajes que funcionaron tan bien durante la primera etapa.

Farewell, pequeños X-Men.

Os deseo un buen viaje por esta nueva etapa que va a comenzar.