Both Peter Miligan and Chris Claremont's runs on the X-Men in this era are fairly terrible, so it's not surprising that this follow up to House Of M contains some interesting ideas that are completely undone by wooden dialog, and no sense of characters. Crazy Lorna and the arrival of Doop and Apocalypse into the storyline are the worst of the plot developments, although a runner up is presenting the idea that one of the original X-Men is depowered, which would have made a great story, only to ha...

Establishing the tone and political atmosphere of the world post-"House of M". Literally, this collection deals with the reaction of the mutant community one day after they learn that over 90% of the mutant population worldwide has lost their powers due to the Scarlet Witch's snap decision for there to be "No More Mutants".We see the different fractions of society mobilizing in the fallout. The X-men scramble to stay together and regroup. The government sets up the Sentinel Squad. A stronger ant...

The X-Men have to deal with the fall out of the House of M situation, with many former mutants seeking refuge at the X-Mansion. They get it in a form of a camps monitored by Sentinels and they cant leave without implanting a tracking chip first. The government has deployed these manned Sentinels for the "protections of the mutants", but really its just a way of imposing their will on the last remaining few. The X-Men have their hands tied because.... it's either this or attack the government. Se...

The Xmen are recovering from House of M, and then the Sentinals appear. A nice little story but should be read as part of the Decimation series, and you really need to have read House of M too. Nice artwork though.

I was excited when I found this cheap at the used book store and was looking forward to finding out what happened after the cataclysmic events at the end of House of M. Sadly, the writing in this book is really, really bad. I suppose I've been spoiled by all the well-written stuff I've been finding lately, so my wrath against all sub-par comics comes out on this one poor X-Men title. The characters were indistinguishable from one another, the action was more or less incomprehensible and -- despi...

This is a weird book. It doesn't feel like a core X-men title at all. If you had told me this was like "Prelude to Post-Decimation, I would say that's about right. It does a lot of work to set up stuff in X-Factor and features the birth of Doop (the only survivor of X-Statix, right?) And all the stuff about O*N*E just never feels like it's really happening to the X-Men. Not sure why.Also, I thought it was strange how Cyclops doesn't freak out because he winds up freaking out over Decimation for

The Day After. Claremont’s contribution has some nice character moments, but spends too much time on a few plot points and checking in with a bunch of different mutants to be particularly great [6/10].House Arrest (177-179). This sets up an intriguing new status quo for the X-Men, with their Sentinel wardens. The downside of the story is the X-Men’s incompetence against the Sentinels (and *all* the fighting), but the issue of who’s really lost their powers comes across quite well [6.5/10].What L...

”It’s security, Scott. Maybe that costs a little freedom.”“That’s how it begins, isn’t it? Give up a little freedom in the name of security… then you’re asked to give up just a little more freedom...”

Mutant powers have been stripped from many of the superheroes and those without have to find out what they can do now with their lives. The remaining x-men try to consolidate their lives and on top of that there's a bunch of peole trying to kill them.

Bad things have happened to mutants again and Claremont has been let out to tie things together to show how bad those happened things have been. Not sure why that has been let to happen, that Claremont bit. He still writes way too much dialogue. That becomes so clear when the bit that Milligan has written comes. You do not have to talk so much to make clear bad things have happened.Not at all bad comic. Not the best thing ever, but good.

Preeety ridiculous cleavage on the women, even for a comic.

After Wanda says “no more mutants” the world and the X-men are dealing with the aftermath. With the X-men’s forces reduced, now would be the perfect time for someone to attack. Then the sentinels pull up at the Xavier school. But are they friend or foe? Also the Sapien league have the place surrounded and they’re out for blood. I enjoyed this one.

Continuing the (sometimes) great x-read of 2017...Since I am at the very tail end of 2017 and I haven't updated my reading in quite a while so I am "cheating" and just kind of writing one review for all of the volumes that I have read so that I can get them up by the end of the year.The aftermath of M day has been mixed to say the least. There were a few high points (Cable and Deadpool, the 198, the beginning of the new X-factor series... and more than a fair share of low points (the new Excalib...

A lot of setup with no real payoff.

SUMMER OF X-MEN CAPSULE REVIEW #8Peter Milligan's X-Men run is so completely hijacked by the time we get to this, the fourth book in the series, that it would be almost impossible to understand that it's the fourth book in a series rather than an event unto itself, as the title and cover suggest. Only half the book function as the Decimation event in question, which follows both Avengers: Disassembled and House of M as a mega-crossover in which the mutant ranks are thinned on a global scale by c...

Dreadful nonsense based on a stupid editorial idea. Extremely poorly written. Chaotic. Begins new plots and spontaneously abandons them in favor of new ones. The cliff hanger ending felt more like a non-ending, at this point i certainly wasn't hungry for more. Don't waste your time.

After the absolutely awful last volume, this one was significantly better...until the last issue. We finally get to see "What Lorna Saw"...and it was a complete letdown. It wasn't even an answer, just a weird development with Havok acting too impulsively. And man, did the art take a nosedive in the last couple of issues.But the stories before it, dealing with the fallout of House of M, were great and in many ways harrowing. It was painful to see some of the characters stripped of their powers. I...

This starts off with a competent epilogue to House of M, but as a whole it doesn't really work, as this volume spends most of its pages setting up storylines in an uneven and ultimately unsatisfying way.Peter Milligan is a talented but frustratingly inconsistent writer. He specializes in odd characters who don't really act in realistic ways, which can work in the offbeat indie book--his Human Target, for example, was a masterful demonstration of how he can combine questions of identity and obliq...

This was definitely *not* what I hoped it'd be. Only the first issue had all that much to do with the "day after" or "decimation" from the House of M. The rest of the story was typical serially-convoluted superhero stuff (or, at least what X-Men often was) with no real focus or meaning to it. The characters also often acted stupidly and pettily - particularly the love triangle between Iceman and Havok and Polaris (although these are people who've been superheroes for many years and their charact...

Not bad. Claremont’s characterization and dialogue is on point. The art is good. I enjoyed seeing the immediate aftermath of HoM,I wish this volume included all the relevant Decimation material. It felt very incomplete. A few more issues of UXM wouldn’t have hurt either, since it launches some threads that aren’t resolved in this book. Kind of a let down. Now I have to hop onto Marvel Unlimited and finish the damn story!Overall, it moves the larger story along, but leaves a bit to be desired as