A remarkable piece of storytelling, art and design.

I know almost nothing about the x-men but I managed to follow most of this across multiple time lines, 1000 years of future history, and various transhumanist ideas. I still don't know or really care who Sinister is, why Apocalypse has big 'A' buckles on his clothes, or how Xavier got out of his wheelchair..?

Even glossing over a bunch of detail, I thought this was a great story, more like a manifesto even.

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Really great refresh of the X-Men franchise. This has a lot of concepts and themes that I find really interesting. I have all of the follow-up titles’ first volumes preordered (wow that was word salad) and I had thought about canceling some but after reading this I want to give them all at least one shot.

This does kind of touch on the “X-Men are under threat of extinction” plot that is very very tired and overplayed, but it does so in a different and tasteful way, and the conclusion of the book hopefully signals an end to it’s use going forward. If I ever were to have creative control at Marvel I would ban X-Men writers from using that theme because it is just so ran into the ground at this point. But like I said, the way it was approached here was well done.

Would definitely recommend this.

One of the best X-Men books I've read, even if the book is too smart for me and probably everyone else!

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Simply put, one of the best X-men stories ever.

What an awesome new direction for the X-Men and mutants. I particularly enjoyed the way the story unfolded gradually, layer upon layer getting clearer the deeper I read. Very excited to continue the X-Men on this new journey.

I've found that you simply can't just pick up an X-comic without being lost. I collected in the 90s and early 00s and then stopped. I've been periodically coming back every now and again that last 5 years or so but I'm not sure I can. At least not randomly. If it's to make any sense, I've gotta go back to when I stopped and read chronologically. Here are my notes, mostly so I can remember what happened, on this volume.

Prof X, who regained the ability to walk sometime, give up on integration and partners with Krakoa, Magneto, and Moira McTaggart to create a mutant nation on the living island. Sounds like the mutant edition of Garvyism (as in Marcus).

I think the collection interfiles the two stories to jump around the timeline. There are four periods in time:
The "current" one where the mutant nation is being created.
The 10 years in the future one where it exists.
The 100 years in the future one where Nimrod the Lesser rules, as the Machine Uprising has happened.
The 1000 years in the future one where The Post-Human Race is working with The Phallanx to subsume human knowledge.

It was interesting seeing the likes of Mr. Sinister and Apocalypse sitting beside the X-Men.

I think Moira's reincarnation power, where she remembers her previous lives and since time is cyclical, she can try again with the knowledge of her past failures. That didn't sit well with me as a Western Buddhist.

I wish they'd stuck to one storyline They try to tell too many at once to keep the reader guessing but it actually took me away from the story. I would have preferred they tell one really good story in the stead of 4 potentially good stories. For me the creation of the mutant nation was the best.

Very complex, layered storytelling that shifts around in time to set everything up. Really cool!!