Before Messiah Complex came Endangered Species. This is the prelude to the X-Men Event of 2011. What does it mean to be a leader? What does it do to a person? What do the choices you make mean about the person you are? This mini-series delves into these issues and will give an X-Men reader what they need to know about their favorite mutants before everything changes in July.
The biggest flaw in "X-Men: Prelude to Schism" #1 is that nothing really happens. A threat is heading straight towards Utopia, but we don't know what it is and Cyclops doesn't make a decision about it in this comic. Still, that adds to the anticipation and the depressed, hopeless mood. By heightening the emotional context, Jenkins could be providing a stronger lead-in to "Schism" than by simply setting up the plot in ways that may or may not line up with what Jason Aaron has planned. Read Full Review
The ultimate question that will need to be answered with this series is whether the four-issue approach was really necessary. Not all of the flashback scenes here serve the story as well as others. Could Prelude to Schism have functioned just as well as a single, over-sized story that included all four mutant advisors? While well written, issue #1 is also sparse and suggests that the series could overstay its welcome if Jenkins doesn't shake up the formula soon. Read Full Review
This was a very nice character driven story exploring their relationship. In that context, I quite enjoyed it and was pleased with the issue. However, it is difficult to ignore the complete lack of anything Schism related in a book marketed and labelled as a prelude to that event. The vague generalizations at the start do not a prelude make. Check it if you are interested in some exploration of the XavierCyclops relationship; Avoid It if you want an actual prelude to Schism. Read Full Review
This was a very nice character driven story exploring their relationship. In that context, I quite enjoyed it and was pleased with the issue. However, it is difficult to ignore the complete lack of anything Schism related in a book marketed and labelled as a prelude to that event. The vague generalizations at the start do not a prelude make. Check it if you are interested in some exploration of the XavierCyclops relationship; Avoid It if you want an actual prelude to Schism. Read Full Review
Great art comes to the rescue of a kinda slow story that doesn't really tell us what is going on. Hopefully things will pick up from here. Read Full Review
To sum up, this mini series blows and had no reason to be printed. Read Full Review
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