Extermination set the path for where the X-books will go in the foreseeable future. Read Full Review

This book had it all " action, heartbreak, lessons learned, and jaw-dropping twists and frankly, it's quite the high note for the House of Ideas to end their year on. Read Full Review

EXTERMINATION #5 is, from beginning to end, a beautiful, exciting book. Ed Brisson makes this into his tribute to the Original Five, and boy is it amazing. All X-Men fans need to read this book, especially if you're a fan of the Original Five. Pepe Larraz's art is fraught with emotion, and that makes it look simply astounding. Read Full Review

An great ending to a really enjoyable mini-series. Ed Brisson and Pepe Larraz put the X pieces back into place and they also made me an X-Fan along the way. I know that the first part is way more important, but I hope they realize how important the second part was to me. Read Full Review

Extermination ends as it began--with stunning artwork, killer twists and emotional character moments. Read Full Review

EXTERMINATION will be essential X-Men reading going forward. It's loaded with everything you want out of an X-Men story. Read Full Review

The art by Pepe Larraz was amazing and all of the action scenes delivered with impressive visual energy and detail. Read Full Review

This event delivers in wrapping up years of plot lines, and messy time travel plot lines at that. It also sets up some twists with one saying holy crap and one not expected to be in this issue, but expected due to solicitations. X events have been hit and miss for years but this is one that delivers in every way and that includes this final issue. Read Full Review

The conclusion of the Extermination series combined tight writing with beautiful art and manages to tie off most of the loose ends created by the time-displaced O5. Read Full Review

An event book with this level of impact that feels this organic probably hasn't existed since the "Messiah Complex"/"Messiah War" era. (Yeah, it's been a while.) There's a lot of good work here that hopefully signals a bold new direction for the X-line. Read Full Review

As a series, Extermination answered a number of questions but did so in a way to set up what's next. Good, not great. Read Full Review

Extermination #5 delivered a lackluster conclusion to what turned out to be a highly disappointing X-Men event. Ed Brisson missed the mark on many character moments that should've been highly impactful to the X-Men franchise. All of the misses, along with the delay of this finale causing spoilers for how things ended, made the entire Extermination series an X-Men event fans can easily pass on. Read Full Review

This is a great ending to a great event. It manages to tie up loose ends for what seemed like an incredibly messy and unmanageable plotline while still making sure everything we've read for the last five years or so still matters. And it's told in an incredibly entertaining and organic way.

Worth the wait - my first X-Men event collected in singles and glad I stuck with it. Feels like a passing of the torch/end of an era of the Bendis' run. Don't think i'll be adding any new X-Titles to my pull list, but will definitely keep up in other ways.

Hell of a climax to a fun series. It was worth waiting a few weeks in order that the book look as good as it did. Really didn't see the ending coming and I felt it was a good last run for the time-displaced O5. I know this era got a lot of poop thrown at it, but I enjoyed the Blue and the non-Bendis All-New a great deal and was happy to see their story get proper closure.

Thoroughly enjoyable with the art and writing! The conclusion the young x-men is finally here! They wrapped up things that I questioned weeks ago very nicely. Still feel like the way they defeat the twins was a bit of a cheat though. The cliffhanger really gets me that I want to read more asap!

Great ending! I liked the way Brisson brought it back around. I like his style and i'm not going into any spoilers here. It was enjoyable. Larraz brought his A game this issue and delivered yet again. Gracia's colors are always nice.

I’m so happy that the lame kids are gone now. Time travel is so gross, you guys.

Somewhere between a good ending and a what the f... happen one. I understand the choice of the young x-men. I just have trouble with the fact the twin was at the mansion before and that nobody know them. I'm so sad for poor Mimic. Or poor Rachel !

Cover - I take the connecting variant. Not a fan of the style, but at least With Iceman in cover and with a tearful goodbye to his namesake, it's Related. 1.5/2
Writing - Maybe too much thing in this last issue. A deux ex machina who didn't convince me. Why not protect the twin from Ahaab claws ? And the ending make me sick with you know who. 2/3
Arts - Arts is very strong. The part where the original return to their time was so close to what I read as art in their first appearance. 3/3
Feeling - Mixed 1/2
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This issue's memory trick is a pretty flagrant example of how comic book psychic powers are usually treated as omnipotent magic. So long as you can claim with even a half-straight face that the effect is somehow related to the mind, you're good to go.

Pretty vague about how specifically the conflict is resolved, but good enough.