Wernecks art is beautifully detailed and as visually thrilling as the story with Valenza adding brilliant and vibrant color to every scene. Read Full Review

The final stand of the X-Men goes heavy with a classic feel that fans wont want to miss. Duggan drives vintage elements of the X-Family with the great writing. Werneck and company build electric imagery fitting for the fight of their lives. With the stakes at hand, theres no better time to watch the fall unfold. Read Full Review

Fall of the House of X #2 is a massive improvement over the first two issues of the latest X-Men crossover. The X-Men are no longer holding back and we see that with their attack on Orchis in this issue. Though we don't get much progression in the overall story there is now genuine momentum for this event following Fall of X. Hopefully its momentum that future issues of Fall of the House of X and Rise of the Powers of X will be able carry forward. Read Full Review

It's a lot of big, fun, nifty X-Men action, but it's also a whole lot of that, and it gets a bit too busy at times. Read Full Review

The issue overall is entertaining and as a slice of the overall story, it works, but on its own, it feels like an empty summer blockbuster. Read Full Review

Fall of the House of X #2 is visually stunning, but lacking in story and character development. I truly hope the rest of this series is an improvement; the Krakoan Age needs to end on as strong of a note as it began. The X-Men, and readers, deserve no less. Read Full Review

Fall of the House of X #2 applies too many plot points for the reader to keep up with and lacks the characters' reactions to situations to create more nuance in the conflict. Read Full Review

Fall of the House of X #2 is full of moments where the artwork fails to live up the pitch. Read Full Review

If we accept the premise that modern X-men is just... its own language and culture intended for a very specific audience of psychopaths that are completely fine with having to do postgrad work to read and understand comics, then this is good, punchy content that moves the story forward. It's also pretty messy. There's a good story here, but it's not being told optimally, although that may be a function of it being told across a gazillion titles by a bunch of different guys. I generally like Duggan, but we can do better than this.

This was like reading a bulletin point explanation of what's happening. It felt too formulaic to fully digest or enjoy for me. Duggan can do better and has before multiple times but this feels like we're in a hurry or a means to an end. Interesting ideas in some panels are lost in the bigger picture. Lucas Werneck has gotten better and his art is some splash pages is wonderful. Other panels are still in need of attention especially the actions sequences. Finally that M.O.D.O.K. resignation letter is a waste of space. Hickman brought the data pages to prominence but no other writer knows how to use them properly except for Al Ewing.

I didn't dislike this or anything, but good lord did it feel rushed. I felt like the story was constantly moving forward without room to digest what's actually going on here. Even Werneck's art wasn't as good as usual, unfortunately. I'm really hoping this is just a minor bump in the road and not the beginning of a downwards direction in quality.

Yikes. Very rushed. This could’ve been 100 pages and been more enjoyable. Nothing was earned and there were even good ideas, but we breezed through it all.

I don't know why, but I did not really enjoy most of this issue. This had no excitement to it. Just felt like more of the same.

Yearning for a fresh take.

This issue was an egregious afront to X-Men fans who have stuck by the Krakoan era in its entirety. After bungling the ball throughout Fall of X, they can’t erase past poor storytelling with an issue full of set pieces meant to tie up various loose ends that have been floundering for months. Nothing in this issue felt earned, rather it felt like Duggan was rushing to get to an end.

Every character that Duggan writes now sounds the same: bravado mixed with snark and a dash of vulgarity. I’m over it. There is no nuance to be found in Duggan’s scripts and it’s a slap in the face to readers.

Worst of all, the art in this issue seemed to mirror Duggan’s mailed in approach. None of the visuals could elevate a weak story even when the gratutous set pieces could have yeast looked good. We were teased by an amazing Pepe Larraz cover and left with a hollow interior.

I wish I could find a redeeming aspect to this issue but I’m struggling. If you’re still enjoying this conclusion arc, I’m very happy for you. At this point I’m just ready to be done with it all and to start fresh. more

A very, very poorly done comic.

Long time no read, but since when do the X-Men torture and kill their enemies for pleasure?

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JBL Reviews - Feb 14, 2024

Well, if you missed years of context, wouldn’t you expect to have missed some things?

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This should really get a 0/10. Everything is forced. Plot makes no sense, character break lore from even an issue ago. I.e. Emma Frost in her non-diamond form can apparent take hits point blank from a Sentinel not just get back up. This is something a 10 year old who was vaguely told what x-men was about and thought Magneto was the real hero.

Polaris is over there committing war crimes, Kurt is just bamping people into the void committing brutal murder against people who, yes are bad, but mostly cant defend themselves. The x-men have truly become everything they fear. Congrats Duggan. You turned them into homicidal, bigoted, fascist, genocidal psychopaths. They have no redeeming features left.

Also the one bad guy turning because of Cyclopes 'motivating speech'? There was no set up for that and that speech was one of the worst I have read. It would calm down a person on a bender.

I just leave this as read as I am reading the ruins of the x-men. How can they recover from this? more