Immoral X-Men #2 provides excellent ideas that haven't been seen in the Sins of Sinister event. Read Full Review

Sins of Sinister rockets into the 100th year as the ‘Immoral X-Men' turn their sights on one of their own, moving the story ever closer to the upcoming conclusion to this miniature alternate future storyline. A lot of intriguing ideas and character bits that could be seen again when things return to normal, played out differently, but overall just a bunch of fun that works for a middle of the run issue. Read Full Review

Immoral X-Men #2 is an interesting issue. It doesn't feel so much like a sliver of a greater story but a story itself. It shows off the potential of this event which started strong but turned bumpy in its structuring. Unfortunately, the next issue jumps ahead in time leaving us to put pieces together as to what happened between issues. And that's the thing about "Sins of Sinister and this particular issue. Unlike others, where we have to spend so much time guessing what has happened, this focuses on what is happening and where things go next. Like the story overall, it shows not what was, but what can be. Read Full Review

Immoral X-Men #2 is pretty good, but it ultimately doesnt matter. The nature of this story means that nothing that happens in this issue is going to stick, so its hard to really get invested in any of it. Its very well done and entertaining, though, so that makes up for the yawning emptiness at its center. Read Full Review

As a Star Trek and X-Men fan, this issue has me squarely in its crosshairs, but regardless, it's compelling and well-crafted stuff. Read Full Review

For anyone enjoying theSins of Sinister event,Immoral X-Men#2 provides a nice continuation that helps prove just how terrible the X-Men can be if they set their minds to it. Though there were some issues with the world-building,Immoral X-Men#2 is a compelling issue that offers some interesting notions and a very unique change for Sinister. Whether his development sticks remains to be seen. Read Full Review

Okay, so the first issue of Immoral X-Men was admittedly a bit of fetish domme porn, with some evil X-Men in it. But this one is genuinely a perfect issue. Everything works so well. It's so exciting, I cannot wait to see where it goes. I see a lot of people pointing out that the Nightcrawlers issue was too focused on filling the gaps in the timeline, but I feel like that was necessary for this issue. None of these miniseries are telling their own, individual story. They all build on one another. This is a singular story, a singular event.

This issue is a deft fusion of lots of different fun stuff. There's smooth, in-depth world-building to cover the 90-year time-skip. There's dramatic plot development moving the event forward. There's an important character introduction.

And of course, it wouldn't be a great Gillen book without some world-class sass in the character voices. Featuring Sinister, Mother Righteous, and Evil Hope together nearly results in sass overload.

Tie it all together with some well-polished art, and you've got a dense, juicy, thoroughly delightful read.

Well done by Gillen! Finally an issue that works. It benefits from the few extra pages but stays away from filling them with the 100 year gap with unnecessary info that would take the focus away. Worldbuilding is needed here but can't work in one issue but a 5 issue mini. Andrea Di Vito on art gets better as the issue went on and delivers great detailed pages. He needs to be in the rotation when Immortal comes back.

Whereas the second issue of Nightcrawlers got bogged down with the concept of 100 years of plot to catch up on, Gillen keeps things simple by ignoring most of what happened in the gap in favor of keeping the focus on the character arcs of Sinister, Mother Righteous and the evil Quiet Council and it's great. Sinister's uncharacteristically quiet desperation convincingly sells the idea that he's desperate enough to try a backhanded hero turn to get out of this because nothing else is working, and Exodus's decision to destroy his messiah to strengthen his church probably marks the first time I've ever described that character as compelling. DiVito communicates the story more consistently than Medina did in the crossover's first arc, but he lacks a certain pizazz and I couldn't help but feel that this could have been a 10 with a more interesting artist. Since I don't have any specific complaints, perhaps that's just a question of personal taste, though? more

Very glad Gillen didn't focus too much on the 90-or-so-year gap between this issue and the previous, as I think it may have taken away from the rest of the book. Seeing Hope's development was very interesting, and I enjoyed Sinister's ongoing realization of what he had done. The sort-of commentary about the ongoing developments of artificial intelligence was something I enjoyed as well. I think Rasputin IV has a pretty good design and she's someone I would be intrigued to see more of beyond the Sins of Sinister event.

Art: 3.5/5
Story: 3.5/5
Total: 7/10