The issue is worth a read, if only for Mother Righteous' monologues alone. While it suffers from timeline issues, a confusing data page, and thin characterization, it's a great set-up for Sins of Sinister: Dominion. Once it's read in context withDominion, it will probably read a little better, if only because there can be a more adequate and satisfying conclusion. Read Full Review

If anything this title feels like a series of one-shot teasers for an expansive sci-fi world that has nothing to do with Marvel or mutant lore. Read Full Review

Mother Righteous's last stand looks and sounds like a lot of fun: good art, good dialogue, good structure.

But at this point, world-building, character work, and even cosmic action scenes are merely window-dressing; all that matters are the crucial final scenes that tweak the trajectory of the event and set the stage for the ultimate climax.

There's plenty of long-term craftsmanship to appreciate, though. This issue picks up several plot threads that have been dangling for weeks/months and stitches them deftly back into the center of the story.

I enjoyed this issue, as can be seen from my rating of it, but there are two things I especially wish were different about this. Firstly, I wish this issue had Alessandro Vitti on the art like the Immoral X-Men #3 and Storm and the Brotherhood of Mutants #3 did. I really enjoyed his art in those issues, so it would have been nice to have his work here as well. However, the art we got here isn't bad by any means. Secondly, I would have appreciated more of Wagnerine here. If you read my review of Issue 2, you'd know that Wagnerine was my favorite character from that issue and that I was excited to see what came next for her here. What we got here was nice and satisfying, but I, personally, would have enjoyed seeing more of her after the 900-year time jump. more

This format and series of ideas don't really work well. Too much time in between but not interesting enough to linger about. The writers can only do so much to stuff it in and rush to deliver forced endings. Vitti was good on art.

Not an awful lot of character work here — everyone's just an archetype going through the motions of what the plot requires of them, which blunts the impacts of the betrayals, tragedies and deaths. Still, Mother Righteous's plan unfolding was fun to see, and Tammetta & Sevy do such wonderful work with the big, wild sci-fi concepts that the fill-in art feels like a blessing in disguise. A bit less than the sum of its parts, but the parts were great.

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

What did I just read?

Why?

Just waiting for Sins of Sinister to be over and Spurrier to be done with Nightcrawler. Some day.

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