This is a brutal, powerful, brilliantly executed story. Do not miss it. Read Full Review

Silva delivers fantastic art throughout the issue. The action was visually engaging and captured my imagination. There are some beautifully crafted and epic moments throughout the issue and the imagery captures them perfectly. Read Full Review

The most impressive aspect of Rise of the Powers of X #1 is its ability to stand independently despite utilizing what came before. It could have been easy for the series to try to recapture the lightning in the bottle of Powers of X, but I am glad the series exists as its own unique beast. As Krakoa ends, Rise of the Powers of X #1 provides an impressive and exhilarating path towards that point. Read Full Review

Rise of the Powers of X #1 continues laying the foundation for the end of the Krakoan Age with a creative team that's more than willing to swing for the fences. Even if this period of X-Men comics is at an end, it's willing to go back to its roots in more ways than one. Read Full Review

Its the end of a special age of mutantkind, but despite all the necessary baggage and backstory that comes with it, this book still manages to stand on its own and deliver an interesting story. Read Full Review

The fate of the future lies in the past with a solid start to the end of Mutantkinds days. With layered writing backed up by spectacular visuals, Xavier leads a desperate attempt to save the world. Will the ends justify the means? Read Full Review

Rise of the Powers of X #1 tells a complex storyline that dehumanizes the X-Men to be something that Orchis and mankind would fear. Read Full Review

Rise of the Powers of X #1 hits on what a story for the end of a major era for a franchise should feel like should begin. Kieron Gillen and R.B. Silva give weight to everything that we've seen go down during even before Fall of X. With that the end of the Krakoa Era does feel like it will get a satisfying ending. That is all we can hope for from the start to an event that's the culmination of stories and character arcs developed over several years. Read Full Review

The staging throughout Rise of the Powers of X #1 suggests this miniseries has the style and substance to offer a potentially satisfying ending, than the slog-like and ill-defined battle against Orchis presents. Read Full Review

I really like where this book was coming from and where it's going. I wish I had more buildup to where those threads came from but Gillen does a good job blending them. Much better than the messy Fall of the House of X. RB Silva delivered some of his best work in years and those details in all the aspects of his art are much appreciated. You can tell he took no shortcuts and every panel got a 100% of his effort. Him and Curiel on colors are a great combo.

A really interesting start for this series. A lot of this felt somewhat complicated, but not in a bad way or anything. Though, the thing I liked most about this was the X-Men team in the future. I thought it was a super intriguing lineup, and I think it would have been cool to get an actual run from that cast. Either way, this was good stuff from Gillen and Silva.

Messy but interesting. Very curious to see how things progress.

I really struggled with this book at first. It felt generic, it was boring and I really was thinking that I couldn't wait for it to end. Then somewhere towards the middle it just got good and ended on a really interesting note.

Gillon's a very talented writer and does a good job exploring sci fi concepts but they whole story's become so convoluted that it's hard to enjoy.

I….didn’t love it. At this point the concept of Dominion feels so complex and convoluted that the writers are finding it harder and harder to talk about it in any way that makes sense. And then Sinister Prime randomly shows up after onnly being introduced as a concept to take control? he should’ve been introduced well before this to give us as readers any connection to the character. Nimrod becoming a further fluff character by joking and singing? No. Why can’t some villains be pure villains? Not every one of them has to have a campy, hardy-har-har side. While there was some visually stunning panels, there were also some really weird character designs (e.g. Omega Sentinel and Mystique’s smiles in the first few pages were SO jarring and felt out of character) that took me out of the moment. I’m not going to give up on the story at this point, but I certainly have my reservations on how this half of the event will play out. more

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Psycamorean - Jan 19, 2024

Sinister Prime was introduced a while ago. He got a whole issue of Immortal X-Men.

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Much like my other X-Men review of this era I am just leaving this as read. Is this better? Yes. Is it still a convoluted mess? Yes. Will it carry out it message? Unlikely. Will it fall to pieces by the end? I expect it to.

From a hilariously bad start with a team that was the stuff of incompetency (I expect them to Push Ms Marvel for years...), at least they *mostly* died, so I got a chuckle out of that. It was all so convoluted though it really felt like a bunch of 4 year olds trying to mash puzzle pieces together to make a coherent picture.

Next the 'all the Sinisters doing their own thing and win..?' like it was ok but convoluted.

The ending was great if at nothing else establishing that this Era is truly the most disgusting, empty, banal era of X-men ever. This is not the Xavier anyone wants or knows. This is the one of this dead era. Will this era really end with a child being murdered by the 'heroes' for the greater good (remember, pretty much every villain thinks they are the villain and have to do terrible things for the 'greater good'). So I will give Kudos to Gillen if he cements this era of X-men as villainous aberrations that should be forgotten and spat on. If he paints them anything else less than treacherous villains he is really missing what they have become. It is the only shining spot to all of this.

So the book start was 2/10, middle 5/10 and ending 8/10 for an overall score by me of 5.5/10. It gets a bonus .5 in hopes that it does pull of the ending premise. All in all this is a lost era. The least they can do is drive home the point this era should be forgotten in a fun way. more