Silvas art is sublimely beautiful and filled with amazing detail. Curiels colors are vibrant and enhance every visual moment. Read Full Review

The saga of the X-Mens final stand strives forward with another excellent issue. With Gillen mixing in some touching drama along with the action, the intensity of Charles Xavier shines through. Silvas impeccable art raises to new levels which fans wont be able to get enough of. You wont want to miss this one! Read Full Review

Rise of the Powers of X #2 slows us down to be a little more understanding of the complex themes, but even still, the story and art can be overwhelming. Read Full Review

Rise of the Powers of X #2 has a lot of good character work. Unfortunately, the pacing lacks the urgency this event should have after everything that happened in Fall of X. We basically end this issue where we started. There's been to much set-up that happened in the lead up that this latest X-Men crossover should be going all out from beginning to end. It doesn't fully feel that way four chapters into Rise of the Powers of X and Fall of the House of X. Read Full Review

Rise of the Powers of X #2 fails to deliver on the manifold ideas playing into one another that deliver an overburdened series of expository dialogue and action sequences resembling a superhero comic. Read Full Review

This is the best issue so far in this event! Gillen is knocking out some great ideas as we close this Krakoan era. I'm glad he took the reigns after Hickman because the way he writes this issue is very enjoyable. I read it while enjoying the art and it took me about 25 minutes to de-cypher all the little hints and loops of the story. RB Silva is phenomenal and his level of attention to detail and his imagination is wonderful. I'm glad he came back to give it that POX feel along with Curiel on colors who is spectacular! Only minor nit pick with RB Silva's art is the way eyes don't have a distinctive pupil but just an iris which takes away from it being perfect.

Let's get this out the way. This is convoluted af. That is absolutely true.

BUT if you read house of x and powers of x; it is incredibly hard not to appreciate this in some way. Its epic in a way that toes the line between ludicrous and awesome and that is a feat.

RB silva needs and award for thus art. Its simply like nothing else on the stands, and marvel was genius for locking this guy down.

I dont know where this is going but I sure as heck am enjoying the ride.

Despite the hilariously esoteric tangle that X-Men has become, this issue was shockingly coherent with only a reasonable amount of convoluted, overly cryptic shenanigans that define this era of X books. We have to knock off some points because this multiple mini format for telling this story is just not the best way to go about it, but what are we going to do? Stop reading it? Of course not. That Gillen is able to make this readable at all is a considerable achievement.

Another fairly complex issue for this series, but I think it was enjoyable overall. Silva has some really nice art all throughout this issue, and I thin Gillen does a solid job of conveying everything here. Like I said, this was a bit complicated and I do wish it was a little more simplified, but I don't think the complexness of this makes it bad or anything. I also really like Rasputin IV.

I actually liked this issue. The Enigmas stuff is really interesting, and I like what they are trying to pull off.

More Cypher please!

Holy guacamole — @rbsilva_comics & @davcuriel achieved Dominionhood with the art in this issue! This may be one of the best looking books in the Fall of X era. So many amazing panels full of futuristic space-techno visuals. Stunning, stunning stuff.

The story itself wasn’t as amazing and the pacing was slooooow. This was a lot of pages and words to accomplish very little. We basically get context to Dark X-Men and are reminded we still don’t know Xavier/Sinster’s final plan. Xavier’s proclamation that the X-Men don’t default to senseless murder only made Fall of the House of X #2 look even worse. However, he sees killing Moira as necessary but that’s a big philosophical question we’re going to see played out.

Enigma is such a convoluted concept that shouldn’t have been left to explain in this final Krakoan salvo. I can’t knock Gillen for it because any writer would have to do backflips in order to keep the story accessible to readers and still make it make sense. The exposition is so dense and draws me out of the book. I’m also so over Mother Righteous and any scene involving her is something I wish I could glaze over.

Overall this was much better than FotHoX 2 but it atill feels like a slog to get through and I can’t help but want to fast forward to the end already. This final arc hasn’t been great and I’m ready for a reset. more