The remainder of S.W.O.R.D #6 serves as a political game of chess, and the mutants of Krakoa have full control of the board. While some take cheap shots at what this island nation has achieved, others recognize the impressive speed and efficiency that changed a world in a flash. But it's the entry of Mysterium or “Sol” as they're marketing it to the galaxy, that is life changing for every species out there. From its durability to it's impressive electric properties, “this is what comes next” and everyone present is fully aware of it, whether they accept this offer bribe or not. Read Full Review

The big moments of the Hellfire Gala finally get the character attention and emotional weight they deserve. Everything felt big and powerful in this issue and I'm finally, truly excited to see what comes next. Read Full Review

S.W.O.R.D. #6 is the best issue of the Hellfire Gala. Not because anything Earth-shattering, or in this case of this story Mars-building, happens, but because it sells that event with aplomb. Ewing and Schiti combine to create something wonderful in this comic. S.W.O.R.D. continues to be one of the must-read X-Men books. Read Full Review

S.W.O.R.D. #6 is a beautifully written comic with gorgeous art to boot. It's filled with great surprises and wonderful character moments to make anyone excited for the future of cosmic Marvel and the X-Men as a whole. Read Full Review

S.W.O.R.D. #6 is about payoffs both literally and figuratively in a beautifully drawn book that does an exceptional job of acknowledging plotlines from before not only in the mutant storylines but also the entire marvel universe as a whole as Ewing shows just how adept he is in weaving the threads of what has come before and cracking the door open to show us a glimpse of what is to come... because this IS what comes next! Read Full Review

The Hellfire Gala is all over but for the afterparty. This is what comes next. Ewing gives the story the heart for readers to connect, and the art team does amazing things to give the story a grand scale. Read Full Review

S.W.O.R.D. #6 delivers some great character amidst some truly game-changing announcements. Read Full Review

Overall this book continues to be one of the best series in Reign of X. We really get to see the mutants positioning themselves as a potential galactic superpower. The humans are not going to be happy with the developments in this issue. Read Full Review

S.W.O.R.D. #6 is one of the best chapters of the Hellfire Gala crossover. Al Ewing and Valerio Schiti work together to make everything that is said in this issue have a sense of importance. You come away feeling like you read something that is extremely important to the future of the Marvel Universe. Which all solidifies how impactful the Hellfire Gala is as a big crossover event. Read Full Review

Valerio Schti sweeping, dramatic art couple with Marte Gracia's lush colors make the diplomatic negotiations feel operatic where they could be dull. Add to that a more personal b-plot involving Magneto and S.W.O.R.D. #6 proves to be a weighty and beautifully crafted issue. Read Full Review

S.W.O.R.D. #6 is a comic full of payoffs, some of which readers won't be expecting. It immediately picks up after Planet-Sized X-Men #1, exploring some of the immediate aftermath while Abigail Brand and S.W.O.R.D. turn most of the comic into a sales pitch for the built-up Mysterium. There's little to no action here and it's very much all about plot developments but manages to make up for it with cool art from Valerio Schiti and Marte Gracia and some compelling character interactions. Read Full Review

This issue is crazy and you should all be grateful for being witness to it.

If this isn't on your pull list, do it now.

uow.

Much happens in this installment, political issues, a completely finished planet that they will call home, emotions floating, Cap and Doom have an excellent dialogue and while the Scarlet Witch and Magnus have a heart to heart.

The cosmic fallout of the Gala starts unfolding. Mysterium is explained and the mutants use it to bribe their way to recognition as the masters of the solar system. The art is gorgeous, the political ideas are fascinating, and some of the dialogue is positively shocking in its greatness. Letting this creative team handle the big followup revelations might be the smartest editorial decision in the whole event. I think it falls shy of perfection only in that its best character moments go to guest stars (particularly Captain America and Doctor Doom) rather than the main cast. Magneto does get an incredible moment, though. Does he count as a cast member?

(Also why is Brand cosplaying Callisto?)

This took what happened in Planet Size and made it MATTER

This issue establishes solidly that the mutants quite frankly are not screwing around anymore. They are taking what's theirs and with a vengeance

You can deny their methods but what you cannot deny is that Hickman Ewing and everyone else is writing a DARN good story here and putting respect on the characters names.

And thats ultimately what the Gala was about. Mutant kind is making its play on the GALACTIC stage. And they've got the ingenuity, the planning, and the POWER to do it.

If you aren't following the X Men right now, what are you even doing? This is a run for the AGES and will change the MU forever. Thats no longer an understatement. more

Ewing takes the tools and materials the new X lineup provides and makes art.

SWORD gives what I loved about Planet-Sized X-Men a darker side to it. The mutants pulled off a miracle, but they've effectively locked Earth down and are now holding everybody else back. Loyalties are definitely going to be tested now between people the X-Men called allies. I'm always on edge on how with Storm running some events how a conflict with Wakanda will be inevitable. God, Hickman's the one who broke them up in the first place.

Plus with how dysfunctional Wanda and Magneto's relationship is, seeing Magnus try to make amends is refreshing. The way he makes it look like he resented her brings layers to his beliefs. He knows that Scarlet Witch caused a lot of grief to mutants and isn't even a mutant anymore because of her mind's ties to her powers. A lot of mutants fear her for that, and Magneto is reflecting that attitude towards people. The way he wants to make amends keeps me guessing; is he acting to try and make sure something like M-Day never happens again, is he trying to secure a hold with the Kree/Skrull Empire through Wanda, or is this going to lead into something reflecting Marvel Studios completely reclaiming the X-Men? I need to know man! more

I didnt like Hellfire Gala, but I can safely say that this was the best issue out of the entire event. I like Magneto and Wanda conversation as well as Captain America and Doctor Doom.

"I helped build a world today...and I was happy...for the children... But then...then I thought of my children. And how I'd failed them.
You are my daughter Wanda. You'll always be. And I will do what I must to make things right."

-Magnus -

Many challenges come with the terraformed of Mars, an etopia that if they are not careful can explode in their faces.
An interesting great delivery, I really enjoyed reading it.

Another great success, simply Marvel is taking strong and safe steps with some publications.

The best thing was the Magneto Wanda interaction.

See, I don't think Ewing is stupid but the fact that he thinks that a planet with a single government would actually work out, and better than one dIvIdeD bY nAtIoNs, is proof of stupidity. I know, these are comic books, we're not supposed to take them seriously when it comes to politics but these guys DO take themselves seriously when they preach what we should and shouldn't do in our world so I'm going to take their stupid ideas seriously. No, one world government would suck balls for everyone. Every single world organization has failed over time. The League of Nations has failed when we needed it most, to avert a world war. The UN has been a corrupt joke for a lot of years. And last year, the organization we needed to oversee our health, WHO, covered for China and now we're all in a pandemic because of that, nearly 4 million people died and our liberties and civil freedoms have been eroded. Is that proof enough that having ONE world government wouldn't actually be better? Also, turns out globalism wasn't the paradise that was promised, except for the corporations that profited from cheap labor force.

I really liked the character work with Doom and Magneto though, those were great, Cap is kind of a sucker though if he doesn't realize mutants just screwed Earth over and the humans would be fools to take this one without fighting back. more

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maelstron - Jun 23, 2021

Pandemic didn't even started on China, remember the e-cigars that people were getting sick on USA? yeah it probably was covid. What I find not believable is that a super metal would make all aliens be bribed for it except Wakanda.

SenpaifenixJäger - Jun 24, 2021

Hmm, tell me about that, and at times the economic unification of Europe has been a headache for many countries.

Merlyn - Jun 24, 2021

That's a very complicated subject. On one hand, economically speaking, EU has been highly beneficial to Europe. I'm from a country that benefited from integration with the EU. Politically speaking, that's a whole other subject and I have A LOT to complain regarding that. If you ask me, EU is going in a wrong direction with major steps and unless something drastic changes, its future doesn't sound good.

Merlyn - Jun 24, 2021

What you're probably referring to is that some countries, like Italy, adopted the euro and that screwed them up big time. I agree with that, in my opinion if the EU wouldn't have adopted this economic recovery plan Italy would've followed UK out, they're one foot in the door anyway. There is a discrepancy between North and South and between West and East and the problem is that countries like Germany and France like it that way and don't want to change that because they benefit from immigration.

SenpaifenixJäger - Jun 24, 2021

Yes, the currency exchange, but that was not all, raising countries including mine, Greece was a very strong burden and the idea of specializing a country in a product was a madness of so many, that is why Reino Unido said goodbye to us. Only benefit a little, but hey now with the covid all this is madness, we advance two steps and go back three.

SenpaifenixJäger - Jun 24, 2021

Do not talk to me about immigration, here it was a problem with so many Moors that I take advantage of the entrance, and the problem is not the help to people who come from a terrible armed conflict, but the lack of respect for the customs of the country that welcomed them, everything that issue of the Islamic religion that touches my balls. Fortunately they have already calmed down a bit.

Merlyn - Jun 24, 2021

That was Merkel's stupid idea wElCoMe rEfUgEeS. She thought they'd repeat the success they've had with the Turks but she clearly didn't understand a thing about the "culture" of the people she opened her borders to. Worse, she put the whole Europe through this ordeal because of her need for good publicity for Germany. Oh well, at least Erdogan benefited from that manipulating the EU, being at the mercy of a lunatic dictator is always a good thing lol. :))

Merlyn - Jun 24, 2021

I agree that we SHOULD welcome people coming from warzones, that's a sensible thing to do. But: a) a lot of the people that came through were just economic migrants and there's virtually no reason to welcome those if it screws up the people in your country

Merlyn - Jun 24, 2021

and b) when you come to a country that country doesn't have to adapt to your "values" (especially when those "values" are pretty shitty and involve treating women, Jews or LGBT people like crap), YOU have to be thankful that country adopted you and have to try your best to adapt. Instead, we've had terrorist attacks, mass rapes, street fighting and separatist communities that couldn't give a crap about the laws of the country they're in. But no, European politicians pretend that doesn't happen.

SenpaifenixJäger - Jun 24, 2021

I believe that we are all citizens of the world, but no one can return home to disrespect it and want to impose their way of life. Fuck, the people kneeling on the street blocking pedestrians just to pray and never missing the annoying group that doesn't know where Mecca is . They want to pray, that they do it in their homes, in a building designed for that purpose or in a park, not on public roads. I think they are wanting to annoy and worst, the abnormal progress supporting such attitude.

Merlyn - Jun 25, 2021

Lol lucky me, here we don't have so many out of those but they are starting to pop up more and more.

Merlyn - Jun 25, 2021

Either way the future of Europe is in trouble if something drastic doesn't happen, the course of things right now doesn't go in a good direction. And extremist parties are gaining foothold on both extremes, left and right. I though the world would learn something from the pandemic but if anything it all got worse or at best, this stuff is ignored by politicians. I hope eventually cooler heads will prevail but I would be foolish to say that I really believe that.

Leylin - Jun 27, 2021

unified governments are useless: the throne world, spartax, the shi ar empire, etc. I mean, I understand that in real life unified governments do not work, but in the comics, they clearly do work.

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