From the publisher that gave you OLD MAN LOGAN and HOUSE OF M... The X-Men as you never imagined! Welcome to the EXE/scape, a digital wonderland of business and pleasure accessible to anyone with the social (or monetary) capital for the bio-mods needed to log in... Or you can bypass all of that by being born carrying an .EXE/gene! But circumventing the login regulations is exactly what got the likes of Charles Xavier and his .EXE/men banned and driven underground in the first place... Free-roamers u/Domino and u/Cable have taken every dirty job there is on the 'scape, but when a simple data scrubbing job turns bad, the life of bio-mod magnate more
What If? X-Men #1 isn't the first comic to reimagine the X-Men mythos, but it is one of the most intriguing to do so. Read Full Review
This is a really good, high concept what if story by Bryan Edward Hill. It takes the concept of the X-Men and manages to make a really interesting parallel between cyber-society and the real world. Read Full Review
A fun romp in the 'What If' universe thanks to some great writing of Domino. Read Full Review
If you're a fan of Bryan Edward Hill, you'll enjoy this issue. Even if not, I still think it's worth picking up and giving a read. Read Full Review
"What If? X-Men" is a great idea with a slightly flawed execution. Read Full Review
All in all, this issue was pretty disappointing. Because of all the issues written above, for me at least, the whole premise of the What If? Series falls apart. The whole fun of this series was taking a pre-existing storyline and spinning it on its head. This issue instead just uses pre-existing characters and dumps them into a completely new story that will be too easily forgotten. Read Full Review
Thought this was a great Cyberpunk Elseworlds reimagining of X-Men. There seemed to be more backstory than they could fit in a single issue so I wouldn’t be sad to see this spun into a miniseries. Also, both artists had radically different style, but they integrated wonderfully.
What if? I didn't waste my time reading this?
I would love to rate this higher, but the art changes mid way through and it’s a massive quality drop, it looks like something you’d see in a web comic from an inexperienced artist, very disappointing. The story was otherwise very solid, but also very short and didn’t have much of a meaning to it, overall not bad for a one shot. This wasn’t much of a what if kind of story though, just felt like a more futuristic version of the x men (cable and domino at least)
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