X-Men #19 is everything this book should be. It tells a great story about evolution and change, pushes plot lines that have been dormant for ages while mediocre ones get pushed, and has a great doomed love story at its center. This is Hickman at his best and shows just how much other issues of this book have taken it off the rails. Asrar's art is wonderful, with him really catching the quiet moments of love between Synch and Wolverine. If X-Men were more like this issue, it would be the best book on the shelves. However, with another drawn-out, overly long "read every issue" story coming, it feels that this issue will be the exception and not the rule. Read Full Review

Overall this issue is a masterpiece with its beauty, complexity and story. This was one of the most exciting and engaging stories with some truly incredible art. This book is a must-read for all. Read Full Review

The creative team makes the most of minimal space. They create a decades-long narrative in the space of 28 pages that doesn't feel compressed or rushed. It's a gorgeous issue that makes us care for the characters and sets up important plots for the future, all while giving readers some killer action set-pieces. Read Full Review

For this story, Hickman provided tight, effective scripting; Gho lent the panels creepily appropriate colors, and Asrar's likework absolutely store the show. This is a fantastic piece of work. Read Full Review

Asrar delivers some beautifully detailed art throughout the issue. There are some great panels filled with vibrancy and energy. Read Full Review

All 3 of our heroes have incredibly tragic arcs during their hundreds of years of temporal imprisonment. In hindsight, Darwin's outcome was inevitable considering what we now know about the Children of the Vault's highly adaptable future. Synch's experience just makes you want to cry as you watch him experience such an ocean of emotions that we generational humans couldn't even fathom. Laura's arc is perhaps the most appalling, as her growth and maturation are stolen from her as quickly as Thanos' snap erased half of all life. Read Full Review

Hickman uses the passage of time and resurrection to create a really compelling, really fascinating story that ties up one chapter and opens up several more. Read Full Review

X-Men#19 might just be the best issue of this series thus far, introducing high stakes and great character work. It'll be interesting to see how Krakoa reacts moving forward -- and how the Children of the Vault will reappear. Read Full Review

It's an inventive and exciting issue that sees every creator involved excelling at doing the things they're best at to create a tense and emotionally impactful adventure. Read Full Review

As excitement arose for this story months ago, I merely wish to forewarn readers fascinated by the narrative to temper their expectations before diving in. The story is still inventive and had so many powerful moments. However, other than the evolution and de-evolution of a relationship, thats about all readers will take away from this issue… and for another TWO MONTHS (May 26th people)! Let me know what you think, have a great week, and God Bless. Read Full Review

It was a long time for Synch and a long time for us but we finally got a solid ending to the Vault mission storyline. Read Full Review

With X-Men #19 Jonathan Hickman and Mahmud Asrar delivered a captivating narrative that elevates the importance of the Children Of The Vault within the franchise. The trust Hickman shows in Asrar's talents really helped elevate everything going on inside The Vault from the character relationships to the bigger concepts. Unfortunately, the heavy reliance on infographics did keep the story in X-Men #19 from reaching its full potential. This did not take away from the enjoyment had in X-Men #19 but was certainly a bummer that certain character moments were only told in text form. Read Full Review

One of the best issues in this run !!

Awesome. Sci-fi mixed with real character motivations and emotions perfectly. I really loved the journey that Laura and Synch go through, as well as Darwin. It also sets up the Children to be even a bigger threat then before, but the mutants are now ready to fight back with the knowldege that they got from the Vault.

Man , Hickman definitely nailed it ! What an amazing comic.

The wait was worth it! X-Men #19 chronicles The Vault team's adventures across decades being trapped inside The Vault. A great action-packed issue with a lot of emotion. It feels like a classic X-Men adventure. While I'm sure Hickman will be taking a break from these characters for a while, I do hope he continues Synch and Wolverine's story.

Sooo much payoff!!! I know all the waiting wasn´t going to be a waste of time. In Hickman I trust!

Also, really sad to see Mahmud Asrar out of the X-Men series. He and Sunny Gho brought their A-game here. I hope Sunny Gho stays with whoever is the new artist post X-Men Elections!

10/10

Now that's more like it! This embodies everything I have liked about Hickman's X-men!

I like Synch as a character, ambivalent about Darwin, don't care for Laura (one Wolverine is enough). But this. Was. Amazing.

High concept and heartbreaking and makes Synch as a character now incredibly complex.

Fantastic finish to this story and I wish I had more to read with these guys. I couldn't get enough. Hickman delivered the goods and more so I am not surprised but what I turn around after last issue. Mahmud Asrar and Gho were terrific and nailed all of it down. Kudos!!

Synch finishes the story of his team's zillion years in the Vault. Unsurprisingly, the Vault's plans spell doom for Krakoa. Slightly surprisingly, the recon team played a classically ironic role in bringing that doom about. More surprisingly, a deep romantic bond formed between Synch and Laura-Wolverine and this issue does a solid job of selling it. I had a blast reading this -- but I've also reached a point where I recognize Jonathan Hickman's trademark tricks for creating the illusion of epic-ness and I don't find them quite as astonishing as I used to.

" We made a mistake and mistakes have conséquences."
- SYNCH

Went from barely knowing Synch to him being a top 15 X men for me just like that

Wow.

This was a crazy issue.

Absolutely gorgeous art and a resonating story which kept me flipping the pages.

This one was pretty darn solid. Good way too build dread in trying to live in the vault and it just looked great throughout.

Heartbreaking and hellspawn all.at the same time. This is what purgatory looks like. But what's more important of a takeaway from this deep read admist all the soliloquy and philosophical postulations, is the fact that X-23 needs to be drawn in a crop top 24/7.
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I feel like this would've been much better with Yu's art, especially for how the Vault is built. I'm still trying my best to like Asrar's art but I can't seem to do it.

I wasn't clear if memories in the Vault would be stored due to the temporal differences. Synch seems to remember what happened but does Wolverine?

X-Men
Volume: 4, Issue: 19
“Out of the Vault”

Publisher: Marvel @marvel
Writer: Jonathan Hickman
Artist: Mahmud Asrar @mahmudasrar
Colors: Sunny Gho @sunnygho
Letters: Clayton Cowles
Cover: Leinil Francis Yu @leinilyu & Sunny Gho

Their mission inside the Vault proved more treacherous than anyone could ever imagine. Due to the flow of time operating differently within, Synch, Darwin and X-23 survived more than 100 years trespassing inside the ever evolving city. With evolution in mind, Darwin is captured and atomized, with his DNA being integrated into the matrix of the next generation of Children to come. With more than a lifetime having passed them by, Synch and Laura remain true to their mission and give everything they have to escape, ensuring the X-Men are able to prepare for the deadly threat which awaits them.

That was really well done. Old man Synch totally looks like G.W. Bridge (I miss that guy). While their retcon mission was a success, it's wrapped with entirely negative side effects. Darwin is lost, but more than likely to be resurrected post Vault entrance, but the Children have now been given the key to truly evolve into a greater danger than before.

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (4/5)
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They shoulda come out of that a polycule tbh.

Complete waste of Laura