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The Four Horsemen ride across the land. Daemon armies sweep through the skies. The Spire Vile is open. As Genesis launches her endgame, Storm and the Brotherhood fight for their lives across the Red Planet...and somewhere, the last Okkara Seed blooms. The Revelation is here. Plus: You're not going to want to miss out on an all-new bonus story celebrating Latin/Latinx heroes and creators!
Rated T+
X-Men Red #16 is the darkest hour of the Genesis War. In the midst of action and bombast, the drama remains intimately focused on Storm, and the choices she makes here will impact Arakko forevermore. The Fall of X has many battlefronts, but this may just be the most important one. Read Full Review
This installment was more of a tumble than a plummet, but strong character moments and phenomenal art salvaged the story from a potential wreck. Read Full Review
No Marvel comic is hitting the big event feel like Al Ewing and Yldray nar's X-Men: Red. X-Men: Red #16 is yet another example of that as the intensity is further picked up with the showcase of the Four Horsemen and Storm. The ending with Apocalypse provides a hook that makes you want to read what happens next right away. All in all, another can't miss issue in Marvel's best series. Read Full Review
X-Men: Red opts to focus on the individual battles between tremendously powerful mutants to lay out the broader scope of the war on Arrako. It avoids event-like crowd scenes, after delivering so many in the prior issue, and makes the terrible condition of Storm's forces less bothersome. Read Full Review
This is beyond epic. I love the acknowledgement that Storm is powerfull enough to end the war but at what cost?. The cast in this series has grown on me a lot. The only bad thing in this issue is the death of that Character. I hope they bring him him back soon. Also Uranos and Apocalypse in the same comic? like I said beyond epic.
On another note I also liked the little story with Sunspot and Shark Girl. I hope to see more of her soon.
A truly fantastic issue that gives Storm a very tough decision when it comes to Uranos. I'm very much looking forward to finding out what she does. As for everything else, Ewing just does such a great job putting together an interesting and engaging story. This really feels like it's a big deal as we approach the end of the series. I was close to giving this a 9.5/10 since I was debating that score or a 9.0/10, but I didn't have any strong feelings about the backup story with Sunspot. It wasn't bad, but I don't think it was needed either. I only want a backup story if it's going to tie-in with the main story and/or if it's just really good.
Al Ewing is creating a book worth reading. All the elements he's building are coming together and he's delivering it with great rhythm and prose as Ewing usually does. I also enjoyed and laughed at the Prince of Power's cameo at the beginning. Great stuff! Cinar and Blee on art duty did well too from the great fight scenes to the menacing Uranos to the Big-A himself.
Everything about this issue clicked for me. The Four Horsemen were menacing. Storm was a badass. The Brotherhood had moments to shine. Al Ewing made every page matter and used each one to add weight to the story. Yildiray Çinar’s art keeps getting better with each issue and the wide-panel view of Port Prometheus’ destruction by War was absolutely stunning. The Genesis War has been a fantastic run and reminds readers of the potential a cast of relatively new characters offers. X-Men Red continues to be the best X-title in Fall of X.
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