Alright, that got me. This was as perfect an ending as this comic could've had. This series was delightfully entertaining all the way through. While the writing wasn't always perfect, the uniqueness of Gwen's abilities and the sheer charm of Gwen herself kept this run enjoyable all the way to the end. So many great moments in this final issue, but my favourite had to be Gwen seeing a little girl dressed as her for Halloween. What a beautiful and brilliant way to illustrate how superheroes become "immortal" when they connect with their readers and make fans of them, and in that sense, their stories never truly end; they keep happening every time they're read, even if no one ever wrote that character into another comic ever again. Because Gwenpool existed in this run, she will live on forever. And that is about as happy an ending as I can think of. Well done to the creative team of Chris Hastings and Gurihiru. This was a treat. more

I loved the little moment between Gwen and Batroc. Gwen lamenting the fact that he won't be thought of the same way by the next writer was unexpectedly gut-wrenching. What a cool comic.

A surprisingly poignant moment between Doom and Gwen. I'm interested to see how this series wraps up, especially in light of this issue.

Cool watching Gwenpool play around with her powers and discover new ways of using them. I also really loved Gwen calling out the "obviously temporary" nature of Doom's good guy arc, that was hilarious and, as it turns out, spot on; just like we all knew it would be.

I actually enjoyed this. Epic fight with Nimrod. I don't love how easily Orchis seemed to crumble after Nimrod and Omega Sentinel were defeated, but it was a cool battle nonetheless.

A bit muddled and had some pacing issues, but still a good issue. Although I wish they didn't have to constantly make Xavier the bad guy.

I like the idea of evil Gwenpool feeling stuck in the writers'/editor's/fans' desires for her character so much so that she decides to stop fighting it and becomes a bonafide villain. That's a really cool concept for a 4th-wall-breaking villain origin if you ask me.

I actually quite liked this. Again Duggan shows that he can write well when he wants to.

This one continues to be the superior series against Gerry Duggan's Fall of the House of X. I know they're different series, but I can't help but compare with the context of the original series, House of X and Powers of X. Speaking about the issue itself, I thought it was one with some fairly strong moments. The opening few pages with Moira and Charles were written really nicely, in my opinion. As a matter of fact, I enjoyed how Gillen wrote the latter throughout the majority of this issue. I wasn't as interested in the stuff with Rasputin IV and Sinister, but it was still enjoyable and it made for a strong issue overall. I'm looking forward to seeing what Charles's role will be in the rest of this series and beyond after how this ended. more

Really, really good. Xavier is made out to be the bad guy here by the other X-Men, and I understand their objections to his plan; obviously killing a child is an unconscionable thing to do regardless of the hopelessness of their situation, but Gillen also does a great job of making you believe that Charles is, in a twisted way, doing the right thing for mutants, or at least trying to. You can understand both sides, and that is a mark of a well-written moral dilemma. Art was also spectacular in this issue. more

Evil future Gwenpool is kinda scary... sorta reminds me of Spot from Across the Spider-Verse.

Okay this was a significant step up from the previous issue. This is what's so frustrating about Duggan; he *CAN* be a pretty good writer, he just has way more misses than he does hits. But this one, refreshingly, was one of his hits.

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. more

Really compelling, but again, I wish there weren't so many tie-ins that are basically essential reading to fully understand what's going on, and I wish the newly released Fall of the House of X omnibus wasn't so egregiously mapped, otherwise I'd be reading that and wouldn't have these complaints. But on its own merit, this issue was good. The art was particularly outstanding. Enigma's narration was cool too. more

I'm really liking this. This level of 4th wall breaking was what I was looking forward to in this run. Glad we're finally leaning fully into Gwenpool's potential as a character.

So, so cool. More of this please.

This was cool.

Man, this was one muddled mess of a comic. A couple fun moments, but overall it was scattered, disjointed, and incoherent. Gerry Duggan was the absolute wrong person to carry Hickman's X-Men torch... They should've just handed the whole thing over to Al Ewing and Kieron Gillen. Those two wrote easily the best two series' of the post-Hickman Krakoan era. I'm very glad Gillen is writing Rise to counterbalance Duggan's incompetence, but that just makes Duggan's shortcomings all the more obvious. Would've loved to have seen what Ewing and Gillen could have cooked up together. Also, I really don't buy that Dr. Gregor would suddenly have a change of heart and start helping the mutants after everything she's done and how they've already established her character. It gives General Hux "I am the spy!" vibes. more

A lot going on here...it's slightly reminiscent of Hickman's early work with the X-Men, but a little less coherent. Still, it's Gillen, so at least it's well written.

"Amber?! Unit disabled! He got me!"

There were some things I liked in this, and then there were some things I disliked and were, quite frankly, really really dumb. Firstly, Duggan needs to stop trying to be funny. His jokes never land, and they always seem to be thrown in at the worst moments. It's especially frustrating because he does have the potential to be a half decent writer and he shows it in some places, but then he'll go and write something completely asinine like having Krakoa incapacitate Nimrod by hocking a giant loogie of amber at him, prompting Nimrod to exclaim "Amber?! Unit disabled! He got me!" Like...are you kidding me Gerry...? Nimrod was a terrifying, menacing force when Hickman wrote him. Here, he's an absolute joke. I got secondhand embarrassment from reading his lines in this issue.

The story wasn't bad. I thought the final conflict was set up well, and I liked the couple callbacks to earlier events in the Krakoan era. I don't love how many tie-ins there are to this final event that I'm definitely not going to read all of and therefore will feel like I'm half out of the loop at all times... but this was an okay start. I already know I'm going to enjoy Gillen's half of this story FAR more than Duggan's, but that comes as a surprise to precisely no one.

Oh, and Lucas Werneck's art was perfectly adequate. Good in places, and just 'fine' in others. It would've been cool to have the legend Pepe Larraz come back so that he and R.B. Silva could provide a nice little artistic bookend to the Krakoan era, but alas...twas not meant to be I suppose. At least he's doing the covers I guess, not that that makes much difference to me who only collects trades. more