This was fun! A new paradigm setup. Storm is a great leader. Team is great, though I could do without Old Man Logan, but such is life. ( )

Summer 2021 (July);

I totally spaced and meant to send these through in July. This was more of my Time!Displaced Baby Jean Read while I was waiting between my computer keyboard being out and the ownership of my new computer that I could actually type on. This collection of 4 was okay, but the Time!Displaced X-Men were more side pieces in my opinion in these than really the focus of them. ( )

I only gave it the 4th star based on the final chapter, it looked like it was going in a very stupid direction but turned out it was just messing with the reader.
Mutants have always represented some minority and in this there's some comparison of mutants with refugees, nice that they're keeping up with the times.

Some of the art is a little iffy for me, not a fan of Storm's low hanging trousers. I don't mind her showing some flesh but she doesn't visually project the kind of gravitas and power that she shows in her dialogue and actions.

Wolverine is also in this which i'm naturally biased against, he's so ubiquitous. The version here, 'Old Man Logan' is fairly tolerable though.

Pretty decent as an opening gambit.

CONTEXT EDIT: The only X-Men comics i've read previously are the Essential series of reprints, so everything up until the early nineties. ( )

Admit it, you're only reading this for Bobby.

Apart from the Iceman appreciation (and I loved his chat with Anole btw) and 'farmer/lumberjack' Piotr (who I adored), there were some things that annoyed me.
Is Storm hallucinating Prof X?
Is it just me or is young Jean and Old Man Logan's relationship creepy in a pervy kind of way?
WTF happened to Scott? (Old Scott, that is. Young Scott has been kidnapped by Toad and is bloody and beaten). What did he do? How did he die? Why was this all off page? ( )

I won't lie, I miss the X-Men of my younger years (late 80s/early 90s). I've been trying to reconcile their fall from popularity and the direction their stories have been taking in light of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (don't get me started on the X-Men movie franchise **shudders**), but I've been sticking with it. This book, my first post-Secret Wars X-Men experience, has left me torn: even tho every aspect of this book has already been done before (mutants being hated for being different; mutants needing to go into hiding; mutants being on the edge of extinction for about the third time in a decade now; Sinister conducting his weird experiments and playing around with famous mutant's DNA), it did leave me wondering what was going to happen next, so that's at least somewhat good storytelling, right? Right?! Sigh.

There are things I don't understand in this post-Terrigen bomb/Secret Wars world: what exactly is the difference between being an Inhuman or mutant and why is one seen as seemly being acceptable by the populace at large? Other than needing to push the Inhuman as the new version of being a mutant in the MCU, I see no distinction. What does it matter if the Terrigen mists are making mutants sterile? Don't normal humans give birth to mutants, as well? Maybe it's changing the structure of the entire world's DNA? What if a human with dormant Inhuman genes gives birth to a mutant? What would the Terrigen mists do to the mutant? How long does the Terrigen mist linger in the atmosphere? I'm hoping some of this is addressed at some point. ( )