X of Swords (Summer X-Over)

[gonnagiveittoya]

Ending is great. Would have been better if it didn't drag so long to get to it.

[Viteh]

I am disappointed that we did not get more from the White Sword. I'm still not sure why he fought Arakko before they joined Amenth.

[Rnap22]

So did Bei’s sword seduce Doug and Warlock?

[Lady Midnight]

Saturnyne said spoilers:

millions of mutant prisoners

end of spoilers How's THAT going to work?

[CGAR]

Theres already a planned hardcover? *runs to amazon.*

Well damn I hope thats what I bought lol

[sunofdarkchild]

I really am curious to know which of the writers advocated for the quirky angle. Going by the Empyre mini we know some of these writers will go all in and try to do too much. And Hickman has to come in at the end and make it work.

I think he and TH (not my favorite writer) did a great job with the conclusion. Some of it seemed to easy at points but there were consequences and changes.

I feel like if we had that one week where all the books that came out were critiqued harshly. If those 3 issues had been finessed out. This whole event would have been way better. Especially since the event got delay and they had a lot of time to make some changes.

But the last 3 issues did make me order the hardcover to go along with my HoXpOx.

I know its subjective but to those saying that this event was bad or awful. You are wrong. You just got a story you didn't want because of your own expectations.

No. what we got was a story where the writing staff, including Hickman, wasn't interested in the central premise of the swords the whole event was marketed around and built on. That became clear to me today when the issue about Apocalypse's fight with his wife, which the whole event had supposedly been building to, was almost all about council politics with maybe 25% of the book devoted to the fight. If even this fight couldn't get a decent focus or length and is overshadowed by Cyclops arguing with the council then there was no interest in the sword-fights to begin with on the part of the writers.

There is good in this event, but the fact that the central premise of a contest of swords was not something anyone seems to have had any interest in writing really hurt it. They could have not had the swords at all and the event would have been much better.

[Daken455]

I can totally see the ''prisioners'' not getting used to living on Krakoa and starting an uprising making Krakoa ''look bad/evil'' to humans

[gonnagiveittoya]

I can totally see the ''prisioners'' not getting used to living on Krakoa and starting an uprising making Krakoa ''look bad/evil'' to humans

A Krakoa civil war would be infinitely more interesting way to make Krakoas place in the world more precarious without just doing "Krakoa is evil/World War X" type nonsense which I was most worried about.

[Steroid]

Theres already a planned hardcover? *runs to amazon.*

Yep, comes out end of January. I preordered it about 2 months ago

[Glio]

It was the best mutant event since Second Coming.

What a trip. Humor, action, intrigue, epicity, dragons.

[Tenebrae]

It was the best mutant event since Second Coming.

What a trip. Humor, action, intrigue, epicity, dragons.

It's better than BOTA I'll give it that.

[baxer]

No. what we got was a story where the writing staff, including Hickman, wasn't interested in the central premise of the swords the whole event was marketed around and built on. That became clear to me today when the issue about Apocalypse's fight with his wife, which the whole event had supposedly been building to, was almost all about council politics with maybe 25% of the book devoted to the fight. If even this fight couldn't get a decent focus or length and is overshadowed by Cyclops arguing with the council then there was no interest in the sword-fights to begin with on the part of the writers.

There is good in this event, but the fact that the central premise of a contest of swords was not something anyone seems to have had any interest in writing really hurt it. They could have not had the swords at all and the event would have been much better.

It was named 10 of swords because of the Tarot cards, so they put some swords to be misleading.

It's better than BOTA I'll give it that.

I think BoTA was more straight forward, less issues and more consistent. This event is level of the apocalypse wars

[Dthirds3]

Saturnyne said spoilers:

millions of mutant prisoners

end of spoilers How's THAT going to work?

Well when two islands love each very much they make more islands

[Wall-Crawler]

These final issues were absolutely epic, what a great ending.

"To me....my X-Men"..........I got chills on that part.

[Wall-Crawler]

What exactly happened to Isca? She transformed into a different version of herself?

I have this same question, didn't quite get this part.