You can skip the entire series. The tournament itself is weird - and ”funny” in a really bad way (Excalibur at its worst). The rest is lots of boring exposition about a convoluted mythology that it is really hard to care about (Hickman at his worst).
Read Wolverine, X-Force and Hellions tho.
"Cable was right!"
Hijinks, you say?!
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All. Of. It.
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My point exactly, is that the kind of slugfest people were expecting from X of Swords? Because Enter the Phoenix has the kind of straightforward 1:1 fights people seem to have wanted from XoS. I don't think it's horrible btw, I just don't find it terribly entertaining to see Black Panther kick Wolverine in the nuts.
I've only read 1/10th of the arc but I do have all 25 issues.
I really hope Hickman gets to write the next event for the X-Books rather than it being as much of a collaborative cross-over.
The tournament really demonstrated that a lot of the other writers in DoX really don’t hit the right tone I tend to want to read in comics and novels. I’m fine with the tournament not being a traditional fighting bout, however it’s a shame the writers in charge of that section of the cross-over couldn’t think of a showdown that was as thoughtful as the world building of Otherworld.
Exactly. I surely did not want a 1:1 tournment battles, it would be so boring. But I did not want a goofy spectacle either. In the tournament issues, the villains looked like Technet kind of characters, but in a charmless way. All the danger involved was lost. At least the last 4 issues of the crossover brought the serious tone back.