{"id":11442,"date":"2025-10-03T21:25:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T20:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=11442"},"modified":"2025-10-03T21:25:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T20:25:33","slug":"the-x-axis-w-c-29-september-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=11442","title":{"rendered":"The X-Axis – w\/c 29 September 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

X-MEN UNLIMITED INFINITY COMIC #38.\u00a0<\/strong>By Tim Seeley, Edoardo Audino, KJ Diaz & Clayton Cowles. This will be a short week – in scheduling terms, it’s set aside as the launch week of “Age of Revelation”, with just the one lynchpin book. Aside from that, we’ve got the final issue of\u00a0Deadpool \/ Wolverine\u00a0<\/em>and we’ve got this. It’s a sort of epilogue to the Morph arc, but I can’t say it leaves me much the wiser about the point of it all was. Of course, every arc in this book ends with the X-Cutioner or Cassandra Nova turning out to be pulling the strings, and that comes with the territory. Here it’s Cassandra Nova, but whatever they were trying to do with Morph seems if anything to be\u00a0less<\/em> interesting if it’s just Cassandra calling the shots. And why is Cassandra Nova trying to start a nuclear war anyway? What does that have to do with 3K’s agenda? It seems to be trying to set up Banshee as the opposition to Cassandra’s siren song, but in a way that doesn’t have much of anything to do with\u00a0X-Men<\/em>, and isn’t desperately interesting on its own terms either. The art is lovely – Audino really does do a great shapeshifter – and comes very close to carrying it, but the direction of this book is losing me.<\/p>\n

X-MEN: AGE OF REVELATION OVERTURE #1.\u00a0<\/strong>(Annotations here.)<\/a> So I liked this. It’s a little weird to be having a second lead-in book when we already had\u00a0Age of Revelation\u00a0<\/em>#0 a few months ago, but on the whole I think the story benefits from having shifted a lot of the outright infodumping into that book. It sets up the basic plot of Cyclops and Beast arriving in the future and being told that they’re going to kill Revelation, it sets up some mystery about what Bei has discovered, and it sketches out the basic of this future in a way that suggests MacKay has a clear idea of how it all works. Ryan Stegman gets the right balance between post-apocalyptic and quasi-utopian, depending on how you’re seeing the world, and I quite like the subtlety of setting up that something’s not right here by throwing in an outright contradiction to the previous issue and not flagging it up. Some commenters here seemed inclined to take that as a continuity error, but I’ve read enough Jed MacKay by this point to have confidence that he’s doing it on purpose (and I gather the previews for next week confirm it).<\/p>\n

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All that being said – this works as the opening chapter for an\u00a0X-Men<\/em> arc, and I’m genuinely looking forward to reading that arc. It doesn’t do such a good job of setting up the whole event. On one level that’s for the best; it can be very clunky when these event-opening one-shots dutifully check in on every participating comic to give them their trailer scene, and the story here is surely better for not trying. Yet this whole thing still feels more like a season break detour than an event – I’m not entirely sure why any other books are even taking part, beyond the obvious point that it might bring in some cash, and I don’t honestly want it to be the entire line for three months. Certainly not with the sheer number of books they’re throwing at it, which feels almost guaranteed to either blur the vision or beat the thing into the ground. But we’ll see. At least I’m sold on reading MacKay’s story.<\/p>\n

DEADPOOL \/ WOLVERINE #10.\u00a0<\/strong>By Benjamin Percy, Joshua Cassara, Guru-eFX & Joe Sabino. Cancelled, and given that it took ten issues to do not very much at all, I can’t say I’ll miss it. If you were really into Percy and Cassara’s\u00a0X-Force<\/em> and haven’t read this then I guess you might want to take a look on Unlimited when it shows up there, but there was nothing in this to merit a ten issue arc. If you want a decompressed action book in 2025 then I guess it’s offering that, I suppose. But it really is slight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

X-MEN UNLIMITED INFINITY COMIC #38.\u00a0By Tim Seeley, Edoardo Audino, KJ Diaz & Clayton Cowles. This will be a short week – in scheduling terms, it’s set aside as the launch week of “Age of Revelation”, with just the one lynchpin book. Aside from that, we’ve got the final issue of\u00a0Deadpool \/ Wolverine\u00a0and we’ve got this. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-x-axis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11443,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11442\/revisions\/11443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}