{"id":11475,"date":"2025-10-17T21:39:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T20:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=11475"},"modified":"2025-10-17T21:39:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T20:39:56","slug":"the-x-axis-w-c-13-october-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=11475","title":{"rendered":"The X-Axis – w\/c 13 October 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

X-MEN UNLIMITED INFINITY COMIC #40.\u00a0<\/strong>By Alex Paknadel, Tim Seeley, Phillip Sevy, Michael Bartolo & Clayton Cowles. Well, this certainly feels like the series is wrapping itself up, with the heroes finally getting to fight the X-Cutioner and a greatest hits selection of his weapons from previous arcs. There isn’t that much more to it, though, and the background storyline about the X-Cutioner and Cassandra has always been rather less interesting than the individual stories along the way. This isn’t bad, but it feels more like an obligatory resolution than something that’s going to kick that overarching story up a notch.<\/p>\n

UNBREAKABLE X-MEN #1.\u00a0<\/strong>(Annotations here.)<\/a> We’re in week two of the “Age of Revelation” proper – as opposed to the prologue one-shots – and they’re turning out to be a broader range of stories than I would have expected. There are four tie-ins this week, and only two of them really involve Revelation at all. The others are pretty much stories that you could do in any near future timeline, at least from what we’ve seen so far. I have no problem with that; I don’t want to spend three months reading a vast array of takes on a very specific story. How well it’ll sell is another matter, but we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.<\/p>\n

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Unbreakable X-Men<\/em> is\u00a0Uncanny X-Men<\/em>, and thus far it’s really a story about a near future Gambit who’s been in depressed semi-retirement since Rogue died fighting Galactus, coming back for one last mission. That’s a solid character-driven hook, and Lucas Werenck’s art sells it rather nicely, particularly the montage of the ageing Remy. It’s also another book that seems to be bidding for wider relevance, not by playing into “Age of Revelation” but by using the near future time frame to build on regular storylines. So this story also picks up on the Dark Artery plotline, which is maybe going to be a bigger sales draw than its marginal contribution to AoR. Anyway, it’s a pretty good issue which doesn’t really get drawn into the event.<\/p>\n

ROGUE STORM #1.<\/strong> (Annotations here.)<\/a> This is another book that seems to have nothing much of anything to do with “Age of Revelation”, beyond being set in the near future. Storm has seemingly gone mad and started doing things like covering deserts in ice. Rogue Red – a powerless copy of the real Rogue – tries to stop the friend who took her in when she was rejected as a duplicate. And all this happens a few years before the actual “Age of Revelation” storyline. There’s no apparent reason for the two Rogues to be red and green, so I can’t help wondering whether somebody got talked out of calling the flawed copy Rouge.<\/p>\n

The duplicate Rogues are maybe a bit random, but it does seem like a character point for this Rogue, rather than just a continuity fix. Roland Boschi’s art has some pleasing grit to it, and the closing sequence with the hippo is nicely placid.\u00a0The regular Storm<\/em> title has made some very odd storytelling choices which have often made it a baffling read. In comparison, this book is remarkably straightforward – perhaps because it has to do its story in three issues rather than being able to drip feed exposition over ten – and it’s all the better for it.\u00a0It’s still a bit wonky, though. The closing scene with Storm feels totally detached from the rest of the issue and doesn’t work as an ending. And Murewa Ayodele’s weird obsession with having sound effects for everything from LEAP to DODGE calls for an intervention. But… actually alright, for the most part.<\/p>\n

IRON & FROST #1.\u00a0<\/strong>By Cavan Scott, Ruair\u00ed Colemon, Roberto Poggi, Yen Nitro & Joe Sabino. I don’t know how many times I’d seen this title in promotion without noticing that ampersand. I think I liked the title better as\u00a0Iron Frost<\/em>, actually. Maybe it’s just me, but\u00a0Iron & Frost<\/em> sounds like it sells artisan bedsteads. Anyway: despite the title, this is really an Emma Frost story, with Iron Man on the margins. Emma’s been stuck in diamond form ever since having her heart injured a few years back – it’s presumably supposed to echo Iron Man’s original status quo, where he had to wear the armour to keep his heart beating. So now she returns to New York following some sort of trail of clues left for her by Iron Man, who’s been looking for a cure for the X-virus. Which… isn’t his thing, surely? Anyway, this one doesn’t do a great deal for me. It’s not bad and I suppose if you’re really invested in the Tony\/Emma relationship then you might get something more out of it, but it doesn’t feel like there’s much going on here. It’s competent event filler, basically.<\/p>\n

SINISTER’S SIX #1.<\/strong> By David Marquez, Rafael Loureiro, Alex Sinclair & Ariana Maher. That’s Marquez writing, not drawing, to be clear. This one\u00a0is<\/em> more closely interested in Revelation, but only up to a point. Despite what other books have said, mutants weren’t entirely immune from the X-virus, and the ones who were mutated by it have taken refuge in what used to be upstate New York with Mr Sinister. After all, he’s meant to be the expert in these things, and even if nobody quite trusts him, it’s not such a bad place to be if you don’t fancy your chances with Revelation. The title characters are basically the useful mutants that Sinister has on hand, with Havok as team leader since he needs to get his kid out of quarantine. Havok’s actually competent for a change, and there seems to be an element of him finally getting out of Scott’s shadow here. It’s a nice clean looking book, and it’s all quite upbeat considering the premise. It does suffer from having a cliffhanger reveal which was already offhandedly revealed in\u00a0X-Men<\/em>, the one book in the event that you can be pretty sure everyone’s read. That’s unfortunate, but otherwise this is fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

X-MEN UNLIMITED INFINITY COMIC #40.\u00a0By Alex Paknadel, Tim Seeley, Phillip Sevy, Michael Bartolo & Clayton Cowles. Well, this certainly feels like the series is wrapping itself up, with the heroes finally getting to fight the X-Cutioner and a greatest hits selection of his weapons from previous arcs. There isn’t that much more to it, though, […]<\/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-11475","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\/11475","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=11475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11476,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11475\/revisions\/11476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}