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X-Men: Messiah Complex by Ed Brubaker
4.0

Now this was a badass event. I mean it's a X-Men event in the fact it's all X-men titles but a damn good one.

So what happens when the mutant race is in trouble? No more are popping up. The X-Men are losing their minds. Everything is slowly coming apart. OH SNAP here we go a baby is born! The future might not be as bad as we thought. However, every single mutant group wants in on this including non-mutants who like to kill mutants. Now it's a race to whomever can get to this baby first and what they will do.

Good: Love, love, love the way all these X-men titles mix and flow so well. X-Factor,New X-men, Uncanny and X-men all work really well together surprisingly. While there's a few writers they all mesh well together. I loved the tense and chasing feel the entire story gave. As if time is running out, and everyone in scrambling. It felt like it had a ton of stakes too as people would die a lot, and not just minor characters. Each faction of the X-men had something to do which made it even better.

Bad: Some of the art was tough to follow making the action hard to understand. I also thought the big death at the end had been done so many times it was getting a little tiring.

Overall this was great. Exciting, fun, great dialog, with some awesome plotting. I really enjoyed this one a ton and easily give it a 4 out of 5.