X Of Swords Paperback – 11 Jan. 2022

After over a decade of bad stories and crossovers this is a much needed breath of fresh air.Does it directly continue the threads started in hox/pox? No. But it ties up a lot of the threads seeded in dawn of x (especially Excalibur).As some have mentioned in comments. this is a little bloated, with the first half being dedicated to set up / gathering the swords, but is that a bad thing? We spend some one on one time with most of the prevalent cast before they enter a life and death contest and get much needed characterisation in what is otherwise a big group book.Could this have been slimmed down? Yes. And originally I believe it was meant to be a lot smaller, but do extra issues like the hellions issues detract? No. And do having a couple of issues to sell the contest itself make me enjoy this more? Yes!This is a big book but filled with some fantastic concepts and fun beats. Only negative is first book did come a bit damaged, the pages had clearly been whacked.Find this often happens with books delivered from Amazon, but then they always do send another if requested and my second was perfect so keeping at 4*s.Recommend this. Especially if you’re tired of crap like battle of the atom.

I expected a lot from this crossover and was sadly disappointed. There were some good points mainly with Wolverine, X-Force and the Hellions. The ending was better but it took a long time getting there and just pushed it up to 3 star instead of 2 for me.My main problem with this crossover it is 23 issues, I was expecting a lot more, not just a setup of the next stage for the mutants. The book is supposed to be a tournament to the death of 10 chosen champions from Krakoa Vs. Arakko's 10 dark champions. Almost half of this crossover is Krakos' champions gathering their blades. Then the blades were hardly used.The tournament just seemed to be a joke, who swaps a sword fight for a wedding, an arm wrestling match or a catwalk? Wolverine actually said everything I was thinking reading this book "Bull$#!£". The last 2 issues were more of what I was expecting but it was a bit too little too late.Maybe my expectations were too high, but or I was expecting something different, and I did not think this book delivered. The artists work on their regular issue so there are a number of different artistic versions. There is a huge cover gallery at the end of the book with thumbnails of the of the varient covers of each issues, as well as full and double page spreads of the wraparound covers.

Not a patch on previous crossovers like Messiah Complex. Ive enjoyed the Hickman X Men book and the two mini series before but this book proved i was right in swerving some of the other titles

I found this to be an enjoyable read but i'm not sure I like the characterisation of Apocalypse in this. It's not the character I love. The storyline was ok but felt off too. It just does t feel like an X-Men story. The last battle is also a bit much.

Great story decent art did drag in parts too much politics but some good action

Package was received in amazing condition and well before expected delivery date. So excited to read this X-men event, missed the Age of Krakoa as it was coming out, happy to catch myself up to speed!

A parada é a seguinte: se você é fã do Capitão Britânia do Moore, do Delano e/ou do Claremont (a partir de Excalibur), você vai gostar dessa saga. Tem todos os elementos e mitologia que fizeram do Brian Braddock e da Betsy Braddock personagens diferenciados e interessantes, além de magia, cores, loucura surreal e Saturnyne fazendo o que quer.Se você só é fã de X-Men ou de esgrima, você talvez não goste muito dessa saga, já que tem pouca lutinha, nenhum paralelo com causas sociais e as espadas são praticamente inúteis. Talvez seja melhor gastar o valor em uma edição extravagante de Deus ama, o homem mata ou X-Men Grand Design. Por outro lado, se você é fã de tarô, talvez tenha algo interessante aqui para você.Se eu tivesse que dar uma nota, seria 10. 2 por ser muito boa, 2 por ser divertida e mais 6 por irritar tanta gente que esperava um torneio de espadas e recebeu isso.

One of a kind

I'm biased, I know, but Hickman is a great architect. His X-Men stories are some of the most daring and original, and X of Swords is no different. The art is amazing (from Pepe Laraz and Cassara especially) and most of the issues are epic in scope.It's cool, it's fun, it's deep, it's action packed.

La mejor saga de comics de 2020. Lo que está haciendo Hickman con los x-men es genial, después de tantos años dejados a la deriva y quitándoles importancia por la lucha de derechos del cine entre Marvel y Fox. Los dibujos son espectaculares, sobre todo el trabajo de Pepe Larraz y Marte Gracia. ¡Quién pueda que lo compre!