![]() ![]() It’s not just that Percy is leaning so hard on continuity. It’s actually amazing the degree to which Benjamin Percy makes this story impenetrable and unfriendly to new readers despite it being sold as a major event, which means it’s at least notionally a jump-on point. The plot of X Lives is so steeped in continuity that it would be entirely incomprehensible to anyone who’s not read all the comics it’s referencing, and is only somewhat incomprehensible to me, a person who has read most of them. The big problems of X Lives/X Deaths are rooted in the worst aspects of continuity in Marvel comics. ![]() ![]() The story has its merits, but it does not deliver on what was promised and was not at all a good idea as the first move after Inferno. It’s two somewhat concurrent stories with haphazard plotting that are forced to connect at the end, and one of them continues from Hickman’s story in such a sloppy manner that it lowers expectations for what it is to come. X Lives and X Deaths was sold as an interconnected set of miniseries in the mode of House of X and Powers of X that would move the story of the X-Men into a bold new, post-Jonathan Hickman era. Art by Joshua Cassara and Frederico Vincentini ![]()
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