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1. Flash923 says:

   December 27, 2011 at 12:29 pm

   So far so good! Lets see where we go after last issue it looked like it was curtains for us all!?

   K

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2. misterckent says:

   December 27, 2011 at 12:32 pm

   Indeed. I like the big story telling. Hoping the rest of the series does this. Not sure I’m liking what’s up with Colossus, though. I’m sure there’ll be an arc all about that action.

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   • comicBOOKchris says:

     December 27, 2011 at 3:17 pm

     You mean why he’s all Juggernaut-like? Check out the Fear Itself arc of Uncanny X-Men.
   • misterckent says:

     December 27, 2011 at 6:27 pm

     Oh I’m sure it was discussed. Just not at all up for picking a Fear Itself mini.
   • KenOchalek says:

     December 28, 2011 at 9:16 am

     Other than the Juggernaut being possessed by an Asgardian…thing…and the cover treatment, it was really just a good “X-Men protect humans that hate and fear them” story.

     So don’t write it off as a Fear Itself cash-grab, it was a solid arc that featured some shockingly decent Greg Land art.
3. TheRealVenom says:

   December 27, 2011 at 12:38 pm

   I’m not crazy about this arc. Pulling it anyways, but hoping the next one will be much better. I expect better from Gillen.

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4. player1 says:

   December 27, 2011 at 11:55 pm

   This is kinda nutty, but I’m willing to stick with it for a while.

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5. stasisbal says:

   December 28, 2011 at 8:18 am

   A month later I’m not sure I particularly care how this arc is resolved. This is a big maybe. The upcoming Tabula Rasa arc sounds cool but it’s also drawn by Greg Land. What a predicament!

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6. cutty says:

   December 28, 2011 at 12:24 pm

   Pretty bad. Never thought I’d think back on Brubaker’s run as the good ol’ days

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7. MidgardSerpent says:

   December 28, 2011 at 6:12 pm

   Haven’t read this issue yet, I usually pick up my stuff on a friday at the end of the month, so there might still be a few revelations that tie up some loose ends…. but prior to the current uncanny x-men storyline, there was an Inhumans mini-serie after the Gaiman/Romita mini, which was split in 2 story arcs. First arc was done by Knauf and Acuna, secone was done by a team that I’ve never heard of before.

   What happened in the last arc was basically that the Golden Celestial evolved and left earth to explore the universe with the ‘fulcrum’ the creator of the Celestials. I’m pretty sure this is in continuity and happened before the story in X-men. So it could very well be that these issues aren’t possible since the Golden Celestial isnt’ even in that location anymore.

   The creative team doesn’t seem any reference to that, which is even more off considering the last story arc featured the X-men, so I’m assuming they’re simply not aware of this. Maybe an editor was sleeping or something.

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   • MidgardSerpent says:

     December 28, 2011 at 6:13 pm

     *Sorry, by Inhumans storyline I mean Eternals.
8. Dexter79 says:

   December 29, 2011 at 4:41 am

   Gave it 3 issue to wow me but it just isn’t for me dropped

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9. ResurrectionFlan says:

   December 29, 2011 at 5:46 am

   I really like this book.

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10. comicBOOKchris says:

    December 29, 2011 at 11:25 am

    I love that this and Wolverine and the X-Men are heading in two separate directions. Wheras WATX is going for the school drama vibe, this book is fulfilling the superhero book requirements…and quite well, might I add. Gillen wrote the best Sinister I’ve read in years, and littered the script with small-but-fun moments.

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    • cutty says:

      December 29, 2011 at 12:34 pm

      Personally, I think Sinister has been ruined. He was probably my favorite villain growing up and was legitimately scary, now he’s just the wacky, eccentric, circus master. He’s Arcade with better hair.
11. Flash923 says:

    December 30, 2011 at 11:45 am

    It sounds like we are all on the same page here, Mister Sinister is just not really Mister Sinister! He seems rather meloncoloy in his deminor and has lost all of the killing instinct. Not very threating at all like he used to be, almost laughable!
    I liked the sheer strength of mind and soul from Emma and she really had me at “put pressure on it”! How is she even still with a wimp like Cyclops? He is a none stop whiner for almost 20 plus years, I was reading the trade of Secret Wars and thier is even comments back than about what a whiner he is!! I have never really followed Cykes really except from the cartoon and most of the Marvel books I read or have read he really has not been in to many of them thank the gods.(Ha)
    Anway I think I will be X-book free agian here shortly however; I did pick up the first trade of Uncanny X-Force and you have all been very right this is a good title, enjoying that.

    K

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12. Chris Hargett says:

    December 30, 2011 at 12:33 pm

    Loved this arc, yes Sinsiter was insane in a completely different way, but I thought it was a great turn for the character. Not for a permanent change, but I loved seeing him SO confident in his own evolution that he simply lets the “system” run wild and create Sinisteropolis. As for his long winding monologues, its weird to do, but I found that if I ignored everything else that was going on and just read Sinister as a prose monologue, it is incredibly fun and well written. Its only when I try to read it panel to panel taking in everything else around that I find myself losing interest and wishing he would shut up.

    And those last few pages have cemented for me that Kieron Gillen definitely knows EXACTLY what he wants this team to be in the future of the Marvel universe. And thats a future that the X-Men have needed since…well since always. I’m excited!

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13. diebenny says:

    January 2, 2012 at 11:32 am

    This issue was great, story wise. I enjoyed the art too, for the most part, but one of the artists kept drawing Magik with a frightened look on her face during the fight scenes which took me out of the story. I don’t know why it bothered me as much as it did, but I felt like Magik woulda been relishing the combat and would have been more scary looking and not so, “I’m a frightened girl!” looking during combat.

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    • Cranpa says:

      January 2, 2012 at 4:34 pm

      Totally agree. I remember hearing Gillen talk about using this character but so far her characterization seems a bit off.