So I was finally able to read X-Men: Second Coming, and I must say, that was a pretty strong opening. This crossover has every potential to be as awesome as Messiah CompleX. But there’s a little something that bugged me. Okay, there’s the fact that Nightcrawler calls out Wolverine and X-23′s murderous ways mere seconds after he kills a couple of humans as well. Or the fact that Cyclops blew out a huge hole in his fucking wall when we all know that Cyclops is the most stoic X-Man ever. (continue reading…)

I really, really dug Messiah CompleX. I didn’t care much for Messiah War (heck, I don’t even know if it did anything to changed the status quo), so I don’t really know how I should feel about Second Coming. Although it’s going to be written by one of my favorite comic book writers of the moment, Christopher Yost, I feel like it’s going to be a bit meh. I expected a new mutant era post-Messiah CompleX. Where did we find Hope, the Mutant Messiah after that crossover? Stuck in the future, time-hopping with the motherfucking Cable, trying to escape Bishop. And the mutants stuck in the present suddenly ended up in San Francisco. I actually like this move, but it felt disjointed coming from the fact that the mutants are fucking facing extinction. Then we get aberrations such as the Bianchi-designed costumes, Dark X-Men, and Greg Land.

Billed as the final part of a trilogy starting with Messiah CompleX – and as the closing arc of everything that started with House of M – Second Coming is a crossover between four major X-books – Uncanny X-Men, X-Force, X-Men Legacy, and New Mutants. Like Messiah Complex, the storyline will weave between the four books for several months. In a nutshell, Second Coming sees the return of Cable and Hope to the present, just as Bastion launches his final, terrible campaign against the last of the mutants.

Needless to say, I’m not excited for this. Hope Summers was pushed to the sideline post-Messiah CompleX. I totally lost interest.