A four-issue prologue written by Paul Jenkins and illustrated by Roberto De La Torre, Andrea Mutti, Will Conrad and Clay Mann established the key players and mutants' new status quo on Utopia for those who hadn't been actively following along, but the opening issue of the core series serves as a strong jumping-on point regardless. The Hope Summers-led series Generation Hope by Kieron Gillen and Tim Seeley featured three tie-in issues running from , expanding on Hope and the new generation of mutants' role in the story.
Two new X-Men teams were formed in the wake of Wolverine leading his own faction back to New York, disgusted with Cyclops' increasingly hardened ideology. True to its title and premise, the X-Men were split into two separate camps following Wolverine and Cyclops' rift in Schism.
Wolverine took on the surprising role of school headmaster, founding a new school for young mutants on the grounds of the former X-Mansion and naming it after Jean Grey to further anger her ex-husband Cyclops. The X-Men that followed Wolverine became teachers at the new school, with the living mutant island Krakoa serving as the school grounds. Cyclops continued his hardline agenda from Utopia, with many of the more powerful -- and violent -- mutants remaining under his leadership.
This culminated in the Phoenix Force arriving on Earth and apparently targeting Hope, with the Avengers attacking Utopia to take custody of Hope during Avengers vs. In the fallout, Beast retrieved the original X-Men from their early history and brought them to the present, in an effort to remind Cyclops of how far he had fallen.
View all 18 comments. Aug 14, Paul E. Morph rated it really liked it Shelves: comics-read-in The simmering resentment between Cyclops and Wolverine finally comes to a head during an attack by the brand new Hellfire Club. Can Scott and Logan stop fighting each other long enough to protect Utopia from the new suitcase-Sentinel more scary than it sounds? This was a great mini-series with high stakes and long-lasting ramifications for the X-Men.
I would go so far as to call it essential reading for the modern X-Men fan. The artwork was a little disjointed, as each issue is drawn by a differ The simmering resentment between Cyclops and Wolverine finally comes to a head during an attack by the brand new Hellfire Club.
The artwork was a little disjointed, as each issue is drawn by a different artist, but all the artists turn in some excellent work so it's not anywhere near as bad as it could be.
Not perfect what is? View 2 comments. Oct 17, Terence rated it it was ok Shelves: marvel-unlimited. As always everyone hates and wants to kill mutants. Because of Scarlet Witch rather than there being millions of mutants there are only , so exterminating mutant kind has never been more of a possibility. Some differences of opinion arise leading to a Schism. I heard about Schism for years and wasn't sure if I wanted to read it.
I certainly hadn't missed anything, but I'm surprised no one mentioned the pre-teen sociopaths responsible for the whole conflict. I don't know what these a-hole kids As always everyone hates and wants to kill mutants.
I don't know what these a-hole kids problem is. They are all wealthy and apparently since they have nothing better to do getting people killed and making more money seemed like a great idea to them. I also have no idea why these kids were even part of this story. Prelude to Schism made the entire story seem vastly different. The X-Men didn't have time to sit around contemplating what to do, things happened and they reacted. So the whole conflict revolved around using kids in battle.
Cyclops being the good little X-Men he is, had no issue using kids in battle since he was a child soldier. Wolverine wanted no part of that. It seemed Idie's casual indifference to killing and seeing herself as a monster was the straw that broke the adamantium camel's back.
I didn't enjoy how Schism ended because I just can't imagine it happening like it did. Shelves: marvel-comics , reads , kieron-gillen , jason-aaron. Definitely not Aaron's best work here. So we all know that some fundamental divide occurred between Cyclops and Wolverine even if you haven't read this. I really just wanted to know what that was and it turned out to be a little anti-climactic and felt forced.
The fight between Cyke and Wolvey was well drawn but seemed a bit petty to me. Although, Wolverine's reasoning for starting the Xavier school up again did seem justifiable. The Regenesis story included in thi 3. The Regenesis story included in this collection was quite terrible, art and all. Jun 11, Richard rated it really liked it Shelves: comix-graphix-marvel-heroes , x-homies. One of the coolest things about this story is how it brought to head the gradual, conflicting dual arcs of Cyclops and Wolverine.
When you read early X-men books, you would never think that Wolverine, the savage, irreverent antihero, would be the one fighting for the educa One of the coolest things about this story is how it brought to head the gradual, conflicting dual arcs of Cyclops and Wolverine.
When you read early X-men books, you would never think that Wolverine, the savage, irreverent antihero, would be the one fighting for the educational ideals of Professor Xavier and keeping kids out of harms way or that the golden boy Cyclops would turn into a hardened soldier, willing to win a war and survive by any means necessary.
This book is a turning point in the X-universe and features a great Civil War -style conflict between these two leaders, where you'll have a tough time choosing a side, as both are correct. It gets pretty tense and gripping.
That was kind of silly and awkward. Apr 26, Mike rated it liked it. Aaron kicks this miniseries off with a Knowing where this is headed thanks, Marvel press corps , and given Aaron's ham-fisted dialogue he doesn't seem to get either voice right and foreshadowing, this doesn't start well. However artificial the premise kicks off the Sentinel re-launch, the initial wave of terror they create is at least believably illustrated. And the antagonists of this story are suitably menacing, but not for reasons I would've e Aaron kicks this miniseries off with a And the antagonists of this story are suitably menacing, but not for reasons I would've expected.
After reading the core story, I feel like this: like most of the non-Bendis-led events of Marvel's recent history e. Shadowlands, Fear Itself , the main event comic is probably weaker than some of the supporting stories written alongside as tie-ins to the event. I can't prove that yet with this book, but even though there was some decent plotting and the dialogue improved slightly, this still felt entirely artificial and implausible.
I hope that Marvel follows through on this one, if they really intend for us to believe it. For now though, this feels like a squabble between teenagers on a schoolyard, and one that should blow over just as inconsequentially. I think one thing that frustrates me most about Marvel and which might be colouring my attitude to what Aaron did here is that they don't commit to change.
Utopia is a great new concept and it's been executed masterfully by Fraction and others, but they do easily backslide into Xavier's school in Westchester - out of nostalgia, not because it hasn't been wrung dry of every fresh story that could be told.
Best issue was Gillen's Regenesis. Good storytelling device, interesting snippets of what generally felt like believable and appropriate dialog save a few begging moments. Marvel, don't squander this opportunity. Here are my plot notes because I can never remember who when and what, when I'm reading later books: view spoiler [Carlton Kilgore killed by his son Kade. Kade creates events to kick off sales of new Sentinel model.
Hellfire club, which went mutant-free, gets taken over and killed off by Kade and his band of child billionaire weaponeers. Idie kills Helllfire club goons, thinks she's acting like the monster she believes she is. View all 9 comments. Aug 05, Sesana rated it liked it Shelves: comics , superhumans. Lackluster execution of an interesting concept. Splitting the X-Men along ideological lines is an interesting thought, and I kind of like the split between proactive Cyclops and reactive Wolverine.
But it's just really, really poorly executed. The actual boiling point comes when Cyke wants to allow the perfectly willing teens with powerful mutant abilities defend their home and themselves from a giant Sentinel come to kill them all, and Wolverine doesn't want the kids in battle. Which is, to my Lackluster execution of an interesting concept. Which is, to my knowledge, the first time that Kitty's and Jubilee's father figure ever had a problem with a powerful teen fighting literally for survival.
I guess it's supposed to be an eye opening thing for Wolverine, but I just couldn't really buy it. Especially because I know that Logan is about to go cross country and train these same teens he doesn't want to learn how to fight and they'll be defending themselves within a few issues. I buy that the split happened, I buy that there are insurmountable differences between the two leaders, but the breaking point just needed to be more clear and more believable.
Side note: does anybody else think that maybe Idie who is black might have been more interested in the doll if Logan had gotten her one that looked like herself?
I guess we're supposed to read that as Idie being matured beyond childish things past her years, but a most girls her age are past baby dolls in the least traumatic of circumstances and b she might have liked a doll she could identify with. Sorry, moving on. This whole collection gets three stars for the surprisingly well-written and effective Regenesis issue. It's the actual blow-by-blow of who goes where and why in the split, and it's the best thing in this book. The dialog is mostly very good, and it redeems some of the more poorly thought out decisions that lead to this story in the first place.
Mar 15, Gavin rated it really liked it Shelves: comics. I enjoyed this purely for the fact that it literally ripped the X-Men in two. Obviously, Cyclops is one side, and Wolverine is the other; could it happen any other way?
No, don't think so. Very interesting, especially the Regenisis book which detailed the splitting into 2 factions in a very cool way. Also liked how they showed Scott and Logan working together, and respecting each other, yet being willing to rip each other to shreds over ideology.
Well worth a read, especially as X-Men fan, becau I enjoyed this purely for the fact that it literally ripped the X-Men in two. Well worth a read, especially as X-Men fan, because it sets up the way forward with nearly every title in the X-family. Apr 23, Shannon rated it liked it Shelves: action , books-reviewed , fantasy-scifi , graphic-novels. The X-men are splitting up. This tale focuses on its culmination and the rationales of various characters.
The ending was the best part. Close to a four star but no cigar, Freud. May 03, Keith rated it really liked it. If it wasn't for my current X-Men reading rampage, I never would have picked this book up especially since I'd never even heard of it. Some sort-of-crossover-event with a terrible cover? Why bother? Luckily, my X-Men rampage led me here. Minus the shit cover, it's awwwwesome.
Great art, funny sometimes, serious sometimes If it wasn't for my current X-Men reading rampage, I never would have picked this book up especially since I'd never even heard of it. Jason Aaron is kinda my new drug. May 06, Malum rated it liked it Shelves: marvel , graphic-novels , x-men-family. The age of heroes fighting heroes is in full swing at this period in Marvel history and would continue for a few years yet , and so now we are given "X-Men Civil War". I didn't really like the main story until about issue 3.
It got a little more interesting and picked up the pace a bit view spoiler [although I still don't know if I buy Cyclops blasting Logan with his pew pew beams without any physical provocation AND when Utopia is seconds away from an attack. He's certainly not my 2. Besides a slow start, the only other real complaint is that the art is kind of weird.
Logan looks really fat, for example. The Hope issues are basically the end of the main book retold from a different perspective, from the point of view of characters that I couldn't care less about.
The art was also a lot worse in these issues. This story was intercut with pointless panels of the characters as cave men, because I guess they needed to pad this dry story out a bit. Oh god, spare me. If I had rolled my eyes any harder I would have went blind. So, anyway, a decent X-Men story that really only exists to split everyone's favorite mutants into different teams. Schism is probably worth the read, but I would suggest only the biggest X-Men fans read the other stories.
Jun 30, Subham rated it liked it Shelves: marvel , x-men , events. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. This was a pretty good one! It starts off with some UN delegation but Quentin screws it up and so the whole world arms its border with Sentinels and thus the peace negotiations are blown off meanwhile in SF when the X-Men go there for some museum thing they get attacked by Kade Kilgore and his new hellfire team and so its upto Cyclops to rescue them and also wolverine and we see the discord between them growing and when the sentinel comes to attack Utopia its a schism between the two regarding wh This was a pretty good one!
It starts off with some UN delegation but Quentin screws it up and so the whole world arms its border with Sentinels and thus the peace negotiations are blown off meanwhile in SF when the X-Men go there for some museum thing they get attacked by Kade Kilgore and his new hellfire team and so its upto Cyclops to rescue them and also wolverine and we see the discord between them growing and when the sentinel comes to attack Utopia its a schism between the two regarding whether to involve children or not and its an epic fight between two..
And then the last one showing them going their separate ways, Scott forming his own team and who will join or not join the other side. Its a thrill and also an emotional read showing the costs the mutants have had, whose right is a matter of judgement like is Scott wrong wanting to teach these children survival skills and making hard calls as a leader and for Logan to want to protect the innocence and sanctity of these children and its a very contrasting look between Professor X and Magneto and how Cyclops being his ace pupil became so extreme and Wolverine the killer becoming more saint like.
Its a remarkable opposition and has various ethical and philosophical debate implications and I love that about it and its so good. Probably one of the best X-Men stories there is and also the art was really good throughout and I like how Aaron is able to show both sides of the isle perfectly! Feb 24, Sam Quixote rated it really liked it.
Meanwhile the Hellfire Club undergo a rebranding and a new leader with no qualms about setting loose a dangerous new t SPOILERS The X-Men have started their own mutant nation, a small island off the coast of California named Utopia, in a bid to create an identity and safe haven for themselves.
Meanwhile the Hellfire Club undergo a rebranding and a new leader with no qualms about setting loose a dangerous new type of machine, one that seems unstoppable, and sets its sights on Utopia.
With the X-Men scattered across the globe dealing with the Sentinel threat, Cyclops, leader of Utopia, is given the choice of abandoning the island or doing the unthinkable — conscripting mutant children to put their lives on the line to save the fledgling nation.
Jason Aaron gets the ball rolling nicely on this well put together and vastly interesting new series for the X-Men. In Switzerland, Wolverine and Cyclops remember the times when they were rivals before Cyclops goes to make his speech. In his speech, Cyclops requests to the world leaders to decomission each and every Sentinel still in use.
Suddenly, a hooded man comes into the conference room and reveals itself to be Kid Omega. Kid Omega unleashes an energy blast on everyone present, causing the affected to reveal the deepest, darkest secrets. Wolverine and Cyclops are unaffected due to their psychic defenses. As they try to pursue Kid Omega, a group of human-sized Sentinels attack them.
Wolverine and Cyclops defeat the Sentinels and watch a transmission broadcasted by Kid Omega, who says that he has exposed the lies of the world leaders and advises the mutant race to fight back against humanity.
Although Wolverine wants to track Kid Omega down, Cyclops tells him not to, deciding to return to Utopia to see what happens next. Meanwhile, Carlton Kilgore, a weapons builder, announces that all his weapons will be half-priced before leaving in his flying car. In the car, Carlton's son, Kade, threatens him with a gun, telling him that he just convinced his company's board of directors to make him CEO.
Carlton's driver, Bessy, is also Kade's accomplice. Kade then kills his father and tells Bessy to take him to the clubhouse. Kitty gives Wolverine a box, and Wolverine goes to the kitchen, where he finds Idie eating ice cream.
Wolverine gives Idie the box, which contains a doll. Idie thanks Logan for the gift and invites him to eat ice cream with her, to which he accepts.
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