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Rating: - Meh
This book is average superhero fare at best and muddy melodrama at it's worst.

The dialogue is cliched (does Emma Frost really need to say 'Darling' in every sentence?) The plot is average (a bunch of stuff happens) and the pacing is terrible. Scenes stop at random points, chopping and changing. Conversations and scenes jump around with no sense of continuity. Half the time the jarring changes left me mistakenly wondering if I was reading a flashback scene. The use of the old Watchmen trick of two scenes overlapping with matching one-liners comes off as clunky and pointless. Even Alan Moore admits that that trick has had it's day.

All the usual x-men cliches are here, characters reveal new/old powers, a certain master of magnetism returns for the 100th time and Colossus spends most of the book turning into his organic steel form at dramatic moments.

Terry Dodson's art is up to his usual standard, but the clashing styles of the two artists in the Uncanny Annual backup story are an uneasy fit. That whole story is more or less a repetition of scenes of Sebastian Shaw being angry and Namor being half naked, horny and hitting on Emma Frost.

The book reads as though it's just going through the motions, with no real verve or intent. Buy it if you are a completeist or do what I plan to do, and avoid the X-Men all together until the Greg Land nightmare has passed.

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