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I am pretty sure u probably don't care about my opinion, and I'm not trying to be passive aggressive. But I'm happy that you enjoyed this event. Because it's neat for me to read different opinion and see different perspectives. Maybe if this story comes out in collected edition I may change my mind. But I do hope the final krakoan x men issue ends on a good note
Rise of the Powers of X #5
| Writer | Kieron Gillen |
| Artist | R. B. Silva |
| Cover Price | $4.99 |
THE BATTLE FOR ALL TIME!
The X-epic concludes in a battle between those who are outside time and that which is now and forever...and the result is being decided by whether someone can ultimately make the right choice. The end of the Krakoan Age barrels our way as the two series that are one conclude!
Rated T+
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9.7
Nerd Initiative - Ken M.
May 29, 2024The end of the Krakoan Era has arrived in grand fashion. Gillen pens a tale of reflection and fearlessness with Mutantkinds fate hanging in the balance. Vecchio, Curiel and Cowles provide the larger than life visuals to bring this era of time to a thunderous close. This will be one story not to miss! Read Full Review
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9.1
Comic Watch - Bethany W Pope
May 31, 2024This conclusion was competent and complete, but as the ending of an important series, it felt a little rushed. Read Full Review
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8.8
The Super Powered Fancast - Deron Generally
May 29, 2024Vecchio delivers some fantastic art throughout the issue. The story is filled with amazing moments that can only be experienced visually and those moments are stunning to witness, especially the final showdown with Enigma. Read Full Review
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8.5
AIPT - David Brooke
May 29, 2024Rise of the Powers of X #5 is mostly effective in doing the impossible and closing the book on the Krakoan Age. It ends in an epic battle against a threat that could only be matched by the impossible power of the Phoenix, but also with a strategy that only Charles Xavier could muster. However much you may wish the Krakoa age would continue, it's hard to deny that it ends on an extremely high note in the categories of epic storytelling and a peaceful final justice. Read Full Review
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5.5
Comic Book Revolution - Kevin Lainez
May 29, 2024Rise of the Powers of X #5 is unfortunately a mixed bag for being the penultimate chapter of the latest X-Men crossover. Kieron Gillen could not avoid falling into the trappings of how convoluted things were to tell a fully satisfying final battle involving Phoenix, Enigma, Charles Xavier, and Moira X. The way things end leaves a lot of responsibility on Uncanny X-Men #700 to ensure the Krakoa Era gets the great ending it deserves. Read Full Review
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4.0
Impulse Gamer - Matt Fischer
May 30, 2024What the heck did I just read? While Fall of The House Of X showcased the X-Men at their heroic best, the final fight of Enigma went out with a whimper and Moiras final fate is just utterly perplexing. The ending does leave a bit of a cliffhanger about Xavier to be resolved in X-men 35 (presumably), but for an ending to a huge part of the Krakoan storyline, this whole issue can be summed up in one word: WHAT?! Read Full Review
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2.0
ComicBook.com - Chase Magnett
May 29, 2024Sound meets fury in Rise of the Powers of X #5 signifying nothing except the end of one Marvel Comics brand soon to be replaced by another. Read Full Review
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10
the best issue that i have read
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9.0
I am a little shocked by this issue's mixed reception because I thought it did an incredible job wrapping things up. Stuff like Jean/Phoenix becoming the ultimate mutant circuit to destroy Enigma or Xavier's plea to Moira really worked for me. The latter of which showcases Xavier's potent optimism that was effectively crushed during this era, despite it at one point being one of his defining traits. The former is a really good bookend to what the Krakoan era promised. An era where mutants were a united front. The pacing here didn't bother me. I didn't feel the rush that I've seen complained about. In fact, given how slow Fall of X has been, and given just how expansive this last event has been, I found it refreshing that this fight didn't p more
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9.0
Underrated conclusion IMO. Gorgeous artwork
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9.0
I liked this. The showdown between Phoenix and Enigma was only slightly anti-climactic, especially since all of the other dominions who were supposed to join the fight were just like NOPE! and peaced out, which was strange. And while the art wasn't as good as Lucas Werneck's, the images of Phoenix with every mutant ever inside her were sick. Also, as much as Moira became basically insufferable the more the Krakoan era progressed, I'm glad she got a redemption moment. I was never on board with her being a villain, so it was nice to see her get a happy ending despite the horrible things she did.
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8.5
It was a quick resolution that did way more than it should've had to do to offset the whole Fall of X failures. Guillen does a much better job than Duggan to tie his story threads from Immortal/Forever together but a little too neatly and the whole Moira/Xavier dynamic being rushed far too fast to make any sense within the Krakoan age post Hickman but overall he did a good job. I wish RB Silva was here to finish this book because he was the core of this book and his amazing art made this book shine. But Vecchio is a great back up artist who delivered some outstanding pages with so many mutants crammed everywhere. Nice work but how does RB Silva not finish this is a failure from this X-office.
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8.5
Count me among the ones who loved this issue, though I wish more of the considerable gristle of Fall of X had been pruned to make room for it; it's strange to drag a story out over a weary march through dozens of titles over the course of almost an entire year and still somehow have the best parts of the ending feel rushed
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8.5
This is a very abstract issue, and its not as good as the previous, but it 8s much much more epic. And its hard to not appreciate that.
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8.0
I do not envy Gillen being tasked to wrap up Hickman's abandoned plotlines and bring things to an editorially-mandated reset/outcome. I think this was about as good as could be done with this mess, and while maybe a bit rushed and cosmically/temporally vague, in another writer's hands it could have been just a big knot of fight scenes or worse. I wish more of Krakoa's potential had been explored, but Shared Universe Nonplasticity is the real antagonistic Dominion here and Editorial is its hand.
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8.0
I won't say this event as a whole has been great, but I've enjoyed it. It wasn't going to be easy to reset the X-Men to the underdog status in the first place, so I won't complain about some messiness in the execution of Fall/Rise. This issue was fun and satisfactorily wrapped everything up, even if it was a little rushed feeling. The art was great and the contrast between the two wars going on, Phoenix vs Enigma and Xavier's plea with Moira, was good story telling. I enjoyed this event for the most part, but I'm glad it's over and we can move forward. I'm incredibly excited about the new batch of books starting up.
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8.0
Glad to say that things are getting better as this event is closing out. It would have been cool of Silva was on this issue, but Vecchio does a great job and I think his art really fit here, especially with the more abstract scenes. The story here was good as well, with a lot of focus on Jean, Charles, and Moira. I do wish the Krakoa era was continuing for longer, but I'm still interested to see how everything wraps up with X-Men #35.
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7.5
This was okay. I'm glad it's over. Not Krakoa; Krakoa was interesting--but Fall of X has been an unholy mess.
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7.5
Though the whole third act of the Krakoa era has been a disappointing mess, Gillen was the one strong writer of this phase and did his best to find a clean conclusion that tied up most the ongoing plot points and honoring where it all began in House/Powers of X.
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Art: 4/5
Story: 3.5/5
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6.5
It wasn't really that bad, just really wanted more out of the end of Rise/Fall. It had some good moments, but they didn't justify the end of this era.
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5.0
Now that I'm recovered from the seizure this issue's art induced, I need to ask what the hell did I just read? This was a hot mess of over-indulgent panels (that individually looked really neat), trying to distract us from the fact that Enigma was a poorly developed villain & that we gave Xavier one last taste of feeling good about himself.
If you hadn't read Gillen's X-MEN: FOREVER, you were probably blindsided/confused by this issue's story. Why these were separate titles when the finale of one was so dependent on the other is beyond me. Gillen spends far too many pages reminding us how powerful the Phoenix force is, likely at the request of Marvel to lead into her new ongoing series in From the Ashes. The ease of which Phoenix more+ Like • Comments (3)• Likes (1) -
4.0
If there's one thing to summarize this event. It felt rushed. The ending was bland with Jean grey becoming Phoenix force to one-shot enigma and nimrod. Xavier and Moira were written not as well. The art was bland. Overall I wished hickman finished his vision. Because this is game of thrones season 8 of comic book stories. The fact that u has to pay extra for x men forever to get the full story is kinda sad.
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3.5
Tl dr; can be summed up as the embodiment of 'not sticking the landing' or 'a testament to the failure of the x-men'.
Rise of Powers of X was no doubt the better book between this or the Fall. Fall was a total wash of incompetence. This had some good ideas though. At least in issue 1. Things got rocky and then we end with this. This is a total failure. For those who rate this above a 5... or 6 if we are being generous. Do you actually realize the book has massive gaping plot holes, very poor art (when it isnt the big action scenes), totally ignore previous concepts. The fact that this all ended with an uppercut against a foe that was established as being more powerful then any of then is so sad. Just deus ex-ma china after mcguffi more -
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