I really disliked Avengers vs. X-Men. It was, to me, the pinnacle of characters behaving in ways that they never would normally, because there would be no story if they didn't. So why did I even bother with Consequences, the follow up? Well, I have a whole stack of Marvel Now books that I want to try, and I figured I'd need this bridge miniseries to make sense of them. And, as it turned out, I'm glad I did. Consequences feels like a much more thoughtful book, in a way. By which I mean that the c...

Being as I wasn’t that much of a fan of AvX, I went into this worried that I wouldn’t like this either. Luckily that didn’t happen. I liked this much better than the actual AvX event. Cyclops is jailed for his actions in AvX. There’s a scene where some inmates try to kill Scott and you get to see that just because he can’t use his optic beams doesn’t mean he can’t still kick your ass. Loved that part. Scott ends up making his final decision of what he wants to do form here and enlists the help o...

The aftermath of A vs. X. We see Wolverine back in his role as a headmaster of the Jean Grey School and Scott is now a criminal held prisoner. The best thing about this book for me was the role reversal of these two men. Wolverine has often been characterized as a bad boy and never fully being a team player and Scott has always been the Boy Scout. Wolverine is now the "good" boy doing what the government says and running a school to teach future generations of mutants. Scott, on the other hand,

This series is a lot more character-focused than the main A vs X series. It serves as a bit of an epilogue to A vs X, and a bridge to some other books that followed. This is mostly focused on the X-Men side of things; the Avengers aren't really the main point here. It's largely focused on Scott Summers. There was a different artist on each issue, so the art isn't really consistent, but I liked it, for the most part. Overall, this hasn't really moved me to hunt down and read any of the "Marvel No...

While this title may have a limited appeal as it partially wraps up the Avengers vs. X-men Marvel event I found it a fascinating read especially after having already devoured Brian Michael Bendis' run on X-Men. While the subtitle is Consequences it could just as easily be "Motivation" as you really see the character of Scott Summers (Cyclops) become radicalized and in many ways that made this a bold story to tell.

This was actually pretty well done. Kieron ends his X-Men run by telling his final tale of Cyclops and his time in prison. After the events of Avengers vs X-Men, Cyclops is satisfied with being in Prison. He did NOT mean to kill the professor and the Phoenix Force did make him. However, he wants to stay where he is, take the punishment, and if something happens to him he'd be a icon for X-men and mutants alike. A few visits from different people you get to see cyclops decide on his final choice

The bridge between Avengers vs X-men and Marvel NOW!, I wasn't expecting much. But, this book turned out to be a solid read. The main focus is around Cyclops, now a prisoner, and it deals with what he did during the AvX storyline. What I like, and Marvel have been building this up for a while, is that Cyclops has pretty much become the 'new' Magneto, while Wolverine has become the 'new' Xavier. Obviously, they're different characters, but the archetypes are the same. Cyclops believes he's doing

Wow does Raney's art make it hard to read this book without flinching. The colourist (Charalampidis) doesn't help either. At least we finally get to see Carol in the captain Marvel costume - fist book connected to this whole AvX event to even acknowledge her new reality. Better artists come along later to make up for that, but wow.This story seems to be about taking the peaceful aftermath apart and looking closely at the wreckage of the MarvelU after AvX. So much time is spent with Scott Summers...

Cyclops is in jail for his actions when possessed by the Phoenix force. Instead of being in jail with super powered individuals, he's in a private jail's brand new mutant wing. The jail hopes to prove that using inhibitor collars it can get house mutants.Avengers vs. X-Men consequences revolves around Cyclops being in jail. The world is also on the lookout for the other mutants who were part of the Phoenix Extinction team and they've managed to capture Emma Frost. It seems like a rarity in the c...

Disregard that cover; this is not a prelude to Gillen's Iron Man, it's the coda to his Uncanny X-Men, with Cyclops rightly unrepentant over his actions in defence of his species. And it is glorious. If only more superheroes had the guts to do what needs to be done. If only more comics writers had the skill to have them do it without coming off generically grim'n'gritty. Most of all, if only Gillen were writing Cyclops' continuing adventures from the point at which this ends.

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What happened to Jean? I wonder how Cyclops, Magneto, and Magick will do stopping the bad guys. It was nice seeing the Avengers and the X-men again.

For my full interview with Kieron Gillen, follow this link: https://youtu.be/np9kcC1ruWUWell damn! This is a great epilogue to AvX. It definitely sets the stage for the future, and it nicely caps off Kieron Gillen’s mutant run.For an added bonus, this is (what I believe to be) the first sighting of Carol Danvers’ now iconic Captain Marvel costume. Duuude, Scott Summers is full baddy now. It’s awesome. His breaking bad makes Daenerys and Walter White both look like amateur. It’s been a long time

Continuing the great x-read of 2017/18...Whoa. How did such a fantastic book come out of the muddle that was AVX? With every page I turned, I couldn't believe just how good this was. Characters actually acted like themselves (I know, right?), drama that actually felt dramatic, cool twists and turns... This one had it all. (Well, not a lot of action but after all of the empty action of the crossover itself, I think that is just fine.)When I heard that Cyclops had become basically a terrorist, I c...

Like the main event, this reads better on second reading - telling what happens next after the Avengers vs X-Men dust settled, with devastated countries, Cyclops and Emma captured and the rest of his core team on the run! This book looks at how and why Cyclops went on to become what he became next; on Hope's next steps; and Wolverine's next step with the Avengers. Another must-read, especially for those looking to understand Cyclops (but not necessarily agree with him!). 8 out of 12.

Kieron Gillen delivers a pretty vital ingredient to the AvX tale. The story of what happens next after the dust settles needed to be told but it would have made more sense tom e to have it in the related series' and not in this limited one. How Cyclops deals with his imprisonment and the worlds of the Avengers and X-Men deal with that is pretty interesting. The art, by five different artists was very good but proves my point about needing to be in a series for consistency. Overall, it was good r...

This wasn't a straight-up fight with the Avengers against the X-Men, but rather a continuation of a story where some previous good-guy mutants have decided to become rebels/criminals, more or less, because of past events. It definitely makes me want to read more of this story line, although it did jump around a lot. I could have used more context from the previous stories. But I bought this at a sale for $5, so well worth it!

Read originally as individual digital comics on the Marvel Comics app.This is the direct follow-up to Avengers Versus X-Men (AVX), the blockbuster miniseries that paved the way for Marvel NOW. This five-parter picks up immediately from the moment AVX ended and ties up some loose threads to set-up the new ongoings that became the Marvel NOW relaunch. It also allowed Kieron Gillen to have his final say on the main cast from his Uncanny X-Men run, which was hijacked by AVX. Especially since five of...

I'd heard that this wasn't so much an ending to Gillen's run as it was a bridge to Bendis' run afterward. That turned out to be very true. It's mostly concerned with Cyclops in prison and how he eventually beaks out. Because I already have Bendis' run bound this actually is a very important book for me to have, and will definitely end out my Gillen book well. The art was pretty good, and it made for an interesting experience to see very different pencilers all inked by the same person. There wer...

If only the whole A vs. X event had been this crisp and smart. VERY talky, but it does a great job communicating complicated people's characters and motivations. It honestly could have been stretched out considerably for me, as you in essence have long-term friends and co-workers falling out and walking away from one another, perhaps for the last time (OR IS IT? the narrator to the old Batman show taunts in my head). Aside from some grotesque over-muscling and minimal appearance from the varsity...