This is the collection that made me spend the last two years reading all the previous X-Men comics from the '60s until this.In itself it's really good. In the context of Messiah CompleX, then the Cable (vol. 2) series, it's emotionally moving and pivotal to the entire mutant narrative. In the context of the entire history of Cable, Stryfe, Deadpool, Apocalypse, Bishop, X-Force, Hope, Cannonball, and everyone else involved, it's a real masterpiece, and that's not even considering the incredible a...

Yet another 'interesting concept, could have been done better' X-books event. Cyclops finally manages to get X-Force sent into the future to aid Cable.... for the team to realise they've walked into a trap! With some huge hitting villains and lots of gore, we get to see all the action, a huge come-back and Hope's first interactions with mutants now she's old enough to understand them. 6 out of 12, I am afraid.

The "Messiah War" is not an amazing story and is only made enjoyable by the art of Clayton Crain. There is nothing worth noting in this story that is clearly a bridge for the upcoming "Messiah: Second Coming; nothing is learned about the characters, there is a clear distinction between the good guys and bad guys and the most annoying aspect is that nothing is learned about Hope. This is a standard go-back-in-time-to-fix-something-so-that-our-future-is-insured story with a bad guy tower of doom a...

(This review was originally published by GraphicNovelReporter.com on January 6, 2010)MESSIAH WAR picks up a few months after the close of MESSIAH COMPLEX, with Cable having escaped into the time-stream with his adopted daughter, Hope. Hers is the first mutant birth since M-Day, a holocaust that reduced the world's mutant population from several million to fewer than 200. She is either the savior of mutantkind or the one who damns them all. Cable believes she is the key to preventing the dystopia...

Well that was funny as fuck. Okay so the X-Force team gets sent into the future to save Hope, Cyclops daughter. Cable is still protecting her and is like no-go, she's mine to protect. But of course still have that asshole Bishop like "NO SHE MUST DIE" because he's a fucking psycho. Oh yeah and did I mention Apocalypse kid is here? I never even heard of this dude but he looks like a guy straight out of game of thrones mixed with Final Fantasy 12. His freaking armor is huge, some world of warcraft...

While I am an X-fan, before reading this book I'd never ever read any story with Cable, Deadpool, Stryfe, or Bishop, and I wasn't familiar with their history. I'd not yet read Messiah Complex (which this book is the sequel to). In spite of all this, I still enjoyed this book. Here's why: Absolutely everything you need to know about anybody in this story is supplied between its covers. There's a bonus feature that explains who's who and what's what. There's a 3-part story of the life of Bishop, f...

Following up on Messiah Complex, this is at least a big chunk of the saga of Cable taking Hope on the road. I haven't been following the story through Cable's series, and I'm not likely to do so. I picked this up for the X-Force connection. I'm not sorry I did. Sure, it's basically a Cable story, but X-Force are more than just backups here. They're used really well.Hope is seven in this story, and believe it or not, she actually read like a slightly more mature than average seven year old. Not a...

Now, that's how you do a crossover! Only two books involved, nice artwork, fast-paced, action-packed, high stakes, no excess fat and some genuine surprises! I enjoyed this one a lot.

I've always wanted to find out more about Hope and the Messiah War stuff, but I never really knew where to start.And, if I'm being honest, I'm still not sure where to start.But this was story came in between X-Force Not Forgotten & Necrosha, and I had always wondered what had happened between the time they all disappeared and the time that X-23 fell out of the sky and fucked that evil chick up. So. Now I know.And it was actually really interesting! In fact, this was good enough that I'm going to...

After reading the exceptional X-Men: Second Coming crossover event, which is essentially a sequel to this book, I decided to go back and read Messiah War to fill in the gaps. What a waste of time that turned out to be! As the middle point in the Messiah Complex/War/Second Coming trilogy of X-Men tales, this one is the weakest by a large margin. Where the first and last entries do a fantastic job of juggling multiple arcs and dozens of characters, culminating in massive, earth-shaking battles, th...

4.5 stars. A truly engrossing, action-packed (side) story! Loved it!!! Plus, this was my first encounter with Apocalypse...how cool is he?! This series is kicking some major ass.

Meh.It started off so promising, too. The first chapters give a great setup: Cable and Hope (the child who will either save or destroy the mutant race) are on the run from Bishop, who is chasing them into the future. The idea that Bishop is engineering global holocausts to restrict Cable's movement is a great Big SciFi concept, as is the handicap that Cable can only leap forward in time. It creates for a great "man on the run" atmosphere, and as he goes farther and farther into the future, the E...

A fun read as Cable travels through time trying to hide the child named Hope. An X-Force team follows in an effort to provide back up as Bishop pursues to kill the child. But Bishop isn't the only danger as old enemies rear their heads. I enjoyed the art and if you enjoyed Yost's X-Force work or read the Messiah Complex this is one you'll want to read too.

I have a soft spot for Cable's convoluted back story, which ties him with Stryfe and Apocalypse. Though this crossover was based entirely on that, it still felt a lot like going through the motions to basically get to what happens in the end. It was cool to have narrations from various characters that you don't usually get to hear the narration from, such as Bishop, Stryfe and Apocalypse.\ What gives this book five stars, for me, is the comprehensive collection of character descriptions and hist...

I didn't really love it because I don't really like X-Force, but my girlfriend will love it because she loves X-Force, and there's a lot of X-Force in it but also a lot of Cable, who hasn't been a good character for like 20 years. There's a payoff for this being an X-Force book that doesn't happen till the sequel, which doesn't exactly make me like this book more? Or maybe it does. I had to get through it really fast so my girlfriend could read it, I'm not complaining just telling you.

4.5 StarsA mutant is finally born even though it looked like there would be no more mutant births. Unfortunately, she grows up to make the world a horrible place. Maybe. At least in Bishop's timeline. So he decides to kill her as a child to prevent the horrible future. The X-Men instead see her as a great Hope for mutantkind, so Cable grabs the child and leaps forward through time in order to save her. Bishop chases Cable and the child through time, and then X-Force chases Bishop in order to hel...

Amazing art style and really compelling and interesting plot structure. Can't wait to follow along with Hope's story!

An absolute masterpiece of a crossover event! While the previous story in the Messiah Trilogy X-Men: Messiah CompleX was an over complicated and incoherent mess of an “event” Messiah War is the complete opposite. Bringing together two pretty average books X-Force, Volume 1: Angels And Demons and Cable, Volume 1: Messiah War and making one excellent story. Where Messiah War succeeds (and where CompleX fails) is that I actually care about what’s going on, specifically what’s going on with Hope, th...

This was actually pretty much what I expected it to be! Both good and bad. Good - because I kind of already knew everything that was going to happen but it still kept me hooked and didn't disappoint. Bad - it didn't exceed my expectations.You pretty much know what you will get;Lots of time-jumpingThe big boy Cable and our little Messiah HopeX-Force-over-the-top-actionBad bad guys with big armsHilarious DeadpoolHidden agendasConfusing timelines and different futuresFound myself a lot of times rat...

Super intense set of stories. This is the chronicle of Cable's efforts to protect the first mutant child born after "M" Day (named Hope Summers by Cable) from a once ally who becomes obsessed with killing the child, and in his mind, saving the future. Cable is from the future, one in which the mutant scientist created him using DNA from Scott Summers and Jean Gray (although his mother was a clone of Gray). All Cable knows how to be is a warrior, and he proves that he won't stop until he sees Hop...