Welcome to my Exiles reread! Some back story here - I first got into this version of the Exiles in my mid-teens. I had read Blink's mini-series before it and fell hard for her. So it was a real simple logic leap to get this series.

I now finally own all the vols so time to read!

Rereading this I understand why I enjoyed it; like Runaways it gave me recognizable characters, but not the whole invested history of said chars. The time guy states this when they all start blathering about "well that's not what I remember".

I just wish they had LISTENED to him.

Also I never trusted Xavier, so that was dumb to assume he'd be the same across realities. Thankfully Mimic realizes he's really not great at making non-emotional calls and drops out of leader position (in favor of Blink, who out of all of them has the least contact with overlapping histories).

This also explains why I thought Nightcrawler and Scarlet Witch were together in canon - they are in some reality and they have a daughter (Nocturne) who'd really like them to stop being lovesick teenagers everywhere.

We follow two reality arcs here - one where mutants are almost completely eradicated (and where Xavier is a megalomaniac murderer) and another where its the Trial of Jean Grey (yeah the famous one) except its REALLY Jean Grey and in 9 days she gonna go full X-Men: the Last Stand on the galaxy.

And she kills Cyclops for being the biggest wet blanket in the Marvel Universe. A little more "sure Jean let's go marauding" and a little less "pillaging is evil!" please Scott. ( )

Actual rating: 3,5. ( )

I love everything Marvel. The storylines are incredible! They have everything you could want: action, adventure, comedy, romance, political intrigue, allegories, metaphors, etc. Some stories drag, some end too soon. ( )

Volume 1 of Marvel Comics' "Exiles". Imagine a cross between the X-Men, Sliders and Quantum Leap and you'd have "Exiles". The early volumes is where they were best, IMO, and no better place to start than the beginning. ( )