IvX was... surprisingly good? I don't know what I was expecting per se... or, well, I do. AvX was so drastically one-sided. The X-Men were right and the Avengers were dicks and caused the entire mess that then had to be cleaned up. This one though, it was actually legitimately complicated with logic and ambiguity and complexity on both sides and I really enjoyed it!

And! All the tie-ins were relevant and interesting and expanded on the story in fun and interesting ways (barring a few small "that character definitely wasn't at that battle" art inconsistencies at places).

Now specifics, Extraordinary starts with a, frankly, rudely emotionally devastating Storm issue that on its own would warrant 5 stars, but it also ends with a wonderful, classically X-Men epilogue issue that also was incredible. Just an overall fantastic tie-in arc. ( )

Summer 2021 (July);

I totally spaced and meant to send these through in July. This was more of my Time!Displaced Baby Jean Read while I was waiting between my computer keyboard being out and the ownership of my new computer that I could actually type on. This collection of 4 was okay, but the Time!Displaced X-Men were more side pieces in my opinion in these than really the focus of them. ( )

Some meh issues and some okay. If you're not reading Inhumans vs X-Men, then they won't make much sense.

And the final issue is X-Men Prime, which sets up the changes for the new Blue and Gold series. ( )

I haven't read the story around this but this was an interesting read, the x-men are dealing with the after-math of the terrigen mist, which is lethal to mutants. They have fled but now they need to organise themselves and fight for their rights. They have to cope with all the cascade of developments that have changed their world.

Interesting, made me want to both read earlier in this series and follow up stories. ( )