Avengers: Disassembled

https://youtu.be/MvBxrug0-cQ With the big 500th issue of Avengers coming up, Marvel wanted an appropriately big story to celebrate the event. So the book, which had been being written by Chuck Austen leading up to this, was handed over to Marvel's latest golden boy, Brian Michael Bendis. Bendis had, with his work on the Ultimate line...

X-Men: Days of Future Past

https://youtu.be/Jw33K-cSxxw The Days of Future Past collection immediately follows after the Dark Phoenix Saga collection, also from Chris Claremont and John Byrne's run on Uncanny X-Men. In fact, as I mentioned in my review for the Dark Phoenix collection, the first issue in this collection is actually the last issue of the Dark Phoenix Saga....

X-Men: Second Coming

https://youtu.be/CKN9EZn18KU Second Coming is the third and final part of the X-Men Messiah trilogy involving the only mutant to be born since M-Day, the day that most of the mutants in the world lost their powers. It's funny to me now that I was complaining about the first story in this series, Messiah Complex, being...

X-Force/Cable: Messiah War

https://youtu.be/NhhTiGPHHNQ Messiah War is the second part of the loose trilogy of X-Men comics set around the coming of a mutant messiah that started in 2007 with Messiah Complex and ended in 2011 with Second Coming. To be honest, Messiah War definitely feels like the middle child here. While the first and third stories run...