The main title always feels a bit fractured, following various storylines that don’t seem to have any real connection to each other - I assume this is all for some big payoff down the road, but for now it just makes me feel like Hickman is incredibly pretentious and is ruining the X-Men. 

Two islands: Noto’s art is always lovely and this is intriguing despite the heavy handed “you are soft and we are strong and only know war” etc etc. Boring. 

Shi’ar: Horrible art. What was the point of this issue?

The Vault: Hickman at his most pretentious, but I genuinely loved the emotional story arc that Synch got here. Do I have any better idea of what the Vault actually is after this? LOL no. 

Nimrod: Xavier has alway been an ass but HOLY SHIT THIS IS FUCKED UUUUUPPPPPPPPP.