Customer Reviews
Risible - By: Simon Hollis, 23 Jul 2008 
I bought this entirely on the recommendation of the Amazon reviewers above, alll of who gave it 5 stars (the last time I buy anything on this basis - what worthless scoring). A huge waste of time, for the most trollish of readers only. Horrible artwork, overwraught, bad writing, much moral posturing & - worst - incoherent from top to bottom. 'Ties up loose ends' indeed. Yuk.
First big X-men crossover in ages and it's great. - By: genejoke, 11 Jul 2008 
What can I say about this, the art is a mixed bag aside from a few chapters it is pretty consistant in style. It ties up many loose ends from the various x-men comics it also sets about changing everything. Which is good as there have been a number of long term problems with the x-men books. It is a pretty epic story & in someways could have been longer to fully show the scale of events. A minor niggle.
As a big sceptic when it comes to "epic" events, this has brought my hope back - By: Mr. A. Hackett, 16 Jun 2008 Okay, I collected house of M & every other title with it, I bought Civil was & every other title with it & these two reallly made me sceptical about marvel's epic stories, I read World War Hulk which I wasnt expecting much from anyway but this story right here is brilliant. Firstly, when I was reading it, I didnt have to wait a month for the next story but more importantly secondly, it was a great story, some good twists & some great battles. Okay, People do die, though they arn't significant (and some have died before, lol).
I would definitly advise people to read it as it threads loads of different stories together to create an epic tale.
Best X-Men story in recent times (or ever) - By: Rodney Herring, 07 Jun 2008 Deffentallly a must have for any x-fan or comics fan.
the best x-men story ive enountered so far.
it never get as good as this now, so make the most of it when you read this. 5 stars!!
A messiah is born. - By: B. Lucas, 03 Jun 2008 Wow
Thats what i thought & still think after finishing 'Messiah Complex' the first X-men event for ten years. So what makes this so special then? How does it stand out from the crowd? Well the truth is because it changes the status quo. Now many events make claims that they will do this to a franchise but 'Messiah Complex' manages to meet this claim & more.
So whats the story? Well to sum it up its the 'conclusion' so to speak of 'House Of M', (a marvel cross-over event that happened 4 years ago.) the mutant population has new hope rekindled through the birth of a new mutant. This may just sound like an average idea on paper, but it also uses many other plot lines through out X-men lore to create an event that surprises with each of its twists & turns. Its because of this that you realise how much time has been spent to create this event by the creators as by the end of it you realise that so many old plot points have been tied up but so many new ones have been opened.
Also through the use of the constant rotation of artists through out the event it makes it constantly refreshing to be reading with a different style of art. It is also helpful that each artist is able to play on their strengths through out the event to deliver the best experince of the reader.
Although by the end you may be confused or maybe even agitated by not a definate answer from the writers because of the last three pages. (you will no what i mean when you get there) You just have to remember that so many new storylines have been opened from this story. And it shows that this event is the messiah for the X-men franchise as it has saved it & now guiding it in a new direction.
