2021 Summer (July);
Reread of Baby!Jean Arc

Most of these were read in a blur of summer bliss in a hammock in a backyard garden as I finally followed up on my original reads of the baby!Jean storyline that I'd gotten half into before falling out of again. I really do continue to love this storyline mostly for her. ( )

An encounter with a new mutant sends the original X-Men team plus X-23 into another dimension of Earth. This story brings the group into perils that had me on the edge. I like the way that Bendis continues to develop these out of time and space characters. ( )

Oh my, this was fun.
The time displaced x men are now in the wrong universe, having been transported by a new mutant to the Ultimates universe. 'You're not in Kansas anymore guys.'
Love two Bobbies, although our version is still my favourite. Angel is great in this. So is Miles Morales' Spider-Man. And Wolverine Jr. Even Jean Grey is bearable, even though there are two of her.
Brilliant. ( )

Great volume. This series has been a roller coaster of great and bad and I think this is one of the better stories in this series. I laughed a few parts. I love X-23/Laura and I'm always happy to see her. I do love Warren and Laura's Dynamic and can't wait to see what develops there. I haven't read much of Miles Morales but I do enjoy reading about him, haven't read anything bad so far. This volume is better than 5 and I'm interested in seeing how this series ends.

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All I could think starting this collection was Bendis really can't seem to get away from time travel/alternate universe stories right now, can he? Expecting nothing very spectacular out of this collection since he just seems to retread the same territory time and again right now, imagine my surprise when this story actually turned out to be good! The All-New X-Men find themselves in the Ultimate Universe and I found it was actually intriguing to see how the heroes of the Marvel Universe and the heroes of the Ultimate Universe view the world around them, and how the world in turn views them. I thought it was a nice juxtaposition and actually almost a fresh look at how these heroes (who are essentially the same characters, just brought up in wildly different circumstance) react to situations.

Honestly, the story itself wasn't all that memorable (truth to tell, I'm writing this several weeks after I read the collection, and beyond knowing the X-Men traveled to the Ultimate Universe, I really couldn't tell you much more about it). Bendis, even creating a story that I found interesting on the underlying themes, still can't seem to write something that seems original all around. After story after story after story of time travel/alternate universe stories lately, one more such story, no matter how well written, still feels like it was already done last month (and the month before that...). Immonen's art is fantastic, and it was good to see him back on the title.

I'll keep reading the series (I'm such an X-Men lemming), but I'm hoping that the upcoming Secret Wars storyline will actually see Bendis honestly off the X-Men titles for good. ( )