X-Men Regenesis Review

X-men Schism was a starting point that would in the end change the X-Men Universe, it put mutants and readers alike in the spotlight in order to choose a side: Wolverine's or Cyclop's. Who would go with who? And that's what Marvel's X-Men Regnesis One Shot was all about. In X-Men Regenesis, Wolverine goes around recruiting mutants to join his newly formed school.

What I really loved in here was Billy Tan's visual representation of Logan's and Cyclop's battle to recruit their friends to their cause. It was a great visual metaphor, but it took me a few pages to realize that Cyclops was the one wearing the lion head. The artwork in whole was great, but I think the artwork for the metaphor was probably the best thing about the comic.

The writing was nice also, it was straight forward and didn't stray at all. Kieron Gillen wanted to tell the story of how the X-Men will take sides and that's what he did, with each character having their own reasons; Colossus stayed on Utopia in fear that his newly acquired powers would put people at risk, Nemesis is staying because an experiment he's working on can't be moved and Prodigy stays due to ideology reasons.There were more characters that gave their reasons, such as Magneto, Rogue, Danger, Moonstar, Avalanche and ect. Even someone who I haven't seen in a long time has taken a side, Toad begged Wolverine to take him as a janitor.

One thing I didn't like about the comic was the lack of Professor Xavier. The only comics I read X-Men related are Uncanny X-Force, Uncanny X-Men and X-Men, so I don't know if he appears in X-Men Legacy or what but the lack of Xavier in the comics disturbs me, I would like to know what side he would have chosen; he could have chosen to stay with the man he personally put in charge or he could go back to teaching mutants how to control their powers. I really wish Gillen could have put Xavier in and give him a voice.

It does seem like Cyclops has the power hitters on his side; he's got Colossus with the power of Cyttorak, Storm, Namor and Magneto (and Emma if you consider her to be on their power level). Wolverine of course has the children of Utopia, since that's why him and Scott got into a brawl in Schism, but he has also gained the trust of Beast and Iceman; I'm pretty content with that. Hopefully this will allow writers to show Iceman more.

I was happy when I saw Storm about to go with Wolverine, but then Scott had to sweet talk her to staying because he doesn't have pure-hearted people backing him up. I was also happy to see Emma ready to leave Scott also, but Gillen had to tease us by making her stay.

I think the events following Schism is going to be great, the X-Men have split up and Marvel is going back to the classic X-Men in which mutants can go to a school to learn how to control their powers, but at the same time, there modern X-Men is still staying in the Marvel Universe; old school vs new school.