Before I start the review I need to add a side note, this volume is essentially two stories. The first 2/3rds are the X-men, which earned the 4 star review, the last 1/3 was deadpool and cable, which I think was a 3 star at best. My review is just going to focus on the X-men segment as this was the part I cared about.

Right, so onto the book. I am a little biased, X-men are one of my favorite parts of the Marvel Universe; however, I legitimately found this to be one of the most enjoyable reads of my reread of this event.

The X-men demonstrate some of the potential flaws and problems in Registration, as the act is starkly contrasted by the looming threat of sentinels literally "watching" over the remaining mutant population. This is a reminder of what could happen to the rest of the world's heroes with registration.

In addition, the X-men are partially split on supporting or remaining neutral with registration.

To make matters more complicated, the X-men end up getting embroiled in a last ditch effort to save 50% of the remaining mutants from catastrophe, while the anti-mutant groups try the opposite.

I really liked this volume as it placed the events of the Civil War within the wider events going on in the character's lives. The X-men were already in a bad place, and already registered, so this gives a unique chance to have the Civil War just be part of a larger story.

This was a very action light volume, however, I didn't find that to necessarily hurt it.

Well worth a read for X-men or Civil War fans

The X-Men remain neutral in The Civil War. Well, all except Bishop that is. Which is an interesting twist because he's a soldier from the future where Mutant Registration was forces. His reasons, though, work fairly well.

Without having read House of M, there's a lot missing. The main crisis in this collection is Domino and Shatterstar breaking the 198 (that is those non-X-men mutants that survived the Scarlet Witch. Can't say more, because I've yet to read House of M myself) out of the Xavier Institute where they are being "protected" by man-operated Sentinels. Now the original 4 X-Men (minus Marvel Girl) try to find them before Iron Man and his pro-registration cronies (led by Bishop) do.

So, yeah, seems a little forced. Like, "we're doing an all-Marvel story so we have to use the X-Men but they just went through their own major crisis and so we need to still deal with that" kind of thing. Don't get me wrong, on its own, it was a pretty decent story, I just don't see why it needed to be billed as a Civil War story.

This contribution to the Civil War series was not really needed. This was my first X-men comic and it was good to learn about the various characters outside those included in the films, but it was a little underwhelming. The X-men spend most of the civil war storyline as neutral, not wanting to get involved. I mean they do have problems of their own most of the mutants still alive after M-Day are trapped in the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning, with the perimeter being patroled by sentinels to stop anyone leaving.
The 198, who are mutant refugees, attack the sentinels surrounding Xaviers school in a bid to free the mutants held against their will. This lands the 198 in a whole lot of trouble, they are now being tracked by sentinels and a team of mutants led by Bishop in an attempt to detain them. The X-men fear for the safety of their fellow mutants and it is then that they turn up to fight.

No one talks about this TPB/event because it's not good. Unless you love Johnny Dee, random forgotten mutants (when was the last time Caliban was relevant? Who knew Sabra and Micromax had such great chemistry? Why do I have to wiki every character just named?), or to read more about Bishop losing his mind and going against the X-Men - he seems to drank a whole gallon of the Bad Idea juice that Cyclops has been sipping.

This is pretty much to show that the mutants did somthing beside sit around and brood over The Sentinel stationed at Xaiver's, Domino and Shatterstar busted them out to a crazy abandoned mine and then Cyclops takes his out First Class homeboys on a road trip to find them, but Bishop and Val Cooper are working with the government,The Avengers, and tag-a-longs Sabra and MicroMax to find them. The mutants they have to save are C-Listers at best (Caliban, Leech, and Toad are the big names), so the sense of urgency never kicks in (Sorry, Leech!).

The conclusion to the O*N*E/Decimation/198 storyline in the X-Men books is fairly dull, but it puts the sentinel story to rest for a while, and moves the mutant players to new places on the Chinese Checkerboard of continuity.

The art is lazily house style. Paquette tells the story he's given, but often doesn't bother giving background characters eyes or distinctive facial features, and there's a really poorly executed pinup page of many of the characters standing around for no reason after the big fight, but he has a few good action sequences, and occasionally draws Bishop like he were a Chris Bachalo character, and I enjoyed that.

Apart from happening during the Civil War, and showing the X-Men interact with both Iron Man and Captain America's camps, this is much more of a Decimation book than a Civil War story. There's no need to pick it up if you're looking for more Civil War stories, but if you're keeping up with the post House Of M X-Men shenanigans, this is a perfectly servicable story. Not Hines's best, but not terrible, either.

2 stars until near the end. The addition of Deadpool redeemed this book for me.

A mediocre and cliche story that only loosely ties into the MARVEL CIVIL WAR series. While I didn't hate it, I was by no means enamored by it furthering my view that the majority of superhero books are massively derivative and uninteresting when they are boiled down.

My new theory is that the X-Men and deserts don't mix. Jungle? Sure. Outer space? Can be fun. Islands? Especially if they're alive! Even tundra's okay, but I can't think of a single good X-Men comic set in a desert. Did anything good happen when the X-Men were in Dallas? And [book: X-Force] need not be remembered.
This book is much more closely tied to Marvel's Decimation crossover than Civil War. Shatterstar and Domino bust a bunch of "the 198" out of the X-Mansion, and the living original X-Men track them down, as does the government group O*N*E, led by Bishop.
Not really much of note in this one. Cyclops is really powerful, Micromax is apparently a schlub, and Domino may now be far too powerful.

This is a run-of-the-mill X-men story that could have been a one shot totally unrelated to Civil War, but is till enjoyable due to decent writing and solid art.

Pretty boring.