Product Description

It was the worst day in X-Men history. Now it's the day after. The House of M is over, but the effects will be felt for the rest of their lives. How do the X-Men pick up the pieces in a world that has completely changed? Plus: Something's amiss at the House of Xavier! A sneak attack forces the X-Men to re-evaluate just who their friends are, and to align themselves with former enemies! Collects Decimation: House of M - The Day After and X-Men #177-181.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #104410 in Books
• Published on: 2006-05-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Customer Reviews

Sad ending to an awesome story arc.
This add on to the "House of M" story arc was apparently conceived to squeeze a little more money out of that storyline. The collection only looked at the widespread repurcussions of no more mutants for the first couple of issues in the collection. It then wandered into an idiotic Havok/Polaris story that was left hanging. Not worth the investment for the occasional reader but may be useful to the collector.

The more things change...
Taking place after the events of Brian Michael Bendis' surprisingly good House of M mega event, Decimation: X-Men - The Day After follows the X-Men in the aftermath of the global mutant depowerment. What gets focused on the most in the issues collected here include the return of the robotic Sentinels (who are good guys now...) along with the forging of new alliances with some unexpected guests. Later on, Havok and Polaris find themselves on the road back to each other as Havok helps Lorna deal with the loss of her powers. That's pretty much all that goes on in Decimation: X-Men - The Day After, and while there are some nice story quips by the underrated Peter Milligan (X-Statix, Human Target), there's nothing relatively worth seeing here that hasn't been seen before. Salvador Larroca provides his usual solid artwork too, so the overall package isn't so bad. That being said, there are better X-Men stories, and House of M tie-in's, that are more worth your time than the X-Men's decimation day.

The Infamy of M-Day
First, Decimation- Day After is integral to continuing the X-Men canon following the House of M series. This book begins the first step of many in a whole new direction for the X-Men and mutantkind. Some key characters, both villain and hero, are brought up in Decimation and show their resulting lives from M-Day. While this book is not as riveting or surprising as House of M, it is a necessity to continue the series, especially if you choose to read Son of M (the continuation of Quicksilver), X-Men: The 198, and much of the new Civil War cross-over event. All three of those, by the way, I would recommend. One thing I would criticize heavily about Decimation- Day After, though, is the seemingly abdrupt change in story focus between "The Day After" one-shot (which comprises the first half of the book), and the regular X-Men issues that comprise the second half of the book. There is a sudden switch from focusing on a more global perspective with the Decimation event to instead introducting the Sentinels back into the lives of the X-Men, and then a very absurd and out of place story of Lorna coping with her depowerment and Havok helping her. This, in turn, leads into Blood of Apocalypse, the next storyarc in the X-Men series.