Marvel Comics & X-Men #14 Spoilers & Review: X Of Swords Part 12 With Apocalypse & Genesis Plus A Secret History Revealed!

Spoilers

Marvel Comics and X-Men #14 Spoilers and Review follows.

X Of Swords Part 12 With Apocalypse and Genesis Plus…

…A Secret History Revealed!

The book opens with a storyline catch-up and dramatis personae page.

Then we have…

…Apocalypse reacquainting with his wife or lover Genesis…

…who tells him of a secret history.

It begins with the Twilight Sword…

…battles of olde that Apocalypse would remember…

…plus what really happened after he left her.

We see how…

…she gained her all-powerful mask…

…what has lead us to now…

…hordes of monsters at the gate so-to-speak as…

…Genesis reveals she wants Krakoa and Apocalypse tells her she can’t take it.

The Pulse:

Solid art, but a convoluted story with no modern-day Sword of X action. Decompressed storytelling exemplified. 4 out of 10.

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