Marvel Comics & X Of Swords: Destruction #1 Spoilers & Review: X Of Swords Chapter 22 Finale Sees Dawn Of X X-Men Fracture & S.W.O.R.D.’s Flight!

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Marvel Comics and X Of Swords: Destruction #1 Spoilers and Review follows.

X Of Swords Chapter 22 Finale Sees Dawn Of X X-Men Fracture and S.W.O.R.D.’s Flight!

There are further variant covers in addition to the above.

Plus the main cover.

We open the event finale with a storyline catch-up and dramatis personae page.

Saturnye has summoned the Captain Britain Corps – minus Betsy Braddock – take on the horde’s…

…Genesis has summoned, but she has more to come too!

Magick enables S.W.O.R.D. to enter the fray…

…as a whole of of X-Men also join the party.

Apocalypse was fighting his wife Genesis, but when masked…

…Annihilation takes control and even more creatures are summoned!

Magick, Cable and others divert wraiths to the battle…

…as Apocalypse unmasks his wife from the mask’s influence.

Apocalypse then fights for his own identity…

Annihilation vs. Apocalypse is fascinating, but Apocalypse proves stronger and ends the battle!

The book ends with Saturnye making the Annihilation influence into a spear from a mask as…

…both sides of X of Swords do a one member swap to live “on the other side”.

Apocalypse goes to Arakko and in turn he chooses Arakko, the mutant island, to come to Krakoa.

The book ends with the force walking away from this all and…

…final look at the completed second half of X of Swords checklist.

The Pulse:

A high octane end to a mediocre event series. Solid art though. This book gets an 8 out of 10, but event overall gets a 4.5 out of 10.

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