HOUSE OF X #5 Features Some Shocking Returns And A Jaw-Dropping Ending - SPOILERS

HOUSE OF X #5 Features Some Shocking Returns And A Jaw-Dropping Ending - SPOILERS

Yet again, this week's issue of House of X was full of massive surprises, and we're now taking a closer look at those shocking returns and that amazing ending which changes everything for mutantkind...

By JoshWilding - Sep 18, 2019 06:09 AM EST
Filed Under: Marvel Comics
Jonathan Hickman has put the X-Men back on the map in a big way with House of X and Powers of X, and in today's issue of the former, we learn that Professor X has found a way to make mutants essentially immortal moving forward. 

Using the combined might of Hope Summers, Tempus, Elixr, Proteus, and Goldballs along with the mutant DNA gathered by Mr. Sinister and copies of their minds he's utilized through Cerebro, Charles brings back the entire team of X-Men who were killed at the end of the previous issue. Now, he also hopes to resurrect those murdered in Genosha way back when. 

As the issue progresses, Professor X's morally ambiguous nature becomes more and more apparent, especially after he approves of Emma Frost using some pretty villainous means to ensure that Krakoa has been named a sovereign nation. Things take another unexpected turn in the final few pages as Charles welcomes in a number of X-Men villains and declares that all mutants now stand together, including Apocalypse who aligns himself with Professor X on the final page. 

With just a few issues left across these two books, you have to wonder what else Hickman has planned, as it's becoming clear that these characters will never be the same again.

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rebellion
rebellion - 9/18/2019, 6:19 AM
I was blown away. Hickman made mutants great again.
knocturnalzen10
knocturnalzen10 - 9/18/2019, 6:28 AM
good work Josh , Marvel's have been a bit questionable recently with comics ..... that being said this run reminds you on why X-men comics are so amazing .... Marvel should give them care and it will be limitless .


Hickman as a consultant needs to happen
Thing94
Thing94 - 9/18/2019, 6:37 AM
I can't imagine how convoluted the X-Men comics have gone over the years. I stopped with Astonishing X-Men by Josh Whedon.
Reeds2Much
Reeds2Much - 9/18/2019, 6:54 AM
Turns out that Goldballs' mutant power is that he's actually part female salmon.
JizzerTron
JizzerTron - 9/18/2019, 6:58 AM
I haven't read an XMen comic in years. Goldballs? Really?
rebellion
rebellion - 9/18/2019, 12:39 PM
@JizzerTron - i remeber reading uncanny in 2013 and thinking 'whats bendis smoking' when he introduced the character. So that makes reading this even better and kinda rewarding
RolandD
RolandD - 9/18/2019, 6:52 PM
@JizzerTron - Wasn’t he an Austin Powers villain?
Franshu
Franshu - 9/18/2019, 7:01 AM
It's not actually Professor X but Cassandra Nova taking over his body again. Calling it
rabid
rabid - 9/18/2019, 8:10 AM
@Franshu - I keep thinking X is the Maker, evil Reed Richards. He dressses the same and he once tried this exact same plot to rule the Ultimate universe.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 9/18/2019, 7:12 AM
Hickman is GOAT status. This guy is something else. Best X stuff since Morrsion imo. Goldballs though haha
AbidNaga
AbidNaga - 9/18/2019, 10:39 AM
@BlackBeltJones - Tonally, HoX/PoX definitely gives me some Morrison X-men vibes. Also, the way Xaviers motions are illustrated as well as his reaction to Magneto talking about the Genoshan Genocide and how "They should've killed us all" definitely makes me think Cassandra Nova is somewhere in Xaviers head.
web3d
web3d - 9/18/2019, 9:04 PM
@BlackBeltJones - What I love about Hickman is that you feel that he really loves the properties and characters he's writing about and you can feel it through the page.
blackandyellow
blackandyellow - 9/18/2019, 7:20 AM
The final page with Apocalypse wasn't much of a shocker since Marvel spoiled it in July's preview of Excalibur.

knocturnalzen10
knocturnalzen10 - 9/18/2019, 7:24 AM
@blackandyellow - exactly lol but i wonder if they'll finally write Gambit and rogue better because they make Gambit look like a sucka .... smh lol
Reeds2Much
Reeds2Much - 9/18/2019, 8:12 AM
@blackandyellow - I'm sure there is/is going to be plenty of kvetching over Betsy being a Captain Britain, but all I'm left wondering is why is the primarily Eurocentric X-Team being populated by the most stereotypical American-personality X-characters.
TheRealMandarin
TheRealMandarin - 9/18/2019, 7:25 AM
The mcu should take inspiration from this hickman run on how to incorporate mutants into the mcu.
rabid
rabid - 9/18/2019, 8:08 AM
A good story if it turns out to be one of Moira's disposable realities, but it's not the X-Men I was hoping for. Hickman is basically using his Ultimate Reed Richards story over again here, so I'm presuming Xavier has gone evil, or more likely isn't Xavier. And these certainly aren't our X-Men. So I'm enjoying but not trying to get too attached to this team.
Vigor
Vigor - 9/18/2019, 9:32 AM
@rabid - evil Xavier is a good theory. Notice with this series that we have yet to see xaviers upper half of his face
rabid
rabid - 9/18/2019, 9:45 AM
@Vigor - He looks so much like the Maker, and it's the same writer. Makes me wonder if Reed got his hands on Xavier's brain. Did we ever see the transfer into Fantomex's body?
MutantEquality
MutantEquality - 9/19/2019, 8:44 AM
@rabid - I feel ya. I was shocked last issue of how...the X-men lost?? And died. It didn’t feel right. Taken out like that. So I’m hoping it’s one of her disposable lives because I hate to think that after all these years, THATS how they got taken out. Shot in the back? Come on
rabid
rabid - 9/19/2019, 7:49 PM
@MutantEquality - I don't think it was ever them. I'm not even convinced this is Xavier. Remember last year when Tony Stark found out that Sinister had the entire database of Xmen dna and had a spy on the team doing his bidding? Must be Fantomex. Xavier's brain is supposed to be in his body, but maybe Fantomex is evil and has full control
Chewtoy
Chewtoy - 9/18/2019, 8:17 AM
Haven’t read it, but I’d think that the ability to resurrect dead heroes kills off a lot of drama.
rebellion
rebellion - 9/18/2019, 9:39 AM
@Chewtoy - yeh, but is it still those heroes? their minds are copies, they could theoretically make more than one and that is probably gonna come into play later. the originals are still dead.
PsychoticSpaceRaccoon
PsychoticSpaceRaccoon - 9/18/2019, 8:52 AM
Is the MCU going to go X-Men as Mutant-First anti-heroes?

God, I hope not.

I want Xavier's School for Mutants. I want heroes.

We can always go in this direction much, much later.
Comicbookart
Comicbookart - 9/18/2019, 10:12 AM
@PsychoticSpaceRaccoon - X-Men is an entirely different ballgame. I really wonder how they will incorporate them and if Feige will be able to keep up.

Fox created X-Men movies for nearly twenty years and that was with little planning or strategy. Feige could ignore everything else and stick with X-Men potentially forever.

I think he might have to delegate some of his duties to another person so there could be equal focus with what has been established and the upcoming X-Men. Not to mention the FF4 less complicated and dense than X-Men but still significant.
Kumkani
Kumkani - 9/18/2019, 9:29 AM
I LOVED this issue. Hickman is the truth. Absolutely loving what he has done with the X-Men. And yes making Goldballs useful was great lmao.
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