All in all the rare satisfying crossover event, albeit again only for the highly invested. As are some of the Scarlet Witch's moments of near-lucidity, and great character moments also abound for Wolverine, Spider-Man and (perhaps surprisingly) Emma Frost. I particularly find some of the quiet moments with Magneto in this book, before, during and after the alternate reality, to be very powerful indeed. Though should they? The House of M's world is not perfect by any means, but by and large it seems at least as good as the real one they left behind. The book thus feels quite focused, in spite of the hundreds of characters, as it becomes the story of the resistant movement trying to reclaim their memories of the real world and undoing the new one. The "what if" nature of the premise is never properly explored here - there is a myriad of tie-ins for that - as the main series focuses instead of the set up, dismantling and pay-off of the brief change of the entire Marvel Univese to a place where the mutants are the first class citizens, ruled by the largely benevolent House of Magnus. As one might expect with a giant crossover event, "House of M" will be a confusing and shallow read to the casual fan, but for the very invested Marvel reader, it's a bit of a treat.
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