Just Read House of M. What did you think?

[Ult. Fireboy]

I just read the House of M series. I thought it was pretty good. It was cool to find out what some of Marvel's Heroes biggest dreams were. I didn't know Wanda was THAT powerful though. Tell me what you thought.

[Cayman]

It was a very cool series with beautiful art, however I wish it had been longer to give more characters page time.

Cay

[beyond]

I really liked House of M. I think Marvel did a good job at not having to read the tie ins to get exactly what was happening with the story. most of the minis and tie ins were just side stories. Id say the only one that really stood out in my mind was Spider-Man House of M.

Ive read the main miniseries a few times now, and i think it will hold up years from now as an entertaining, self contained story.

[Zenith23]

I like it,the art was great the story ok but i liked even more it didn't rely on endless tie ins.

[Sean Whitmore]

I thought it was a perfectly good 3-part story that was stretched out to 8 issues. And that the ending was more than a little anticlimactic. And that, in hindsight, the entire series was little more than a prologue for a more important story.


SEAN

[BigBoss]

I am going to go pick up house of M tommorow.

[scottv]

I thought that it was well writen and I really enjoyed it

[Soundrave]

It was a very cool series with beautiful art, however I wish it had been longer to give more characters page time.

You must be the Bizarro-World version of me.

Well, I do agree about the art.

[Joe Acro]

I thought that it was well writen and I really enjoyed it

I think I'll agree with this sentiment. Though the writing could have been a little better, I think House of M, ignoring the Scarlet Witch, is a better series than Civil War.

[Gargus]

Good concept that was poorly executed.

The basic story was good but I thought it had to much filler. I mean if your going to do something this big it needs more substance to it. Bascially up to going after wanda and the last issue was good, everything in between was a waste. Ok so you get to see heroes in their fantasy land and such but it meant nothing really to the actual story.

And the vehicle they used to bring back memories with the little girl was a poor attempt, it just seemed generic "oh this is wandas doing she made the girl because she wanted help" and that was it, just seemed lame and really really convienant, enough to make reed richards plot holes seem plauseable.

In the end I thought the writing was not very good but what mattered was the after effects of the story. So I didnt mind to much it kind of sucked, I was glad mutants were a minority again. Hell lately everyone was a damn mutant, they were to easy to explain "oh yeah suddenly I got these powers, Im a mutant" you could just invent whatever you wanted without having to give them a back story like iron man or the hulk, all you had to do was say they were mutant and it was pretty brainless.

[geordiesteve]

I think it was given a lot of hype, and it was a big let down. Nice art but bad execution, as mentioned by others. It was good for one thing, it reduced the number of mutants and it paved the way for Civil War, but as a standalone series, it was pretty flat and lifeless. Stripping some of the heroes of their powers and making them normal was good, but not if you then go and change them back into mutants about 2 months down the line. What's the point? I'm looking at you Bendis and you Magneto!!!!!

[ThePhenom]

I really enjoyed it, I mean regardless of the controversy it's still a fun read and I didn't think it was anticlimatic, maybe with Magneto but "no more mutants" was awesome.

Some scenes really stood out too, Layla going around to each person was really quite interesting I thought...

[PastePotPete]

I liked it, and what it did for the Marvel U, but it had problems that kept me from loving it.

I started reading the single issues, but stopped because I got frustrated. Why? Because the bulk of issue 3 was a recap of the first two issues. The long recap conversation between Wolverine and the resistance, topped off by the extremely convenient appearance of Layla Miller made me scream "Bullsh**!" and I dropped the book.

Later, I got really into X-Factor and found myself really enjoying the Son of M miniseries, so I thought I'd go back and get the House of M trade. I like to lend my comics to friends and I wanted them to be able to get the whole story. It read better in trade format. The long conversation with Wolverine seemed like a SCENE rather than an ISSUE. Layla Miller's presence was explained by Dr. Strange (Wanda created her) although that still didn't stop the character from being a deus ex machina.

Bendis needs to stop with the decompression (issue-long conversations) and the deus ex machinas (Quake at the end of the last New Avengers arc).

I'd say it was a fascinating idea, but flawed in execution. The end result of less mutants is a good one, and I love how Peter David has tied the storyline into X-Factor. He's even fixed all the problems with Layla Miller. They should have gotten him to write House of M in the first place, even if it wasn't his idea.

[Jolly Mon]

I thought it was a mess. Although it was an excellent primer on how to write a decompressed story. The poster who stated it was a 3 part story streched to 8 had it right. Things were pulled out of left field, the ending was lame, and in the end it was just another of the "all-powerful bad guy creates alternate reality and shoves heroes into other versions of themselves that don't know it isn't real". Just reminds me of bad 90's crossovers.

[Shellhead]

I thought it was a mess. Although it was an excellent primer on how to write a decompressed story. The poster who stated it was a 3 part story streched to 8 had it right. Things were pulled out of left field, the ending was lame, and in the end it was just another of the "all-powerful bad guy creates alternate reality and shoves heroes into other versions of themselves that don't know it isn't real". Just reminds me of bad 90's crossovers.

Sean Whitmore is the poster who stated that House of M was a 3-part story stretched out to 8 parts. I highly recommend that you scroll back up to his post and click on "Fanboy Productions" in his signature, then look for the two "House of W" icons. Sean did an excellent job of poking fun at House of M.