House of M

Brian Michael Bendis, Olivier Coipel (Illustrator), and Esad Ribic (Cover Designer)

Collects House of M (2005) #1-8. The Scarlet Witch is out of control, and the fate of the entire world is in her hands. Will Magneto help his daughter or use her powers to his own benefit? Starring the Astonishing X-Men and the New Avengers!

• ISBN10: 0785117210
• ISBN13: 9780785117216
• Publish Date: 5 June 2012 (first published 30 January 2008)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Marvel Comics
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 224
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780785117216

Reviews

[Nessa Luna]

Read this review and more on my blog October Tune!

As you might know, I am a huge Marvel fan (mostly of the movies), and I have been wanting to try out some of the comics/graphic novels for a while now. One of them (that I really wanted to read) was House of M; mostly because it featured the Maximoff twins, two of my favourite characters in AOU. Thanks to my friend, Tanja, who gave House of M to me for my birthday, I got to read it this month, yay!

House of M is about Wanda Maximoff who has lost her mind after losing control over her powers and killing several of her Avenger friends. The (old) Avengers, some X-Men and a couple of other Marvel heroes meet to discuss her fate. Pietro (Wanda's twinbrother) is convinced they want to kill his sister, and wants to protect her at all costs. But that's when everything goes wrong.

I had seen a lot of things about House of M on Tumblr already, so I was really curious what it was about. The story was really nice, and I really enjoyed reading the entire thing. We met a lot of characters, some of which I already knew (The Maximoff's, Xavier and his X-Men, Iron Man, Spider-man and so forth), and some new characters as well (Luke Cage, Doctor Strange, Cloak and a lot more). I did find out that this copy I have doesn't have all the stories in the House of M story-line in it, but just the eight main ones I believe. I do want to read the rest of the stories as well, so I'm going to see if I can find them somewhere. Unfortunately, I was spoiled a bit about what happened at the end of this novel so even though I was a tiny bit sad I wasn't surprised at it at all which was such a shame.

Nevertheless, I really enjoyed this story - I loved looking at the graphics and I just really loved reading the bits that I hadn't seen on tumblr already. Now I really want to read more Marvel comics, but I honestly don't know where to start. Is there a general order to read them or can you just read them however you want? I am planning on reading either Civil War or Ms. Marvel next!

If you want to start reading Marvel comics and you don't know where to start, just look around the internet, google 'Marvel comics' and pick out something you really like (if you like Deadpool for example, just google 'Best Deadpool comics' or something like that and you will probably find a list of comics you could read. I do recommend getting the 'volumes' which usually have like eight or so comics in one book which is cheaper and a lot nicer to read. I own a single comic and I am honestly afraid of reading it because I'm afraid it'll tear or something like that.. I do definitely recommend House of M not just to people who love the Maximoffs but just to people who want to read Marvel comics in general!

My opinion on this book in one gif:


(rushing through the book because I wanted to know how it went on)

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I will admit that while I really enjoy Marvel I probably do not keep up with the story lines like I should, so the fact that there was a whole storyline where the Avengers are devastated by one of their own kind of caught my attention while I looking through a hug box of comics I purchased not too long ago.

House of M takes the events of Avengers Disassembled and really turns it on it’s head. Scarlet Witch has killed some of her teammates in a mental break down and Magneto seeks to protect her from the possible judgment of both the X-Men and the Avengers. However when the teams are set to decide her fate they find themselves in a very different reality and only Wolverine is capable of remember what is actually occurring to them.

I think the most interesting thing about this particular story arc is that you get to see the heroes (and villains) doing things that you might now have thought of before. They have different lives and most of them are truly happy. However when it comes down to it I thought it was more interesting to see how the heroes respond to finding out the truth of their new lives. There is a lot emotion and hurt involved, and it’s nice to see some of the characters in a different element. We also get to see Magneto taking the role of a father to Wanda and Peitro, and not just in the role of pro-mutant radical. I will admit he’s still not all that parental, but it’s nice seeing that side of him however briefly.

I like that when this book ends I feel like each of the characters will be carrying something away from it, and that it will stick with them for a while…especially a specific few. I’m also curious to see how they deal with Scarlet Witch’s last little gift. I’m not entirely sure what I’m supposed to read after this one and where exactly in the New Avengers this particular arc fits, so if someone else knows then please let me know.