Book Review: Uncanny X-Men: House of M by C. Claremont et al.

Uncanny X-Men: House of M written by Chris Claremont, pencils by Alan Davis and Chris Bachalo, and inks by Mark Farmer and others

Rachel Summers and Betsy Braddock travel between realities and wind up in one where Magneto, the mutant master of magnetism, has become the ruler of that particular Earth (thus the title "House of M" since he is the ruler, British-monarch style). The only problem is a "rift in causality" that is wreaking havoc with other different realities, threatening to destroy them all. Brian Braddock (Betsy's twin brother) is the ruler of one of these alternate realities where they realize the problem and his people threaten to destroy his home reality. Brian goes to the House of M reality where he will work with Rachel and Betsy to seal the rift.

The story is very convoluted and borrows a lot of technical jargon from science (there's a sidereal something or other), trying to paper over the dubious mechanics of what's going on. A lot of other mutant characters are brought in, which is fun if you know the roster but even I was unsure of a couple of them. I found the story hard to follow, especially when characters started possessing each other or speaking through each other. It's a bit of a mess and not up to Claremont's usual standards.

Not recommended unless you are up on your X-Men lore.