jammasterjamie's review
4.0
As a fan of the X-Men, Quantum Leap, and Sliders (until it got too silly), I remember diving into the monthly issues of this series with relish and delight, and it maintained a place near to the top of my pull-pile for Winick's entire run because it was just good, fun, comic-book storytelling the way it was meant to be. I'm glad to say that revisiting these stories now in graphic novel form is just as much fun and I look forward to diving deeper and visiting Blink and my friends once again.
crookedtreehouse's review
3.0
One of the more conceptually interesting spinoffs of the X-Men, Exiles brings together six mutants from various timelines and teams them up to piece reality together after "a ripple" seems to be pulling reality apart. If they succeed, they go back to their own timeline as if they never left, if they fail, they get sent to another world that's being torn apart, and if they die, they die. And if they die, they're immediately replaced by a new character from another reality.
The appeal of this series is that it allows the characters to go back to important parts of X-Men lore. In this volume, their second adventure takes them to [b:X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga|103111|X-Men The Dark Phoenix Saga|Chris Claremont|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1409504820l/103111._SY75_.jpg|99407] from [a:Chris Claremont|15091|Chris Claremont|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1206644417p2/15091.jpg]'s run.
While I mostly enjoy this book, it's hampered by the Morph chracter, who's a happy go lucky misogynist and impressionist. His dialog wasn't good or funny when it was first written, and age hasn't made it any better.
[a:Mike McKone|36047|Mike McKone|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1565309444p2/36047.jpg]'s art is solid and cartoony.
I recommend this for serious X-fans looking for something different, particularly if you enjoy things that have serious consequences but sway more towards fun than drama.
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Rereading this again a few years later, and I feel precisely the same.
The appeal of this series is that it allows the characters to go back to important parts of X-Men lore. In this volume, their second adventure takes them to [b:X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga|103111|X-Men The Dark Phoenix Saga|Chris Claremont|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1409504820l/103111._SY75_.jpg|99407] from [a:Chris Claremont|15091|Chris Claremont|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1206644417p2/15091.jpg]'s run.
While I mostly enjoy this book, it's hampered by the Morph chracter, who's a happy go lucky misogynist and impressionist. His dialog wasn't good or funny when it was first written, and age hasn't made it any better.
[a:Mike McKone|36047|Mike McKone|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1565309444p2/36047.jpg]'s art is solid and cartoony.
I recommend this for serious X-fans looking for something different, particularly if you enjoy things that have serious consequences but sway more towards fun than drama.
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Rereading this again a few years later, and I feel precisely the same.
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