eemeelee's review against another edition
3.0
Just going to go ahead and rate this before I read the last four because I have a very bad feeling about this
deuxcl's review against another edition
adventurous
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
nikshelby's review against another edition
2.0
i thought the art was just "all-right"
wasn't brilliant or beautiful, however, it wasn't that awful homogenous cartoon-y stuff either.
i found the writing a little disjointed. the ideas were good, the premise was interesting...but, the follow-through lacked flow.
still, if you are an x-men fan - go for it.
wasn't brilliant or beautiful, however, it wasn't that awful homogenous cartoon-y stuff either.
i found the writing a little disjointed. the ideas were good, the premise was interesting...but, the follow-through lacked flow.
still, if you are an x-men fan - go for it.
sophiali07's review
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
kfedwards88's review against another edition
5.0
Finally someone who makes the X-Men as cool as cool as they were (okay almost!) as when Claremont was in control. This was refreshing after winding my way through the rehashings that was Essential X-Men Vols. 5 and 6.
sisteray's review against another edition
5.0
It is ridiculous, and over the top, but it really is a killer run, and it brings a whole new level of cool to the X-men. The team generally suffers from authors attempting to make the book edgy but ultimately ends up feeling exploitive or forced. Not here. Morrison, as usual, is out in left field with no care about whether his writing is tough enough.
A shame that Igor Kordey was so rushed. His work generally is good outside of this run, and he did a serviceable job considering the conditions of his deadlines, but man did it look ugly compared to all the other beautiful work in this book.
A shame that Igor Kordey was so rushed. His work generally is good outside of this run, and he did a serviceable job considering the conditions of his deadlines, but man did it look ugly compared to all the other beautiful work in this book.
ferzemkhan's review
adventurous
challenging
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
jcovey's review against another edition
5.0
Grant Morrison has the uncanny ability to hone in on the beating heart of any property he takes on. With laser precision he pinpoints the appeal of the character, or team in this case, and why this idea, these characters, have managed to stand the test of time while so many others have fizzled out. Then he finds the ultimate challenge to that character and the idea they represent. He sees the fundamental, underlying conflict that has lain dormant, waiting to be made explicit.
When he looks at Batman he sees the ultimate fantasy of complete control. Of being ready for absolutely anything, and he pits this man impervious to fear against the primal paranoia of a vast, global conspiracy working for years in utter secrecy to undermine and destroy him psychologically.
When he looks at Superman he doesn't see a superhero in need of something to punch, preferably something even bigger and badder than the thing last issue. He sees the redemptive Sun god struggling to show people the good within themselves. And so he pits him against cosmic tyrants, condescending megalomaniacs and all those who would seek to destroy people's belief in themselves and replace it with the safety of blind obedience. Culminating in the universally domineering threat of the evil God Darkseid whose goal is nothing less than to reduce the whole cosmos to nothing but a mirror image of himself and whose followers chant the chillingly universal slogan, "Darkseid Is!"
So what does he see when he turns his eyes to X-Men? He sees years of pointless stories rehashing the old Xavier/Magneto feud (a tendency mercilessly and poignantly mocked late in the run) when X-Men is meant to be a comic about all that is frighteningly, exhilaratingly new. Right from the start of his run he brings us back to the primal idea of X-Men: That the next step in human evolution has arrived. Then he launches against this idea it's natural opposite: The unwillingness to fade away. The blind egoism required to refuse evolution and change. This mindset takes many forms over the course of the run, it is even in the end made literal in a way I don't want to spoil, and it may be said that many of those forms have been more or less done before at some point in X-Men's venerable history. But never, before or since, have they been done with such clear understanding of what is really at stake. Of why these are the threats that the X-Men must fight and precisely why they matter in the underlying, fundamental story that is X-Men.
When he looks at Batman he sees the ultimate fantasy of complete control. Of being ready for absolutely anything, and he pits this man impervious to fear against the primal paranoia of a vast, global conspiracy working for years in utter secrecy to undermine and destroy him psychologically.
When he looks at Superman he doesn't see a superhero in need of something to punch, preferably something even bigger and badder than the thing last issue. He sees the redemptive Sun god struggling to show people the good within themselves. And so he pits him against cosmic tyrants, condescending megalomaniacs and all those who would seek to destroy people's belief in themselves and replace it with the safety of blind obedience. Culminating in the universally domineering threat of the evil God Darkseid whose goal is nothing less than to reduce the whole cosmos to nothing but a mirror image of himself and whose followers chant the chillingly universal slogan, "Darkseid Is!"
So what does he see when he turns his eyes to X-Men? He sees years of pointless stories rehashing the old Xavier/Magneto feud (a tendency mercilessly and poignantly mocked late in the run) when X-Men is meant to be a comic about all that is frighteningly, exhilaratingly new. Right from the start of his run he brings us back to the primal idea of X-Men: That the next step in human evolution has arrived. Then he launches against this idea it's natural opposite: The unwillingness to fade away. The blind egoism required to refuse evolution and change. This mindset takes many forms over the course of the run, it is even in the end made literal in a way I don't want to spoil, and it may be said that many of those forms have been more or less done before at some point in X-Men's venerable history. But never, before or since, have they been done with such clear understanding of what is really at stake. Of why these are the threats that the X-Men must fight and precisely why they matter in the underlying, fundamental story that is X-Men.