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Title: X-Men: Days of Future Past by Chris Claremont, John Byrne, Byrne, Richard H. Williams, Terry Austin ISBN: 0-87135-582-5 Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: September, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.58 (38 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: THE Definitive X-Men Epic.
Comment: Before Sinister, before Apocalypse, even before Sabretooth...there was Jean Grey.
The purest soul and noblest heart among the X-Men, she was willing to sacrifice her life to protect those she loved. Cosmic chance empowered her with a force beyond comprehension, and she became the Phoenix, an angel of mercy and light, who saved an entire universe with the power of her love for her friends.
Then...as all great things do...she fell.
This epic (there's no other way to describe it) chronicles exactly how Jean fell, transformed by her own dark side (with a little help from the Hellfire Club) into a Black Angel, a Chaos-Bringer, a Ravager of Worlds. The best thing about it is that it does so in a way that every reader can understand. You could give this to your eight-year-old son or your forty-eight-year-old mother, and either of them could understand the story, and take it to heart in their own ways.
Claremont shines in this epic as in all his X-Men work, but the true brilliance is as much in the way John Byrne draws the characters as in the way Claremont writes them. Sympathetic yet dynamic figures express their feelings and actions in ways that neither Jim Lee's stone-faced idols nor Frank Quitely's reality-based blobs of humanity can quite approximate. The X-Men are heroes, through and through, but what Claremont and Byrne get across, as effectively as their heroism...is their humanity.
Rating: 1
Summary: This would never make a great picture.....
Comment: despite what all the Marvel Geeks say about this being a great story and should be used in the X-Men movies, I have to go against that. This was not a great story by any means, In fact when the story ended, with Jean's apparent death, that turned out not to be the case at all. It seems the real Jean was alive and had been into some kind of hibernation by the alien force that had assumed her form and called itself "Phoenix". Try following that one?! Anyway the ending of X2, seems to say that they will do a take of the Phoneix story in X-Men 3, but I do not see any way they can make that work as a movie, when it did not work as a book, and the film makers still want the movie take on the X-Men to be grounded in a more "Down to Earth" way, and not have aliens or the Shair Empire or any cosmic stuff coming into it. I just don't see how that could work and I hope they come to their senses and do something better and more original, that will work as a movie.
Rating: 5
Summary: An X-Men Pinnacle
Comment: It is up to each X fan to decide if subsequent events have diluted the power of the Dark Phoenix saga, but it is still the one story that everyone who really wants to know the X-Men must be familiar with.
Seemingly by a miracle, Jean Grey's life was recently saved by psychic melding with an elemental force called the Phoenix. Unfortunately, a price soon becomes apparent. At first in small ways, it starts to become obvious that the Phoenix has started to change Jean, wheather for good or ill not immediately apparent. As the obscene Hellfire Club - which makes Magneto look like a boy scout - tries to find a way to make use of Jean, it slowly becomes evident that the power of the Phoenix is becoming beyond her control. This time, not even her teammates - not even Scott - may be able to save her.
This story is still powerful, and younger readers should be aware that, at the time, it sent shockwaves through the comic reading world because nothing like the tragic resolution had ever been done before. It was grim indeed.
There is, however, a light at the end of the tunnel. As the remaining X-Men grieve, a young girl hesitantly arrives at Xavier's to begin schooling - a girl who had a peripheral involvement in the Phoenix events. She's Kitty Pryde, who will eventually become the love of Colossus' life, like a foster daughter to Storm and like a little sister to Nightcrawler.
Newer fans will be surprised in particular by the beginning of Kurt and Kitty's friendship. "I don't think the little Fraulein likes me", Kurt notes to himself during the calm before the storm. The matter is dropped in the whirlwind of events, but it will come back to haunt them both. The truth is that Kitty, in spite of her best efforts to hide it, WAS a bit frightened by Kurt for quite some time. It would take alot of mental conditioning on her part and patience and sensitivity on his before she became his fiercely adoring Katzchen.
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Title: X-Men: From the Ashes by Chris Claremont, Paul Smith, Bob Wiacek, John S. Romita, Walter Simonson ISBN: 0871356155 Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: March, 1991 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: X-Men: Phoenix Rising by Roger Stern, Bob Layton, John Byme, John Buscema, Jackson Gulce ISBN: 0785107118 Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Essential X-Men Volume 3 by Chris Claremont, Dave Cockrum ISBN: 0785106618 Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: X-Tinction Agenda (X-Men)(STAR0364) by Chris Claremont, Louise Simonson, Rob Liefeld ISBN: 0871359227 Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: November, 1992 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: X-Cutioner's Song: Featuring the X-Men, X-Factor and X-Force by Scott Lobdell, Peter David, Fabian Niceza, Fabian Nicieza, Kelly Corvese, Bob Harras ISBN: 0785100253 Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: May, 1994 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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