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Title: New X-Men Vol. 2 by Grant Morrison, John Paul Leon, Frank Quitely ISBN: 0-7851-1118-2 Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: November, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.96 (27 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Changes
Comment: Grant Morrison breathes new life into a title many serious comics readers had left for dead years ago. He starts with the destruction of an entire country's population and just keeps on going. A mystery villain from Xavier's past has an agenda: to destroy the world's mutants -- and it looks like she has a very good chance of succeeding.
As you can see, Morrison isn't afraid of shaking things up. In fact, this is exactly what he was brought on to do. Included as an appendix is "Morrison's Manifesto," a look at the creative process behind this reenvisioning, as well as the original concepts for this particular storyline. It helps one (particularly a long-time reader) understand why certain changes were implemented. I won't go into detail, but there are quite a few surprises.
Morrison writes a gripping story. Forget the usual comics status quo. Forget how everything always turns out okay in the end. You really feel that the characters are in serious danger from a threat that seems to have all the cards stacked in her favor. This could well be the X-Men's darkest hour, and that's not hyperbole.
The art, for the most part, is very good. "Regular" artist Frank Quitely, odd stylistic quirks aside, has a clean, detailed look to his work that I've liked for some time. It's nice to see Cyclops looking "Slim" once more, after the ridiculously over-muscled nineties. Unfortunately, Quitely apparently couldn't keep up with the schedule of the monthly series so there are some fill-ins. Ethan Van Sciver does well on his installments, but Igor Kordey's art is sloppy and unclear and is the only thing that drags the book down. Quitely returns for the final chapter, ending it on a positive note.
This book reprints NEW X-MEN #114-126 and the 2001 annual. Some of this material previously appeared in a trade paperback called E IS FOR EXTINCTION, but I'm glad to have the entire story in a quality hardcover volume.
Rating: 4
Summary: "THE X-MEN ARE BACK! BETTER THAN...uh, almost ever..."
Comment: Like many people, I stopped reading the X-Men a long, long time ago - around the time Chris Claremont brought back Jean Grey for the umpteenth million time. Lost my faith and interest, but I still occassionally thumbed through an issue just to see what the latest farce was (the most ridiculous being Wolverine regaining his adamantium skeleton - just as the character started to become interesting again).
Then - coinciding with the release of the (generally well-done) movie - I heard Grant Morrison was taking over the writing on the book. I picked up his first issue, and right from the start you knew he'd put in his time rethinking and recreating the X-Men. New costumes; new, more adult problems facing the characters (such as the strain between Scott and Jean's marriage, the Beast's quest for identity); and, oh yes, the little matter of the genocide of all the mutants on the island of Genosha - including Magneto (Morrison has stated he has no doubt Marvel will revive the character someday - but not while he's doing the scripting).
The plot twists from this point are fantastic, and there's no turning back from some: the public revelation of Xavier and what is really going on behind the doors of his school, Logan and Jean Grey resolving their sexual tension once and for all (long over-due), Emma Frost suddenly becoming the absolute most interesting character in the series.
The drawbacks? As every other reviewer here has mentioned, it's the art. Frank Quitely's work is indeed fantastic - a welcome change from the bursting muscles and heroic facades of the past - but the others who fill in A) disrupt the continuity, even if they had been Quitely's equal (or at least in his style), but B) they're not: Kordey's pencils are, as virtually every reviewer has stated, poor, sloppy, amateurish. I don't know if he was given like 14.8 hours to get the job done, but it sure looks that way. On every page. In every panel.
Still, it's a good read despite these flaws; and I'd recommend it higher than anything else going on in mainstream comics right now. A very brave, interesting, and necessary change of pace for Marvel's most popular title.
Rating: 4
Summary: New X-men is great
Comment: This is the start of Grant Morrison's take on the X-men. This graphic novel reprints New X-men #114-126 and New X-men Annual 2001. This book follows the X-men Cyclops, Beast, Phoenix, Wolverine, and Emma Frost. Tey face off against Cassandra Nova, Professor X's evil twin, the U-men, and the Shi-ar Imperial Guard. This novel also introduces some new x-men (imagine that!) like Xorn and Beak. The only bad side to this book is that some of the art isn't as great as I'd like. Some art is great, like Frank Quitely but others aren't. Well I hope this helped make your decission about this novel.
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Title: New X-Men Vol. 4: Riot at Xavier's by Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely, Keron Grant ISBN: 0785110674 Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $11.99 |
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Title: New X-Men Vol. 1: E is for Extinction by Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely ISBN: 0785108114 Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: New X-Men Vol. 6: Planet X by Grant Morrison, Jeff Youngquist, Phil Jimenez ISBN: 0785112014 Publisher: MARVEL COMICS Pub. Date: April, 2004 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: X-Treme X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills II (X-Treme X-Men) by Chris Claremont ISBN: 0785112545 Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: December, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Ultimate X-Men: Return of the King (Ultimate X-Men) by Mark Millar, David Finch, Adam Kubert ISBN: 0785110917 Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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