taeli's review

Go to review page

3.0

finished 7/3/14

booknooknoggin's review

Go to review page

5.0

Dead Mystery Mutants, Ghost Boxes, Secret War...WTF is Going on!? Beautiful artwork, and an epic story that had me on the edge of my seat the whole time.

caphewritings's review

Go to review page

4.0

4/5

Mình đã nghĩ Astonishing X-Men của Joss Whedon quá hay cho đến khi mình đọc Ghost Box. Arc này không quá gay cấn, không quá dramatic (như cả 5 volume mà Whedon viết), nhưng lại vô cùng cuốn hút người đọc. Các cuộc đối thoại trong truyện bộc lộ được rõ tính cách của nhân vật. Mình thích nhất các cảnh có Emma và Ororo. Hai người rất khác nhau, điều đó được thể hiện rất rõ qua cách hai người nói chuyện với nhau, nhưng khi vào chiến trường, cả hai lại làm việc rất ăn ý và cực kì tôn trọng nhau. Ngoài ra, ciệc thêm Hisako và Ororo vào team đã đưa được một làn gió mới đến với Astonishing X-Men, khiến bộ này có phần trẻ trung, vui tươi hơn, đồng thời mang đến nhiều điều đáng để suy ngẫm. Thực sự, mình nghĩ mình thích Warren Ellis viết X-Men hơn Joss Whedon rồi đấy.

Art của Simone Bianchi rất đẹp. Mình đặc biệt thích việc hai nhân vật Ororo và Emma đều có những bộ trang phục tương đối hở hang, nhưng lại không bị sexualized thái quá, mà ngược lại rất hợp với cả hai nhân vật (bruh mình thích cái áo choàng). Tuy nhiên, có nhiều chi tiết trong truyện vẽ hơi rối, khó nhìn.

strikingthirteen's review

Go to review page

3.0

It's pretty good but man am I missing our previous writer and artist. The art is digitally painted but everything is so closer to monotone that it's hard to pick out different characters from each other at times. There is quite a bit of jump from the events of the previous volume and while a knowledge of the House of M storyline is very helpful with understanding this volume but you can follow well enough without having read it.

The mutant population is under 200 now, the X-Men base has moved, and the newest X-Men team member is trying to think up a better code name when police ask the team to consult on a murder. Unknown mutants are involved and they seem to have been artificially created.

It's not a stellar comic but it kept me reading. I think I may need another volume to get a proper feel for this new team but I'm still on board.

ginkgotree's review

Go to review page

1.0

Ugh, the late Bronze Age. Every once in awhile a character cracks an unfunny joke, but for the most part it's just relentlessly, pointlessly grim, with bonus alternate reality extra-super-grim. About three-fourths through I dimly realized I'd actually read this before at some point and forgotten about it because it's not good. Don't be fooled by its relationship to Joss Whedon's run; it is essentially a different series altogether.

reader_fictions's review

Go to review page

1.0

Joss Whedon left and this series went all sorts of to hell. The biggest problem with this volume is that, in the previous installment, Joss, as he is wont to do, had a character sacrifice herself to save the rest of the X team. She wasn't dead, but she was certainly going to be gone for quite a while, assuming she ever made it back, and it was all very emotional. This volume never mentioned that. At all.

The plot of this is just awful and mostly doesn't make sense. The last chapters are depressing and come out of absolutely nowhere. The group had won a battle with the bad guys and then all of a sudden things are different. And apparently they lost. But there's no explanation of what's happening. I can't say whether the last sections were, fittingly, an alternate universe thing or if the series is over or what. I suspect it was an alternate universe, but that should definitely be made more apparent.
More...