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gallaghergirl12's review against another edition
4.0
I loved this for a lot of reasons (especially the art/coloring/well frankly everything) but my favorite was every time Bobby screamed at himself.
gohawks's review
4.0
Bendis does a great job turning the X-Men universe on its head while essentially starting over. I love the changes in Cyclops character, and I have no idea what Hank's motives are currently. I was never a big fan of Immonen, but here his thick muscular lines lend the story an extra dimension as it pops off the page.
devinr's review
4.0
Bendis's dialogue feels a little weak (do Australians really talk like that) but the story is interesting and there's real heart there. And Immonen & von Grawbadger's art is fan-frigging-tastic.
vulco1's review against another edition
adventurous
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
pickett22's review
2.0
I don't understand how Bendis' other work can be so good, and this one is so bad. There isn't a character in here that has a vocabulary above high school level. I also get annoyed when people bring Jean back. These days, as soon as she shows up everyone else becomes a background character. Kitty gets relegated to baby-sitter, but I can't complain about it, because at least this way she's still in the plot. Everyone who isn't directly involved with Jean gets dropped. With so many other cool things he could have done in the wake of AvX, he chose to bring baby Jean forward.
Also, if she keeps mind raping people I'm gonna lose it. Everyone keeps saying "stop getting in my mind" and she's all like "Last time, I swear," but it never is! She actually altered how Warren was feeling and there were NO repercussions. People shake their finger at her, and that's all. This is not okay, but no one dares to cross the sacred cow.
Also, if she keeps mind raping people I'm gonna lose it. Everyone keeps saying "stop getting in my mind" and she's all like "Last time, I swear," but it never is! She actually altered how Warren was feeling and there were NO repercussions. People shake their finger at her, and that's all. This is not okay, but no one dares to cross the sacred cow.
wanderlustlover's review
5.0
2021 Summer (July);
Reread of Baby!Jean Arc
Still deeply agreeing with earlier reviews.
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I am unabashedly in love. Honestly. You people gave me Jean back, and even as a child I'm in love.
The future and the past are tangled into the mother of all knots when Hank makes the choice to bring The Original X-Men from the past into the future to fix the horror's going on right now. To make Scott Summer have to face who he was, and that there were better choices and deeper beliefs in clearer visions once upon a time.
I love getting to watch all these characters interact. I love watching each of the younger X-Men, who are the whole reason I'm here, interact with the older group. Where Hank is making everyone face the cleaner, clearer, young eyed time. Children who haven't been through as much as them, but who are people, memories, that are infinitely precious and important.
I'm a sucker for everything that is happening with Jean here. It keeps me clinging on by the tips of my fingertips. As we catapult her into being a psychic (which I still think is being handwaved a little too easily on a daily basis, especially with no one there to keep her powers in check or train her ala early 1-100 X-Men books/Xavier), but I'm still loving it. Her conversation in Hank's head, while he's on the table was my turning point for knowing I wanted to keep buying these issues.
The end of volume 1 where Jean is the one who rally's the team with the decision to stay (and fix this world gone to hell) was the moment I knew I was going to love it. Because there she was, my most favorite girl, who makes all the hard right choices, and sacrifices all the things she want, shining through, even though she'd just been given all the horrors of sixty years of history over her earlier-'selves' shoved into her head. Here she was still deciding right.
And stepping out as the leader her earlier self never had to be until much later. I'm in this one for good, yeah.
Reread of Baby!Jean Arc
Still deeply agreeing with earlier reviews.
~~
I am unabashedly in love. Honestly. You people gave me Jean back, and even as a child I'm in love.
The future and the past are tangled into the mother of all knots when Hank makes the choice to bring The Original X-Men from the past into the future to fix the horror's going on right now. To make Scott Summer have to face who he was, and that there were better choices and deeper beliefs in clearer visions once upon a time.
I love getting to watch all these characters interact. I love watching each of the younger X-Men, who are the whole reason I'm here, interact with the older group. Where Hank is making everyone face the cleaner, clearer, young eyed time. Children who haven't been through as much as them, but who are people, memories, that are infinitely precious and important.
I'm a sucker for everything that is happening with Jean here. It keeps me clinging on by the tips of my fingertips. As we catapult her into being a psychic (which I still think is being handwaved a little too easily on a daily basis, especially with no one there to keep her powers in check or train her ala early 1-100 X-Men books/Xavier), but I'm still loving it. Her conversation in Hank's head, while he's on the table was my turning point for knowing I wanted to keep buying these issues.
The end of volume 1 where Jean is the one who rally's the team with the decision to stay (and fix this world gone to hell) was the moment I knew I was going to love it. Because there she was, my most favorite girl, who makes all the hard right choices, and sacrifices all the things she want, shining through, even though she'd just been given all the horrors of sixty years of history over her earlier-'selves' shoved into her head. Here she was still deciding right.
And stepping out as the leader her earlier self never had to be until much later. I'm in this one for good, yeah.
tmarso's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
5.0
Great comic! Two "times" the x-men!
trike's review
2.0
I just finished the big Avengers versus X-Men cross-over, which leads directly into this book. Cyclops and crew are running around recruiting new mutants created by the Phoenix force in order to "save their species" -- not sure how they're a species since the new ones were created by a cosmic force -- and the rest of the X-Men try to stop him.
At the end of AvX Cyclops was in superprison for committing supercrime, including killing off Professor X. So why is he running around loose? Seems to me Wolverine would just kill him and be done with it. Have a beer and call it justice.
But Beast, who is dying, goes back in time and brings the original X-Men forward, so Young Scott can confront Old Scott. Which goes as expected.
This is just dumb, even for superheroes. The original Xers decide to stay. I guess that doesn't change the past at all. Must be multiple timelines or something. Frankly, I don't care. The art by Stuart Imomen is gorgeous, as usual. Bendis' dialogue is fine; it's just the over-arching plot that's stupid. It smacks more of a book designed by the marketing department than to tell good stories.
At the end of AvX Cyclops was in superprison for committing supercrime, including killing off Professor X. So why is he running around loose? Seems to me Wolverine would just kill him and be done with it. Have a beer and call it justice.
But Beast, who is dying, goes back in time and brings the original X-Men forward, so Young Scott can confront Old Scott. Which goes as expected.
This is just dumb, even for superheroes. The original Xers decide to stay. I guess that doesn't change the past at all. Must be multiple timelines or something. Frankly, I don't care. The art by Stuart Imomen is gorgeous, as usual. Bendis' dialogue is fine; it's just the over-arching plot that's stupid. It smacks more of a book designed by the marketing department than to tell good stories.
impressionblend's review against another edition
4.0
4.5 out of 5 stars
I'm glad I decided to check out the latest run of X-Men, despite hearing that it goes downhill by the end. This volume was pretty damn good, and I loved the time travel element. I'll definitely be reading a few more of these, and I hope I love them just as much!
I'm glad I decided to check out the latest run of X-Men, despite hearing that it goes downhill by the end. This volume was pretty damn good, and I loved the time travel element. I'll definitely be reading a few more of these, and I hope I love them just as much!