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colindalaska's review against another edition
4.0
Past, present, future:
Fight each other many times.
But it means nothing.
Fight each other many times.
But it means nothing.
unladylike's review against another edition
1.0
I like Brian Wood, I like some of Bendis' stuff, and I like a good X-Men story, but this was crap. The final issue of this "crossover event" was just released yesterday and I finished reading it moments ago. It'll either take me awhile to process the workings and implications of the plot...or I'll more likely just forget it and focus on some better storylines instead.
I don't normally pick on the art in comics, but the style of this whole event irritated and distracted me. I thought it might be fitting with the time-travely stuff, but nope. There was no clear, Morrison-esque concept to this art style, which juxtaposes typical, crisp, lovely art with characters just a few feet away whose bodies are intentionally lopsided, disproportionate, and often resemble a rough sketch more than a final comic product. Oh, and when characters are any more than ten paces or so back from the viewer, their faces vanish. What a horrible way to illustrate depth perspectives. If someone is standing across a pro-size gymnasium or field from me, sure, I might have to squint to see who they are, but I'd be able to tell that they have two eyes, a nose, and a mouth. I'd be freaked as hell if they were just a mass of two-dimensional flesh, which is exactly how I felt on the many pages that do this.
I don't normally pick on the art in comics, but the style of this whole event irritated and distracted me. I thought it might be fitting with the time-travely stuff, but nope. There was no clear, Morrison-esque concept to this art style, which juxtaposes typical, crisp, lovely art with characters just a few feet away whose bodies are intentionally lopsided, disproportionate, and often resemble a rough sketch more than a final comic product. Oh, and when characters are any more than ten paces or so back from the viewer, their faces vanish. What a horrible way to illustrate depth perspectives. If someone is standing across a pro-size gymnasium or field from me, sure, I might have to squint to see who they are, but I'd be able to tell that they have two eyes, a nose, and a mouth. I'd be freaked as hell if they were just a mass of two-dimensional flesh, which is exactly how I felt on the many pages that do this.
ogreart's review against another edition
4.0
No-one has a more twisted timestream then the X-Men. No one. And I love it. I am reading the All New X-Men series on Hoopla and between two of the volumes a super major plot twist happened that I missed. I looked and found there were two issues missing from between those two volumes. After some searching I found this gem. Whew. Twists and turns. Turns and twists. Who's the good guy? Who's the bad guy? Who lives? Who dies? Why is time travel so ubiquitous if it is so dangerous? It was a heck of an action packed ride and I really had fun.
murphyc1's review against another edition
2.0
Eew. I don't read X-Men beyond the occasional graphic novel collection here and there, mostly classic reprint stuff. I have read enough, however, to know that yet another story in which yet another evil version of Jean Grey is the villain is both lazy and gross.
saskiacb's review against another edition
3.0
I feel like this was unnecessarily confusing and trying to overreach in that it didn't overreach at all and ended up being repetitive and boring.
lintkaurea's review against another edition
3.0
Para tratarse de viajes en el tiempo a tutiplén me ha dejado bastante frío. Peeero es como si estuvieran preparando algo todavía más bestia. Brian Wood cada vez vende más humo: ya le tenemos calado. Meter un huevo de personajes no es sinónimo de calidad, por mucho crossover entre colecciones que haya, y las pinceladas de lo que está por llegar es lo que mantiene todo el rato la expectativa. Así que como serie completa es flojita, pero como preludio de algo inexistente es la leche.
deonyeager's review against another edition
4.0
It was a fun popcorn-flick kind of comic. There's a lot of character building and it does enough to shake up the status quo. A lot of cliffhanger issues though, but I did read this in a trade. I guess that's okay. There are a lot of good character moments that gives brevity to the more intense stuff. Bendis' X-Men run is probably one of the weirdest time travel stories I have ever read. It's definitely one that'll stick with me the most. You can tell that he is just having fun with all of the X-Men's mess from the past. It literally comes to bit them back in the ass. Especially in the ending.
matt4hire's review against another edition
2.0
One of those awful Marvel crossovers that’s just generic fight scene after generic fight scene, and everybody acts like a complete idiot. It’s not just Bendis’ fault, but he feels like the main driver of them.
Heck, Kitty Pride whines about how nobody trusts her at the end, when every shred of reason screams that they shouldn’t.
At least the art’s pretty.
Heck, Kitty Pride whines about how nobody trusts her at the end, when every shred of reason screams that they shouldn’t.
At least the art’s pretty.
colin_cox's review against another edition
1.0
I hate bloated, overwrought comic book crossover events. I hate them hard. There is little in this world I actively despise, the exceptions being newfangled neologisms such as "ginormous" and fanny packs, but the comic book crossover event is quickly traversing this mountain of deplorables.
Last night I had dinner with two thoughtful, seasoned comic book readers who helped me conceptualize the overarching problem with most crossovers: narrative control. One of my friends was quick to point out that narrative control and narrative focus are not the same. While X-Men: Battle of the Atom possesses narrative focus it lacks narrative control. Bendis and his team of writers almost immediately lose narrative control, and the entire event feels like a mad dash to finish as quickly as possible.
The appeal of the crossover is self-evident; however, I have not read a crossover that sustains the narrative weight of its conceptual bombast, and X-Men: Battle of the Atom falls into a similar trap.
Last night I had dinner with two thoughtful, seasoned comic book readers who helped me conceptualize the overarching problem with most crossovers: narrative control. One of my friends was quick to point out that narrative control and narrative focus are not the same. While X-Men: Battle of the Atom possesses narrative focus it lacks narrative control. Bendis and his team of writers almost immediately lose narrative control, and the entire event feels like a mad dash to finish as quickly as possible.
The appeal of the crossover is self-evident; however, I have not read a crossover that sustains the narrative weight of its conceptual bombast, and X-Men: Battle of the Atom falls into a similar trap.