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Totally reliant upon the reader's preexisting connection and knowledge of the characters and story. As someone not all that familiar with Claremont's later writing, it becomes incomprehensible. Summarizing years of action into just over 100 pages (especially when time travel is major component and there are multiple series to summarize) is impossible. The art is still nice to look at, though.

mitchf's review

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dark informative reflective fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

rtimmorris's review

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3.0

Still cool, but this one felt a bit rushed. To the point where the actual story content sometimes does not make any sense. And I read all the 90's originals of these!
Thought I'd get more of a nostalgic feeling from this volume.

hypops's review

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4.0

The third book in Ed Piskor’s encyclopedic mega-edit of the first 30 years of X-Men comics ends as strongly as the first book began.

A one-man wiki, Piskor has already done tremendous historical work in his Hip-Hop Family Tree (a retro-styled comics history of hip-hop). And with this book, he wraps up his exhaustive new project of suturing together a massive amount of X-Men lore into a single chronology (the endnote references are worth reading almost entirely on their own).

This third book (collecting issues #1 and 2 of “X-Tinction”) includes some of Piskor’s most retro-tastic art and is filled with as many visual allusions to comics past as are the stories themselves. The second half of the book (issue #2) has some of his flashiest detail work and goes well beyond simple visual “summary.”

While not every long-running comic would benefit from the Piskor treatment, I can imagine a few more that are ripe for the picking.

(I read these in single issues)

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