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khadijah3's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
shane_tiernan's review against another edition
2.0
This is kinda dated, not terrible, but that whole thought bubble thing where they're describing what they're doing, really seems kinda cheesy nowadays. Also the fact that the mutant girl who doesn't really think of herself as a superhero calls herself "Lifeguard" and she's actually a lifeguard in real life it's bad.
When I bought this I actually thought I was buying the newer "X-Treme X-men" series, but I have 3 or 4 graphic novels from this series so I'll probably keep reading, just not super excited about it.
When I bought this I actually thought I was buying the newer "X-Treme X-men" series, but I have 3 or 4 graphic novels from this series so I'll probably keep reading, just not super excited about it.
laissezfarrell's review against another edition
2.0
Some flashes of the old magic but the art is not great and the experience overall neither good nor bad.
crookedtreehouse's review against another edition
2.0
If you wish Chris Claremont would have just written the X-Men forever, tthen this book is For You. Excruciatingly detailed narration that overexplains things that you can see in the art. (For example, someone is driving, and he feels the need to inform you that the character is driving a car, and stops just short of telling you that a car is a machine with four wheels and an engine. He does, however, use three adjectives an and adverb to describe how the person drives.) Heavy, heavy reliance on minutae from his original run on the book, character deaths that are immediately revealed to be fake, and characters constantly losing their temper and acting irrational towards their best friends of many years.
It's mostly tiresome. He introduces a villain who is immediately The Most Powerful Villain They've Ever Faces, while also seeding in villains from his 80s run. He introduces new characters with dated and stupid powers (a mutant with the power of surfing) with no sense of irony or acknowledgement that it's silly.
The premise of the series: Rogue leading a team of X-Men to investigate Destiny's diaries (again, a staple of his 80s run) is intriguing enough to give this a second star, despite it being written poorly, and having the colorists soften the pencils and inks so much that Larocca's art looks like a cheap 70s cartoon filmed with a vaseline lense.
I remember finding this book more interesting when it was coming out in issue format, but I think that was mostly because I assumed the story was going to go somewhere, and I now know better.
Claremont does allow for some quasi-interesting developments to place this in the Morrison run, as we see how Beast transforms from his previous form to the feline Beast we meet in New X-Men, and Jean makes an appearance on the astral plane showing Storm what they're dealing with in the more interesting title.
I can only really recommend it for diehard fans of Claremont and X-Men completists.
It's mostly tiresome. He introduces a villain who is immediately The Most Powerful Villain They've Ever Faces, while also seeding in villains from his 80s run. He introduces new characters with dated and stupid powers (a mutant with the power of surfing) with no sense of irony or acknowledgement that it's silly.
The premise of the series: Rogue leading a team of X-Men to investigate Destiny's diaries (again, a staple of his 80s run) is intriguing enough to give this a second star, despite it being written poorly, and having the colorists soften the pencils and inks so much that Larocca's art looks like a cheap 70s cartoon filmed with a vaseline lense.
I remember finding this book more interesting when it was coming out in issue format, but I think that was mostly because I assumed the story was going to go somewhere, and I now know better.
Claremont does allow for some quasi-interesting developments to place this in the Morrison run, as we see how Beast transforms from his previous form to the feline Beast we meet in New X-Men, and Jean makes an appearance on the astral plane showing Storm what they're dealing with in the more interesting title.
I can only really recommend it for diehard fans of Claremont and X-Men completists.
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