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A review by wanderlustlover
All-New X-Men, Vol. 1: Yesterday's X-Men by Brian Michael Bendis
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.