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A review by clarks_dad
All-New X-Men, Vol. 1: Yesterday's X-Men by Brian Michael Bendis
5.0
So I'm jumping back into the modern Marvel universe here and following the crash course over at Comic Book Herald for Marvel Now 1.0.
I've never been a huge X-Men fan, and a lot of the recent events in this universe have been super confusing to people like me who haven't been in the loop - Cyclops is a bad guy? Xavier dead? Wolverine is headmaster? Wtf? - but I found this volume a great jumping off point.
A mutating Hank reaches back into the past to bring the original X-Men forward in time so that Scott Summers can reckon with his future self. To what end? Who knows? But I like it. Bendis brings inner conflict literally out into the physical world in a clash between naive idealism and bitter cynicism governing the relationship between humans and mutants that, I believe, has always been at the heart of the X-Men saga.
The art is fantastic and the clash between modern and Silver Age styles is really wonderful. Seeing how the old characters try to grapple with what their lives become is pretty delicious as well. If you've been out of things for a while, Wiki the Avengers vs. X-Men crossover for the plot summary and then dive in with this volume.
I've never been a huge X-Men fan, and a lot of the recent events in this universe have been super confusing to people like me who haven't been in the loop - Cyclops is a bad guy? Xavier dead? Wolverine is headmaster? Wtf? - but I found this volume a great jumping off point.
A mutating Hank reaches back into the past to bring the original X-Men forward in time so that Scott Summers can reckon with his future self. To what end? Who knows? But I like it. Bendis brings inner conflict literally out into the physical world in a clash between naive idealism and bitter cynicism governing the relationship between humans and mutants that, I believe, has always been at the heart of the X-Men saga.
The art is fantastic and the clash between modern and Silver Age styles is really wonderful. Seeing how the old characters try to grapple with what their lives become is pretty delicious as well. If you've been out of things for a while, Wiki the Avengers vs. X-Men crossover for the plot summary and then dive in with this volume.