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A review by beorn_101
All-New X-Men, Vol. 1: Yesterday's X-Men by Brian Michael Bendis
3.0
This was an interesting one, basically, Beast brings the original X-Men out of the past to try to convince Cyclops, who has started the mutant revolution, that he is turning down the wrong path.
Normally, time travel stuff really bugs me, there is too much potential for moments that don't make sense. Wouldn't going to the future and seeing what they have become (or that they died) completely change the way they do things once they get back to their own time, thus changing the future and immediately making the future different? As you can tell I still had these small issues, but I tried to ignore them for the sake of the story.
I found the juxtaposition of the innocent and young x-men alongside the grizzled, battered, and grim current mutants extremely interesting. I am not certain if this is my bias for the mutant revolution showing thru, but seeing the two groups alongside each other points, at least in my opinion, to the naivety and futility of the original x-men's path to equality, after decades of trying to take the high road their people are continually killed, murdered, and harassed, while their friends die around them, for little change to society.
This particular volume focuses a lot on saving beast, and Jean Grey discovering her new powers, not as much on what the new X-men will do in the future.
I don't think I will be reading further in this particular series, instead, I will be reading deeper into the Uncanny X-men with Cyclops that works alongside the New X-men storyline.
Normally, time travel stuff really bugs me, there is too much potential for moments that don't make sense. Wouldn't going to the future and seeing what they have become (or that they died) completely change the way they do things once they get back to their own time, thus changing the future and immediately making the future different? As you can tell I still had these small issues, but I tried to ignore them for the sake of the story.
I found the juxtaposition of the innocent and young x-men alongside the grizzled, battered, and grim current mutants extremely interesting. I am not certain if this is my bias for the mutant revolution showing thru, but seeing the two groups alongside each other points, at least in my opinion, to the naivety and futility of the original x-men's path to equality, after decades of trying to take the high road their people are continually killed, murdered, and harassed, while their friends die around them, for little change to society.
This particular volume focuses a lot on saving beast, and Jean Grey discovering her new powers, not as much on what the new X-men will do in the future.
I don't think I will be reading further in this particular series, instead, I will be reading deeper into the Uncanny X-men with Cyclops that works alongside the New X-men storyline.