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A review by trike
All-New X-Men, Vol. 1: Yesterday's X-Men by Brian Michael Bendis
2.0
I just finished the big Avengers versus X-Men cross-over, which leads directly into this book. Cyclops and crew are running around recruiting new mutants created by the Phoenix force in order to "save their species" -- not sure how they're a species since the new ones were created by a cosmic force -- and the rest of the X-Men try to stop him.
At the end of AvX Cyclops was in superprison for committing supercrime, including killing off Professor X. So why is he running around loose? Seems to me Wolverine would just kill him and be done with it. Have a beer and call it justice.
But Beast, who is dying, goes back in time and brings the original X-Men forward, so Young Scott can confront Old Scott. Which goes as expected.
This is just dumb, even for superheroes. The original Xers decide to stay. I guess that doesn't change the past at all. Must be multiple timelines or something. Frankly, I don't care. The art by Stuart Imomen is gorgeous, as usual. Bendis' dialogue is fine; it's just the over-arching plot that's stupid. It smacks more of a book designed by the marketing department than to tell good stories.
At the end of AvX Cyclops was in superprison for committing supercrime, including killing off Professor X. So why is he running around loose? Seems to me Wolverine would just kill him and be done with it. Have a beer and call it justice.
But Beast, who is dying, goes back in time and brings the original X-Men forward, so Young Scott can confront Old Scott. Which goes as expected.
This is just dumb, even for superheroes. The original Xers decide to stay. I guess that doesn't change the past at all. Must be multiple timelines or something. Frankly, I don't care. The art by Stuart Imomen is gorgeous, as usual. Bendis' dialogue is fine; it's just the over-arching plot that's stupid. It smacks more of a book designed by the marketing department than to tell good stories.