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A review by crookedtreehouse
All-New X-Men, Vol. 1: Yesterday's X-Men by Brian Michael Bendis
5.0
One of the best 21st century starting points if you know a little bit about the X-Men but don't want to do a deep dive on their billions of titles. The tory is a direct follow-up to the Avengers Vs. X-Men event that nobody should be forced to read. Even Guantanamo Bay outlawed AvX books from their premises for being cruel and inhumane, so don't bother reading that series, you get all the important details as this volume begins.
Basically, all of AvX was a lead up to Cyclops killing Charles Xavier (Professor X), his mentor. Except he did it while he was under the control of the Pheonix force, blah blah back story. This volume involves Beast deciding that the best way to show Cyclops the error of his ways is to go back in time and bring the original X-Men team: Cyclop, Beast, Iceman, Angel, and Jean Grey, Back To The Future! Um, present.
This volume follows how the young original X-team reacts to being in the complicated present, and how the complicated present reacts to their presence. The art is by Stuart Immonen who manages to make the book look both classic and modern simultaneously, a neat trick for any book, but very appropriate for this particular storyline.
I recommend this for anyone looking for an X-Men book to read. Anyone. Also for fans of time travel stories that don't yet seem to involve any paradoxes.
Basically, all of AvX was a lead up to Cyclops killing Charles Xavier (Professor X), his mentor. Except he did it while he was under the control of the Pheonix force, blah blah back story. This volume involves Beast deciding that the best way to show Cyclops the error of his ways is to go back in time and bring the original X-Men team: Cyclop, Beast, Iceman, Angel, and Jean Grey, Back To The Future! Um, present.
This volume follows how the young original X-team reacts to being in the complicated present, and how the complicated present reacts to their presence. The art is by Stuart Immonen who manages to make the book look both classic and modern simultaneously, a neat trick for any book, but very appropriate for this particular storyline.
I recommend this for anyone looking for an X-Men book to read. Anyone. Also for fans of time travel stories that don't yet seem to involve any paradoxes.