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All-New X-Men #1 (2012)

by Brian Michael Bendis(Favorite Author)

4.13 of 5 Votes: 1

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English

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Science Fiction

publisher

Marvel

series

All-New X-Men (Marvel NOW!)

review 1: The teenaged original X-Men travel through time to confront their screwed up, disillusioned middle-aged selves. It's a clever concept, but not one that I think can sustain an entire multi-arc series. As executed here, it mostly just shows how much the different writers have lost track of who these characters are over the years. The positives: Bendis does a decent job weaving in classic X-Men themes, and he introduces some actual all new mutants who may prove to be interesting. The artwork is solid. The negatives: BOTH versions of Cyclops act like insufferable, petulant jerks for the comics' entire running time. Cyclops has always been kind of a drag, but here it's borderline unbearable. I caught up on the events of "Schism" and "Avengers vs. X-Men" via Wikipedia, so m... moreaybe I'd tolerate/understand Cyclops a little more if I'd read the actual preceding comics instead of just summaries? I dunno. He's pretty awful here. The teenaged version of Beast is also incredibly annoying. Most of the other mutants are given very little to do.I'm going to give this series one more trade paperback's worth of a try, but if Volume 2 isn't significantly better, I think I'm gonna bail on this one. I'll just assume that the original X-Men go back in time and get their memories wiped, while present-day Cyclops continues to be a tool forever and ever until his inevitable Comic Book Death and resurrection.
review 2: This is a great comic, and really deserves 5 stars. But, the reason I can only give it 4 is because everything that happens in the issue was revealed in promotion and hype for the comic. The final page, the 'cliff-hanger', is the premise behind whole comic. That preview page you may have seen, were Beast meets the original 5 X-men and tells them they need to come to the future - that's how the comic ends.But like I said, it is a great comic.Bendis picks up right after Avengers vs X-men. He's said in many interviews that he likes dealing with the fallout from these big stories just as much as he likes writing the big stories. That's very apparent here. Sure, it doesn't make it too new reader friendly. But honestly, which X-men comic is? X-men is a universe in itself. There's a lot of characters, and each character has a lot of history. Which is great, and why the X-men are so popular. But it can make the comics a little off putting to new readers. However, I think All New X-men #1 is a good a jumping on point that's possible. The caption page fills you in with everything you need to know, and then BOOM. Into the story.The artwork is quite frankly gorgeous. I've been a fan of Immonen since him and Bendis did the first New Avengers arc of The Heroic Age. With Von Grawbadger on ink and Gracia on inks, it's a good looking comic. They'll be few better times to try out an X-men comic, may as well take the chance NOW! less

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