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Astonishing X-Men, Vol. 9: Exalted (2012)

by Greg Pak(Favorite Author)

3.4 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0785161775 (ISBN13: 9780785161776)

languge

English

genre

Graphic Novels & Comics

publisher

Marvel

series

Astonishing X-Men

review 1: I really enjoyed this one, but about half way through it I realized that I was just really excited to see Emma talking like Emma. (as opposed to how Bendis currently has her talking).Scott destroys Kitty's, Logan's, and Hank's locker and in another part of the mansion Emma, still looking at her book, says, "I thought I smelled nostalgia this morning." She then goes on to berate Scott for being a baby and moping over his friends. Even alternate dimension Emma was awesome. She was a bit of a hippy, but still fantastic. "I don't mean to diminish your enjoyment of this manly outburst... but you're doing a wonderful job of fulfilling all of our enemy's greatest dreams." Plus there was little Kurt! He was adorable!Plus Logan used to be the Governor General of Canada! And I actua... morelly liked Scott in this, most of the way through. Not all of the time, but mostly.
review 2: Cyclops gets involved in a multiverse adventure that only provides limited entertainment in seeing different versions of known X-Men characters. The attempted focus on Cyclops and his emotional state post-Schism was nice, but there greatest believability problem was in discovering the remnants of the various other versions of the mutants. It is far too unbelievable to imagine that in all the multiverses, Cyclops’ visors all looks the same, all Magneto helmets look and function the same way etc. I get that this is a way for us the reader be shown, rather than told, about this plot point, but this for me damaged any credibility this story had. Compared to that, intradimensional jumping with the (other) ghost box was almost bearable but still was difficult enough to accept (how did Kurt just find the others?) to add to the detriment of the volume. Lest it be thought that I hated the volume, three things particularly stood out. First, the overall idea of this world was actually reasonably interesting. Secondly, the moment when Cyclops put on Magneto’s helmet and the individual panels of just him in the helmet can be interpreted so many ways, with the symbolism given the current state of things. Thirdly, I enjoyed the backup story of a tale in one of the other universes that one of the characters comes from. Overall, this story suffers from a believability problem due to plot improbabilities and while seeing different versions of the characters was mildly interesting, they would have been better suited in a non-canonical story. less

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