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Ultimate Comics X-Men, Volume 1 (2012)

by Nick Spencer(Favorite Author)

3.48 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0785140158 (ISBN13: 9780785140153)

languge

English

genre

Graphic Novels & Comics

publisher

Marvel

series

Ultimate Comics : X-Men

review 1: This starts out OK - feeling original - but then quickly devolves to a tedious conflagration of retread repeat stories from old X-Men books, plus kinda boring and repetitive exposition.The religious sermons and proselytising are nothing new - we've heard it all before (multiple times) and it doesn't even move the plot or understanding of the characters forward - feels like pure page filler, or maybe an exercise by the writer in channeling a preacher. I guess every writer has to do it once, get it out of their system. Wish it didn't have to drag down this X book tho - boring and distracting from a storyline that doesn't need it, and which makes this feel like just another iteration of the same old stories that Marvel has done plenty before.You know what would make this a fr... moreesh take? What if the religious whacko actually *did* show some divine powers (or at least make you wonder)?At least once we get to the big reveals, we get to see some interesting plot points unfold. I'm happy enough to get a chance for a few surprises.
review 2: The best thing I can say about this is that it's delightfully off. Things are dark, and being post-Ultimatum event, it's not a happy story by any means, and yet I'm still really enjoying what they're doing with the X-Men on a whole.With that said, as enjoyable as this was, I found...something lacking. I don't know what it was, and I'm diving right into the second trade to find out.As an aside, anything with copious amounts of Kitty Pryde? Alright by me. less

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