Em termos de arte, história e conflitos morais este é um dos melhores livros dos X-men e uma das melhores criações da Marvel. O desenho e expressão dos personagens é mesmo outro nível. Há uma cena com um regresso de um personagem (surpresa!) e jamais esquecerei esse quadro. POW!

Good writing makes such a difference. Compared with the last couple of comic books I read, this one just feels more substantial and interesting. Sure, there's regular comic book silliness as well, but it's often handled with a shrug and a wink, and that's nice as well. These books don't need to take themselves too seriously, not most of the time.

Why, Emma? Why did you go back to those douchebags, the hellfire club? Ugh! At least Kitty is cool. And omg, Colossus? Yeek! So happy to have him back.

General fangirling aside, can anyone suggest trades I can read next? (I already read the ultimate series)

A welcome chapter in my reread of all things X. This collection should be the template for how to write a modern X-Men story. There's a bit of fanservice that's overt enough that you don't even have to be a fan to understand it, there's some wonderful interpersonal snark, awesome last page reveals, a surprising new villain that actually makes sense, a generational shift, well thought-out action that isn't Too Quippy, and the art is cinematic and perfect (though reading this when it was coming out in issues was Excruciating due to the lag between issues).

I think if this was someone's first X-book, they would run out and get some of the volumes that served as a foundation for this storyline, and, ultimately, be disappointed. This is in contention for my favorite run on any X-title.

I’d already read the first half of the story contained in this volume, yet I still enjoyed following along with the story and seeing the twisted plot that Whedon came up with.
Full of action, intrigue, and introspection, there’s a reason why Whedon’s run of the X-Men is always brought up as an example of how to write good superhero stories.

I started this review laughing because I finished this book and forgot I'd finished it 10 minutes later. Nothing about this was memorable for me.

I tried letting my feelings on Whedon's take on the MCU films aside to read this. He's definitely not my favorite person when it comes to Marvel products but I like Firefly and Serenity and I like X-men, so I have this a shot. Strangely enough, the problems I have with his shows weren't present here. The problems I have with his films were, however.

One liners.

He loves his one liners. And a lot of them feel like he was just patting himself on the back as he wrote them. Why? Because they came from characters that wouldn't say things like this. Emma Frost is a complex character but her comments are often biting or slightly cold, not quippy. It made her dialogue seem awkward. Even her making blatantly sexual comments about Scott seemed more in character and those were kind of awkwardly placed, too.

Kitty was... interesting. I appreciated the reference to when she first met Emma and she had a few bad ass moments. She didn't stand out the same way she usually does to me and I'm not sure why that is?

I feel like I should give props for an X-men book that didn't focus on Wolverine over everyone else. That's a rarity.

That being said, I must admit that this is certainly not my favorite line up. I'm not sure why but there are no characters of color here. None of my favorite X-Men, aside from Emma, are here. Even Charles is gone for most of this. My excitement was at a 5/10 to begin with.

Anyway, the first plot contains is kind of the plot to the Last Stand. There's a potential cure for mutants and for two minutes, we get the debate over whether it's okay to choose to be cured Scott says it's not because it's they'd be naive to think the government wouldn't force it on proud mutants. Wolverine thinks it'll increase self-hatred. Beast would like the option. It's X-Men Last Stand. But somehow, more bland?

Anyway, of course there's something that kind of kills the choice. The doctor creating the cure is experimenting in dead mutants. So the X-men go to stop them.

The villains here are not memorable. The first one is a dude, I forgot his name, who's trying to cure the mutants for reasons. The second is the fucking Danger Room. Because Whedon thought that would be fun. Then it's a big ass, hybrid Sentinel. No real complexity here.

It's bland. There's nothing exciting about this. I don't think the next volume will excite me more unless they change the line up.

I have to confess, I haven't really kept up with the X-Men since the mid-1980s, so I don't know everything that's been going on with them for the last few decades. But a friend recently sent me two volumes of a run of X-Men by Joss Whedon, so I wanted to give it a shot. Joss Whedon does not disappoint, and even if I didn't understand every reference to the "current events" of mutants at the time it was written, it struck me as good stuff. A cure for the mutant gene? An alien who wants to wipe out human mutants to save his planet? The Danger Room AI gone sentient and rogue? I love it!

Enjoyed the story and the fact that all the characters looked the same throughout the book