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Summary: Powerful, beautiful written and such a developed story!
Review: 5 stars doen not do this book justice. The story is so powerful, and beautifully written.The characters were so well developed, and with such a noble sacrifice. Everyone involved did there jobs beautifully. I've read so many stories of the X-Men, and a loyal reader, and yet no story held the magic, the passion, and the pure energy as when Jean Grey became the Dark Phoenix.
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Summary: Byrne/Claremont's Fitting Swan Song
Review: After reaching comic immortality with the "Dark Phoenix Saga", John Byrne and Chris Claremont hit another one out of the park on this 2-issue story ark near the end of their amazing run on the Uncanny X-Men. In it, they bring us into a dark future where the Sentinals have obliterated nearly all superhero's and a few remaining send an adult Kitty Pryde back to the present to prevent this nightmare from happening. Its practically over before its begun, but the story packs an emotional wallop, nonetheless. And its hard to pinpoint exactly why. Certainly the haunting images of the endless rows of superhero tombstones and the heroic deaths of Wolverine and Storm contibute to that end. Perhaps its just the case of the whole being greater than its parts. These issues can both be found in the "Essential X-men Vol. 2" graphic novel, but its nice to have them in color, as Stan Lee intended!
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Summary: Best of Claremont & Byrne
Review: Although Chris Claremont seems to have a symbiotic relationship with anything X-Men, John Byrne certainly didn't last too long in the whole scheme of things. That aside, this TPB collects this duo's best-ever X-Men work, chronicling the seduction of Jean Grey's human soul to the cosmic entity known as the Phoenix. The drama is first-rate and the art is excellent. The "Wolverine Alone" section is sort of a misnomer: we actually only witness a few panels of the diminutive Canadian X-Man against the Hellfire Club mercenaries. The climax double-size section is superb, where a semi-coerced team of mutants (morally uncertain of defending Jean b/c of her annihilation of an entire planet as Dark Phoenix) battle the Shi'ar Imperial Guard. The ending panels are some of the best ever printed in comics; it's just a shame that Jean was "brought back from the dead." But who, after all, ever *stays* dead in comics?
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Summary: Classic X-Men story
Review: At a low price, this one is a definate keeper for the comic fan. 'Days of Futures Past' is an excellent story regarding a possible future for the mutant characters, a post-apocalyptic tomorrow where all superhumans have been hunted down. A single mutant gets sent back in time to attempt to prevent this from happening. This is definately a classic X-Men story and should be purchased.
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Summary: Another great classic in the X-Men Saga
Review: Before I actually read the X-Men: Dark Phoenix Saga, I'd watched the animated version of it on TV, and boy, was it great!! So naturally I was expecting that when I picked up the graphic novel it would be just as great!! And my expectations were fulfilled even more then I had hoped when I read this great X-Men graphic novel!
It had great character depth, great action, and faantastic characters. It makes you ponder the question : "What would happen if an X-Man recieved a power 1,000 times greater than that of her own, and didn't have a powerful or stable enough mind to control the immense power?" And we're talking about a power that the Watchers said is second only to that of the Creator!!! This of course is the intergalactic entity named the "Phoenix" And Jean Grey is the X-Man who becomes posessed by the entity, and, of course things don't turn out as expected, in fact, they turn out much worse, apocolyptically worse!!
I would advise all X-Men fans to definitely read this landmark story in the X-Men mythos!!
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Summary: THE Definitive X-Men Epic.
Review: Before Sinister, before Apocalypse, even before Sabretooth...there was Jean Grey. The purest soul and noblest heart among the X-Men, she was willing to sacrifice her life to protect those she loved. Cosmic chance empowered her with a force beyond comprehension, and she became the Phoenix, an angel of mercy and light, who saved an entire universe with the power of her love for her friends. Then...as all great things do...she fell. This epic (there's no other way to describe it) chronicles exactly how Jean fell, transformed by her own dark side (with a little help from the Hellfire Club) into a Black Angel, a Chaos-Bringer, a Ravager of Worlds. The best thing about it is that it does so in a way that every reader can understand. You could give this to your eight-year-old son or your forty-eight-year-old mother, and either of them could understand the story, and take it to heart in their own ways. Claremont shines in this epic as in all his X-Men work, but the true brilliance is as much in the way John Byrne draws the characters as in the way Claremont writes them. Sympathetic yet dynamic figures express their feelings and actions in ways that neither Jim Lee's stone-faced idols nor Frank Quitely's reality-based blobs of humanity can quite approximate. The X-Men are heroes, through and through, but what Claremont and Byrne get across, as effectively as their heroism...is their humanity.
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Summary: This would never make a great picture.....
Review: despite what all the Marvel Geeks say about this being a great story and should be used in the X-Men movies, I have to go against that. This was not a great story by any means, In fact when the story ended, with Jean's apparent death, that turned out not to be the case at all. It seems the real Jean was alive and had been into some kind of hibernation by the alien force that had assumed her form and called itself "Phoenix". Try following that one?! Anyway the ending of X2, seems to say that they will do a take of the Phoneix story in X-Men 3, but I do not see any way they can make that work as a movie, when it did not work as a book, and the film makers still want the movie take on the X-Men to be grounded in a more "Down to Earth" way, and not have aliens or the Shair Empire or any cosmic stuff coming into it. I just don't see how that could work and I hope they come to their senses and do something better and more original, that will work as a movie.
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Summary: This would never make a great picture.....
Review: despite what all the Marvel Geeks say about this being a great story and should be used in the X-Men movies, I have to go against that. This was not a great story by any means, In fact when the story ended, with Jean's apparent death, that turned out not to be the case at all. It seems the real Jean was alive and had been into some kind of hibernation by the alien force that had assumed her form and called itself "Phoenix". Try following that one?! Anyway the ending of X2, seems to say that they will do a take of the Phoneix story in X-Men 3, but I do not see any way they can make that work as a movie, when it did not work as a book, and the film makers still want the movie take on the X-Men to be grounded in a more "Down to Earth" way, and not have aliens or the Shair Empire or any cosmic stuff coming into it. I just don't see how that could work and I hope they come to their senses and do something better and more original, that will work as a movie.
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Summary: The Geatest Story Ever Told - never to be repreated!!
Review: Easily the best story ever told in comics (or elsewhere). The art is the epitome of comic art (unlike today's garbage). If you think you understand the X-Men and have never read these stories, you are not a fan. I have read it hundreds of times and I still Marvel at it time and time again.
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Summary: An X-Fan Collectors Item
Review: I recently bought this book along with Days of Future Past and Legionquest, and let me tell you, this book rocks! It gives a breif background on the Hellfire Club as well as letting you get some insider info on Jean Grey/Pheonix. This book is truly one of the best I've read. If I'm correct, then this is the first time a lot of characters are introduced, mainly some from the Hellfire Club. You also get a look at Kitty Pryde, who is later known as Sprite and then Shadowcat. You also see Dazzler, the dazzling disco diva/mutant. The Shi'Ar, Hellfire Club, and X-Men are only a few of the groups of individuals you see in this fantastic book. If you don't have this, then get it! :)
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