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Summary: Good read as an updated version
Review: There are some people who will have problem with the way the X-men are portrayed, but it is interesting. I wish the movies were more like this book. This book presents the opportunity to take the team in an entirly unexspected direction.
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Summary: Excellent....Just Excellent....
Review: This book is a MUST BUY for anyone interested in the X-men. I like the fact that this series (like ultimate spider-man), is set in a world thats just like our own, the only exception being that their are super-beings. This gives the book that extra bit of realism that I've never found in other X-men books, and it works, cause I'm hooked. If they can keep up this level of story telling and art ill probably end up liking this better than the orignal continuity. I just hope they keep it up.....(crossing fingers) I can't wait for the next book....its really that good.
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Summary: New Beginnings
Review: This book is incredible. It's a new twist on the story of everyone's favorite mutants. The artwork is great. The storyline is great. For you traditionalists, it's not the exact same story as the original X-Men series, but it makes up for it. The characters are so well done. Beast is funny, Iceman is cocky, Wolverine is the jerk that you can't help but love. Everything about this book is great. Buy it right now!
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Summary: X-Men's Ultimate Rebirth
Review: This is one book that will entertain you from start to the end. I started reading this book in the morning (of a sunday) and after few 15 minutes when I finished it, I saw that Darkness came upon the Sky. Actually it was 6 pm already, it was so entertaining and action packed that I lost track of time.
The story is, Prof. X is building up a team to prevent Magneto's 'Brotherhood of Mutants' from harming Homo Sapien (Normal Humen). He sent 19years old Jean Grey aka here 'Marvel Girl' and aquires Storm, Beast, Collossus, Iceman; one by one and brought them to the 'School for Gifted Youngsters.' Cyclops was already there. Knowing his ol'buddy is building a team, Magneto sent his most dengerous Mutant, Wolverine to assasinate Prof. X. By telling you what happens next, I won't ruin your interest and satisfaction. Get the book.
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Summary: Best Book Ever!
Review: This is the first x-men book I have ever read. I knew most of the basic stuff of the x-men: like their powers and names and stuff, but not much more beyond that. I heard about this being an x-men comic for my new generation, so I bought it. AND IT ROCKED!!!
This book is awesome. Good dialoge, good art, and very good story. Every one should buy this. I'm going to buy the essential x-men now and see if I like the original x-men.
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Summary: A Great X-Introduction
Review: This is Volume 1 of Marvel's new "Ultimate X-Men" series, which has attempted to do away with 30 years of pre-existing stories and complicated events and provide a new generation with the story of the X-Men, without having to have any prior knowledge. I have been out of comic books for about 10 years, and never got into the X-Men seriously, but with the success of the movies, I wanted to pick up a few books and start reading. I bought all of the previous issues of the original X-Men series, however the idea of having to read through 30 years of comics and mediocre art from the '60s really turned me off. Not to mention all of the complicated story lines and past events. I was very pleased then to be able to pick up Ultimate X-Men and start completely fresh with the X-Men.
To start, this is an excellent series. I've read all of the issues so far and "The Tomorrow People" is definitely the best storyline so far. We are introduced to the current X-Men team, who are a bunch of teenagers. We're given some limited knowledge about their backgrounds and introduced to their abilities. Most you will be familiar with if you're read the original X-Men, although I've noticed that Wolverine is definitely darker in this book, as well as many other characters. They have no qualms about killing people off in "Ultimate," and nothing they do would surprise me. This is contrasted by the usual humorous elements of Marvel Comics, as well as the personal relationships and teenage romances they set up. In a lot of ways, this comic is like the X-Men Evolution cartoon series with their handling of the more personal side of the characters. It can be a bit of a soap opera, but it works very well.The storyline of this volume is excellent. It's packed with a great introduction to the kids, as well as a Xavier that appears to be a bit more devious and "human" than seen in the traditional Comic. Wolverine is definitely the character they've played with the most. He is just absolutely dangerous in this series. I thought this was the same old Wolverine that I grew up with from the Marvel Universe, but "Ultimate" Wolverine is just a plain loose cannon. Like the other deviations from the traditional universe, this works very well in this series. It lends an aura of excitement that I can't recall feeling in the past. My one concession with this series is that the covers are really bland to me, and too much like paintings, and some of the artwork in later issues by Bachalo looks really bad. I mean Rob Liefeld-bad. Kubert does a great job with the pencils in this one however. If you're looking to get into the X-Men and want a good place to start, you absolutely can not go wrong with "The Tomorrow People," one of the best written, and easiest to read, comics I've come across in a long time.
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Summary: A good start.
Review: This marks the beginning of Ultimate X-Men, collecting the first six issues of the series. While it does start off without having to be carrying years upon years of confusing continuity, this just reads like a good X-book. There's nothing extraordinarily different about it; there is nothing "ultimate" about it. It's just a good read, plain and simple. It's not groundbreaking stuff. It's just the start of the X-Men all over again with new circumstances. And that's all that we honestly really needed. A lot of the recent X-Men stuff has been bland (such as Chris Claremont's X-Men, Alan Davis' X-Men, Joe Casey's X-Men, Chuck Austen's X-Men, Scott Lobdell's X-Men and so on. All of these creators wrote stories ranging from bad to decent). Ultimate X-Men's actually good, though, so if you want to start buying X-Men books -- get it right here. It's good because it's a fresh take on the tired team and because it stays true to its roots with a modern twist on things. It's entertaining and it's cool. Mark Millar was still looking for his voice at this time of the series, so this isn't the best Ultimate X-Men he he can offer. I think he found it with issue thirteen, which is collected in either the Return To Weapon X or the World's Tour graphic novels.
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Summary: If Only They Based the "X-Men" Film On This Comic
Review: Ultimate X-Men is a breath-taking, action-packed comic that takes you into a world of powerful mutants unlike the original X-Men. In this lasting comic, the X-Men are younger, hipper and different. Professor X is a younger, cooler and more stylish leader lacking the black suit and boring attitude like the first Professor X. Cyclops is the youger and leader-like X-Men. Marvel Girl is a hip young beautiful teenager with short red hair. Wolverine is a ruthless yet beautiful assassin with the carving for blood. Storm is a young teenage mutant (not a goddess unlike the first Storm). Beast is a big mutant who has his brain in his large feet unlike the original Beast who has an I.Q over 80. Iceman is the young mutant who is always ready for action. And finally Colossus is a massive and likeable mutant with a cool attitude. The Ultimate X-Men are a bunch of active mutants ready for action. Magneto is a dark leader who would even kill his only friend, Professor X. Toad is a green, mean, little punk with the cuban hair-style and tattoos everywhere on his body. Quiksilver is a silk, devilish mutant who all he wants to do is prove to his father Magneto that he is the best. Scarlet Witch is the more protective big sister to her brother and a sexier one too. Mastermind is a cool, quiet and strong-thinking mutant who could easily be the leader of the X-Men. Blob is the extra fat mutant who always has a sandwitch in his hand. The Ultimate X-Men is a new breed of mutants that are different and way better than the original X-Men.
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Summary: ULTIMATE IS JUST "ABOVE AVERAGE" X-MEN
Review: Ultimate X-Men is Marvel's attempt to reintroduce popular characters into a new continuity and to an entire new generation. Marvel has already scored a grand-slam with the Ultimate Spider-Man title which managed to succeed on every level and even surpass the regular Spider-Man comics. However, with Ultimate X-Men they only manage the equivalent of a basehit. On the good side, Ultimate X-Men is a fresh new take on the characters in the X-Men universe. Each is presented in a new light (albeit not all that different). Cyclops is still the stoic field-leader. Professor X is the guidance and heart of understanding between mutants and humans. Magento and the Brotherhood are still the evil forces that want to rule the world in the name of Homo Superior. Wolverine is still...Wolverine. And there are familiar members in Storm, Colossus, and Beast. Jean Grey is the big exception who has changed completely from the wholesome female of the early Uncanny X-Men stories. The artwork is excellent and the dialogue is outstanding. Writer Mark Millar also manages to develop an "epic" tale as the team's trial by fire. On the bad side, the regular X-Men titles suffer because there are just too many characters. Ultimate X-Men: The Tomorrow People does not manage to correct this problem. There is a 6-issue storyline that jams over 15 characters into the plot. Obviously there is little room to get to know anyone (a problem that could have been rectified with just a few extra chapters), which means that new readers unfamiliar with X-Men characters will have a lot of work to do just to understand things. The action scenes are also a bit hectic and at points things just feel rushed. While not as solid an outing as Ultimate Spider-Man, Ultimate X-Men: The Tomorrow People is a solid beginning that can hopefully lead to some stronger follow-up stories.
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Summary: X-Men Story Without The Baggage Of Continuity
Review: When the X-Men movie came out in 2000, Marvel wasn't ready for it. They hardly had anything to back up the real-world success of the movie. As the movie premiered and went on to box-office success, the X-Men comicbooks were at its lowest ebb. In fact, the comicbooks were so bad and confusing that even long-time readers like me were thoroughly turned off. The good news is that Marvel is determined not to make the same mistake when they release a sequel to the X-Men movie in maybe 2003-4 by putting a lot of work to the X-Men titles even as we speak. Ultimate X-Men is a title aimed at the general public - meaning the non-comic reading public. President Bill Jemas and Editor-In-Chief Joe Quesada came up with the Ultimate Marvel line retelling stories of familiar characters like Spiderman and X-Men without the baggage of over 35 years of continuity. It took the comicbook world by storm (the success of this venture to introduce comics to the general public remains to be seen). I think the reason it worked was because they put top-notch talents on the two Ultimate books. You've got Brian Michael Bendis writing Spiderman and here you have Mark Millar, just after a successful stint writing The Authority, writing Ultimate X-Men... plus, Adam Kubert's art never looked better than it does here. The overall feeling was like... well, if the X-Men were only created in 2001, this is how they would have been like. From all that I've said, I seem to be implying that years of continuity is a bad thing. Not necessary. I was attracted to the X-Men because of the continuity. Every puzzling plotline opened up doors to other more interesting plotlines. It took me years to finally get a firm grasp on all the intricacies of the storylines. Even so, from someone who take continuity as seriously as I do, I still enjoy Ultimate X-Men a great deal. I liked it because of its fresh take on the characters that I've grown to be a little too familiar with. Here you have a Cyclops who doubts Professor X's noble ideals. Here you see Wolverine as a traitor and seducer. Here you see Jean Grey as a young and spunky doctor and mutation-expert. How cool is that? At the same time, we are also served with the ingredients that made us love the X-Men all this while (but with a more intelligent twist) - the philosophical rivalry between Xavier and Magneto, the love-triangle of Logan-Jean-Scott, the very "real" persecution of people-who-are-different and the non-stop action (like when Magneto drops a TRAIN on a group of Croatians bent on killing the X-Men!!!). For a new comic reader or someone interested in the X-Men after watching the movie, this is a pretty good place to start. For a long-time reader like me, this place offers some familiar characters and plot-lines written in a rather unfamiliar, fresh and exciting manner. Try it.
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