X Men: The Fall of the Mutants

Rating:
Summary: A Decent X-Over
Review: "Fall Of The Mutants" is nothing special at all. It's not even a crossover as each of the x-teams have their own stories that don't interconnect one bit. The stories were exactly thrilling or climatic and I found myself bored reading parts of it.

The X-Men story takes place in Dallas where they must defeat the Adversary, who twisted the city by making an almalgam of different realities. Freedom Force also makes an appearence and helps out. The art is great, but the ending [is bad]. The high and mighty Adversary is allergic to metal. To metal!!! (??????????) Then the x-men pretend to die and move to Australia.

The X-Factor story isn't much better. You do get to see the first appearence ever of Archangel, which is memorable. But I found myself bored to death reading this. The horsemen are easily defeated and Apocalypse doesn't even fight X-Factor. The big drama is when Apocalypse sends his Ship rampaging through New York City, and it's up for X-Factor to save the city and help repair it. Along the way they deal with the bigotry of humans and blah blah blah. However, X-Factor does announce to the public that they are mutants and were masquerading as mutant-hunters, making this story important to their history.

My favorite story is the New Mutant's one. The art is great and so is the story. The students take Bird-Brain to Animator's island, filled with more animate hybrids like Bird-Brain. The New Mutants take on Animator and everything is looking good for them, until the Right and Cameron Hodge show up and give the animates and the mutants a pounding. Then Animator murders Cypher while the other mutants finish defeating the Right. It was really sad and emotional watching the kids deal with their friend's death. This story really came to life for me and was written really well.

All in all, this isn't the best book to buy. I basically bought it for the classic issues. Instead of buying this book, I recomend you to buy "X-Men: Inferno" or "X-Men: X-Tinction Agenda". Those were outstading x-overs in my opinion. "Fall Of The Mutants" is decent and your average run of the mill storylines. It did leave lasting marks on the lives of our favorite mutants, and that's what makes it good in a sense.

Rating:
Summary: some good....lotsa bad
Review: a case of good and bad here..firstly this is NOT one big crossover featuring the new mutants x men and x factor, its 3 seperate stories of varying quality throughout

so the x men story...the x men's roster at this point is really weak...dazzler sucks its true...longshot has long since been replaced by gambit as everybodys favourite handsome rogue...rogue and havok were way off more intresting personalities...colossus has WAAAY to much angst, psylocke isnt the lovable english girl turned kick arse ninja we know and love today yet...wolverine however is still pretty cool

the first story has its moments, but overall is a bit disapointing...the ending is both really good and quite disapointing, forge and mystiques moment is fantastically dramatic...also thank god storm gets her powers back at last

the x factor story is essential thanks to the archangel story that has a hugely intresting premises that never quite goes deep enough into the corruption of angel for my liking...the end is so very....meh

the new mutants story is poor (admittantly ive never liked the "x-babies") dont like the art dont like the story dont like the happy happy cover art to their tragic ending...in fact the ending is awful...magneto's (their teacher) just gone of a characters just died..the x men have just died (oops spoiler) and yet these kids go play dress up in the attic..*sigh*

average

Rating:
Summary: Not for me
Review: Being a fan of the x-men and comics in general (but not a fanatic) I realize the importance of these issues but at the same time walk away somewhat puzzled and dissapointed. As a younger fan of the X-Men I don't understand where these stories lead in terms of the current situations in the series. Especially the New X-Men. Who were they, where did they go? Magneto ran a or the school? Also compared to todays artwork this stuff is chickenscratch. Also the preachiness that runs in the first part is a little over the top and serves against the purpose rather than for it. Good for a history lesson if nothing else but I wouldn't recommend purchasing this.

Rating:
Summary: Disappointing...
Review: I was a comic reader way back when...during what I consider the glory days of comics in the late 70s and early to mid 80s. I was a big fan of the X-men during the Byrne/Claremont years, but ran out of time to indulge my misspent youth shortly after X-Factor showed up. I'd noticed recently that the X-men seem to be everywhere, and more popular than ever, so I thought I'd give this novel a shot. Bad move. I've always enjoyed Walt Simonson's work, and Apocalypse is an excellent villain, so the X-Factor story was great. However, the X-men tale paled in comparison to the stories I remembered from the Byrne/Claremont days. These characters don't even feel like the same people that were around during the Dark Phoenix saga. It's a shame, because they're much less interesting and feel more like characters in a kid's story, where you can just make up something to solve a problem. The New Mutants storyline was difficult to comment on, since I don't really know the characters or their history. Ho hum. Also, if you're expecting three stories that are related in some way, you'll be disappointed.

Rating:
Summary: For the fan...
Review: One of my biggest hopes realized when this volume was released. This is the story that made me love the X-Men when I was a kid. And finally it's in one handsome reprint volume. It collects the classic "Fall of the Mutants" themed story-arcs in the X-Men, X-Factor and New Mutants books. The whole thing is not a crossover, it's a themed-collection of stories. A turning point and one of the darkest eras in the X-history.

1) The X-Men dies in Dallas... in full public view.
2) The X-Factor face Apocalypse in Manhattan (in my opinion, the greatest Apocalypse story ever written and drawn)
3) The New Mutants confront issues of life, freedom and death... and loses their innocence.

What more do you need to know?

Rating:
Summary: a Claremont classic
Review: The Fall of the Mutants is another one of Chris Claremont's classic stories. It takes place when the original X-Men have formed X-Force and Wolverine leads the X-Men. Storm and Forge are elsewhere. And this is when the supposed death of the X-Men happens. Very good for those of us who remember it and those who are new to it.

Rating:
Summary: The Fall of The Quality
Review: The only reason these issues are bound together is because they were run under the same banner when they were originally published in 1988. This isn't a crossover so don't get this expecting mutants from your favorite '80s X-books to team up in any way.

The Uncanny X-Men story is the only one you will probably enjoy; even though it is an endless fight scene the tactics are clever and well thought out and every character gets a moment or two to shine. This is also the only one with any emotion invested in it; you get intense battles, bits of humor and pathos and some nicely believable interactions that make for a much more complete story then the next two. Yes, the villain is cheesy but Claremont's stories aren't so much about beating bad guys as much as teamwork, heroic sacrifice and the human condition. The opening pages, with Colossus in Scotland befriending some kids who love playing X-Men, but flee in horror when his powers manifest has no bearing on the story but is nonetheless a nice commentary on how theory and reality are two very different things for the human mind to cope with. Silvestri's art looks more sketchy and unfinished then a normal comic but that's what gives it a sense of action and immediacy. All the many people running around the panels are easily recognizeable and never posed generically.

X-Factor is downright painful to read and I can't emphasize enough that it be skipped. The art is choppy, with word balloons inserted in awkward places that make reading difficult, and so awful I couldn't tell that one of the villains was a female until another character referred to them as a her. Some of the original art must have gone missing because photocopies of comic pages have been inserted in several places as an ugly replacement. The piece tries to convey how selfless helping will eventually alleviate bigotry but the humans we see go from little Hitlers to throwing tickertape parades overnight. This section also overlapped with a story in Power Pack but those issues aren't reprinted because they aren't an 'X' title so heroes pop up and baddies die with no explanation whatsoever. Most insulting is Cyclops' endless speechifying about how he never really loved his wife (Who we just saw sacrificing herself to save humankind) followed by a leap into the sack with Jean Grey. Um...your wife *just* died and your son is missing shouldn't you be worrying or grieving insead of spewing venom and bodily fluids all over the place?

New Mutants is an improvement over X-factor, but not by much. Characters have a tendency to repeat themselves and several suffer from 'cutesy speech syndrome' where alien creatures talk in annoying styles and fonts, ethnic accents fade in and out and people are perpetually dropping g's d's and sometimes entire words from their sentences. Over-the-top histrionics ruin what could have been a poignant look at teenaged heroes dealing with death in the line of duty. The art is weird and cartoony but works strangely well within the context of a pre-teen comic. Bret Blevins doesn't skimp on the details and he never draws the shape-shifting, techno-organic Warlock the same way twice

Claremont's work is serviceable; it's not as good as his heydey issues but when you write a book a month about the same characters for almost fifteen years the quality is bound to flag from time to time. Compared to the X-Factor and New Mutants sections his work reads like John Milton. Louise Simonson's characters come off as carbon copied and one dimensional. Her idea of recapping is having one person each issue reiterate that they possess super-powers...to a fellow teammate no less and her idea of a good story segue is to have the New Mutants leave the morgue where their friend's body lay and excitedly play dress-up in the attic.

None of these stories really overlap to form a cohesive whole and the end result is more like an overpriced anthology of what X-Men comics had sadly come to as opposed to the richer stories Vertigo was putting out at the same time. Invest your money, eyesight and time in one of the Essential X-Men volumes instead.

Rating:
Summary: it was pretty good
Review: this book wasn't the best ever, but it was really good, & the average rating needs to be brought up. this has 3 separate storylines: xmen, new mutants, & x-factor. the x-men story is them fighting the adversary, & the world thinking they died. this set the stage for their australia years, which was a major part of x-history. the x-factor one had apocalypse attacking manhatten, x-factor learning what he did to angel, & them gaining SHIP. the new mutants one had a pretty stupid villain, but it also had the death of doug ramsey (cypher) which was very memorable & sad

Rating:
Summary: Meh.
Review: This collection is highly unmemorable. The X-Men story is one of those stories that makes you wonder if Claremont really is the God we all believe him to be. The dialogue is uninspired, the characters don't mesh and the villain is unmemorable.

The X-Factor tale is the unveiling of Archangel, which is historic... but poorly executed. Appocolypse seems not like a dangerous villain, but a comical jack-in-the-box toy.

The New Mutants story is a joke.

I gave this collection two stars only because of the signifigance of the Archangel story.

Rating:
Summary: X-Men:Fall of the Mutants is a good Marvel Book!
Review: X-Men: Fall of the Mutants is a good Marvel Book! Written by Chris Claremont, Louise Simonson and art by Marc Silvestri and Walt Simonson! the X-Men book is divided into 3 stories! the first story is with X-Men where the X-Men are excecuted by Forge and are reincarnated! The second Story is with X-Factor! The X-Factor fight Apocalpse in New York City and find out that Archanglea is new Member of Apocalpse's army! Archangle is actually Warren Worthington IIII! the next story is with the New Mutants! This is a good X-Men book with interesting artwork and story by X-Men scribe Chris Claremont!