X-Men Vs. the Brood - Day of Wrath

Rating:
Summary: Added star for Claremont inclusion
Review: I just got the Claremont/Silvestri/Ostrander/Hitch Brood Trade paperback.

CLaremont's is a good 3 issue arc and I can see how it both gives info on the story as well as boosts the sales for the ostrander/hitch 2 part brood issues/stories inside.

Ostrander is a good writer, i had his whole run on the Suicide Squad (where he got saddled with a bad artists) but though he has enthusiasm for the X-Men and a nice twist/new addition to the Brood mythos---the story lacks a bit in the characterization of the X-Men. And also in the inventiveness in their fight against the Brood.

You would think with Cyclops and Storm on the team there would've been some more original teamwork than "CHARGE!".

The story itself was good as a quandry of what to do but I felt that the Brood were beat not too easily but without the X-Men really putting their backs into it. The nice thing about a Claremont X-Men fight is that it's dog dirty and spreads out a bit and strategy is involved having that in the first part of the trade kinda upstaged the second part---it would've been nice if the first meeting with them was included as well. Especially with Tigra joining the X-Men and the [demise] of Colossus and then the space fight. I would've paid some more for the complete Brood arc to be included. Also the New X-Men arc with Ghost Rider was cool too, should've been added.

Rating:
Summary: Excellent, tough, gritty, and a very good read!!!!!
Review: This story is a link for several story lines. It shows Madiline Pryor's meeting with demon kind, Wolverine's not so slow slip into the animal, and brood, brood, brood! There is a lot of history given on this annoying species.

The truly excellent part of this story, however, is the fight for morality. Should the x-men just slaughter the brood without mercy? Or should they explore the distant posibility that the people the Brood have taken can be saved? Even if it's possible to save the hosts, do they have the right to risk the world while trying to save them knowing that a fertile queen could infect everyone?

This book is well worth reading!!

Rating:
Summary: I've read a story like this before...
Review: this story really borrows too much from the Alien movies. Humans infected with the DNA of alien life forms, and theyare doomed from the moment that they become infected. The X-Men should have just destroyed them and that would be the end of it. Instead we are treated toanother X-Men story which is just as bad as the Onslaught saga, if not worse then it.