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X-Cutioner's Song: Featuring the X-Men, X-Factor and X-Force

X-Cutioner's Song: Featuring the X-Men, X-Factor and X-Force

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Best Crossover Ever
Review: By far the best X-Universe crossover! However the recent appearing of Stryfe in the Gambit and Bishop: Son of the Atom series lessens the significance of this book.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The X-Men,
Review: Fast paced, Action packed, with a pinch of humor thrown in eqaul a GREAT crossover. This book has some great plot twists and mixes action and suspense beutifully. X-Men and X-Factor are trying to save a dying Prof. X and fin the person responsible: Cable!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Strife wanted Cyclops and Jean Grey to die.
Review: I loved it because Strife wanted Jean Grey and Cyclops killed because Strife had a miserable childhood and he blamed his parents(cyclops and Jean Grey). AT the end Cable and Strife fight and get into the time warp and go into the future. I loved it when strife shot Professor X it was so inexpected because you don't think a guy like Proffessor X would get shot.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Show-offy, but still great fun.
Review: I read this in its original 12-installment crossover form in the mid-'90s so some of my facts could be off.

This crossover was basically an excuse to cram as many characters as possible into one storyline and that results in a lot of confusions. Also, it detracts from the believability of the Stryfe character and also makes his motivations somewhat unclear. He's out for vengeance against Apocalypse (who had injected him with the virus as a child), Cable (whom he sees as his inferior clone), and his parents Cyclops and Jean Grey (for abandoning him). But what's his ultimate vengeance? And the X-teams' method of finally locating him is pretty ludicrous, the story getting a little too busy with sending its heroes here and there that for two or three issues worth, the X-teams just seem to be wandering here and there fighting everybody. The most focused storylines are that of Wolverine and Bishop, who encounter Cable, the falsely accused assassin, and Beast, desperately trying to save Xavier and finally succeeds only because of Apocalypse's help.

It's still fun, of course, to watch Bishop and Wolverine duke it out with Cable, and X-Factor rounding up X-Force with the help of the X-Men. But these are weakened by some really weak scenes like Apocalypse's fight with Stryfe (no power, no excitement, with huge lapses in logic) and some embarrassing dialogue at points (Jean Grey's lovey-dovey conversations with Cyclops during their attempted escape from the moonbase are just awful writing).

The most valuable thing to me about the X-ecutioner's Song series is a comparison of the different visual styles of the three series. X-Factor is stark and more than a little whacked (its stories as I remember are also much more off-kilter thanks to smart-mouthed characters like Polaris, Wolfsbane/Rahne, Quicksilver and Agent Val); X-Force is more violent and rebellioius; and X-Men, the parent series, is more restrained and middle-of-the-road, less eccentric.

Worthy examination of the relationship among the X-series. Writing issues are compensated for by the big showdowns and action sequences, capped off by Cable's final, violent confrontation with Stryfe.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: lots of cable
Review: if you are a cable fan, you will love this book.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: twins are trouble
Review: Jean and Scott are kidnapped by a mutant named Stryfe. Professor X is shot by Cable. X-force has been caught by X-factor and the X-men. Apocalyse could be dying. The plot thickens as Cable and Stryfe share the same face.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: GREAT BOOK
Review: Strfye puts a nice developed plan pitting the Xteams against one another. Great book!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: STRYFE'S JUSTICIABLE REVENGE
Review: Stryfe is possibly the perfect strategist.making the x-teams fight each other,taking the DR away from En Sabah Nur,framing cable,using the mutant liberation front as his expendable footsoldiers.it just goes on and on with twist and turns and it doesn't stop until the end.but i must also say this book is not for the the beginners.for beginners u would have to research the marvel universe as far back as 1989 to undersatnd the full scope of this graphic novel.and for those x-nuts out there who think this books is not good,just ask yourself wouldn't u love to destroy everybody who has wrong u at all points of your life? if the answer is yes than buy the "x-cutioner's song" this second.thank u for your time

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Fairly Tight Cross-Over Event Piece
Review: The graphic novel, X-Cutioner's Song (written by Scott Lobdell, Peter David and Fabian Niceza) feels very tight and coherent despite the number of chefs for this particular concoction. It feaures the X-Men, X-Factor and X-Force (given a little too short shrift in this sequence) and focuses on the Cable/Stryfe/Jean Grey/Scott Summers element from the wicked web that has become the X-Men's history. I enjoyed the interplay of all the characters and was carried along quickly by the story despite a little impatience with both Cable and Stryfe as characters and bitter enemies. The best parts of the story were the smaller elements like a first glimpse into the techno-virus and the wonderful and revealing look into the relationship betweeen Apocalpyse and Angel. The art (by Brandon Peterson, Jae Lee, Andy Kubert, and Greg Capullo) also has stood the test of time relatively well. A fine X-Man adventure.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Fairly Tight Cross-Over Event Piece
Review: The graphic novel, X-Cutioner's Song (written by Scott Lobdell, Peter David and Fabian Niceza) feels very tight and coherent despite the number of chefs for this particular concoction. It feaures the X-Men, X-Factor and X-Force (given a little too short shrift in this sequence) and focuses on the Cable/Stryfe/Jean Grey/Scott Summers element from the wicked web that has become the X-Men's history. I enjoyed the interplay of all the characters and was carried along quickly by the story despite a little impatience with both Cable and Stryfe as characters and bitter enemies. The best parts of the story were the smaller elements like a first glimpse into the techno-virus and the wonderful and revealing look into the relationship betweeen Apocalpyse and Angel. The art (by Brandon Peterson, Jae Lee, Andy Kubert, and Greg Capullo) also has stood the test of time relatively well. A fine X-Man adventure.


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