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New x-men hardcover

 
 
SphinxBunny
23:10 / 20.01.03
i'm debating whether or not i want to get this. does anyone here have it? does it include the annual story, the rescue of xorn?
 
 
Yotsuba & Benjamin!
01:33 / 21.01.03
It does and, on top of that, it's freaking gorgeous. Buy it.
 
 
LDones
01:58 / 21.01.03
Buy two.
 
 
Jack Denfeld
02:47 / 21.01.03
Yeah, it's beautiful. I can only hope Morrison's entire run is collected in this format. And although mine was a present, I think it retails for about $30 which is remarkable for a book this size, with the nice paper, and Morrison's proposal for the New X-Men. Get it.
 
 
Eskay Uno
03:41 / 21.01.03
Yeah, it's a beautiful package and a great deal!

Anyone know when the next one is coming out?
 
 
Simplist
03:56 / 21.01.03
$20.99 from Amazon. Very, very nice. This is the way comic collections should be done. I haven't seen any announcements of more coming out, but the big "Vol. 1" on the spine of the first one indicates they were at least thinking along those lines. Based on the size of Vol. 1, I assume Vol. 2 (if it comes) will go through the end of "Riot", with a third volume ending at #150.
 
 
Sebastian
10:19 / 21.01.03
Okay, yes have it, but one voice here says that its a bit dissapointing. I had decided I would buy it long before, so I went ahead and ordered it about four months befoire its release and existence. The book is beautiful, yeah, and the cover, and yeah, not much extras, just two pencilled pages that didn't get in or were switched and drawn by someone else. Beyond that, as I said in the Morrison on X-Men thread, the overall narrative progress appears a bit disjointed and improvised for my taste, but that is nothing compared to the disparate graphic art.

The opening story arc is however a comic book master-piece. I bought the HC just to have it in big size.
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
13:47 / 21.01.03
I think it's the different artists really. Each doing their own story would be okay, but the three different artists on 'Imperial' really make it seem less cohesive than it is, plus I'm sure that Frank or Ethan's pencils would have helped for Grants' piss-poor 'X-Men fight the Imperial Guard' issue.
 
 
Persephone
15:53 / 21.01.03
What do you think about this? I just finished Vol 3. of the Invisibles (yes!) and it struck me that having different artists works fine for --even contributes to-- that book, which is *about* lots of layers of reality. But this isn't really what NXM has to say, right? It ought to be a more coherent universe (at least more so than the Invisibles), narratively and visually ...do you think?
 
 
Eskay Uno
18:12 / 21.01.03
Yes and no in my book, Persephone. See, the X-Men are all about mutation, change, and experimentation, right? Not stasis and consistancy. Well, that's not ALL they're about, but it's certainly part of their mythos, dontcha think?

I didn't mind Igor on the Phantomex 3-parter but I wish to God someone else had drawn the issues of Imperial he did. I like having different artists on the book. I do think that works best if they can focus on one arc at a time though. And maybe Quitely can still come back and do the occasional one-off -- his silent issue was superb!
 
 
Yotsuba & Benjamin!
18:15 / 21.01.03
Actually, the more New X-Men goes on, the more it focuses on the characters, the less I really care about who drew what. It's more about the character details and their evolution. Good collection for that, definitely.
 
 
PatrickMM
18:41 / 21.01.03
For both Invisibles Volume III and NXM, I think the different artists hurt the flow of the book.

In Invis, the Invisible Kingdom was crippled by the art. I still enjoyed it, but it could have been so much more. I found myself hoping that events would be delayed a page so a better artist could draw it. Going from Weston pages to those awful Ashley Wood pages was brutal. It didn't only look bad, it seriously hurt the narrative flow of the book, what should have been it's climax was underwhelming because of the art. I wouldn't have minded if they switched issue to issue, and it was Jiminez, or Weston, but as is, it's a debacle. As for what Persephone said, that it made sense because it was about different layers of reality, that might have worked if there was more organization to who drew what, but in the finished product it just seemed to be scattered.

In NXM, at least there was the boundary between issues, but the differing styles on the same storyline didn't make much sense and going from Quietly to Kordey was tough.
 
 
Persephone
16:01 / 23.01.03
See, the X-Men are all about mutation, change, and experimentation, right? Not stasis and consistancy. Well, that's not ALL they're about, but it's certainly part of their mythos, dontcha think?

Oh, I like that idea! Although I should probably say that I'm aware that --once again-- I've blown way past artistic intention. And I agree with PatrickMM that the execution does leave a little to be desired. No fancy interpretation is going to excuse those drawings of Wolverine like he was made out of putty and then dropped on his face.
 
 
Mister Six, whom all the girls
19:12 / 23.01.03
Too right... now why was Wolverine wearing go-go boots and leather overalls??
 
  
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