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Essential X-Men: v. 5 (Essential (Marvel Comics)) (Paperback)

by Chris Claremont (Author)
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  • Paperback: 576 pages
  • Publisher: Marvel Comics; Direct Ed edition (15 Jul 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0785113665
  • ISBN-13: 978-0785113669
  • Product Dimensions: 25.1 x 16.8 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 500,230 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Follows the adventures of the X-Men as they face numerous adversaries.

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4.0 out of 5 stars At last! The return of Marvel's mutant soap, 17 Jun 2004
After a wait of three years, Marvel have finally released the 5th of their low budget reprint volumes of the Claremont run on Uncanny X-Men.
The content is a bit of a mixed bag, while Claremont's writing continues to improve with every issue, there are a few too many cross-overs with titles that are now of little more than curiosity value. Few people now will be that excited by the prospect of Power Pack or Rom Spaceknight involving themselves in X-business. Even the appearances of the Avengers and Spider-Man have the feel of being tacked on by someone in the marketing department. Only the crosses with New Mutants really feel organic - and surely make a New Mutants collection, well, essential.
Interestingly, the four x-men from the films Jean, Cyclops, Wolverine and Storm are those we don't see that much giving the supporting players a real chance to shine.
There's some lovely character stuff between Colossus and Kitty, and Rogue begins to develop into a mnore rounded character. Meanwhile, when we do see what Storm is up to... let's just say this book finishes on one of the best x-men comics ever published and leave it at that.
The idea of X-Men aa a super-hero team is ended here as we follow the individuals much more than the 'team'. This is x-men as soap opera and lays the groundwork for many of the stories that led to the 7 million selling x-men 1 several years later.
Overall, not as tightly plotted as vol 4, but Life Death II is worth the price of admission alone.
Let's hope it isn't another 3 years before volume 6!
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2.0 out of 5 stars Just when it was all going so well...., 10 Feb 2006
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Uncanny Xmen is the most successful american comic of all time. After a shaky start during comics silver age in the 1960's, the title created by comic book legends Stan Lee and Jack Kirby was cancelled and then relaunched in the 70's with a new line up of characters. It quickly went on to become a no' 1 international best seller, a position it has retained for 30 years. The Essentials series is a chronological reprint of the original comics in black and white telephone directory sized books. Each volume averages out to 24 issues and represents fantastic value for the new comic fan and a great history lesson or nostaglia trip depending on your age.

This 5th volume of the relaunched Uncanny Xmen sees our heroes righting wrongs from 1983 to 1985 under long term writer Chris Claremont and several artists, mainly John Romita Jnr.

Saddly there is very little to recommend this volume. No' 182 features a good early Rogue story (see Xmen movies) and No's 190 & 191 feature a gripping yarn in which Manhatten is turned into a medievil village. And saddly that is it. The rest of the stories fall into two distincly unwelcome categories: The Dallas soap opera model and the adverts for new Marvel titles.

The former features Wind goddess Storm loosing her powers and falling in love (then hate) with inventer Forge. Also teenager Kitty Pryde and metalic muscleman Colossus break up, which is handled very poorly by Claremont and must represent some of the worst issues Marvel have put out.

The latter is very different from the classic 'Marvel cross over' that so many readers enjoy. The guest heroes and villans come courtesy of (then) new IP's Power Pack and Rom Space Knight, typical 80's titles created to exploit a demongraphic. Marvel did this type of thing welll with GI Joe and Transformers, but here it just grates and makes for some very dull comics. Even UK legend Barry Windsor Smith can't breath life into the two issues he guest pencils.

But most unforgivable of all are Romita Jnr's (at the time) sub amatuer skills as a story teller. It beggers beleif that he was given pencilling duties on Marvels flagship title when many of the stories make little sense from panel to panel and Claremont is apparently forced to give exposition above and beyond the call of duty. AND annual 7 included here serves not only as the worst xmen annual of all time but as Marvel injoking at it's very very worst. You have been warned!

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