What do you know, a crossover that's actually quite good. It helps that the basic idea, that the Jean Grey of the past would be put on trial for the crimes of the Phoenix, is all but inevitable. Sooner or later, Jean was going to have confront Dark Phoenix, and it makes perfect sense for that to happen on a cosmic stage. And while they're out there in space, why would the Guardians show up? The whole concept is so thoroughly logical that I'm almost surprised it actually happened.And there's just...

If all crossovers were this much fun, I wouldn't be such a whiner baby about them!So, the Shi'ar Empire (specifically, Gladiator) has decided that poor little Jean Grey needs to stand trial for the sins of her future self.Dear God, has he never heard the saying, Don't poke the bear?Guess not.So, Gladiator pokes the bear. And the bear pokes back. Of course, by the time we get to that part, even most of the other Shi'ar don't feel sorry for Gladiator. But I'm getting ahead of myself.The story swit...

this was so so so extra entertaining and emotional! i love the guardians and x-men interacting together and i loves that all-powerful PINK jean grey

This was a pretty good volume!It starts with the Guardians recruiting Angela and dealing with J'son and all but then they hear the news that Gladiator and Shi'aar have taken Jean hostage and want to try her for her crimes as the Dark Phoenix but this is the young Jean and so she has not committed them and so the whole "is she guilty even though she hasn't done it yet" argument happens and its fascinating to see the events play out as they do.The Guardians, Starjammers and Young X-Men all team up...

Who doesn't love a good team-up? Especially when Rocket and Groot are involved.

The Shi'ar have learned that Jean Grey from the past is currently on Earth. Gladiator has decided that she should be tried for the crimes she will commit.I have to say I thought this was the strangest idea ever. Gladiator's logic is almost as though he watched marathons of Terminator and Law and Order and said "we are too civilized to go into the past to kill a child before she kills a planet, but we should try her past self in the future for crimes she's yet to commit."Now the question I'd have...

Upon hearing that Jean Grey is on Earth, The Shi'ar decide to put her on trail for crimes she hasn't even committed yet. Being the protects of Earth, The Guardians of the Galaxy decide to get involved and help out, even with the tensions between all the Galactic Empires.A more enjoyable and easier to follow crossover than Battle of the Atom. I just hope that Bendis is done with the whole 'will the Jean Grey from the past be the Phoenix?' for a while. Because with Jean Grey, it always seems comes...

“Bendis!”“Yes, sir!”“I’ve got an assignment for you. You know that our new Marvel movie Guardians of the Galaxy is coming out soon.”“I sure do, sir. One of the hundreds of Marvel titles I currently write has been a new rebooted version of Guardians to capitalize on the movie.”“I doubt there’s going to be much to capitalize on. Seriously, it’s going to have a talking raccoon, a walking tree, and the fat guy from Parks & Rec in it. It’s going to be a flop that’ll make Howard the Duck look like Tit...

Bendis' young X-Men stranded in the future act so out of character sometimes that they seem an example of really bad written fan fiction, but the Guardians/Mutants interactions were just really good fun.Sara Pichelli/Immonen's artworks are the stuff dreams are made of, but storyline went downfall for good after a real great start, but in the end it was not bad at all.It seems Kitty Pryde's fate is falling in love with all Peters of Marvel Universe... Peter Rasputin, Peter Wisdom and now Peter Qu...

This is a fun read, a few laughs and lots of action. I gave it a 3 for those reasons, but (I realize it might not be a fair comparison) having read the 80's "Dark Phoenix Saga" which leads into the death of Jean Grey, this just didn't stack up.The artwork is well done, but this time for me the coloring was too dark. I also didn't get as much laughs as we can expect from the Guardians.While it is worth a read, I wouldn't expect anything spectacular from it.

i'm a big fan of X-men and recently i became a fan of guardians of the galaxy. I picked this comic because i read somewhere that in this issue, Jean Grey telepathically connects to Groot and she discovers that his thoughts are indeed complex and that declaration of "I am Groot!" usually represents attempts at highly intelligent communication. I was really excited about that, but that part wasn't in this comic book. Why? I don't know, maybe i've read the wrong comic book!?

Teenage Jean Grey, along with teen Cyclops, Beast, Iceman and Angel, are brought from the past to the present day - this is the All-New X-Men series setup. We’re multiple books into the series now and for some reason nobody’s decided to send them back in time where they belong. Anyway, the Shi’Ar take it upon themselves to punish teen Jean for the crimes her older self committed as Phoenix and abduct her for a trial in their kangaroo court. Guardians and X-Men dutifully follow. Here’s the idioti...

I actually really loved this volume. The characters were fantastic and it was great to see kitty meet quill.

This crossover is a love letter to the Claremontian space opera that used to happen with regularity in the X-Men's most revered period; X-Men versus the Shiar Imperial Guard for the fate of the galaxy. This time, with Bendis handling the reins on both the mutants and Guardians of the Galaxy, the X-Men have new allies against the Gladiator and his team.This was a great crossover story; the writing may be serviceable but the art by Stuart Immonen and Sarach Pichelli (with some help from David Marq...

This volume of the All-New X-Men includes a crossover storyline with the Guardians of the Galaxy. The Shi'ar Empire, who has been on-again, off-again friends and foes of the X-Men for years, finds out that a young Jean Grey has been brought forward from the past. Since this time's (deceased) Jean Grey destroyed a planet (and a Shi'ar battlecruiser) when she turned into Dark Phoenix, the Shi'ar decide to go abduct Jean Grey and put her on trial. For crimes her alt-future self committed in the pas...

***This is the first of the "Green Theme" Buddy Reads with the Shallow Readers, criteria being: Drax and Gamora are both green.***I might be tempted to almost call this 4.5, but 4 seems like its not an insult.I've been following the All-New X-Men, where the past in the present have to be smacked in the face with who they became, and what they did and are doing. It's a great idea, especially since Bobby may be about the only one who doesn't have serious drama to look forward to.Kitty is the p

By and large, I'm not a huge fan of the darker (and whinier) direction X-Men has gone in recent years (which is fine--just because it's not written for me doesn't make it bad, as Mark Waid very astutely once said), but this story felt like a little bit of a throwback to the types of X-Men tales I enjoy: lots of action, sure, but a lot of quiet, character-building moments where people are just talking and interacting and being (pardon the word choice) human. There's a tendency to go back to the P...

[This review will include my very first set of criticisms concerning Bendis' ANXM] After the overwhelming clusterfuck that was Battle of the Atom, I simply had no energy to spare to read and review another crossover with this title. Don't get me wrong, I LOVED BATTLE OF THE ATOM! It was superbly written in spite the parts that got me tangled up in a chaotic bundle of nerves, and even significantly weirded out. It's not a perfect or the most well-polished piece, true, but it had its awesome mo

Pink Taco Buddy Read with the most hallowed Shallow Readers!Heretically, we decided these comics *must* feature a female character. Sue us.[image error]As always, Bendis does the believable and funny dialogue. Jean and Scott fighting? Throwing off a few quips? How's about the understandable weirdness of having half the argument out loud in front of Warren, and half silently as little bits of telepathy and leaky thoughts weave their way throughout? Immomen's rendition of how awkward and indiffere...