3.5 starsOk, so i wanted to start reading the x-men books.... I don't wanna read the old and boring stories with boring art... i want something more modern... Of course i already saw the movies, watch some episodes of the animated tv show, saw a lot of videos about the x-men and also read a lot of things in the internet. I even read some random books of the x-men, so im pretty familiar with the characters and some plots.After a long and intense search i finally made a list of titles to read! So

It’s hard to say this is a “slow start”, considering that this is when the genocide of Genosha occurs. And I’d imagine reading this as it came out would have been insane. But 20 years removed it reads quick and then it’s off to the next trade paperback.

I usually like Grant Morrison's writing, but I wasn't crazy about this. The story didn't flow well, a lot of the time it felt like events just happened haphazardly and randomly. The pacing was strange, too-- in the first chapter, Cassandra Nova monologues about her various evil schemes for like fifteen pages, and then the destruction of an entire country takes one page. Then everyone is kind of like, "well, that happened, let's do something else now." It may very well be that story seems disjoin...

So good that you forget how stupid everyone looks.

Wow. That shakes things up, but I don't know how to feel about it. I picked up the entire run of Morrison's New X-Men on a sale at my local comic shop and am jumping in about a decade after my knowledge of X-Men ends (and when I finish reading it, will be about 8 years shy of when my knowledge of X-Men picks back up). This volume contains an earth-shattering change for mutant-kind, and introduces a new villain that I have mixed feelings about whether they are a good villain to hate, or lazy writ...

Good but...The cosmic vision of Grant Morrison and the X-men, and Morrison does not pull his normal meta-narrative tricks, so why the low rating. Conceptually,Morrison is doing a lot with X-men but his characterization seems, well, off in ways even Whedon or Bendis or even some of the 90s edgier-than-thou X-books don't feel. Morrison doesn't seem to fully inhabit the characters although he does interesting things with them. We will see where he takes this.

Originally reviewed at Bookwraiths Reviews The New X-Men: E is for Extinction was written by Grant Morrison and illustrated by Frank Quitely with Leinil Francis Yu and Ethan Van Sciver helping out. When I picked this one up back in 2002, I was an old time X-Men fan; one who had cut his teeth on mutant madness during the twilight days of Claremont and Byrne’s famous run on the title, retained my fandom for years even with Claremont’s ever more convoluted plots and glorified in the tremendous artw...

Hey, that was really good! I actually have read Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men before this, so many events in this volume weren't as shocking to me as they should have been, but I still enjoyed reading this volume. My only complaint is that the annual didn't make much sense to me. And what is up with Emma Frost's costume? It looks absolutely ridiculous!Anyway, I wanted to read another good X-Men book ever since I finished Whedon's stellar run, and it looks like I have a winner here. Hope the ne...

Pretty good! So I have had this for a while but kept putting it down because of Morrison; don't get me wrong the guy writes good stuff but some of his other stuff can give you a serious mental health injury I like to call Morrisoneitas! But luckily this one was Morrisoneitas free! So this one's plot is pretty straight forward there's some really powerful old lady who's causing havoc and the X-men have to stop her, this old lady is trying to rebirth The Sentinel's. The story was short and sweet,

Morrison gets credit for three things: finally committing mutant genocide as X-Men plots are always threatening, in volume 1 no less; not using Magneto; giving Charles Xavier the balls to kill. Frank Quitely is awesome. I love his stuff, but why does everyone look Asian? Seriously. The character design is a bit...off. Wolverine is really husky. And Beast is very feline and Victorian. Basically Beauty and the Beast. Professor X looks like, I dunno, a Bond villain. The plot revolves around Cassand...

Book Info: This collection contains New X-Men issues #114-117.ABSOLUTE RATING: {3/5 stars}STANDARDIZED RATING: <3/5 stars>I'm sure most serious comic book fans will view E is for Extinction as at least a decent X-Men story for a few pretty obvious reasons. Most notably, it sets the groundwork for certain defining moments that will shape the face of the X-Men and all of mutantkind well into the future. (I know this because most of the X-Men I've read was written after this, and what happens

This was some heavy reading for sure as Morrison takes over the X-Men and in a way it was great.A new enemy named Cassandra Nova along with some Trask targets Genosha killing so many mutants, millions of them and well Scott and his team go after her and team up with Emma to go after her and subdue her in the most brutal manner as the world is changed forever and we discover who she is and what her relation to charles is and what she does to Beast.Elsewhere we see things changing for Emma and Sco...

Grant Morrison brings us a brand new series starring the X-Men, and within the first volume ventures where no other X-Men writers have before. The story is very intriguing, including a mutant genocide and introducing a brand new villain Cassandra Nova. She is every bit loathsome as a villain must be. Although, the X-Men are, scientifically speaking, Homo Sapiens Superior , Morrison hasn't left out the Homo Sapiens part, and shows the main characters' humanity and vulnerability in full glory. Fra...

The story is a thriller; there's a new hyper-enemy who presents a greater threat than the X-Men have ever seen (again), and we learn new things about Professor X with each development. It's development itself that makes Grant Morrison such a great writer for the X-Men, because as the stakes get higher, the former moralities and simple-minded worldviews of some of the X-Men (mostly Scott, Jean and Charles Xavier himself) are challenged and blown away by Wolverine and Emma Frost, their new vicious...

8.0/10A great start to the series. A villain that you love to hate since page one. Cassandra Nova is smart, evil and doesn't waste any time to execute her plan.Morrison's writing is on point and i really liked Quitely's art ( he is not the only artist ).

The story was pretty good! I didn't really like the art style though...

I actually read the whole run of New X-Men, so I'm just going to use this space to drop some general thoughts on it.What I liked-Cassandra Nova as a villain was pretty creepy, which is impressive considering what a tired trope "evil twin" can be-The part where Jean is like "I'm going to defeat you with the power of friendship" was great-The emphasis that anti-mutant hatred comes from an existential fear of humans being replaced by a new species and becoming extinct in a few generations is a good...

Re-reading after so many years.. (more than 10 I think) and well, even though I still remember the awesome moments in it, it's still 10-plus more fun to read than any current X-Men storyline for the past couple of years (minus the House of X/Powers of X because I haven't read that yet, which is the reason I'm reading New X-Men again now, since a friend recommended to me to reread this one before HoX-PoX, dunno why, but we'll see)Anyway, it's so much fun to read this, from the characters the plot...

Really great and interesting take on the idea of mutants. Only reason it's not a 5 star is because of the annual issue (it was so annoying to read in the sideways format) AND Eth*n v*n sci**r art...

Meh. I really like the X-men, but I'm afraid this story just didn't do it for me.For one it didn't make a lot of sense with the main protagonist having been around for as long as Professor X, and being as powerful, but never having been heard of before. This is especially true considering the Cerebro and Cerebra mutant detection machines that the X-Men have been using ever since the beginning to detect mutants.There were also a few cheap gimmicks which I thought cheapened the story such as the c...