A stellar run and one of the best works by Grant Morrison, which, nonetheless, I still feel like it didn't live up to its full potential. Mostly due to a bit haphazard storytelling and sort of a botched ending, if you count the last four issues. Still, a great and highly recommended book.

As usual with Morrison's work, New X-Men was remarkably uneven. The Omnibus version contains Morrison's entire run on the series with several notable story lines including a shocking start as the inhabitants of the mutant nation of Genosha are slaughtered to the tune of sixteen million. The event sets up all the twists and turns that follow, and while some aspects of the run seem very well-thought out (the Phoenix and U-Man aspects), other parts seem like inventions of the moment with huge and g...

"New X-Men" by Grant Morrison OmnibusA weird looking woman that looks a lot like professor Xavier kills 16 million mutants. After some fighting the X-Men manage to take her to their headquarters, but she escapes and she goes to a machine called Cerebra, through which she can kill every mutant, at the last minute she gets seemingly killed by Emma Frost and Professor Xavier. While all these things are happening, Cyclops and Jean Gray are having marital problems and Dr McCoy (Beast) discovers than

Overly overrated, had some good ideas but I found the execution a bit lackluster and also confusing. Got whiplashed plenty of times over story skipping ahead or not giving enough time for a story to have emotional gravitas. Also didn't much care for all the new characters, and the melodrama of Scott Jean were centerpiece here which is tiring since the 60's X-Men tbh. The final story was also WTF and I face-palmed hardcore at it. In the end I found it really skippable, and don't get why it renewe...

Grant Morrison's well regarded 42 issue run of X-Men in the early 00's is collected in its entirety in this massive tome. I'd been out of comics at the time and have only now gotten a chance to read it. While the Morrison run had a few good points...Emma Frost and her Cuckoos, Jean Grey's fate, and the introduction of Quentin Quire (who Jason Aaron now handles far better than he was handled in this book)...ultimately I found that the writing seemed to be trying too hard to be different, and dare...

This is in my view the single best X-men Omnibus. There are others good X-men stories out there but the Grant Morrison run has just something special and to get all of it collected in a single book is just wonderful. More things happen in any 4 issues contained in that Omnibus than in any 10 comic issue published today. On top of this there is no crossover, this book is wholly self contained which is something in the world of Marvel X-Men crossover that is almost impossible to follow.It starts w...

Amazing artwork and insanely good stories, in a lot of way this is the X-Men I always wanted. I loved the first 2/3rds of this run so much and all the new students (Beak, Angel, the Stepford Cuckoos) and that the comic remembered it was a school and focused on that. It’s great. The last third of a bit weak due to some reveals that don’t add up (Xorn) and a not-the-actual-future story that could have been told in one or two issues instead of four, but everything else is spectacular. I adore Emma

This was really fun. There were some arcs that I didn’t particularly like, or enjoyed as much as others, but nothing was bad really. I think Doom Patrol was better in that even though it’s a 1000 times more weird and out-of-the-box than this was, it was more... easy to follow. I know that doesn’t make sense, but the art in this book was really hard to follow, and that’s a majority of the story. So if that’s hard to follow it can make the story hard to follow. Some characters seemed a bit stereot...

Reliably seen as one of the greatest X-Men runs ever created - from out of nowhere Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely etc. turned the X-Men world on its head; they scrapped the uniforms, took the X-Men public, made Emma Frost a mainstream X-Man, brought ibn 100s of mutant students, re-imagined Genosha and much much more!But... a small but, but there's a little buzzing in my head that marvelled at the concepts of this run, but just wish the stories were more coherent and thought out... like the almost...

Grant Morrison's X-Men remains one of the definitive runs, so it's great to have it all in a single collection.E is for Extinction (#114-116). Morrison's debut on the New X-Men turns out to be one of his weaker arcs. Oh, there's delightful storytelling here, great characterization, and the wonderful intro of Emma to the main team (and the similarly wonderful introduction of Casandra Nova, though she doesn't really come into her own until later arcs). And of course we get the rather shocking dest...

Morrison's twisty, high concept and socially aware sci-fi writing brims with out there ideas and left-field turns, unspooling as one long story that stands above any X-Men film I've seen. Unfortunately the middle of the run is let down by some seriously dodgy artwork. In Quiteley's issues the human faces often look like lumpy elderly people -- not apropos for poor Jean Grey, but this is at least countered by the otherwise great composition of set-pieces. In Kordey's issues everything looks hideo...

This is a great way to read all of Grant Morrison's New X-Men work in one sitting. Granted, it is a bit heavy, but that is to be expected out of a over-sized hardcover collecting 33 issues with heavy stock paper. As with his other work, Morrison manages to secure the best artist collaborators available. He works here with Frank Quitely, Ethan Van Sciver, Chris Bachalo and Marc Silvestri. With the trim being oversized, their art looks doubly good as well.

For the most part, this was one of the best comics I’ve read in ages. One of my first real forays into reading the X-Men and I really, really enjoyed every minute of it. Lots of drama. Well-written characters. Bags of twists and turns and some real stomach turning moments. Hard to believe this is the same Grant Morrison who wrote The Worst Comic I Ever Read. Then “Here Comes Tomorrow” happened right at the end. A complete hot mess that made no sense whatsoever. Talk about snatching defeat from t...

Super did not care for that! Just disappointing.

Mixed feelings. I think Morrison elevated the storytelling, but the gritty style didn't really fit the X-Men as well as say...Batman. Examples of good and bad: The additions of "ugly mutants" was a good idea. The leather uniforms...meh. Emma Frost is very complex, likable one minute and despicable the next, but can we have a complex story without sacrificing Cyclops's integrity, which to me is so integral to that character? In the end, I fell asleep reading these late into the night, so I certai...

As a young child growing up in the early 1990s, there was nothing cooler than the X-Men. Under the stewardship of Jim Lee, the X-Men were cool, dynamic and sexy. But then, as the decade wore on and the Jim Lee era faded into memory, the X-Men lost their way. No longer on the cutting edge of comics, and loosing young fans like myself who were growing up, the focus of the creative teams became one of a distinct conservativism. It seemed that the priority for Marvel was to keep their top franchise

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The X-Men were in a weird place when Morrison and artist Frank Quitely were given the reigns. To the general public, the X-Men were more popular than ever, due to the success of:But in comics? The X-Men had become a victim of their own success. Claremont’s 17 year run cast a shadow so large that even the writer himself couldn’t crawl out from under it during a brief return. Editorial interference, endless crossovers and increasingly insular stories drove away fans and kept new fans turned on to

Grant Morrison did the job he intended to do well. He pulled the Marvel Mutants into the 21st Century and simultaneously gave them a fresh start without having to wipe away decades of continuity. The characters feel like real people who are jaded after going through crisis after crisis. And his work with Emma Frost (sexed up artwork aside) made the whole run super interesting.On the other hand, his pacing was a little all over the place. He doesn't seed in the long game nearly as well as Claremo...

This is a collection of a 42-issue run, centering around humanity realizing they will soon be extinct thanks to mutant population growth. New forms of life are created by surgically implanting mutant genes into regular humans, and the X-Men are in the middle of it, trying to get everyone to play nice. Does the average homo sapien stand a chance in the future? Is a post-human world an inevitable one? Even in our "real" world, considering advances in mapping the human genome, cloning, and other sc...