TALK ABOUT ONE UPPING YOUR PREDECESSOR!First, I must comment on HOW FUCKING FUNNY THIS VOLUME WAS. Colossus was thinking about the fight, and Kitty was thinking about the fight, and Logan is thinking how much he loves beer. I was tickled beyond belief reading this. Half of me says it's because Joss is a fucking funny man. The other half of me tells me that it's just because the X-Men HAVE to joke. They're in such dire situations, comics and movies alike, and they have to keep their humanity some...

More hilarious snark! More fantastic artwork! The second volume of Whedon and Cassaday’s run on Astonishing X-Men is as good as the first in terms of story, characterization, and artwork, though it is perhaps not quite as accessible to new X-Men readers as the first volume. Thankfully, I’ve got enough background knowledge on the X-universe that it didn’t slow me down at all.This volume breaks away from the story arc established in the first. Ord, the Breakworld, S.W.O.R.D., and the ominous proph...

The new X-Men team continues to promote the mutant cause by astonishing the world with their super heroics. Things go pretty well when they help drive a giant monster out of Manhattan with a little help from the Fantastic Four, but there’s problems back at the school with the revelation of a ‘cure’ for the mutant gene causing tension. The exposure of an old secret also turns out to be the birth of their latest enemy, and this is a threat unlike anything the X-Men have faced before.This is a stro...

7.8/10The X-Men face one of the toughest opponents yet. Someone they don't know how to defeat, but it knows all about them, every strength and weakness. Whedon continues the series in a high level. We see the X-Men try to be heroes and teachers as each one of them has it's own personal issues. The Beast still thinks about maybe getting "cured" and Kitty with Colossus try to figure out their relationship again

Holy crap volume 2 is good. Review to come.

Review is also on: Rabbit Ears Book Blog Flashback: After reading the first volume, “Astonishing X-Men: Gifted,” I just could not wait to read the second volume in this fantastic series, “Astonishing X-Men: Dangerous!” Joss Whedon and John Cassaday has once again woven a truly interesting story that is way more intense than the first and is full of shocking surprises that will leave every X-Men fan shocked for the rest of their lives! What is the story? After the events of the first volume

This was really good!X-Men are reeling from the previous volume and what happens when the Danger room becomes sentitent and we see the students and the team going through her and we find her origins and motives and interesting stuff with Kate but when she targets Professor X in Genosha, the team heads there to save him and more secrets are revealed, conflicts made and the return of someone big from Morrison's run and ngl its so epic, that scene, its so well drawn and conveys the sense of terror

"The Danger Room is angry!" - Emma Frost Is it ever. Our favorite mutants are put through their paces in this collection, pleasantly continuing in the same quality as Volume 1 but with even more action, twists and soap-operatic developments. Again, I could embarrassingly gush all afternoon about Kitty Pryde, but when the team is in a real pickle and she calmly (with a Kubrick-style glare) asks the bad guy "That all you got . . . bub?," I felt like cheering.

DANGERRRRR!!!this is so entertaining and page turning. i love this lineup so much and i don’t know why i didn’t read volume 2 sooner. it doesn’t have a direct correlation to volume 1 and strays off the path but it also introduces danger and a new story.all of the dialog is amazing and especially between danger and professor x. again, reading this is like watching a movie. all of the fight scenes are so clear when usually in comics they get pretty messy.

If you ever watched episodes of Star Trek, be it The Next Generation or Voyager, you'll know there were episodes, maybe one a season, where the holodeck would malfunction and the holograms would become real. Joss Whedon takes that storyline and applies it to the X-Men, bringing the Danger Room (their version of the holodeck) to life, causing chaos and havoc. Granted it's not the holograms but the room itself, still...The new shadow organisation SWORD is still in the background and seems likely t...

Joss Whedon takes the Star Trek cliche.. the holodeck malfunctions and comes alive.. and, well, doesn't do much with it other than give it breasts.

Such a pleasure to read. They know how to plot and unfold the action. Wonderful. I love these characters and villains and the art work. Worth the time, although I read this in increments in free moments through my days. On to the next in the series.Got it from Hoopla, free.

Still not really interesting at all.

This get's five stars because somehow it stirred so much emotions in me that even now, the third time I read it, I had close to tears all the way through. X-men is one of my weak spots and it's hard to comprehend everything that's going on inside me unless you've lived in my brain for... a couple of years. I cry at special scenes in movies that most people think makes no sense. It's not emotional even sometimes, I don't move a muscle to The Notebook. I cry because of the beauty, from how epic so...

This was me...When the Fantastic Four...Made a cross-over appearance in this comic. I was beside myself. Like for goodness sakes, all I needed was for Logan/Wolverine to make a move (or was I the only one that felt that connection with Miss Invisible?).Really, this comic was amazing.I love the idea of something that trains you to be your best while protecting you from yourself turning against you. Like how are you suppose to fight something that has watch, studied, and contacted against all your...

It was not my cup of tea. After having really enjoyed the Volume 1, I had high expectations from Volume 2. For a while it felt that the story is going to be mind blowing! The part till the tragic death occurs in the institute, had me by the edge of my seat and then, I fell. Sadly, I fell into a deep abyss of confusion and disappointment. The powerful enemy in this issue is the danger room, taking a physical form which just didn't go oh so well with me. Meh! Hope the next volume brings something

I know Joss Whedon has his own projects... But couldn't he have just kept writing X-Men forever? He gets the characters, he can set up an interesting plotline, he can write good, even funny dialog... He can even take the Colossus/Shadowcat relationship, which I've never, ever liked, and make me actually kinda like them together. I can't say that I'm entirely thrilled with Danger (a little too late TNG for my taste), but other than that, fantastic. And good art with personality!

Why read this, when you think you just want to see the movies? Joss Whedon: his wit, his dialogue, his humor, on injecting horror into a sci fi series, his serious reflections on AI, on fear, on human weakness, on our desire to control the universe in order to control our fears. On the surface, this looks (to me) like a pretty standard sorta superhero comic book; scratch a little deeper, and it's unique and thoughtful, for general and superhero readers alike. And even for X-Men geeks (and I'm no...

Score: 4.00 out of 5Grade: 80% (A-) | GreatOur X-Men take on something (or someone) that knows them better than they know themselves. Here is my review of Astonishing X-Men Vol. 2: Dangerous: The Good:Right from the get-go, this book takes some dark and unexpected turns. Anything to do with the young X-Student, Wing, was done in horror-like fashion and I loved it. But in large part, this book sticks with the same tone set by the first – fast-paced action with plenty of funny jokes. I liked how s...

The Danger Room is the X-Men's highly advanced holographic training facility, augmented with alien technology. It's so advanced that it becomes sentient and lures a student to his death. The Danger Room (or just "Danger") maneuvers the X-Men and their students into a corner as it begins taking even further revenge on the team.In a plot echoing the creation of Ultron, Charles Xavier inadvertently births a new artificial life form that emerges to attack the X-Men from the inside. I thought this ar...