After the monotonous Marvel comics I have read recently, this is a breath of fresh air. This has characters and it doesn't feel like it's simply about the action. I was engaged and it was fun. Why can't this be more of what the comics are doing. Joss is amazing and he really does understand emotions and characters. That's what he does.I love the art. I thought the plot was fun without being too ridiculous. I mean there is an alien in it and it's only one and it does overwhelm the story. There is...

Solidly fun and intelligently written. A great look at our heroes reuniting after several years. Fantastic artwork, too. Astonishing!

The X-Men are back and they wanna act as heroes and with a new mutant cure going around, its upto them to find the people behind it and prevent a calamity that might happen, and then we have this new villain ORD whose behind the cure and the very secrets that are revealing themselves, the return of Colossus, the formation of new team, tensions between Kitty and Emma, Wolverine taking it with everyone, Beast wanting the cure, the introduction of Abigail Brand and SWORD and so many revelations. Th...

I have been on a Marvel roll lately. It's mainly due to the fact that I've been mainlining Marvel shows on Netflix, along with the various Marvel movies we've been treated to lately. I discovered that there was a motion comic series for The Astonishing X-Men, and some of the episodes are posted on Netflix. Watching it and "Wolverine and the X-Men" (and loving it), encouraged me to check out some of the comics after many years of not reading them. Luckily my awesome library has this series!I will...

My introduction to the X-Men, many years ago, was the Dark Phoenix Saga (even though it was already a couple of years old when I found it). Up until then I'd been consuming Namor and the staples: Batman, Superman, Captain America, Spiderman. My starting place was not a bad place to start; it was, in fact, a pretty fine place to start. Maybe too fine. Starting with one of the finest chapters of the X-Men might be why I've mostly been a passing fan of Marvel's mutants over the years. Nothing could...

Fantastic premise - an x-gene cure? That'll keep 'em on their toes for a while.Loving the super-bitch Emma Frost that Whedon cooked up - he really does have a way with female characters doesn't he?The writing and art are a nice, fresh yet familiar take on our favourite misfits. I am so glad that Whedon branched out beyond his Buffyverse to grant us this twist on our tired old mutant storylines. This kicks off a spectacular run of X-Men comics.

This was a bit better. I’ve doggedly been trying to get aboard the X-Men bandwagon. The “Ultimate” version was too contrived for my taste, and many readers recommended Josh Whedon’s Astonishing X-Men run. I will admit that this is probably required reading for X-Men fans; it is quite good, but perhaps not the best place for the uninitiated to start. I was a bit out of my depth here. For example, I never read the arc where Colossus “died”. Professor Xavier is also missing from this outing, leavin...

Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men will ..em..you know astonish you. Nice story, very good job with the characters and i personaly liked the art very much. So if you are an X-Men fan and haven't read this yet ( unlikely i know ) do it now

Grant Morrison did an ambitious run on New X-Men, but that story had to be walked back in the interests of continuing it in on-going mainstream superhero comics. Marvel made a wise choice when they tapped Joss Whedon, lord of the TV geeks back then, to help get the X-Men out of the black leather and back into spandex. (It’s reasonable to assume that his work here was a big reason that he’d later get the gig writing and directing the Avengers movies.)Kitty Pryde returns to the school as Cyclops i...

Picking up where Grant Morrison left off, Joss Whedon begins his run on the X-Men with a new line up consisting of Cyclops, Emma Frost, Beast, Kitty Pryde, Lockheed the X-Dragon, and Wolverine (Xavier is "on sabbatical"). He's also reinstated the classic superhero outfits, ditching Morrison and Quitely's additions of black leather as "it was spooking people".Having seen the third X-Men movie long before picking up this book I noticed the storyline they used in that film being used here for the f...

Score: 4.04 out of 5Grade: 81% (A-) | GreatThe X-Crew aim to astonish the world while a mutant cure causes some to question who they really are. Here is my review of Astonishing X-Men Vol. 1: Gifted: The Good:I really liked the roster of this team – the former villain (Emma Frost), former thug (Wolverine), the leader (Cyclops), the gentle beast (Beast), and the poster child (Shadowcat) – almost like the Breakfast Club of X-Men. They all have their role as they try to astonish the world similar t...

Review is also on: Rabbit Ears Book Blog 6 stars! Brief History: Alright, I have actually first heard of the “X-Men” series when I was little and it was through a 90s cartoon series entitled “X-Men: The Animated Series.” From that day on, I was so hooked onto the “X-Men” franchise that I practically watched every incarnation of “X-Men” throughout my life which included the animated series “X-Men: Evolution” and I even watched all three “X-Men” movies. Now the truth of the matter is that ev...

I haven't picked up an X-Men comic in a long time, unless you count the WOLVERINE ORIGINS: DEADPOOL graphic novel I reviewed recently; example, I had no idea that Scott Summers (Cyclops) and Emma Frost (the White Queen), were a couple. When did that happen? Nevertheless, in ASTONISHING X-MEN, it works. I love the interplay between Scott and Emma, with her love for Scott sullied by her bitterness of what he once shared with Jean Grey. I also like Kitty Pryde's overt mistrust of the White Queen ow...

The X-Men are re-forming and opening Xavier's School again. Some familiar faces return like Kitty Pryde.Meanwhile a cure for the mutant condition has been found.Gifted is the inspiration for the worst X-Men movie X-Men 3 The Last Stand. Thankfully Cyclops and Professor X aren't dissolved by a Phoenix powered Jean Grey. Jean is dead and Scott has moved on with Ms. Lingerie Emma Frost. Frost is also helping to lead the school which isn't going over well with everyone.The author Joss Whedon has a h...

There was no question in my mind that Joss Whedon can write, and quite well at that. But can he write the X-Men? The answer, of course, is that he can, and quite well at that.This is, I believe, the first X book I've picked up in probably eight years. Nightcrawler is my favorite, and between (view spoiler)[retconning his origin in the most stupid way possible and killing him off (hide spoiler)] I've been avoiding them as unnecessary stressors. But that means that I missed Whedon's run on Astonis...

Oh, X-Men, how do I love thee? I shall not bore anyone by counting the ways, but suffice it to say I love 'em. However, my introduction to the X-Men did not come in the form of a comic book, but instead from the Saturday morning cartoon show that used to run on FOX and, later, the big budget movies. I wasn't a comic book reader as a kid (mainly due to lack of access--there were no bookstores in my small rural town) and discovering that the X-Men had been around forever did not exactly encourage

My love for the X-Men is not something I've hidden in the past. I've mentioned this recently, so I guess I don't really need to remind the people who read my review of another X-Men series. This first volume was great. It vaguely depicts a great story arc and hints for great plot twists to come in the next volumes. The plot was different than the usual X-Men plot I got used to. I only know X-Men from the movies and I can vaguely remember some random single issues when I was younger, so I had no

4.5 starsAh, Kitty Pryde. I guess I think of her as an avatar for the reader with this team's line-up. We may not have Beast's intellect, Emma Frost's looks, Wolverine's toughness, or Cyclops' leadership skills, but Kitty is just Kitty (and all the better for it) - as in plucky, aware, good-hearted and dependable. I thought she was one of the best things about the All New X-Men series that I read earlier this year, and the feeling continues with Astonishing Vol. 1. There was a lot of good action...

Cyclops, Beast, Wolverine, Shadowcat, and Emma Frost make up a new incarnation of the X-Men. In an effort to promote a positive profile, the team resumes its helpful "superteam" activities and stops an unexplained attack by the alien Ord of the Breakworld. Meanwhile, Doctor Kavita Rao of Benetech has just announced a cure for mutations, which doesn't sit well with the X-Men. (view spoiler)[The mysterious Ord and Dr. Rao are connected in their motives and are in fact working together: Ord believe...

So, I think I mistook this volume. I thought I was reading the first ever issue of X-Men, when really this is just another whole set of X-Men. I knew that there were multiple sets and stories and characters and such, because you hear people talking about how "in one alternate universe this happened which is different from this other universe" and such and so forth.BUT, it wasn't that confusing. Because I knew the characters and I knew about the girl who is already dead in the beginning (it's Jea...