New X-Men: Good or Sux?

[Boris the Blade]

Good or Sux, and why? Please don't spoil it - I'm trying to decide whether or not it's worth splurging 90 bucks Canadian for the three hardcovers.

[Ben Rosen]

so so good. splurge away.

[Sheldo]

Excellent. It is the story that got me into reading comics.

[Brandon191]

The majority of it is very good, but towards the end I thought it gets a little iffy.

[joeAR]

I'm in the minority when I say that I didn't like it. I liked a lot of the ideas I just didn't like the way it was executed

[Ray G.]

It is teh suxxor. I was about to vote Good until I realized that you were talking about the Grant Morrison run on X-men as opposed to the teen X-men comic that's running now. I hated Morrisson on X-men.

[Jacob Lyon Goddard]

hell, even i liked it

[Ben Rosen]

okay, let me give you a "why" as to why you should buy it. First of all, the art is great. A lot of people will stay stuff about Kordey's work on the book, but it's not bad at all, and quitely and van sciver more than make up for it. The stories were smart and interesting, and taking them out of the spandex didn't hurt them at all. It's just good, smart, fun super hero stories.

[Boris the Blade]

hell, even i liked it
Christ. It MUST be good. :D

[JABSEN]

The majority of it is very good, but towards the end I thought it gets a little iffy.Replace iffy with crappy and this is what I thought,Still worth hunting doen.

[Sheldo]

The E For Extintion and Riot at Xaviars are some of the best X-Stories I've read.

[Olivier E.]

hell, even i liked it

Look even Goddard found it good, you know what that means, a superhero comic with the Goddard sigil is a must buy

[ritter]

Starts off really strong but gets drug out in the middle with an ok ending.

[Jacob Lyon Goddard]

Look even Goddard found it good, you know what that means, a superhero comic with the Goddard sigil is a must buy
this is truth
get Jack Staff, Everything Used To Be Black And White while you're at it

[JABSEN]

Look even Goddard found it good, you know what that means, a superhero comic with the Goddard sigil is a must buyOr It could mean he's exactlly the wrong guy to listen to.

I'm not saying that's the case

[Boris the Blade]

I already read Jack Staff.

[Jacob Lyon Goddard]

I already read Jack Staff.
i stopped buying the new ones once i realized they were just de-compressed old ones

[The Human Target]

Its my favourite modern superhero story. Its also the best X-Men story that has ever been. I can't even read the books anymore. They just don't compare.

[Boris the Blade]

This is true, but it doesn't come out often enough for me to care too much.

[Blandy vs Terrorism]

Oh wait...I just voted without reading the first post...
I was thinking of New Mutants. New Xmen is very good.

[Mister Mets]

Do a compromise, and just buy the first (and best) hardcover. Then, when you love that, buy the next two. It's one of the best creative runs of the last few years, and has several of the best (and most accessible) X-Men stories ever.

[Anthony Loring]

Absolutely fantastic. So many great moments in that run.

[DigiEmissary]

Oh wait...I just voted without reading the first post...
I was thinking of New Mutants. New Xmen is very good.

Academy X is good too, though the quality isn't as consistently high as Morrison's NXM was.

[the last ronin]

It's great, its too bad Marvel couldn't have used it farther, they just pussed out.

[jordan michael]

okay, let me give you a "why" as to why you should buy it. First of all, the art is great. A lot of people will stay stuff about Kordey's work on the book, but it's not bad at all, and quitely and van sciver more than make up for it. The stories were smart and interesting, and taking them out of the spandex didn't hurt them at all. It's just good, smart, fun super hero stories.

ha! i thought this thread was about new x-men: academy x for a while. i was like, "ben likes academy x?" mind fuck.

van sciver, jiminez, and silvestri were the only good people to work on the book.

[Howlett]

van sciver, jiminez, and silvestri were the only good people to work on the book.
Agreed. I couldn't stand the other artists.

[Brandon191]

I hated Silvestri on the book. His work looks to messy and confusing to me.

[Jacob Lyon Goddard]

Silvestri's stuff was pretty unreadable
almost a satire of what comics (superhero or otherwise) should not be

[SimiBoyz]

I'm in the minority when I say that I didn't like it. I liked a lot of the ideas I just didn't like the way it was executed

Damn straight.

His ideas were second to none. The execution fucked the shit out of me. I almost hate him for it and now refuse to read anything by him.

It seems he tries to be too confusing to be clever, or something that makes sense. It's like reading one of his books - fucks with your head.

[jordan michael]

Silvestri's stuff was pretty unreadable
almost a satire of what comics (superhero or otherwise) should not be

you're a satire of what comics should not be...

[Jacob Lyon Goddard]

you're a satire of what comics should not be...
oh...
bravo...







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[jordan michael]

oh...
bravo...







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yeah that's right, you take it!

[JABSEN]

Silvestri's stuff was pretty unreadable
almost a satire of what comics (superhero or otherwise) should not beAgreed.Just about the stupidest stuff I've seen.


And how does your list not inlude Quitely?(slacker not Goddard)

[St.-]

I just bought the first HC but enjoyed it that by itself. not sure if i want the rest though...

[jordan michael]

Agreed.Just about the stupidest stuff I've seen.


And how does your list not inlude Quitely?(slacker not Goddard)

he draws the ugliest women alive. not saying that i won't read a comic about an ugly person, but jean grey is a BEAUTIFUL woman, and he doesn't draw her like that. everyone has wrinkles and looks 60.

[Boris the Blade]

Ugh, Silvestri was on this?

Can't win 'em all, I guess.

...except for Seven Soldiers.

[Jacob Lyon Goddard]

he draws the ugliest women alive. not saying that i won't read a comic about an ugly person, but jean grey is a BEAUTIFUL woman, and he doesn't draw her like that. everyone has wrinkles and looks 60.
i'm sorry that there is a small number of comic books in you collection that you can't masturbate to

[Brandon191]

i'm sorry that there is a small number of comic books in you collection that you can't masturbate to

:lol:

I love Quitely. His work is completly different then anyone else today.

[jordan michael]

i'm sorry that there is a small number of comic books in you collection that you can't masturbate to

i'm not saying that i don't like them because i want all my women to be beautiful!
would you draw superman skinny? no.
would you draw wolverine tall? no.
would you draw professor x with hair? no
should you draw jean grey old and ugly? no.

[Mark]

Fantastic. He made the X-Men interesting.

[jordan michael]

:lol:

I love Quitely. His work is completly different then anyone else today.

no, there are still some artists who can draw pretty poorly still.

[Brandon191]

no, there are still some artists who can draw pretty poorly still.

Like Silvestri? ;)

[jordan michael]

Like Silvestri? ;)
like bachalo.

[JABSEN]

like bachalo.Wow.Silvestri over Bachalo.

So essentialy anything with personality you hate.

[jordan michael]

Wow.Silvestri over Bachalo.

So essentialy anything with personality you hate.

anything that looks like it was drawn with a pen jammed up someone's ass i hate.

[Brandon191]

anything that looks like it was drawn with a pen jammed up someone's ass i hate.

Personally, I find that helps me concentrate better.

[Mike Haseloff]

I'd check it out.

Quite simply, it was a logic step forward in the evolution of the X-Men, and their world.
Everything that has been undone since is a travesty, and one might even go so far as to say - a mistake.

X-Men books have been stinking the place up, for the most part, since Morrison left. So, from a business perspective, you have to question the logic of undoing it all.
I really thought Morrison brought a happy balance of comic X-Men (plus!) and the movie stylings.

[jordan michael]

Personally, I find that helps me concentrate better.
bachalo's stuff gives me a headache. i can't dischern anything from anything else. plus he draws fucked up faces.

[Brandon191]

i can't dischern anything from anything else. plus he draws fucked up faces.

Thats exactly what I think of Silvestri. I'm not a fan of Bachelo either.

[Blake Sims]

40 issues of awesomeness
Morrison hit it out of the park

[chris page]

outside of the quitely artwork, i thought it was a good run. something about quitely's work just doesn't sit with me. it tends to keep me from getting drawn into a story (pardon the pun). it's too realistic to appear comic bookish, and too comic bookish to appear realistic (i had the same problem with travis charest, and yes, i like silvestri, but i also dig bachalo so take that as you will) i'd say it's probably the best storyline in the last 10 years and ONE of the best storylines in x-men history. (then again, looking back, that's not as much of a compliment as i meant it to be..)

[madmartigan]

I dunno as far as Morrison's Superhero stuff, here's my list:

1. Animal Man
2. Flex Mentallo
3. Marvel Boy (if this even counts)
4. JLA
5. New X-Men - the art breakup kinda hurts it, I wish they assigned arcs to the various artists instead of oops, dude can't make a deadline, let's get Kordey. As far as the writing goes as Morrison put it "that's the trouble with my stories--they always seem to build up to something that never actually happens."?

[Boris the Blade]

Just picked 'em up, and I'm already half way through the second hardcover.

My only thoughts - what was Marvel thinking, letting this go? It's better than Astonishing, and I friggin' love Astonishing.