The X-Men From Beginning To End

Well this is it. This is the last review I’m going to write for this blog. It covers the last chunk of Chris Claremont’s original run on Uncanny X-Men, along with the crossovers and spinoffs ...

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At the end of this story, the X-Men snap out of their brainwashing, no neural inhibitors needed, because apparently using their mutant powers counteracts the genetic modification that was alterin...

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The X-Men are fighting themselves again. The X-Men have, in my opinion, the best rogue’s gallery of any comic ever. It’s like Batman’s rogue’s gallery, but with a more relatable edge. So ...

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I love how these panels start with “At roughly that moment, elsewhere in the huge asteroide” when literally the previous panel was How can Fabian Cortez be having a pool party with the X-Me...

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Ok, to be fair, you were a raving lunatic turned into a baby. You already had one chance to grow up into a reasonable, well-adjusted adult, and you blew it. I think at that point, you can’t exa...

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Holy shit Forge and Banshee are still on the team? I had no memory of this, likely because they, like Jubilee, were left out of the iconic 5 variant cover of X-Men Volume 2 #1, which I had assume...

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Well this is it. This is Chris Claremont’s final issue of X-Men. Not counting when he comes back later. That’s not this Chris Claremont. That’s a different Chris Claremont. More importantly...

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This is just immoral business practices. What if this happened after every gangland financial transaction? The world would be pure chaos!! Well anyway, here’s the first inkling of Omega Red. I ...

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This is some real fuckery of a retconn here at the end of this comic. Apparently, when Magneto got re-aged after getting turned into a baby , Moira screwed around with his genetics. Basically, Mo...

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Ok now I’m annoyed. I couldn’t tell for sure in the last issue if the X-Men were living in a magically re-built mansion or if it was part of a Danger Room simulation, but here we get confirma...

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Jim Lee sure knows how to draw that square jawed, five-o-clock shadow look doesn’t he. That could be Bruce Wayne from Hush underneath that helmet for all I know. Ok ok focus Gaknar, what’s go...

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Err mer gerd I feel like I am crawling … CRAWLING to the finish line here, like one of those marathon runners that didn’t do enough conditioning. And it’s not like these comics are bad, or ...

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This comic services a lot. We’ve radicalized Magneto again, met a new team of villains, caught up with the reformed X-Men who are now split into two separate teams, had a bad ass training missi...

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Well Magneto’s up here lighting off nukes. I guess this is the point of no return for a super villain such as he. Even if you aren’t a super villain, if you pop off a nuke, they are going to ...

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Yet another direct callback to the tragic events of Uncanny X-Men #150 . Did I tell you that was a big issue for me when I was a kid? It was one of the few back issues I managed to get ahold of a...

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Now those are some sexy pajamas. Magneto gets duped kinda easily here. There’s these Acolyte characters, who are more or less inspired by his actions as a super villain, and they probably have ...

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You know what, all these big budget early 90s super hero comics have in common? Training scenes. X-Force did this exact same shit like 2 issues ago. There’s even a feral member of the team get...

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There are some confusing continuity issues in this comic. First, the X-Men appear to be living happily in the X-Mansion, which has been blown to smithereens ever since Inferno and has not been r...

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I know that Chris Claremont wrote this comic, just like he wrote the almost 200 issues of Uncanny that came before this, but this one here sure feels different. Just look at how the words and art...

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Alright here we go with this shit. It’s a little weird that most of the members of X-Factor got relegated to the background for this new “team” shot. Anyway, I don’t know whether to get s...

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