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| Ultimate X-Men Vol. 14: Phoenix? | 
 enlarge | Authors: Robert Kirkman, Tom Raney, Ben Oliver
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 116109
Media: Paperback
Edition: Direct Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 6.6 x 0.4
ISBN: 078512019X
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9780785120193
ASIN: 078512019X
Publication Date: November 1, 2006
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Product Description
After the events of Magnetic North and their recent encounter with the Master of Magnetism, our heroes kick back for a night on the town with their significant others. But who or what is the Magician and how is he going to wreck their plans? Meanwhile, Wolverine runs into an old teammate who's out for revenge. Join new Ultimate X-Men writer Robert Kirkman and Ultimate Secret's Tom Raney as they take the Ultimate Universe's favorite mutants to dazzling new heights! Collects Ultimate X-Men #66-71.
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 scraping the bottom - soap opera relationships and moral disintegration May 28, 2007
8 out of 12 found this review helpful
My children and I (2 teens and an old man) have been enjoying the X-Men Ultimate series, but the last few issues have been challenging to enjoy. We finally reached the end with this volume (#14). The days of the great, fun writing of Millar and Bendis are just a memory as Robert Kirkman has "crafted" characters and storylines that you can find on network TV most weekday afternoons. To be fair, some of these incidents began when Brian Vaughan took over from Bendis, but Kirkland went whacked with the ideas.
[Spoilers and Warning on the way]. Most of the teenage X-men are having sex. These are 14-17 year old kids. Colossus in gay and has a date. Storm is inferred to be gay as well. Xavier apparently had sexual relations with Emma Frost - at best I can calculate, 30 years younger than that spry professor. Is Sabertooth Logan's son? The Phoenix is God who created life on earth and helped humans - and by the way, possesses Jean Grey. Xavier accepts funding from a religious cult. Wolverine murders unstable mutants for Nick Fury (to be fair, that wasn't Kirkland's idea, but he still allows it to simmer here).
The entire Colossus is gay thing really indicates the lack of writing talent. When the mutant, Jean-Paul, announced that he was gay in the Brian Vaughan series, I thought, "Well this will be interesting - a gay superhero trying to gain acceptance in a macho "club". How will he be accepted? How will he find relationships as a superhero? Well, the simplistic answer Kirkland and Vaughan came up with was make Colossus gay so they can date each other. Ugh! Not only is Colossus gay, but also he is acting effeminate with goofy expressions and comments. He doesn't resemble his earlier character in the Ultimate series at all. If I was gay, I'd be angry - a strong, no compromise tough guy suddenly is feminine when he comes out? Yikes! Stereotyping to the extreme.
As for the teen lust, Jean Grey has now had sex with two men -Wolverine, who is about 50 years older than her and Scott. Bobby, who is 15, having sex with Rogue, who I believe is around 18. I don't think that is believable. There are other consummated relationships as well, but overall, the morals have hit rock bottom. Oh, and before I forget, arguments between boyfriend/girlfriend are resolved by hitting and other violence.
I wish someone at Marvel would help us parents out here by making comics that don't exhibit behavior that is contrary to what most parents want for their children. I know I'll hear about realism and the real world, but these are comics - not much reality to be found here. Teens are subjected to sexual and violence pressures at school, on TV and in movies. Can't we have one place for innocence to be reinforced?
Please?
 First February 7, 2007
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
A lot of character exploration in this collection. A lot of the X-Men being the young people they are have started to couple up. There are also some breaks with Colossus and Nightcrawler having problems after Colossus has come out. The major storyling is the Phoenix. Is Jean Grey the Phoenix? I can't say without spoiling it, but it does not follow the path of the traditional Marvel Universe. Overall it was a good story, the artwork is a but uneven at times, but it works for the most part.
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