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Sixteen million mutants dead... and that was just the beginning! In one bold stroke, writer Grant Morrison (The Invisibles, JLA, Fantastic Four: 1234) propelled the X-Men into the 21st century - masterminding a challenging new direction for Marvel's mutant heroes that began with the destruction of Genosha and never let up. Regarded as the most innovative thinker of the current comic-book renaissance, Morrison proceeded to turn the mutant-hero genre on its ear. Gone were the gaudy spandex costumes - replaced by slick, black leather and an attitude to match. Now, his entire Eisner Award-nominated run on New X-Men is collected in one deluxe hardcover! Collects New X-Men #114-154 and Annual 2001

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5 out of 5 stars

Yes, it's 1096 pages. But it's all one story. December 29, 2006
20 out of 23 found this review helpful

A problem that has always plagued superhero comics is that of stasis. Marvel's core business is not comics; it's maintaining a stable of properties that can be turned into movies and toys. These properties have to stay recognizable. So if a writer dares to allow characters to grow, to overcome their problems -- the hard-luck college guy ends a string of bad relationships and is happily married, the android develops human emotion, the villain goes straight, a character dies a noble death -- someone else gets brought in and it's "back to basics!" Divorce the wife! Wipe the robot's memory! Make the reformed guy go bad again! Resurrect the dead girl!

Morrison knew this, but didn't care: "Whatever happened before, whatever happens after, I'm writing a BOOK." His entire run, though divided into arcs, is one long story, with a beginning, a middle, and a beautiful Joycean ending. Bits foreshadowing the twists of his thirty-second issue are sprinkled into his fourth... many comics writers slip portentious pages of shadowy figures up to mysterious doings into their stories, but New X-Men offered the delicious pleasure of discovering clues that in retrospect could not be more obvious but at the time didn't even look like clues.

And this isn't form without content. Morrison approached the X-Men from the following angle: "Hey, for the first time in forty years, let's actually use the premise!" No longer is the mutant idea just there as a hook for children's adventure stories (Stan Lee) or teenage melodrama (Chris Claremont); Morrison, arguing that there's no need for the mutant idea to be allegorical to be interesting or relevant, took the idea of a new species beginning to supplant humankind and wrote a science fiction epic around it. And for the first time, Xavier's becomes an actual school, with a faculty made up of several of the 20th-century X-Men and 152 teenage students who take academic classes along with those on mastering one's powers. They're not future superheroes. They're just trying to prevent more genocide in a world that is freaking out about the end of the human race.

Naturally, everything Morrison did was quickly undone. That's the nature of the business. But who cares? Just read this book. It stands alone.

5 out of 5 stars

The absolute best X-Men stories since the Claremont/Byrne era December 13, 2006
11 out of 12 found this review helpful

It was the dawn of the 21st Century. The X-Men finally made a successful trip to the big screen, and in the comic world there were to be some shake ups. Grant Morrison, known for his influential and groundbreaking work on JLA, Animal Man, Doom Patrol, and the Invisibles to name a few, was given the task to breathe new life into the stagnant X-Men series, which had become a series of predictable, overblown, mellowdramatic, military-esque stories that were just plain boring. Re-titling the book New X-Men, Morrison re-shuffles the once too big team into the core of Cyclops, Jean Grey, Wolverine, Beast, and Emma Frost; all of whom have their work cut out for them in the first storyarc collected in this massive volume, which finds the mutant island of Genosha and all it's inhabitants exterminated by a giant Sentinel, and the X-Men come face to face with Professor Xavier's evil twin sister Cassandra Nova. As the volume continues, they meet the mysterious mutant healer Xorn, who joins them and has an impact unlike you can imagine. Soon enough, the Shi'ar make their presence felt, there's a riot at the school, Wolverine makes some shocking discoveries about his past, Cyclops embarks on a psychic affair with Emma Frost, and the Phoenix force inside Jean Grey soon rears it's head. All this sets the stage for Morrison's stunning conclusion, beginning with an old enemy back from the dead (sort of) and then hundreds of years in the future as Wolverine leads a new group of fighters against the evil Beast in pursuit of the Phoenix egg. The first thing you'll notice about Morrison's story is how it branches out in so many directions, yet it all comes together as the volume comes to an end. There are new characters introduced all the time, and they all have their own unique impact, while Morrison weaves a strikingly mature tale not seen before in an X-Men book. The spandex costumes are long gone, Cyclops isn't a total boy scout, and Wolverine is the baddest he's been in a long time. If there's any negative thing to say about this incredibly huge book, it's that because of all the different artists, there is a bit of an uneven feel. However, this is only a minor gripe. Because he couldn't keep up with a monthly title, frequent Morrison collaborator Frank Quitely is supplemented by excellent work by Ethan Van Sciver, John Paul Leon, Keron Grant, Tom Derenick, Phil Jimenez, and even Marc Silvestri. Igor Kordey's art however is a major step down from the aforementioned names, and next to Quitely, his work is here more than anyone elses. That aside, this New X-Men Omnibus features the absolute best X-Men stories ever told since the golden age of Chris Claremont and John Byrne, and if you missed out on Morrison's run or any of the previous TPB's, believe me, this is worth every single penny of the list price.

5 out of 5 stars

Well worth the expense. December 12, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful

The run by Grant Morrison on the X-Men was groundbreaking in the concepts he introduced and the manner in which he re-imagined the characters. Teamed with Frank Quitely (and later others including fan fave Ethan Van Sciver), Morrison took the X-Men up another notch and injected the franchise with some much needed new blood. The entire run is presented here in a beautiful hardbound oversize format. The stories and art themselves would be enough reason for even the casual fan to seek this volume out but, the printing and color reproduction manages to seal the deal. On glossy, heavy stock, the art manages to just leap from the page. The back of the book is devoted to pencil art, unused covers, writer plots and other variant work giving the fan behind the scenes glimpse of the working process of the various creators on the series. This project outshines a lot of the other Marvel hardcover projects and easily places it into the same league as the Absolute editions put out by DC. While it is not a slipcase volume, and not at the large size of DC's Absolute series, it more than makes up for it with the sheer volume of material presented. I defy you to buy this and then leave it up on a shelf untouched, it's just an amazing book you'll want to open and thumb through again and again. You won't be disappointed.

4 out of 5 stars

The best X men run since Claremont/ Byrne December 10, 2006
4 out of 6 found this review helpful

What a way to get back to the X Universe!
After being a serious Comic book collector (well over 15 years) I took a break from the medium, since real life i.e.: after college, had put a serious dent both in my time, as well as finances. I left my beloved x men shortly after the Alan Davis run, and never actually red any of the Grant Morrison issues contained in this volume (despite being a big fan of his from his JLA run) I still kept hearing and reading rave reviews on his work, but felt it was too late (year two of his run) to get into it, so I never did. I eventually got back to comics, and to the xmen, with the release of Astonishing XMen, but these were not the characters I remembered; Jean was dead (again) Scott was getting it on with Emma Frost (!) and the beast looked like a Disney character on steroids. I knew that the back-story to this timeline was to be found in the Grant Morrison run, and all I had to do was to start buying the trades...but just last week I found this Omnibus edition. I'm not proud to say that it cost me close to $110 from a local comic book shop, and I guess I deserve that for not checking it here in Amazon, but I can honestly say, from what I've read so far, that it's worth every penny. An absolute marvel in storytelling, both by Morrison & Quietly (and later by Phil Jimenez & other great artists) although the Igor Koroley issues are easily the worst drawn issues I have ever seen, the only thing that saves those issues he does is Morrison's magnificent storyline. Since I never learned much about what was going on in the Morrison run, most of it was new to me, and I can honestly say that the title of this review is true; this is the best the xmen have been since the Byrne/Claremont glory days, and you owe it to yourself if you are the least interested in the xmen to check out this book.

5 out of 5 stars

The Most Mind Blowing X-men Ever! December 19, 2006
3 out of 4 found this review helpful

I remember when I first read this Grant Morrison's New X-men.. I was about to give up X-men cos I was really bored with the whole minority issue and prejudice issues.. as well as long standing plots that never got resolved.. but when I heard that Morrison is coming on board with Frank Quitely.. I couldn't resist.. New X-men simply blew me away.. Morrison really shakes up the status quo.. suddenly there were millions of mutants, genosha destroyed along with magneto(who's death was only a footnote: how cool is that!) You father's X-men never read like this! Morrison portrayal of the team was very fresh with a no holds barred attitude and climatic scenes that sets your pulse racing..furthermore there were controversal issues you never think marvel will allow to be published (like telepathic love making!).. It could have been really the best run ever on X-men but sadly Frank Quitely couldn't handle the pressure and the mood of the story suffers with changing artists.. Also I wasn't really thrilled with the final arc Here Comes Tomorrow set in the future..It felt slightly disjointed but the art by Marc Silvestri more than made up for it.. Although there are rave review on Josh Whedon's run on Astonshing X-men with John Cassady mainly because many people felt that their run is exciting and encompasses the essentials of the X-men Mythos.. I really don't understand the hype cos Morrison's run was much more thrilling and daring.. so daring that no other writer dared to do this kind of stuff when this was originally published.. trust me.. try this book.. it won't dissapoint!

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