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Astonishing X-Men Volume 1: Gifted TPB (Astonishing X-Men) by: Joss Whedon by: John Cassaday List Price: £9.99 City Travel Guides Price: £6.99 You Save: £3.00 (30%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973 EAN: 9780785115311 ISBN: 0785115315 Label: Marvel Comics Manufacturer: Marvel Comics Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 152 Publication Date: December 29, 2004 Publisher: Marvel Comics Reading Level: Young Adult Studio: Marvel Comics Sales Rank: 111635 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Highly recommended.If you appreciate a story with skillfully crafted characters, relationships and plotting you will love Astonishing X-men. Astonishing X-Men is masterfully written by Whedon. The outstanding text is complimented by Cassaday's fine artwork. Even if, like me, you are new to American comic books, I strongly encourage you to buy the Astonishing X-Men trade paper backs, starting with the first volume, Gifted. Rating: - I'm astonished!!!Joss Whedon, the genius behind Firefly, doing X-Men? Sounds like a winning combination! And it so is! The story is believable and fun and the characters are spot on. Bringing the X-Men down to five members was a stroke of genius as it allows every character (including two of the students) a chance to shine and makes the story easier to follow. John Cassaday's artwork is superb as it is realistic and believable. He also has a fantastic talent for catching expressions, eliminating the need for all those stupid narrative thought bubbles that some comics have. All in all, this comic is astonishing! Rating: - The new boss, same as the old bossWhich was why I stopped buying comics several years ago, too much violence, too many people back from the dead and too many tie-ins. However, I have to say that despite the Marvel standards committee Wheedon has done a pretty good job and Cassadays artwork is kinetic, smooth and detailed and the flow from cel to cel is natural. It really does have something of a retro feel, and is IMO none the worse for it. This first is a hail hail the gangs all here introduction and has the obligatory Marvel character resurrection because, as we know, in the Marvel universe no-one ever really dies. The next installment is something of a disappointment story wise (for the most part) and has one of those deus ex machina ... Read More: Rating:  - Feel that tingle?That's the tingle of proximity to greatness. if you've ever loved Superheroes, the silly, four colour splendour of it all, the over the top action and scenery chewing villains, this will set your pulse racing. I speak as someone who enjoyed Morrissons take on the X-posse (and worships morrisson generally), but this right here feels more authentically like the X-men, like the glory days of the X-men (where they jetted off into the depths of space and overthrew intergalactic tyrants before returning to earth in time to fight for peace and justice over tea) than anything morrison created in his tenure. It feels modern, though. It's much more restrained than back in the old days (despite what i just said). Cassiday's art ... Read More: Rating:  - Astonishing?... Average X-men, more likeWhen i first read that Joss Whedon was taking over writing New X-Men when Grant Morrison decided to call it a day i thought this may not be so bad after all. I was wrong. Firstly, for some reason, some clown at Marvel thought it would be a good idea to ignore what Morrison had said about the rather idiotic looking "spandex" silly suits and dress the X-men once again like a bunch of sugar-high hippy children off to a fancy dress party. Why?! Although Whedon makes a bland attempt to explain this, it just sounds forced and silly. This whole book, like the rubbish costumes, is very dated. I dont know if Whedon is attempting to go for a "retro" feel for the book, but it just feels dull and old fasioned. Even Cassidays usually ... Read More: |
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