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One of the strongest XMen stories ever
This edition not only include the main story "Days of Future Past" but also several issues before and after of the story.
This particular collected TPB contains "Uncanny XMen"and also the "XMen" Annual, So, my rating is an overall average based on the sum of all individual ratings per story,
Creative Team:
Chris Claremont Writer amp John Byrne Illustrator, both coplotters
Also: John Romita, Jr, Illustrator in the Annual
ELEGY
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, . . Here I sit alone! Now, for the first time, I realize how it must have been for the Professor all these long months, . . always apart, always alone
This is an astonishing account of the major events of the XMen history since its beginning to datenarrated by not other than Scott Summers aka Cyclops!, the leader of the team.
Told from his personal point of view, he takes the audience in an uncanny journey through the happiest and saddest moments, All done in one single issue! Definitely a marvelous reading,
NIGHTCRAWLER'S INFERNO
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Good evening, My name is Stephen Strange, I am a physician. I believe I am expected,
Nightcrawler aka Kurt Wagner is celebrating hisst birthday but an unexpected gift takes his soul to a hellish place that only the guest starring of Doctor Strange can help to the XMen to go there and to help to save Nightcrawler's soul!
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. . SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES! amp RAGE!
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I fought that monster durin' my first mission, as Wolverine, for Department "H".
My first mission My only failure, I'd been sent to deal with the Hulk,
While, Professor X and Storm are doing their best efforts to make feel at home to the newest member in the XMen, Kitty Pryde Wolverine travels to Canada, to make peaces with his old friends, James MacDonald Hudson Vindicator and his wife, Heather Hudson.
Nightcrawler signs up to go along with Wolverine,
When Wolverine and Nightcrawler are able to reach James MacDonald Hudson aka Vindicator, he is on an official mission of Alpha Flight, the Canadian government's sanctioned superhero team.
Alpha Flight is tracking a mysterious monster and the team is decimated due some members are away in another mission over USA, so Vindicator is having only Shaman and Snowbird.
Soon enough, Wolverine knows that the monster has to be the Wendigo, which he has some reckoning to do, so he offered his help to find the monster.
DAYS OF FUTURE PAST
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Our actions may not make things betterfor humanity or mutantkindbut they cannot make them worse.
One of the most famous and celebrated stories of the XMen titles, if not the best, or the only one able to compete against The Dark Phoenix saga, but taking in account that Days of Future Past was developed in only two comic book issues, that's something astonishing impressive!
Those "good ol' days" where creative teams aren't mandated by the publishing house to extend any storyline toissues at least thinking already in the marketing of the tradepaperback.
Notice that here, Marvel needed to "fill up" the TPB edition with other issues to be to able to charge what they want for the TPB
: Kitty Pryde isand a half years old, making her the youngest student ever included into the XMen team so far.
She is the newest addition to the team, She is shy and sweet,
: Kate Pryde isand a half years old, making her one of the very few mutant survivors after the Sentinels took over the country, She is the only hope to save humanity and mutantkind, She is outspoken and driven,
The Fantastic Four are dead, The Avengers are dead. The XMen are mostly dead, And only likemutants are still alive but living in concentration camps, The Sentinels are ruling USA,
A crucial moment, in, was the trigger to this dark future, so the solution is clear, . . the past must be changed!
So a bold plan is forged to send the "conscience" of the old Kate Pryde to reach the body of the young Kitty Pryde, back in the past, to prevent that that future may ocurr.
Literally there was a "before" and an "after" in the XMen's comic book history with the publication
of this story,
DEMON
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Finally, they're all gone, Omigosh! What am I saying! They are all gone! I'm all alone!
Shy and sweet Kitty Pryde is all alone in the XMansion, but soon enough she will have a lethal visit and she will have to deal with it all by herself!
A lonely remmant of the N'Garai monsters reaches the XMansion and it's up to Kitty to defend home against this nightmarish creature!
I would have given this collection five, but didn't understand why the first two stories were included.
"Elegy" was just a backstory about Jean Gray and "Inferno", while a very intriguing story this is the first time I've read it, isn't part of the storyline.
I actually got confused, thinking I had gotten the wrong collection, expecting it to be just the two issues for Days of Future Past, As a Kitty fan, I also enjoyed "Demon!"
This was one of the first XMen stories I had ever read after starting to read Marvel's Excalibur.
My thenboyfriend was introducing me to Kitty Pryde as a character he thought I'd like, I LOVE Kitty and was thrilled to see her have such a large role in a pivotal storyline,
When I reread it, I hadn't realized that the storylineyears in the future was,
It was nice to refresh the story and I was thrilled to find Amazon had it as a Kindle book!
I now wonder what the movie will be like.
I haven't seen Rachel cast, but Ellen Page is retuning as Kitty, I also heard a rumor that it would be Mystique, not Kitty, that would be coming back to present day, I hope that's not the case,
I'd recommend this as a good starter for current day XMen story lines, I feel it has held up very well over time, Days of Future Past is onlyissues long, It packs a lot for such a short story, Kitty Pryde comes back from a futurewhere the Sentinels have taken over the U, S. and killed most superhumans. She's come back to stop the assassination of Senator Robert Kelly from happening which kicks off her dark future, It was the first appearance of Rachel Summers and the new Brotherhood of Evil Mutants including Mystique, Claremont even alludes to the fact Mystique and Nightcrawler are related way back then, The other issues included are the rest of John Byrne's run on Uncanny XMen after sitelinkThe Dark Phoenix Saga ended, It ends with the first issue of Uncanny XMen I ever owned where Kitty Pryde is alone in the mansion and attacked by one of the N'Garai.
Sure, it's a total Alien ripoff but it terrified me at the time, And you get to see Kitty Pryde really kick butt for the first time, I have to say, I remember reading these initial books when they came out inand I remember being absolutely blown away by them, This was the introduction of Kitty Pryde, who, if you are a comic reader and my age, you had developed a massive crush on at just the right time in your formative years it didnt hurt she was Jewish, as I was, so, ya know, there was a bond.
So it was with this sense of nostalgia I picked up the compilation I refuse to call this a graphic novel a Graphic Novel is a coherant story told in a visual medium with the depth of a piece of literature.
It is not a mere collection of monthly comics bound together in a paperback format in the hopes of turning more people on to the comic form by giving it a high falutin name.
The other reason for my return interest is the thought they are basing the next XMen film going by title alone on this particular sequence of the comic history.
Boy, was I disappointed,
I know, we have to look at the comics in the context of their time and how important they were then, and I am, but still, the artform has come a long way.
Not to mention the collection is slightly padded out with stories which really have nothing to do with the “Days of Future Past” storyline, including an issue long catchup which, if the editros had really wanted us to know what was happeneing, they could have accomplished with a three paragraph piece of prose rather than apage piece of clunky exposition.
And speaking of clunky exposition, . . wow. I understand the need to keep the casual reader up to date with whats been happening in the story and I will admit, if youre reading these issue by issue, it might even help a bit, but reading it straight through, you come out of it feeling that everyone who ever compared comic books to soap operas wasspot on.
That all said, the two issue arc which actually hits the “Days of Future Past” stuff offers up some interesting discussion starters on political gain at the cost of human rights, congress vs.
The White House and of course, causality and time travel, So while it wasnt a bad read, like other pieces of literature Ive tried to recapture recently from my youth, it might have been better to keep it as a distant memory rather than try to relive it.
Chris Claremont a jeho XMeni jsou kultovní, ale až nyní jsem se pustil do možná jeho největší klasiky, která je bohužel dost bruh.
Předně, název booku Days of Future Past je trochu zavádějící protože z celé knihy je DoFP všehovšudy jen dvoučíselná takže lepší název by byl Kitty Pryde: First Steps.
Víceméně hlavní věc kterou zde sledujeme jsou začátky Kitty u XMenů, o ničem jiném to moc není,
Samotný DoFP je strašně nudně napsaný, má tolik co vyprávět ale na hřišti o velikosti dvou sešitů to je zkrátka nemožné.
Navíc když se Claremont využívá v tom aby ve vizuálním médiu popsal každý prd, kdyby to postava udělala tak se zjeví žlutý rámeček a tam bude napsáno: Hle! Wolverine si prdnul.
Jediné co mě vážně bavilo je kresba která je výborná, John Byrne mě strašně baví,
Ve finále je to celkem fajn, ale asi ne na takové úrovni jako třeba Dark Phoenix Saga, The first issue is a summary of The XMen up to that point from the perspective of Scott Summers Cyclops, who is leaving the group, It's good. The next adventure has Dr, Strange guest starring and is also pretty good, The one that sets this book apart is the story from which they took the cover of the collection, in which we get a glimpse of the dystopian nightmare world of.
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Pretty cool. Recommended for XMen fans, especially if you like Kitty Pryde, This collection is labeled as “Days of Future Past” but seeing as the feature presentation is only a two issue story, theres a great deal of padding on either side of it and while DOFP is tremendous, everything else in here kind of sucks.
Before the stories even begin, were given a massive amount of history bringing us up to date on what has been going down in the XMen universe.
Were treated to lots of epic storytelling involving the birth of Phoenix, the death of many mutant brethren, and Cyclops departure from the group, leaving Storm as team captain.
From there, were thrust into a story involving Doctor Strange and the team's venture into a version of Hell inspired by Dantes Inferno, Nightcrawler is accused of murder and his punishment is brought about by a demon, Sounds cool, right Well, I was bored to tears and this is mostly due to the horrifically bad dialogue, Tip to Chris Claremont when youre using a visual medium like comic books, theres no need for your characters to tell the reader every single thing theyre doing using the very limited space you have for dialogue.
Let the images carry you,
The Days of Future Past story line itself was fantastic and Im beyond excited for the big screen adaptation in just a few short weeks.
From the trailers I've seen, it looks like the screenwriters are playing around with a few of the roles each character has in the original story which is fine by me.
I already have a deep rooted appreciation for anything postapocalyptic and Claremont and company really nail it, Again, aside from a few complaints about dialogue, DOFP is one of the great standout XMen tales I've read,
The final story involves Christmas and while thats all well and good in playing to my inner Christmas fanatic, it was in a tough spot having to follow the books title track.
If youre interested in brushing up on the original source material for Marvels upcoming XMen big screen presentation, pick this book up and skip everything else inside.
DOFP is the only thing worth checking out here,
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