Explore Astonishing X-Men Omnibus Edited By Joss Whedon Offered As Physical Edition

about everything you could want in a marvel comiclet along an XMen comicis in here.
It's heartbreakingly sad, hilariously funny, actionpacked, and full of surprises, I recently "reread" this run via a skim of thebook version accompanied with a marathon of the motion comic series on Netflix, which is actually a pretty enjoyable not to mention strict adaptation of the source material, once you get past the stilted motioncomickyness of it all and after a few episodes, you really do.
Whedon's dialogue, as well as it works on the page, is obviously performable, even if performance makes the his Xgang even more of a Buffy/Firefly clone than they were before or vice versa, I guess, since Whedon has admitted to growing up with a crush on Shadowcat.


So the Whedonness of the characters and stories nearly overwhelm this series, and if it weren't for the fact that, as mentioned, he's essentially always been kind of writing XMen anyway, that might be a real problem.
But it works the dialogue is intimate, if perhaps also overly clever, The characters feel livedin, and Cassaday's art is pure, smooth, cinematic eyecandy, I'd argue that the four arcs that comprise the book don't hang together all that well despite the constant narrative voice that insists they do, and don't have much sense of scope.
Two of the arcs take six issues each for only about several hours of storyworldtime, and there's just not much sense that the universe has been fleshed out past the rooms the scenes take place in it feels almost like a play, in which the immediacy of what happens on stage is a tradeoff for the blank abstraction of the world beyond.
Even the action just feels like a series of set pieces with a fillin monster at a fillin superhero locale, and the characterization is postmodern enough that someone often Shadowcat will always provide a quip to undercut any hint of dramatic intent.


But the aura of threat feels real and agonizing throughout, even when the villains behind that threat are less than believable probably because, as with all of Whedon's work, our heroes feel flawed and raw and human, and their struggles are ultimately both painful and poignant.
Admittedly, whenever I reread this run I feel almost cruelly manipulated by it, But it always works on me, goddamit, This was a great read, I spread it out over a week but it can certainly be done in a day's time.
Having a basic knowledge of XMen mythos would be great for this, but there is a wonderful intro explaining everything you needed to know from overissues of comics that preceded the story here.


I really enjoyed the story and art, Already a big fan of Whedon's work with Buffy and Angel, I was planning to love the story, humour, snappy remarks and deep narrative that he gives through all his work.
The art was beautifully crisp and colourful and the

perfect combination to the feel of the story.
The story takes place after Genosha's destruction, just as good ol' Cyclops takes the helm, the choices for villain's were excellent and I loved how strong and vulnerable the XMen were throughout the chance for failure was there and that's what grounded the story for me.


The Omnibus has become scarce nowadays and I was luck to grab a copy at a reasonable price if you can manage to find one, I'd the oversized trim is worth the extra money over the paperback especially for the Giant Size comic that closes out this series.
Goodreads decided to have a fit right when I pressed submit for my review of this book and I'm disinclined to write another.
In short, Whedon gtgtgtgtgt Morrison, So much more enjoyable than the previous set of arcs, More intimate, personal, much better dialogue and no pretentious pseudoscience gobbledygook, This set of stories manages to stay characterdriven while keeping the planetary, even galactic, stakes high and avoids melodrama by having superheroes face normal problems: grief, love, isolation, fear, and crisis of identity.


More than anything the juxtaposition between Morrison and Whedon has made clear that Morrison, in spite of comics being a visual medium, has a really crappy tendency to tell rather than show.
He recaps in stiff dialogue with the traditional "howdidwegetheredialogue" that answers that question no one is asking in stiff and awkward panels.
There's none of that in this volume, Whedon assumes his readers are intelligent and doesn't feel the need to say what can easily be shown and inferred.
Perhaps he trusts his artists more than Morrison does, Whatever the case, it works better and keeping Cassaday on for the entirety of the run rather than alternating between artists definitely helped build a synergy that makes this a great read.


Professor Xavier continues to be the world's biggest asshole, Cómo sigue alguien lo que hizo Morrison Pues lo vuelve de súper héroes sin cortapisas.
La formación es cinco estrellas y encima hace una cosa IDÉNTICA a un episodio del final de Buffy que se me cayeron las bragas.
Ole. Growing up in thes, comics weren't really my thing, so my love of superheroes came from the cartoons such as Bruce Timm's Batman: The Animated Series and of course XMen.
Following the release of the average, but somewhat disappointing threequel of the XMen film franchise, when I really start getting into comics, I was recommended Astonishing XMen by Buffy creator Joss Whedon and Planetary artist John Cassaday.
Years later, I got the omnibus, which covers the entire run which is so far the only XMen run I've read so far.


Following Grant Morrison's New XMen, Whedon takes what Morrison had established in the Xworld such as its characters and creates four distinctive story arcs in which Whedon and Cassaday make these characters their own.
Instead of doing the runthrough of the whole series, I'll briefly tell you about the first arc: "Gifted".
When Kitty Pryde returns to the XMansion as both teacher and XMan, a mutant cure has been found which puts pressure on the mutant kind as well as some members of the XMen, while an evil alien comes to Earth and wreaks havoc.


While the plot of the mutant cure inspired XMen: The Last Stand, what Astonishing achieves at more is the character dynamics through Whedon's witty dialogue as the heroic mutants are in conflict with one another, whether it is about the cure or the teamwork they have to provide.
With "Gifted" as well as the other story arcs, Whedon doesn't take things too seriously, and like his cinematic Avengers, the writer finds humour in places you don't expect, with dialogue that very subtly references pop culture like Harry Potter.
Not perfect by any means, as some of the ideas such as in the second arc "Dangerous", which deals with artificial intelligence are overemphasized so at times the story lacks action.


However, whatever flaws this series has are minor due to the fun interactions by the XMen and their young students.
As we get to see a dysfunctional but moving romance between the team leader Cyclops and the former villainess Emma Frost, while Wolverine isn't always the centre of things, but does get his cool moments, the true star of the series is Kitty Pryde who inspired Whedon's own creation of Buffy Summers as she is the youngest of the XMen but manages to stand up and phases against even a bitch like Emma Frost.
At its most moving moments, is the relationship between Kitty and Colossus and despite their differences, together they found love.


Accompanying the great writing by Whedon, is John Cassaday's beautiful artwork which mostly allows wide panels that give the action a very cinematic look, with special plaudits to colorist Laura Martin.
During the publication of the series when they were monthly issues, but due to Cassaday's attention to detail with his art, the series went through several delays, which was subjected to criticism.
However, once reading the series and look at the realistic illustrations of the characters and the epic locations, you can forgive a delay or two as you are instantly in love with the work of Mr Cassaday.


With this omnibus, you get a set of pages known as "XMen" which goes through the whole history of the XMen since their introduction inas well as the humourous emails between Whedon and the Marvel publishers.
As a fan of the XMen from thes TV animated series and the current film franchise, Astonishing XMen by Joss Whedon and John Cassaday was for me, a great introduction to the heroic mutants in comic book form.
If you were a fan of Whedon's spectacularly fun extravaganza of The Avengers, this book was instant proof that the writer is Marvel's golden boy.
Strictly speaking, I don't have this exact volume, I've just read the four trade paperbacks that add up to this hardcover,

It's very very very good, I was very fond of Grant Morrison's run on XMen ten years ago or so, but then the X books went right back to being indecipherable nonsense, as far as I'm concerned, so having Joss Whedon's more or less direct sequel to Morrison's run was terrific, but then he made it even better, by not being as all over the place as Morrison's.
I think it also helped tremendously that John Cassaday was the artist throughout, which gave the storyline a much better consistency than Morrison's.


I even gave this in its fourvolume paperback format to a good friend, who then let her preteen daughter read it, and everyone was happy.
So there's that as well,

It does hold up well on its own, thoughyou don't even need to read the Morrison run, though it would help.


Hell, I might read it again real soon myself, It's pretty great.

EDIT: I wound up with this omnibus edition for Christmas, In more good news, the outofprint Grant Morrison omnibus is being reissued, so now you can have these two XMen volumes side by side on your graphic novel shelf! Excelsior!

this book is having a strange effect on me
maybe the pages are infused with some kind of mutagenic DNA altering CIA/Borg nanoprobe experimental devices it's possible



The XMen are people whose lives are drastically altered by extraordinary circumstance and their story is characterized by the very humanity they personify in their quest for acceptance.
They become in essence the caretakers of that humanity, which they have been accused of not possessing.




This omnibus would be an outstanding addition for anyone collecting XMen, As a standalone volume to someone unfamiliar with the XMen, this extract of the ongoing saga would still be an exceptional reading experience: the artwork is an evolutionary development from innovators of the form such as Moebius, and the narrative has a depth of characterization one would not expect in a comic.
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