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Claremont's New Mutants run is incredible. Overall. The beginning is a bit meh as it gets going and the characters find their voices. And my favourite New Mutant hasn't joined the team yet either, which doesn't help.

Not an unpleasant read by any stretch, but not Claremont at his best either.

I had to give this one 4 stars - Bill Sienkiewicz's artwork here is just amazing and Claremont's writing is at its peak especially with Magik succumbing to her dark sorcery. The Demon Bear storyline is fantastic - the Cloak & Dagger one is not bad. Also introduced Lila Cheney, the interdimensional teleporting rock star. Her seduction of Cannonball is just pure Claremont depravity.

Total nostalgia read. I remember picking up the single issues of the New Mutants from the corner store. Some decent stories here - the few issues with Team America are pretty hokey but Claremont sets up some interesting plot points that I'm looking forward to reading in the next few volumes including the Demon Bear stories.

Some of the Batman graphic novels I've been combing through seem timeless, either the art style, or the story structure, or the writing, or the characters leap through the pages and hook me in.

A few of them, like Batman: A Lonely Place of Dying, are very much stuck when they were written and don't compel me as much to keep going. I never stuck to this art style, everything seems like campy 60s cheese, everybody has the same hair color; when Dick Grayson, Tim Drake and Bruce Wayne are all in the same room, I had to double check who was talking. I did like the idea of Batman needing a Robin and Tim Drake is a cool character, but all the Teen Titans stuff was over my head.½

The book goes through 26 different superheroes, each of them have a name starting with the corresponding letter of the alphabet.

This book is an ABC book about superheros. The book has a page dedicated to each letter of the alphabet, the superhero starting with that letter, and some words using that letter that describe the superhero.

Chris Claremont and Bob McLeod’s The New Mutants introduces five young mutants who are only just learning to use their powers. Professor Xavier, along with Moira MacTaggert, work to identify these children and offer them a place where they can learn to use their powers. Rahne Sinclair (later called “Wolfsbane”) find MacTaggert after fleeing persecution from Reverend Craig. Xi’an Coy (who will later go by “Karma”) already works to master her psychic power with Xavier. Marsh Roberto da Costa’s powers activate when a racist attacks him at a soccer game (he later goes by “Sunspot” in the ongoing series). Danielle Moonstar (later using the alias “Psyche” and then “Mirage”) swears revenge when the Hellfire Club kills her grandfather, Black Eagle. Samuel Guthrie (alias “Cannonball”) ends up working for the Hellfire Club in order to provide for his family after his father dies of black lung from working in the Kentucky coal mines. They must learn to work together to defend themselves against Donald Pierce, who seeks control of the Hellfire Club and to use the mutants as weapons or, if he cannot control them, to eliminate the threat they may pose.

The story picks up after the events of X-Men no. 161, in which the Brood kidnapped the X-Men, with Xavier reticent to take in new students and put more young mutants at risk for his dream of peaceful coexistence. After seeing the characters work together, he realizes that he must be willing to risk everything for their benefit and for the good they can do. When he makes his decision, McLeod depicts Xavier looking at photographs of the two previous X-Men teams – one with Angel, Iceman, Beast, Marvel Girl, and Cyclops; the other with Cyclops, Wolverine, Storm, Nightcrawler, Colossus, and Kitty Pryde – thereby setting this team up as the inheritor of the original X-Men mission prior to the more space operatic themes.

As the fourth Marvel Graphic Novel, this breaks with the preceding three – The Death of Captain Marvel was relatively self-contained; Elric: The Dreaming City adapted Michael Moorcock’s novella by the same name; and Jim Starlin’s Dreadstar launched a series that Marvel published under its Epic Comics imprint – by serving as a double-sized introduction to a long-running (over 100 issues) series with close connections to other Marvel books. While Claremont also wrote the next Marvel Graphic Novel, X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills, its canonical status was only decided in 2003. Fans of the New Mutants series will find the basic introductions here, though the Marvel Graphic Novel format means the story is relatively self-contained.

Whether you're looking for an alphabet book or a super-hero one, Bob McLeod's Superhero ABC will fit the bill. From Astro-Man ("always alert for an alien attack") to the Zinger (who "zanily zigzags through the zero zone"), the figures profiled here all do super-heroic things, battling crime and protecting the innocent, all while exemplifying their corresponding letter...

Author/artist Bob McLeod, who has worked for both Marvel and DC comics depicting various famous and beloved characters, makes his children's books debut with Superhero ABC. Although not the keenest superhero fan myself, I found this an engaging picture-book, and suspect that young children will as well. There isn't really a story, per se, but rather an array of fascinating character depictions (arranged alphabetically, of course), paired with bright, colorful artwork. Recommended to anyone looking for entertaining alphabet books, as well as to youngsters with a superhero obsession.

This is a book that has different superhero's starting with each letter and the description of each hero starts mostly with the same letter. This book could be used to teach young children how to say different words with each letter while learning the alphabet.

A great story about why Batman needs a Robin, following the death of Jason Todd. Here's our first look at Tim Drake as he makes the case for a new Robin!

This is another favorite of mine. I gave it 5 stars because I've used it to teach adjectives in both my 2nd and 5th grade classes. Students love the whimsical names of the superheroes. They also love the look of the superheroes themselves. Great book!

Very dated, but a nice introduction to how Tim Drake became a very creepy looking Robin.

If you're looking for an alphabet book, look no further. Superhero ABC is fun for both children and their parents. McLeod's art brings these cartoon superheros to vivid life, but what makes the book are the sometimes a bit off the wall asides as we are informed of Astro-Man that "He has asthma!" The lettering and design are all reminiscent of classic comic books and the alliterative phrases included for each superhero will increase letter awareness.

Summary
Superhero ABC's is written by Bob Mcleod who is a comic book illustrator. It is a graphic novel that teaches the ABC's and has Superhero's! Every 5 year old boys dream! Each letter has its own page and the Superhero on the page shares characteristics that start with the corresponding letter. For example, the letter B has a bald superhero who blows bubbles at bad boys and he wears boots!

Personal Reaction
I thought the book was very cute and would be perfect for any boy or girl who loved superheros! It really makes learning your letters fun!

Classroom Extension
This would be a perfect to use in the classroom while we are learning our letters and also just for a review. It would be great to read aloud and then have the children call out the letters. It would also be a perfect book for any child interested in Superheros!

Summary: It is a book about superhero's, but each one has a name that starts with a letter in the alphabet. Each superhero helps students sound out and identify what each letter is.This book helps with kids learning their ABC's.

Personal Reaction: This book is really funny, and is something that children can really get into. When I read through this book I thought that it was a really great learning tool for kids because they can pick their favourite alphabet hero.

Classroom Extension: You can have the kids pick their favourite alphabet hero, and then play a game of charades with the letters of the alphabet. You can also have them write a story with so many of the letters in the alphabet.

Summary: A fun way to learn your ABC's. Has many different words that start with that letter to teach kids, as well as a superhero for each letter.

Reflection: This is a fun way for kids to learn their ABC's. Especially the ones that love superheros.

Classroom Extension:
1. you can use many different voices for each superhero.
2. you can do an assignment where kids make their own superhero.

I loved this book! Super Heros ABC is a great mix of the ABC's and superheros. the illustrations were amazing and the texts on each page were creatively written in bubbles. Each letter has a super hero. Kids will love the dramatic comic-style illustrations and big bubble letters. There is all different types of superheros traditional and non traditional all funny and interacting. 5 stars.

Summary: The traditional book I chose was SuperHero ABC by Bob Mcleod. This book is about superhero's whos name start with each letter of the alphabet. Each page has a letter of the aphabet on it and most of the words are the page start with that letter. There are cute sayings on each page. The book goes from A to Z. The pages are very colorful and very illustrated.

Personal: I loved this book it is one of the most educational yet interesting books I have read. I read it to a kindergarten class and my three youngest children. The pages are full of color and the illustration is great. It keeps the childrens attention and teaches then at the same time. Most of the kindergarten children already new there abc's but they loved the words used in this book. I read it to my pre-k son and I was able to teach him his abcs while reading the book. My nine year old even loved the book. The names used for the superheros are cute and interesting. For example for Y the heros name is Yello Yeller.

Extensive ideas: This book is really good for pre-k to kindergarten. Older children like the pictures but the actual learning age would is for ages 3-6 in my opinion.
This book can also be used to teach the abc's.

A large over-sized ABC book with very vivid illustrations of superheros each starting with a different latter of the alphabet.Great book for boys learning their letters.

Over-sized with great superhero illustrations.

As with any of Marvel's "Classic" collections, you will probably appreciate this graphic novel more if you originally read it when it was first released. Chris Claremont repeats his Uncanny X-Men-style team origin, with the New Mutants being a geographically diverse team (a Brazilian, a Scot, a Redneck, an American Indian, and a Vietmanese, in this case). There is some cheesy stuff in here and some overly dramatic dialogue--Professor X vowing that these kids will not be made into heroes and be put in harm's way is laughable, as in the same scene he outfits them in uniforms, gives them code-names, and tests them in the Danger Room--but this is the groundwork for many great stories to come, and thus is essential reading for any X-Men fan.

This unusual alphabet book is sure to engage the early years set, with its array of unlikely superheros like Bubble-Man, Goo Girl, Sky-Boy, Water Woman, and the Zinger. Colourful, bold illustrations that mimic the comic book format, including speech balloons. Text is versatile and can be read on different levels - easy enough to accommodate new readers, and still difficult enough to challenge more experienced readers.

Age recommendation: preschooler

My nieces are absolutely enthralled by this exciting ABC book, and will correct me if I leave even one tiny word out. The superheroes range from interesting, to gross (the one who vomits on people - ew!) to just weird (the one who is never scared at night).

Ohhh, that Sienkiewicz art. I think he may be my all-time favourite comics artist.

Anyway, this is from Claremont's "pre-senile" period, where characters do compulsively repeat things like "Good thing ah'm invulnerable when ah'm blastin'" and "I am Cheyenne!" on every page, but it hasn't yet metastasized to the point of pushing out plot and characterization and all the stuff that made us love Sam and Dani and crew (compare to, say, the "X-Treme X-Men" era). The New Mutants, with possibly some help from the New Warriors, taught me about being a teenager, and thus have played a role in my life similar to Archie comics in Heidi's. I'm glad these comics were part of that process: they're beautiful and imaginative and surprising and surprisingly adult, in the best way. There's a force in them that's moral but never moralistic--Dani vs. the Demon Bear, Cloak and Dagger coming back to relieve 'Berto and Rahne of their curse, and just always being there for your friends, you know?

And then there's that incredible wonderworld conjured by the art. I hadn't seen all of these before, but the ones I had are still indelibly burned into my memory from 1989.