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Bezig met laden... X-Men: The Complete Age of Apocalypse Epic, Book 4door Scott Lobdell
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. And so concludes the epic that I never came around to finishing as a teenager - with the bad guys losing (except for those who got away) and the heroes winning (only to watch the world they know end). Much like book one, the final collection of the Age of Apocalypse epic contains what I'd like to call filler - stories related to the epic, but not a part of it. It collects the fourth and final issues of Generation Next, X-Calibre, Factor X, Gambit and the X-Ternals, Amazing X-Men, Weapon X, X-Man #4 & 53-54, X-Universe #2, X-Men: Omega, X-Men: Prime, and Blink #4 (for some odd reason, as it is also featured in book one, but it's quite possibly the last four pages of the final issue). What can I say about this collection? While most of it's worth the read, I ignored Blink and the other two issues of X-Man. The writing is magnificent and the art is stellar - there is not disappointment here! The stories are heartbreaking - especially the collection opener of Generation Next. Again, we are hit with the choices our heroes and villains make in this world. And how, no matter how much we distance ourselves from the conflict, we will have to make a decision in the end. Sometimes it's for the better and sometimes it's for our undoing. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Learn who lives and who dies in either reality as the apocalyptic arc ends in treachery and tragedy While certain heroic humans prove their mettle without armour or magic hammers, it's a race to see who the X-Men will destroy first. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Volume 3 is certainly the highmark for this event, mostly because the writers and reader had had enough time to get a handle on events while their was still false hope of continued improvement.
This whole event feels both far too short to allow you to actually care about these versions of the X-men, and far too long since it lasted 3 months, destroying any momentum in the real storylines.
Another bizarre choice was telegraphing from the first issues that this while thing was going to be undone with no serious consequences. I mean sure this is comics we knew such an event would be redone but to highlight from the start that this whole thing was going to be meaningless, AND to make that literally the main plotline seems a self-defeating strategy.
This final volume also suffers from the writers need to make it seem like an ending, by making it all feel BIG and MEANINGFUL. For example the first 3/4 issues all have narrators, a common trick to try to make an issue feel important. Doesn’t work so well when everyone is using it though.
Finally the Age of Apocalypse finishes about 100 pages from the end of this volume the rest is attempted clean-up and trying to put back together the real world continuity while also rewriting it a bit. However the very last couple of X-Man issues where fairly lame even given my penchants for the Summer’s clan.
Overall, it had its moments but glad to be done with it. Or i will be when the messy bits and pieces its left behind are finally erased. ( )