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Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN num: 9780785120551
ISBN number: 0785120556
Label: Marvel Comics
Manufacturer: Marvel Comics
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Page Count: 568
Printing Date: May 03, 2006
Publishing house: Marvel Comics
Age index: Young Adult
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In the wake of the Marauders' Mutant Massacre, the X-Men go mobile to plan their subsequent move - but recruiting Dazzler and Havok brings them even more catastrophe! And with a teammate's life on the line, the mutant marvels are forced to fight the Fantastic Four and seek the genius of Doctor Doom! Another elite X-saga of the eighties concludes with the world-shaking Fall of the Mutants! Plus: the introduction of... the X-Babies!? The cosmic power of... Wolverine!? Featuring Sabretooth, the Juggernaut, Mystique, Captain Britain and more! Collects Uncanny X-Men #214-228; Annuals #10-11; Fantastic Four Vs. The X-Men #1-4.
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The team is in a bad way after the Mutant Massacre, and has to do some recruiting, so we get Longshot, who is a lot of fun, and Dazzler, who isn't. The X-Men decide to go on the move to make themselves less of a target, and move their injured comrades to a safe location.
Mojo and the X-babies appear here, and that is a lot of fun. The whole Freedom Force thing at the end is where the franchise starts to lose its way, I think, but this is still an excellent deal.
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Ok, ok, I should say comic book junkie, because that's what they were called when I very first started reading them some decades ago. This whole series of Essential X-men books are a fun read unless you get bogged down in details. I never did, I just enjoyed reading them. This is a great book. Enjoy
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I am both amazed and incredibly pleased to have seven volumes of Chris Claremont's X-Men Essentialized already (plus two of the Silver Age X-Men, but I'll talk about that in a later review). I now have a virtual library, a nearly complete collection of one of Marvel's most storied franchises, all for much less cost than what I used to spend to fuel my video game habit back in the Sega Genesis era. Thanks to the rapid release of these comprehensive and inexpensive tomes, this is perhaps the best time to make classic comics a hobby. Anyway, that's enough praise for the Essentials as a whole, now for my praise of just the Essential X-Men #7.
The Mutant Massacre had just abated, leaving Colossus, Nightcrawler, and Shadowcat critically injured and giving the team incentive to hold a recruitment drive. The very first new member, Longshot, is probably the most unlikely and, in my opinion, poorest choice. I guess he had to go somewhere after his inaugural mini-series, but the fact remains that he's not a mutant, nor does he really believe in Xavier's dream (he doesn't really believe in much except the wonders of naïve childlike amusement). However, the team had a majority of female members and he's cute, so he stayed. Even so, his "good luck" inducing ability made me remember the similarly empowered Shamrock and wonder why she didn't get an offer (She hasn't seen much screen time since the Contest of Champions. She needs to eat too, you know!). This volume also sees the long-awaited arrival of Dazzler to the ranks of the X-Men after her disco-drenched solo series concluded (she gets a less Donna Summer-y outfit as well). Finally, Cyclops' brother Havok gets an invitation to officially join the X-club at long last. Some say he's little different from his brother, except for a lack of stylish eyewear, but with Scotty heading X-Factor, there was no better time to bring Alex into the fold.
Now that the introductions are out of the way, let's go straight to the action! In the book's opening story, the extra-dimensional media mogul Mojo hopes to bring the X-Men under his control by de-aging them all into toddlers (Don't ask. Most of Mojo's plans tend to be weird for the sake of being weird). This forces the suddenly senior New Mutants to play the grown-up superhero role and save Jim Henson's Mutant Babies. I don't know about you, but between this and the Asgard-centric Annual from the last volume, I'm suddenly in the mood for an Essential New Mutants #1. Then the re-adultified Storm and Wolverine take on a trio of superhuman WWII vets who are thrill-killing particularly churlish members of the Me Generation. About that time, during a visit to Muir Island in Scotland, the rookie Dazzler convinces herself to tackle the Juggernaut single-handedly (a harrowing example of disco music's detrimental effect on our nation's youth). The eleventh X-Men Annual gets off to a rough start with a bizarre challenge by a god-like MacGuffin named Horde (Why call him Horde? There's only one of him. Legion was at least four people), but it ends with a strong message about foregoing personal pleasures in service of ideals greater than yourselves, which to me is what these stories are all about.
However, it became obvious to me as I read further why the mid-80's are so often referred to as the era when the X-Men series had started to leave its glory days behind. When Mr. Sinister was finally revealed as the mastermind behind the heinous Mutant Massacre, he came across as nothing more than yet another fanged albino criminal genius (and while I already harped on another comic book villain's sobriquet, c'mon, Mr. Sinister? Why not just name him Baron von Ruthless?). During a drawn-out aimless brawl in San Francisco between the X-Men (joined by Cyclops' jilted spouse Madeline Pryor) and the Marauders (joined by the malign mindbender Malice), I imagined that readers of the original series started to realize at about this time that it would be years before Claremont would think of a more rational explanation for the Massacre than "It's not like anyone liked the Morlocks, anyway". The aforementioned WWII fighters stretch their fifteen minutes of fame a little too thin when they sign on with Mystique's Freedom Force (OK, one more time. One of those guys can run really fast, so you decide to call him Super-Sabre? Are all the good names taken, is that it?). Lastly, this volume includes the noteworthy Fall of the Mutants storyline in which our heroes sacrifice everything (ie. Everybody Dies!) to stop the Adversary, a chaos fiend in full stereotypical Indian chief regalia. While I'm happy that the set-up to this tale involves Storm finally giving up her inexplicable mohawked street punk persona and becoming the Wind-Rider again, once all is said and done, I feel that this overblown epic can basically be summed up as "the X-Men vs. one of the Village People".
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