Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5
EAN num: 9780785111344
ISBN number: 0785111344
Label: Marvel Comics
Manufacturer: Marvel Comics
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 176
Printing Date: March 01, 2004
Publishing house: Marvel Comics
Sale Popularity Level: 916259
Studio: Marvel Comics
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The X-Men gather together to embark on an adventure that will reveal secrets of the true origins and real family history of Nightcrawler - in a story guest-starring the shapeshifting mutant terrorist Mystique. Plus: Polaris's mental state continues to deteriorate, and the Juggernaut sets off on a solo adventure in Canada.
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If you think this is the worst....you are sorely mistaken. Nightcrawler's origin is revisited and revised. It was acceptable to me, I think there must have been a wave of haters in 2k4 reviewing this. Its a pretty fun read, in my opinion. Art is not by Jim Lee, true. Art doesnt take away from the story, which is pretty sweet, I think. Pick this up....also...."Here comes Tomorrow" story arc was killer, with pencils by Marc Silvestri... check that out too.
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raggin on chuck austin is soooooo 2004. seriously. he wrote fairly interesting stories that werent the same played out ones that claremont wrote 2 to 3 decades ago that at least a half a dozen people tried to recreate. he tried to give some human emotion to your basic "beat up the bad guy before they do something terrible" run-of-the-mill basic x-storyline (see: "hope" and "she lies with angels" for even better examples of this). and on top of that, how long have we been waiting for nightcrawlers origin??? since giant x-men 1? thats what i thought. we found out a while ago x-men unlimited 3 or 4 i can't remember, that mystique, in addition to being rogues adopted mother, was nightcrawlers biological mother. sure, that explains the blue skin. but how about the forked tail and the smell of brimstone when he teleports??? how else are you going to explain that?... a devil, perhaps? seems pretty logical to me. the art in chuck's run is almost as horribly bad-mouthed as the storylines and this volume is another example of people rejecting the byrne and lee standards and flipping a s**t when they see something even slightly unfamiliar. the uniforms change people, get over it!!! if all art looked the same it wouldnt be called art anymore... honestly, the book gets 3 and a half, maybe 4 stars. i'm giving it 5 to counter-act the brainwashed, bandwagon opinions of 8 of the last 9 people to review this book so someone might actually want to check this out. this isn't captain carrot or nomad or anything from the marvel uk line people. this is uncanny x-men. there are people watching/editing every detail of this book and thought this story was worthy of being in one of marvel's longest running and best-selling titles. were they smoking something not of this earth? perhaps. were they wrong in giving chuck austin 3 years or so to see what he could do to a title that hadn't contained a decent story since the trial of gambit? i think not.
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I hated this story arc. Unfortunately, this was my very first foray back into X-Men comics since about 1996. Yiiiiccch.
First, the artwork. What were they thinking? The penciler had no clue of aspect and perspective. The only body part he was capable of drawing were Lorna's breasts.
Sammy went from being a little fishboy with a puckery mouth who was so homely he was cute to just being...ugly. And kind of serpentine looking. The scene where he beats the boy up whose been taunting him (see "Hope") was brutal and unnecessary.
This story arc featured an interesting conversation between Northstar and Juggernaut. Northstar is so underused since he joined this team, which is a crying shame. Even though Austen is not that talented in terms of plot, some of his dialogue isn't too bad, and Northstar always had some good lines during Austen's run.
This arc was supposed to be about Nightcrawler, but everyone else kind of got in the way. Azazel wasn't an interesting villain. Usually demons are supposed to want to break down the barriers of the earth and let loose the hordes, etc. (see "Inferno," the very first Magik series, or anything featuring Belasco in the Savage Land). All Azazel wanted to do was populate the earth with half-mutant love children and spring himself from his Brimstone Dimension. Austen was sloppy here; in the Marvel Universe handbook, Kurt's powers were supposed to take him through the Darkforce Dimension, like Cloak's cape. Sloppy.
And if Kurt travels through the Brimstone Dimension when he 'ports, why didn't he run into his dad sooner?
This book was poorly drawn, badly inked and hard to understand. I didn't root for one hero in it. Annie Ghazikhanian proved herself to be, yet again, the worst mother on the planet. How didn't she notice that her son went missing and boarded the Blackbird to The Island of the Demons? And why would she accompany Professor X into Lorna's mind, if the women hate each other? Is it just me???
The only thing I liked about "Draco" is that we finally got to see Kurt's birth and the story surrounding his conception in the Prelude. FINALLY. Now if only this story wasn't so lame. Austen completely ignored an opportunity to have Kurt lash out at Mystique for trying to kill him at birth, which many X-Fans have probably wished for from the very first moment that he met her and wondered about their physical resemblance. Missed the mark, Chuck.
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..really horrible writing, the only reason his x-men is traded, is because the x-men movies helped the book sales surge, they traded anything with an X on it, good bad or just plain ugly like this.
what can you expect from a book with a plot hole where the villain is trapped, and to get free leaves his prison, has babies with women and returns to wait for the babies to free him..can you spot the problem? well anyone could, but the wirter can not.
the characters act nothing like they should, austen loves to write characters as jerks, people who fly off the handle for no reason, he admits that he can't wait or build up to moments, he just writes them in, if he likes the idea of an angry character 99 percent of the time he will not give a reason, he just does it, he can't wait, well for most people the journey is the joy, how chgaracter A turns into character B, how a good hearted man turns heard, or a hard tuff as nails man finds his soft side.
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The main flaw with this story--and it's a big one-- is that the plot, fundamentally, is impossible. Bear with me.
Azazel is trapped in a dimension other than the 616 universe. So he goes to the 616 universe, mates with human women, goes back to his dimension, bides his time, and finally brings them all to his dimension using some convoluted teleportation spell.
And therein lies the gaping plot hole. If he can't leave the dimension, then his plan to get back to Earth can't involve travelling to Earth or the whole thing is unnecessary.
And even worse is the dialogue.
And even worse is Philip Tan's bizarre fusion of realism and manga. Watch him deform nearly everybody. Really, this guy draws like a twelve-year old.
Worst of all, this one has lasting effects on the X-books.
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