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NATION X #1 (OF 4)


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  1. Avatar photo Jim says:
    December 7, 2009 at 2:34 pm

    Really, Marvel?  Really?

  2. Avatar photo Guardedmarman says:
    December 7, 2009 at 3:06 pm

    The preview sold me on this. 

  3. Avatar photo USPUNX says:
    December 7, 2009 at 3:30 pm

    It really annoys me when people say thing twice to prove their point. Their point.

  4. Avatar photo Slockhart says:
    December 7, 2009 at 3:40 pm

    Is this going to be something along the lines of Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps?

  5. Avatar photo zattaric says:
    December 7, 2009 at 4:14 pm

    Hmmm…I think I’ll wait & see on this one.

  6. Avatar photo PraxJarvin says:
    December 7, 2009 at 4:52 pm

    I’m just going to pick up the issue with the cool Jubilee cover.

  7. Avatar photo Jedimasterrob2001 says:
    December 7, 2009 at 5:44 pm

    Isn’t this happening in the main book??? why more????

  8. Avatar photo drakedangerz says:
    December 7, 2009 at 6:00 pm

    Nah, I won’t pick this up. Damn you for putting it out, Marvel.

  9. Avatar photo DocHess says:
    December 7, 2009 at 7:27 pm

    Skipping this one.  Should be in the main book.  I made the mistake of picking up the last anthology series (Divided we stand, or something) and I’m still healing from that fiasco.

  10. Avatar photo ABirdseysView says:
    December 7, 2009 at 9:48 pm

    Divided We Stand was great.  Manifest Destiny was great.  Dark X-Men the Beginning was great.  I could say it over and over and over again.  X-Men anthologies are fucking amazing.  Great writers.  Mostly great artists.  Overlooked characters getting some panel-time.  How can you go wrong?

  11. Avatar photo Slockhart says:
    December 7, 2009 at 9:50 pm

    By the way, he’s not in the solicit but Mike Allred is involved with this.

  12. Avatar photo themanagement says:
    December 8, 2009 at 11:54 am

    Yikes.  If that cover art is any indication, this gets a huge PASS.  How many X-Men books are there right now anyway?  Nine?

  13. Avatar photo zattaric says:
    December 8, 2009 at 5:50 pm

    @ABirdseye view  "overlooked characters getting some panel-time"  Colossus, Wolverine, & Nightcrawler?  Overlooked?  I realize that it says "Others"  I’m not going to get this if it doesn’t like you said focus on the overlooked characters.  I hope the other are Dazzler, Northstar, etc.

  14. Avatar photo Jediaxle says:
    December 8, 2009 at 7:50 pm

    I agree with you Birdseye, I’ve enjoyed the anthologies and since it’s a short week I’m picking this up.

  15. Avatar photo ABirdseysView says:
    December 8, 2009 at 9:11 pm

    I was going by the anthologies that have come out.  I didn’t actually read the solicit.  But, in my defense, Colossus, Wolverine, & Nightcrawler have not had any spotlight in the Nation X plot development.

  16. Avatar photo ABirdseysView says:
    December 8, 2009 at 9:15 pm

    And, actually, the Divided We Stand and Manifest Destiny issues had the main writers like Carey and Kyle/Yost on them.  However, James Asmus did write a kickass Nightcrawler one-shot follow-up to Manifest Destiny.  Here’s hoping he wrote the Nightcrawler story.

  17. Avatar photo theswordisdrawn says:
    December 9, 2009 at 6:51 pm

    This should all be happening in Uncanny. At $2.99. Instead of forced into a mini at $3.99.

    Uncanny really has been pretty bad this year. The whole Nation SX concept really doesn’t work for me.

    Time for a creative shuffle in my opinion.

  18. Ramulux says:
    December 9, 2009 at 8:14 pm

    This was actually really good. The story with Wolverine and Nightcrawler was hilarious.

  19. Avatar photo Slockhart says:
    December 9, 2009 at 9:05 pm

    I loved how all 4 stories ended with a big unexpected character moment.  As a relatively new fan, the Origins series and this seem to be perfect for easing me into the characters.

  20. Avatar photo zattaric says:
    December 9, 2009 at 9:27 pm

    I am taking back everything that I said before, this was really good.  The Allred art sold me in the store & that was my fave story.  Iceman’s was pretty good too. 

  21. Avatar photo cutty says:
    December 9, 2009 at 9:35 pm

    Wow.  This was a very unexpected 5/5 for me.  The Colossus story was pretty moving.

  22. Avatar photo ABirdseysView says:
    December 9, 2009 at 9:56 pm

    this was so great.  loved the Iceman story the best, but he’s my favorite so I’m probably biased.  each story featured spot-on characterization and great writing.

    @theswordisdrawn- you’re right this would all be perfect material to be in Uncanny.  Have you ever read the Vignettes Claremont wrote as backups to the Classic X-Men reprint series?  all of that featured material that would have been great to have been in Uncanny 10 years prior.  Unfortunately, in the original printings, Claremont just didn’t have the panel time to devote to as much character work as he would have liked.  Much of the material in the Vignettes was stuff that we now look at as being part of the classic canon.  What this is is Marvel trying to do the character work simultaneously with the big action-adventure stories in Uncanny.

  23. Avatar photo cubsmodano says:
    December 10, 2009 at 12:03 am

    Gotta agree with everybody else.  This book was surprisingly great.  Every story in it was interesting, and it just missed being my pick of the week.

  24. Avatar photo Diabhol says:
    December 10, 2009 at 1:36 am

    Really enjoyed this book. I liked everything but the Mike Allred art in the Kurt/Logan story.

     

  25. Avatar photo Slockhart says:
    December 10, 2009 at 2:45 am

    Even after finishing my stack, I keep thinking about what Magneto said at the end of his segment.  It makes me think they’re actually not going to play the easy "betrayal" card, at least not for a long time.

  26. Avatar photo lantern4life says:
    December 10, 2009 at 4:18 pm

    Whoa, Mike Allred X-men.  So this is going to be a series of one shots?

  27. Avatar photo Slockhart says:
    December 10, 2009 at 5:23 pm

    @lantern4life

    It’ll be an anthology series, must like Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps.  In January there is a one shot called Nation X: X-Factor, which sounds like it’d be an anthology but with the X-Factor characters, but I’m not sure if that’s true. 

  28. Avatar photo cutty says:
    December 10, 2009 at 6:52 pm

    @slockhart – I agree, this seems like the Magneto that Claremont built, the one that was last seen in X-MEN #3.  Before Grant Morrison and (to a lesser extent) Fabian Nicieza/Scott Lobdell destroyed.

  29. Avatar photo ABirdseysView says:
    December 10, 2009 at 9:07 pm

    @lantern4life/@Slockhart- it’s an anthology like the handful of anthologies that the X-franchise has been putting out since after Messiah CompleX.  just so we don’t have anyone thinking Marvel is jumping on any kind of bandwagon.

  30. Avatar photo Slockhart says:
    December 10, 2009 at 9:59 pm

    I didn’t mean to imply that, I was just using it as an example since it’s a fairly recent, widely-read anthology

  31. Avatar photo ABirdseysView says:
    December 11, 2009 at 10:55 am

    I didn’t think you meant that, I just wanted to take a jab at DC

  32. Avatar photo charliebf5 says:
    December 11, 2009 at 12:05 pm

    Glad I got this.  The Wolverine/Nightcrawler story/art was the highlight.

  33. Avatar photo Mangaman says:
    December 12, 2009 at 4:41 am

    The Magneto story was definetly the best. It had layers of cerebral context that does well for those studying comparative literature.

    The Iceman story was definetly nice too. But the Colossus one made my eyes misty on the bus. Had to play it off like I had something in my eye.

    Overall I was actually really glad I bought this, even though it was an anthology that’s sort of in-continuity.

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