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WOLVERINE AND THE X-MEN: ALPHA AND OMEGA #1 (OF 5)

• DEBUT ISSUE BY BEST-SELLING AUTHOR BRIAN WOOD (DMZ, Demo, DV8, Northlanders)

• It’s Wolverine versus Kid Omega for dominance of the Jean Grey School.

• Wolverine will discover that the hardest prison to escape can be his own mind.

Story by Brian Wood
Art by Roland Boschi, Mark Brooks, Andrew Currie, Jay Leisten & Norman Lee
Colors by Dan Brown & Ronda Pattison
Letters by Joe Sabino
Cover by Mark Brooks

Price: $3.99
iFanboy Community Pick of the Week Percentage: 0.2%
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  1. Avatar photo wangman31888 says:
    January 3, 2012 at 11:48 am

    this seems interesting… only because Brian Wood is on it, just hope they don’t make the two books crossover

  2. Avatar photo johnomcg says:
    January 3, 2012 at 11:57 am

    5 artists?

  3. Avatar photo tylerferrara says:
    January 3, 2012 at 1:49 pm

    As long as I can keep Aaron on the actual series this is fine

  4. Avatar photo tomistommy says:
    January 3, 2012 at 3:46 pm

    I really hope this is good. It’s Brian Wood so it should be well written, but the fact that there are 5 artists and 2 colorists on this book has me worried. We shall see.

  5. Avatar photo wallythegreenmonster says:
    January 3, 2012 at 4:18 pm

    wow. 10 creators plus all the editors and production staff. Thats a ridiculous amount of cooks in the kitchen, not to mention cost. pure insanity.

  6. Avatar photo KenOchalek says:
    January 3, 2012 at 4:40 pm

    I’m pretty sure that this book had two pencillers (Brooks and Boschi) when it was announced, so a complementary inker and colorist for each pencil style doesn’t really seem like a cause for concern.

    So assuming Currie, Leisten and Lee are all inkers, this book is really only +1 inker.

  7. Avatar photo adrianrigter says:
    January 3, 2012 at 6:31 pm

    Hate to see the Wolvie & the X-men name become stretched so soon.

  8. Avatar photo HarlemSkywalker says:
    January 3, 2012 at 8:58 pm

    As an X-men fan, there really are too many X-men titles on the market… That being said I’m still getting this.

    • Avatar photo KenOchalek says:
      January 4, 2012 at 7:25 am

      Haha, I think your second sentence entirely explains your first sentence.

      I think there is a phenomenon I’ll call “X-Title Creep” where you start reading one X-Title and slowly but surely you end up reading 4 or more! It happened to me back in the 90s (I think I was reading almost everything shortly before, during and for a little while after Age of Apocalypse) and now it’s happening again — Uncanny X-Men led to Wolverine and the X-Men led to New Mutants and Generation Hope and now I’m probably going to start picking up Legacy as well.

      I am, however, avoiding this one for now. If Jason Aaron ends up getting me to really like Quentin Quire in the main book, I’ll circle back for the collection of this.

    • Avatar photo USPUNX says:
      January 9, 2012 at 12:20 pm

      X-Title Creep! Love it! And it totally happened to me too. About 2 years ago I started with just Uncanny, that lead to X-Force, which lead to X-Factor, and then Legacy. It was just too much. I’ve managed to dial it back to just this book for now but I can already feel myself wanting to get caught up on Wolverine and the X-Men…

  9. Avatar photo Neeks says:
    January 4, 2012 at 8:09 pm

    I gave this 4 stars because some parts of it were decent and I can see how it may have been enjoyable to some but it just wasnt for me , I probably won’t continue with the rest of the series cuse i wasnt really digging the plot .

  10. Chris Hargett says:
    January 4, 2012 at 9:28 pm

    If you’re concerned about the multiple artists you shouldnt be. Without revealing anything the story takes place in multiple settings with each team taking full duties on one or the other. It worked REALLY well imo and I loved the book. Great way to let Brian Wood stretch his legs in the X sandbox.

  11. Avatar photo k5blazer says:
    January 4, 2012 at 11:08 pm

    Just started reading this, did anyone else think of the South Park Goth Kids when Quentin said “Conformists.”…? I need to get out more….

  12. Avatar photo Poopmonster says:
    January 5, 2012 at 12:41 am

    I think with any other mutant but Wolverine in the title role in this book I would have really loved it, but I just regular really like it. How often does someone control/possess you before you go out and get a magneto helmet.

  13. Avatar photo thompsonlive says:
    January 5, 2012 at 10:21 am

    meh. Dont think I’ll be coming back for seconds.

  14. flapjaxx says:
    January 5, 2012 at 5:53 pm

    I was totally up for this because, for whatever reason, I assumed that it was only going to be two issues.

    But it’s five? At $3.99 each? I’ve never been THAT big of a fan of Brian Wood.

    My goodwill towards what Aaron is doing in the main series isn’t going to stretch THIS far. And I like Quentin mostly because of Morrison’s awesome New X-Men run. But…Marvel, I just don’t have this much goodwill. I’ve been burned before.

    If people on iFanboy all of a sudden turn around and say that this IS a really good mini, then I could be convinced to pick it up in trade. But, as of now, no way.

  15. Avatar photo TheRealVenom says:
    January 6, 2012 at 1:07 am

    THIS. This is what wolverine and the x-men SHOULD be.
    Fantastic Issue!

  16. Avatar photo Kamilo says:
    January 6, 2012 at 4:15 pm

    Random question that I’m sure I’m the only person who noticed: Why did they change QQ’s pin on the cover? It used to be “P!” but now its “PI” Maybe I’m just the kind of person who sees juicy gossip everywhere, but I feel there’s a story there. I think I remember seeing “P!” pins being connected to the FLCL manga/anime so maybe something there?

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