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LoneWolf21
03-15-2006, 08:05 PM
Yeah, I know, it says "Spider-Girl Presents" on the cover, and in his universe he's a member of the Avengers, but since this book has a lot of roots in the X-books, I thought I'd post it here.

I thought this was a cute and enjoyable little collection, lots of slug-fests, and some of the original villians are sort of iffy (I think Deflaco was trying to use guys who J2 couldn't just power his way through), but it's still good fun. In comparision to Spider-Girl, there's actualy several smaller stories in each issue, rather that one long one. One part I thought was sort of iffy was that a few references in events to A-Next, when the digest for that isn't out yet (although of course, there's always back issue hunting, which shouldn't be too hard), were a little off-putting, but nothing really got in the way.

Zane is a pretty enjoyable lead, though it takes a little bit for him to find his "hero voice", and it's also interesting to see what the X-Men are like in this timeline (anti-mutans sentiment is on a downswing), and Jubilee even leads the group (although everyone jokes that she's horrible at naming teams. The current squad is called "The X-People").

Enjoyable all around though.

Jack Flash
03-16-2006, 01:14 PM
If I remember correctly, I really Loved the art. I'll have to flip through this one in the store.

Ogrebear
03-17-2006, 05:47 AM
I always liked J2 - it had a goofy feel to it that I connected too- kinda like that feeling I got when comics where fun and didn't take themselves too seriously.

There where some issues about how Zane got his Dad's powers- little was explained about why Cyttorak would allow Zane the power but *shrug* it was still fun!

For me the search for Cain Marko was the coolest arc- (that will be in vol2 I guess) and rounded out the series nicely.

Crimson
03-17-2006, 06:16 AM
I have the orignal run. It's really fun stuff... I'd recommend the Digest.