Xmen the End books 1,2, and 3.

[agirlyman]

Great covers, great art inside, a whole lot of crazy, and death going on inside. That's what so great about series like this, what can you really mess up? You could have a thousand different realities, with thousand different outcomes. I enjoyed it more than I thought I would, after reading all the bad reviews.

Oh and book one #5's cover is priceless!


http://www.uncannyxmen.net/covers/xmentheend/xmentheend1-5.jpg

I still need to read "Endsong", I wonder how that's gonna turn out, heh.

[Novaya Havoc]

I personally enjoyed the part where Sage died off-panel.

[Pach!]

Great covers, great art inside, a whole lot of crazy, and death going on inside. That's what so great about series like this, what can you really mess up? You could have a thousand different realities, with thousand different outcomes. I enjoyed it more than I thought I would, after reading all the bad reviews.

Oh and book one #5's cover is priceless!



You'd think that, right? Sadly CC does wonders.

[Dagger]

I didn't like it. Other than a few moments here and there, the thing was a hot mess. It's like he took every dangling plot since he left the books, and threw it into this, w/o making a whole lot of sense through the thing.

[The Sword Is Drawn]

I'd have to say that I fully expected to hate this series. I didn't pick it up when it first came out, pretty much purely because it was not going to have any bearing on the actual ongoing books. That's usually the criteria by which I pick my comics these days. ;)

However, about 6 months ago, a mate of mine said that he'd actually quite liked them, and lent me his copies. Like I said, I was exceptionally skeptical from the outset, but I actually found myself enjoying what I was reading. I was looking at these while Fall and rise of the shi'ar was going on in Uncanny a found myself thinking 'This is so much better than that'. Nobody quite tells a Shi'ar story like Claremont, and the whole of that and the Gambit/Sinister subplot made a lot of sense.

I kind of got the same vibe from this as watching Transformers: The Movie, as a kid. I found myself wanting to read more of what came afterwards, and I was happy to have t5he stories of certain characters ACTUALLY coming to and end, amd the next generation taking over. If only that happened more in real continuity.

[Karl H]

I liked the first volume
Found the second tollerable
The Third was heinous.

Cassie Nova. Seriously? Ugh. Even as an 18 issue maxi it got too complex.

[The Sword Is Drawn]

I think it's one of those singles vs trade issues. I mean sure I was reading this from single issues, but all in one go. I think if I'd had to read them with the waiting time between issues and volumes I might have felt quite different about it. But as a complete unit I found it to be quite readable.

[Stephane Garrelie]

I really enjoyed book 2. Book 1 was average, book 3 was decent.

And this serie made me enjoy Sean Shen's art.

[TinMan]

I liked the first volume
Found the second tollerable
The Third was heinous.

Cassie Nova. Seriously? Ugh. Even as an 18 issue maxi it got too complex.

I thought the same about Nova myself in this story... at first, then I started thinking that it wasn't so bad. Sure, I woulda been happier with some kinda grand "Apocolypse decimates the world ala' AoA and many of the X-Men sacrifice thier lives to stop him" type story, but this effectively deals with a few strands that you wouldn't necessarily think of in an "End" scenerio.

The Shi'ar have been such an integral part of the X-Men's story since early CC that I think it was fair to conclude it involving them (perhaps a bit heavier than necessary, but whattayagonnado?) and though I really dislike Nova, I think it was fair to use her to finish the X-Men's story considering she's really Xavier's twisted anti-thesis.

I bought the third trade at the Heroes con this year so I'd have all three, perhaps it's now the time to sit down and read all three right in a row and really mull them over.

Sean Chen's art was the tit-ays though. :D

[Dr Ray Palmer]

I liked the first volume
Found the second tollerable
The Third was heinous.

Cassie Nova. Seriously? Ugh. Even as an 18 issue maxi it got too complex.

That's pretty much how I felt about it. I do think it's one of those things that reads much better as a whole than it did in parts stretched out over time, but it does get really complex and busy, and spends a lot of time on characters I wasn't interested in.

Wasn't Dark Beast in it? He's one of those characters whose appearance can kill my interest in anything. I think one Beast is boring enough; I don't want to see two of them.

I was bummed that it seemed like everybody got screen time EXCEPT Cannonball, who was one of the characters I really wanted to see. I think he only appeared in one panel, in a non-speaking cameo that showed him with Lila and their kids. All through the whole 18 issues I kept expecting Sam to show up and do something, and he never did.

[Mystique25]

I personally loved the book. My favorite would have to be book 2. Book 3 was good, I really did enjoy it, I just wish they would have used someone other than Cassandra Nova, maybe the Shadow King or something would have been better. Overall a good read, and especially all in one shot. I bought the issues as they came out, but enjoyed it better as one long story, when I reread it a few months later.

[jarrod]

Crazy Lilandra >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Revived D'ken > Vulcan

[The Sword Is Drawn]

Crazy Lilandra >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Revived D'ken > Vulcan

Yeah, that's pretty much how I was feeling when I began to read these earlier in the year.

[Faded]

I didn't like what I read of it, and dropped it once I saw no hope.

I could've at least appreciated it in a slight way if there was a better artist, just for the sake of the cameos.

[Flight]

Read like fanfic by a depressed lesbian to me.

[jmc247]

I really enjoyed book 2. Book 1 was average, book 3 was decent.


I felt much the same.

My biggest problem with the series was a lack of follow through on events like say after Polaris died Magneto was about to go apeshit at the end of the second comic of the final book and Claremont just forgot about it in the next comic. Claremont wrote one big event after the other and never followed up the big events the way he should have.

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f132/jmc247/pic.jpg

[jarrod]

Read like fanfic by a depressed lesbian to me.
We're not talking about Astonishing.

[Affinity]

Read like fanfic by a depressed lesbian to me.

HAHAHAHAHA

lololol

[david r]

I liked the idea of the Sh'iar declaring war on the X-Men.

And using the Sh'iar technology within the Mansion like a "Trojan Horse" to catch them by surprise.

But the deaths here were pretty emotionless. Angel's death was forgettable, Sinister gets killed WAAAY too easily.

[The Sword Is Drawn]

I liked the idea of the Sh'iar declaring war on the X-Men.

And using the Sh'iar technology within the Mansion like a "Trojan Horse" to catch them by surprise.

But the deaths here were pretty emotionless. Angel's death was forgettable, Sinister gets killed WAAAY too easily.

Yeah, but as Gambit IS Sinister...

[Kid Kyoto]

I read them at the library, I liked the gambit sinister bit but really it was Xtreme Xmen the end, unless you were 100% up on that comic it made no sense at all.

[tetragene]

I appreciated the effort he took to try to incorporate as many X-verse characters as he could--which was a task unto itself. However, I felt like the whole project just had no cohesion. Things were forgotten left and right and never picked up again. And the conclusion was pretty poor as well--"we have to go out and live normal lives with humans instead of separating ourselves away as a militant group." It took three volumes to arrive at that?