by Warren Ellis, Kaare Andrews
The X-Men travel to Africa to investigate the anomalous births of what seem to be infants with mutant abilities that are active at birth.It’s been a long time since I was a regular reader of Marvel Comics, so it took a little while to get oriented in the convoluted history of their mutants, but once...
The story wasn't bad, interdimensional travel, radiation, solving issues, but the artwork made me extremely irritated and uncomfortable. It reeked of gratituous boob shots.
Collecting issues #1-5 of The Astonishing X-Men, the X-Men go to Africa to investigate what might possibly be a rash of mutant births, but it turns out to be something else entirely. What that was I didn't quite get and it seemed to me that the book ended with an abrupt and dissatisfying conclusion....
The story wasn't bad, interdimensional travel, radiation, solving issues, but the artwork made me extremely irritated and uncomfortable. It reeked of gratituous boob shots.
This was actually pretty awful. I saw promise for Ellis writing the X-Men in The Ghost Box, but I saw none of that here. There's a decent plot in there, but it's hampered by uninteresting dialog, a general dumbing down of all of the characters, and a generally clumsy handling of Africa, Africans, an...
Loved the art as well as the story. I loved that it touched so harshly on the tribulations of African villages.And I officially love Emma Frost now.
While staying at the X-Bunker located in San Francisco with the team, Ororo receives a message from T’Challa about disturbing events taking place in a small village in Africa. There’s been a rise in the number of pregnancies occurring there, and many of these babies are being born with extraordinary...
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