Reviews

Excalibur, Vol. 1: Forging the Sword by Chris Claremont

shane_tiernan's review

3.0

Looks like this was a pretty short 14 comic series of which this is the first 4. I like Charles and Magneto working together and the new heroes introduced are pretty cool too. I'm interested in seeing where this goes.

crookedtreehouse's review

4.0

Surprisingly good for a 21st century Claremont X-book. The new characters aren't original or great, but the dialog (apart from a couple of tone-dead "teenagerisms" from Wicked & Freakshow) is fairly modern, and the Magneto/Professor X interactions at the heart of the story are better than any of the Magneto/Professor X stories since X-Men #3 (the 1991 series).

I recommend this for anyone looking for a decent Magneto Is Not Really A Bad Guy story.

I know there are fans who felt this retcon was too close to the end of the Morrison run (where Magneto and Jean Grey die) but I hated that arc, so in my headcannon, Magneto has been on Genosha since its destruction at the beginning of the Morrison run.

Having read the Claremont/Davis run of X-Men earlier tonight/yesterday, I'm enjoying Claremont being teamed up with a less cartoony artist. While I enjoyed Davis's art, Lopresti brings a gravitas that this particular story needed.

binches's review against another edition

2.0

it's probably because this book takes place in the aftermath of an event I didn't read but I really didn't care about the characters and I'm also not a fan of books that paint Χavier in a good light lol. The end had some interesting twists so I will probably read the next one and I give an extra star for Magneto <3