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rayofhope's review
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- Loveable characters? No
3.0
An odd attempt at exploring Emma Frost's past. The first 6 issues reminded me of Pretty Little Liars in all the wrong ways, and it didn't get much better from there.
Although I live for the interpersonal drama in comic books, this felt like that was all there was. It's not until the last few issues that Emma even learns what a mutant is and that she might be one. Up to that point it's a very self-contained story about a rich girl who develops telepathy
Although I live for the interpersonal drama in comic books, this felt like that was all there was. It's not until the last few issues that Emma even learns what a mutant is and that she might be one. Up to that point it's a very self-contained story about a rich girl who develops telepathy
mjfmjfmjf's review
4.0
A pretty good edition to the X-men mythos - though the only example of her dressing stupidly is on the cover. Basically a Emma Frost history from just before getting her powers to her first year in college. Art was pretty good, but at this point by that I mean the art wasn't bad at all. And I mostly bought the writing.
morganspellman's review
5.0
I've never been the biggest Emma Frost fan, especially in her villainous days. That said, I enjoy well-written back stories and this is one of the best I've read in a while.
The first 1/4 had a very Spiderman-like feel to it (filled with teen drama and angst), but the story quickly takes a darker turn. The events become more action packed, while the obstacles become more terrifying and lethal. There's no clear cut good or evil in this book, no ultimate battles to save the world - just a great look into the events that shaped the woman capable both great evil and good.
The first 1/4 had a very Spiderman-like feel to it (filled with teen drama and angst), but the story quickly takes a darker turn. The events become more action packed, while the obstacles become more terrifying and lethal. There's no clear cut good or evil in this book, no ultimate battles to save the world - just a great look into the events that shaped the woman capable both great evil and good.
tmaluck's review against another edition
4.0
Despite the Playboy-appropriate cover, Emma Frost's origin story as portrayed here is one of the most convincing setpieces of (extremely affluent) adolescent life I've seen from Marvel. A regular cast of characters changes from first chapter to last without anyone having to fight to the death, leading to a depiction of mutant powers that gives its walking analogies room to breathe and act... human.
ekansthepokemon's review against another edition
4.0
these were actually really really good. it's a very interesting imagining into emma's early years and it works so well
caahpinotti's review against another edition
3.0
this comic is for those who want to get a glimpse of emma frost’s backstory; why and how she became the way she is ❄️ ❄️
depreydeprey's review against another edition
3.0
This graphic novel might have the greatest disparity between its cover and its content than anything I have ever encountered. The book's cover is a grown up Emma Frost in peak, early 2000's leather bondage and sartorially impossible bra. The fan boy fever dream that launched a thousand terrible alt fictions stories. The book itself is something else entirely. Emma Frost is a coming of age/origin story about a girl raised in a wealthy and abusive household who is forced to strike out on her own while discovering her mutant telepathic powers. The 18 issues collected here cover Frost from about age 15 through maybe 20. It's a solid, slow builder of a story whose art reflects its subject rather than the S&M pin up covers of many of the individual issues. On the whole I liked what I found in this collection but felt like where it ends left me with more questions than an origin should. Emma Frost made her first appearance as the White Queen of the Hellfire Club in Uncanny X-Men issue 129 in January of 1980 as fully formed villain that would be a key figure in the Marvel universe for 40 plus years. There is an ocean of story that isn't even hinted at in this collection that lead her down that path.
tashachowdory's review against another edition
4.0
I love Emma Frost, I genuinely think she's one of the best characters in the X-Men Universe *but* WHAT IS UP WITH THIS COVER. A few things:
1. She's not remotely Hellfire White Queen Emma Frost in this edition so they have her in the pained-on outfit is beyond me (not really but it's stupid).
2. I was reading this at the airport and I was so so embarrassed to pull this out of my bag with this soft porn cover. What the hell Marvel. Seriously?! I sometimes wonder if they ever expected women read this comics. Or actually if they even acknowledge that women can read and look at pictures - at.the.same.time.
Anyway, the story itself was pretty good as I've not settled in with Emma's origin story before. Her family is pretty messed up and I'm slightly put out by the fact that Emma isn't naturally smart? Or is that something she learns too? It was a good read and I liked the artwork (for the most part) I tried to look past the big boobs and small waisted women because well, for men that have never touched women they can only draw their fantasies right? ;) ;)
1. She's not remotely Hellfire White Queen Emma Frost in this edition so they have her in the pained-on outfit is beyond me (not really but it's stupid).
2. I was reading this at the airport and I was so so embarrassed to pull this out of my bag with this soft porn cover. What the hell Marvel. Seriously?! I sometimes wonder if they ever expected women read this comics. Or actually if they even acknowledge that women can read and look at pictures - at.the.same.time.
Anyway, the story itself was pretty good as I've not settled in with Emma's origin story before. Her family is pretty messed up and I'm slightly put out by the fact that Emma isn't naturally smart? Or is that something she learns too? It was a good read and I liked the artwork (for the most part) I tried to look past the big boobs and small waisted women because well, for men that have never touched women they can only draw their fantasies right? ;) ;)
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