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stadkison's review
2.0
I’m not the target demo so take with a grain of salt but trying to import the classic style of comics storytelling into the contemporary form creates a lot of clash. I might have enjoyed these if I read the original runs.
fifteenthjessica's review
adventurous
fast-paced
3.0
This contains three short stories from popular runs of X-Men, and it is more for long time fans than "I'm going to read a bunch of graphic novels from the library to get closer to my GoodReads challenge goal, and ooh, the X-Men are cool" people like myself. Maybe I'd like it better if I was more familiar with the story lines that inspired these. Instead, I felt rather lost and would have been even more lost if I hadn't recently decided to watch the 1990's X-Men cartoon on my parent's Disney+ subscription. The comics do have little text boxes telling which comics could provide more context. There is also a Summers' family tree, since that convoluted family is featured very prominently, and two of the stories are preceded by a page listing the name and secret identity of prominent X-Men (well, X-Factor members). Art is in the typical comics style, although in some of Walter Simonson's panels Jean Gray is in some interesting poses.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Violence
Minor: Sexual violence
renatasnacks's review
DNF--I picked this up because I was interested in [b:X-Men Legends Vol. 2: Mutant Mayhem (X-Men Legends|61065763|X-Men Legends Vol. 2 Mutant Mayhem (X-Men Legends (2021-2022))|Larry Hama|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1652154495l/61065763._SY75_.jpg|96242436] but it turns out they are not really sequential and I found this Shi'ar + Summers brothers story very boring personally. If you're more into that flavor of thing, I'm sure you'll like it more than I did. It's definitely aimed at 90s nostalgia but I just don't have this exact nostalgia. (I have volume 2 nostalgia, more on that soon lol)
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