Astonishing X-Men Vol. 2: Dangerous | Joss Whedon, John Cassaday

Astonishing X-Men Vol. 2: Dangerous | Joss Whedon, John Cassaday | The astonishing still continue...

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	Astonishing X-Men Vol. 2: Dangerous Joss Whedon, John Cassaday Marvel Comics, 2005 - 144 pages average customer review:based on 29 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A tragic death at the Xavier Institute reveals a powerful enemy living among the X-Men that they could never have suspected - and no, it's not Magneto. Things heat up in a way none of the X-Men ever dreamed, but will teamwork save the day when they can't even depend on themselves? Collects Astonishing X-Men #7-12.

Joss Whedon and John Cassaday continue to astonish

Collecting "Astonishing X-Men" issues 7-12, this trade paperback features the X-Men versus a newly-sentient Danger Room. Action, fisticuffs, technology gone wild, it's all here. Sound pretty simple, though, to support a six-issue arc? Well, in the old days of more panels per page and half the story being told with wordy captions, this would have probably been a slam-bang three parter. But I enjoy the fewer number of panels per page of modern comics (the larger panels show off the art more) as well as the reined-in verbiage (comics being a visual medium and all). The result is an epic that's big, yet moves and breathes. Besides, there's other stuff going on, too: we see more of the shady dealings of S.W.O.R.D. (S.H.I.E.L.D.'s dark underbelly), enjoy a little romance in the Kitty/Colossus department, and learn more about Emma Frost's secret villainous alliance. If you liked the first "Astonishing X-Men" collection ("Astonishing X-Men: Gifted"), this second volume won't disappoint you.

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The astonishing still continue...

This volume presents a new threat. An enemy that lives in the mansion years ago, and Professor X knew their existence, that make the X-men dissapointed about Professor Charles, the hole idea is to show that the Professor had to make many bad choices, terrible ones and kept them as a secret. This book has a good art but the story is not that good as the volume 1. If you like X-men, you probably have to read this book.

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Colossus returns in Astonishing X-Men. Not having read X-Men for a long time before I started with the Astonishing run I had no idea that this had happened, anyway, so if that was cheesy to those that had been following all along, it is proably understandable. Might be a 50% chance now that some of the main X-Men have died and returned. Anyway, not as good as the first trade.

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Don't Hold This Against Joss

While I had nothing but praise for mastermind Joss Whedon's first X-Men trade paperback (Astonishing X-Men Vol. 1: Gifted). I found the second arc of the series ("Dangerous") to be problematic. The story threads started and unfinished in "Gifted" were hardly touched at all in this arc, and a whole new, very confusing story starts. Those unfamiliar to pre-Whedon X-Men are going to find themselves lost when the mythology of "the Danger Room", Professor Xavier, and Genosha come into play, as they were hardly even mentioned in "Gifted."

This trade paperback collects the entire "Dangerous" arc, made up of six issues, and there are certainly many good points to be spoken of. The first and some of the sixth issue read very well, and--as with any Joss Whedon work--the character interactions are done perfectly. The character of Wing and his situation had a lot of potential for a great story, but what was done with him was convoluted at best. The baddie in this issue (a personification of the Danger Room itself) spends more than half the issue explaining itself, and I'm simply left saying "Huh?" Whedon even admitted his mistakes in this arc, saying that he was "so fascinated with the idea of new intelligence that (he) neglected the action and thus prevented the story from flowing well."

Overall, don't let this trade paperback change your view of Whedon. He was the best writer television has ever seen, and he's making a crater sized dent in the world of comics with this Astonishing X-Men, his arc of Runaways, and his Buffy: Season Eight series. Every writer has a bit of a slip up. This is Joss's.

6/10

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