Grant Morrison's well regarded 42 issue run of X-Men in the early 00's is collected in its entirety in this massive tome. I'd been out of comics at the time and have only now gotten a chance to read it. While the Morrison run had a few good points...Emma Frost and her Cuckoos, Jean Grey's fate, and the introduction of Quentin Quire (who Jason Aaron now handles far better than he was handled in this book)...ultimately I found that the writing seemed to be trying too hard to be different, and dare More...

This is a collection of a 42-issue run, centering around humanity realizing they will soon be extinct thanks to mutant population growth. New forms of life are created by surgically implanting mutant genes into regular humans, and the X-Men are in the middle of it, trying to get everyone to play nice. Does the average homo sapien stand a chance in the future? Is a post-human world an inevitable one? Even in our "real" world, considering advances in mapping the human genome, cloning, and other sc More...

So I think this wasn't the book that I thought I was getting when I requested however I found it interesting anyway so I don't really mind.

Most of the story arc's flowed easily one into the next and I found a lot of the characters very interesting and different then other incarnations. The U-Men and Cassandra Nova were particularly terrifying incarnations of villains and I really liked the idea that ***spolier***being Xorn had begun to affect Magneto.***end spoiler***

I liked the students that w More...

One star down because of the majority of the art. Unfortunately, Frank Quitely did most of the art, and I find him... bad. Really bad. I actually was complaining to someone, and showed them a group shot, to which they replied that they almost couldn't tell Jean Grey was a woman she looked so androgynous. I love Silvestri, Yu - who unfortunately only did one issue, Bachalo, and Van Sciver. I liked Paul Leon's art a lot, too, and Kordey was... alright. Not nearly as horrible as Quitely, but far fr More...

This series was much more accessible and much less cerebral than other Morrison. Its nice to read some Morrison in a different mode but don’t expect The Invisibles. The series gets better as it goes along, the plot lines becoming more and more streamlined, more streamlined then Morrison has done since Batman: Gothic. My favorite is the last story, set 150 years into the future, Morrison fully exploiting the SF potential of the X-Men. At the end of the Ultimate Collection Vol. 3 there is a Morris More...

As a young child growing up in the early 1990s, there was nothing cooler than the X-Men. Under the stewardship of Jim Lee, the X-Men were cool, dynamic and sexy. But then, as the decade wore on and the Jim Lee era faded into memory, the X-Men lost their way. No longer on the cutting edge of comics, and loosing young fans like myself who were growing up, the focus of the creative teams became one of a distinct conservativism. It seemed that the priority for Marvel was to keep their top franchise More...

i thought the art was just "all-right"
wasn't brilliant or beautiful, however, it wasn't that awful homogenous cartoon-y stuff either.

i found the writing a little disjointed. the ideas were good, the premise was interesting...but, the follow-through lacked flow.

still, if you are an x-men fan - go for it.

It seems appropriate to explain why I gave this book two stars. First, I scored the writing and the art. Frank Quitely's art earned twenty stars. Grant Morrison's writing earned zero stars. Second, I averaged the two scores, giving The New X-men Omnibus a ten-star rating. Third, and finally, I subtracted eight stars because Quitely spent all that time working on New X-men when he could've been collaborating with an actual writer on some other project, one with a plot that doesn't alternate betwe More...

As always, Morrison has the ideas. But the story-telling is unbalanced, and not in a way I always find experimental but kind of insulting. The first arc tries to blow up into a space epic but ends up leaving the classic character of Lilandra underdeveloped and nothing more than frail character neccessity. She lacks her signature regal beauty and stance and is often depicted as a victim or fleeing. On one of the covers, the page becomes a box that she's squeezed into with a blank look on her face More...

(Technically, I didn't read this in the "Ominbus" edition, which honestly looks like an unwieldy bookbinding nightmare, but I figured I'd comment on this version since it really is best considered as one work. Ahem.)

This might be Grant Morrison's secret masterpiece (so far). Most of his great themes are here—evolution, youth rebellion, rock&roll, grand-scale interconnectedness, meta-narrative, the limits (or lack thereof) of human potential, etc, etc, etc. It's everything cool about the X-Me More...

Using this version because I can't be bothered to add all seven of the individual Morrison New X-Men books and rate them.

This is really more like 3.5, but that's less Morrison's fault and more the fact that he's working with characters who are archetypes--sanctimonious leaders or jerks or both. The bits about the goings on in Westchester and Mutant Town are generally more interesting than the fights, in my mind, and it's fortunate that Morrison expanded the universe in this logical way.

Story-wise this starts out strong, gets really good towards the middle—with the riot storyline—but ultimately disappoints at the end. The art is sometimes fantastic—mostly Quitely—but quite often mediocre or just plain bad. Worth the trouble if you're a Morrison fan, an X-Men fan or both, but best avoided otherwise.

No tengo esta edición, aunque me gustaría, ¿pero qué mejor que un tocomocho de tomo con una de las mejores historietas de superhéroes-pop? Aunque sostenerlo no debe ser nada cómodo. Aunque el dibujo a veces cae en manos inescrupulosas y la historia no es brillante en todos y cada uno de sus capítulos, al momento de leerlos me parecieron las mejores historias jamás contadas de los X-Men. Algunos amigos comiqueros me dicen que si alguna vez leo la vieja etapa de Claremont me lo voy a repensar -aun More...

Such a good storyline, Grant Morrison is genius (and again, while he is no Ben Templesmith, I'm very quickly gaining appreciation for Frank Quitely). Since having been told that all the great things that Morrison did with this series is undone in a single issue by the next writer, I'm curious to see what is next.

This collection have both its high and low point , but for being blinded by the last few chapters , i would've given it a 2.5 stars . but actually there is some solid stuff here that i think it might be worth the effort getting it + it serve as opining point for joss whedon astonishing x-men .

Grant Morrison's most interesting work in super-hero comics has always focused on the idea of evolution, that super-heroes, in all their myriad forms, are expressions of the hope for the next step. Here it's made explicit, with the initial premise that the human race is dying out and mutants are here to take our place. And after exploring that idea in really riveting ways (with primarily beautiful art by Frank Quitely and Ethan Van Sciver - less so by Igor Kordey), it all comes to a calamitous h More...

Something like 45 issues of X-Men - Grant Morrison's entire run from the early 2000s in which he redefined our favorite merry band of mutants. The book weighs in at 725 lbs.

I only enjoyed the story arc with weapon X and 13 and the Phoenix Arc. I think it was the last 12 issues. The artwork was better at the end as well.

There has never been run like this on the X-men and sadly mostly ignored the ideas after it was over. But my god this was amazing. The sharp dialogue and different array of fantastic artists. Secondary mutations, Cassandra Nova, Xorn. All amazing.

I actually read this in serial format way back when. Best X-Men run ever. Favorite comic ever.

Rereading this for the first time I'm surprised by how linear it is so far. I was left with the impression that Morrison left out too many details after reading the individual issues when they were published. Reading this as a whole I'm getting a much clearer picture and definitely enjoying it like crazy! Closest thing to the rush new comics provided when I was a kid.

I hate grant morrison with a passion. He ruined everything i liked in comics

A modern take on the X-Men that continues to influence the comics of today.

The best run the X-Men books ever had. Better than Whedon's or Claremont's.

this just wasn't as ground breaking as everyone told me it was.

One of the best X-men stories out there.

This book is much better on the second read.

Imagine Philip K. Dick and Derrida writing the X-Men and this what reading Grant Morrison's X-Men is like. He incorporates cyberpunk with post-structural theory yet maintains the feel, action, and story flow found in the comic book genre. What he achieves most of all is a deconstruction of traditional comic book plots and offers something new and salient to adult, contemporary readers, and his writing changes the face of X-Men even to this day. His characters and stories are funny, exciting, and More...

Thanks for the Xorn mindfuck !!

I learned from this book that there are still great Scottish writers in our time and that even the most familiar subject material can be made to be fresh, exciting and new when tackled by an appropriately gifted storyteller and visionary. Another reason why the graphic novel is a worthy art form as any other. And as a book, the story and characters are compelling, the danger threatening and the climax mind-blowing. More...