X-Men The Movie: Beginnings

X-Men: The Movies tie-ins

by Dan Abnett, Andy Lanning, Mark McKenna (Illustrator)

To all great tales there are even greater beginnings . . . Ever wonder what your favorite X-Men characters did before the events of the X-Men movie? Now you can find out! This Marvel comic contains three never-before-seen exciting prequels to the X-Men Movie: Wolverine, Rogue, & Magneto. Journey along with Rogue & Wolverine on the adventures that led them to join Prof. Charles Xavier s team of mutant heroes, the X-Men. And discover what horrifying secrets caused the villainous Magneto to walk down his destructive path of hatred. The ultimate battle between good & evil begins here!

Genres: Comics, Marvel, Graphic Novels, Superheroes, The United States Of America, Comic Book, Graphic Novels Comics

148 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2000

Reviews

[Ashcan F. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Precuelas relativamente genéricas de las versiones fílmicas de Wolverine, Rogue, & Magneto.

[M · Rating 2 out of 5]

Collecting the three X-Men Movie prologue comics into one volume, this tome still feels as forced as it did when first issued. Wolverine's tale centers around a fellow amnesiac, as he must defend her from the police and the Japanese assassin known as the Silver Samurai. Rogue finds herself captured after running away from home, and must team with fellow mutant inmates top overthrow a secret testing facility. Magneto returns to the prison camp of his youth, and reflects on both the partnership and split with Charles Xavier. Little new ideas are offered, and most of the stories just pull from establish X-men comics to try and give this series more gravitas. I recommend this only for X-Men film completists.

[Matt town · Rating 5 out of 5]

Pretty good! Rendered absolutely non-canon because of future storytelling in movies (Silver Samurai's appearance, Charles and Erik's meeting, etc), but still a fun little opener for the first X-Men movie! This collection includes all three prequel comics for the first movie, which includes one Wolverine comic, one Rogue comic, and one Magneto comic. The art style doesn't match perfectly with the movies, but they were definitely considered especially when it came to outfits and side-cast (Magneto's Brotherhood of Toad, Sabretooth, and Mystique for example).

Definitely want to read the next set for X-Men 2!.

[Megan · Rating 3 out of 5]

I thought this was fine. The stories were more compelling than the art. I would rank the stories like this:

1. Magneto
2. Rogue
3. Wolverine

Though I do like that we got to see Rogue and Wolverine meet up in both their perspectives. The X-Men (Scott, Jean, Ororo) do appear in this, but with very minor roles (pretty much cameos). Scott blowing up the desk TV in anger was a little funny though.

[A.L. Bellettiere · Rating 1 out of 5]

Wow, a literal cash grab. It pulls you in with the lure of Jackman, Mckellan and Paquin and then you're left with the comic version of these characters. It's too distracting for me. If they were drawn as they were in the movies, I would read it entirely. Marvel's marketing twenty years ago in using the movies to lure in new comic book readers.

[Travis · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not a bad idea, but the art is not good and the writing is all over the place.

Marvel never seemed to know what to do to cash in on the X-movies, as none of the comics connected to it were worth remembering.

I got this TPB for a buck and still feel someone owes me change.

[Mario Perez · Rating 5 out of 5]

Typically movie tie in comics are just fun stories that don’t really do too much but this one was really good.
I really enjoyed the Magneto Story and the Wolverine one was pretty good too. The only disappointment was Rouges story. But overall a good X men comic.

[Kelly · Rating 3 out of 5]

Loved the graphic illustrations. Good depiction of the old style characters.

[Dimitris Papastergiou · Rating 1 out of 5]

Yeah.. boring and forgettable. Bad script, bad art.

[Dony Grayman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Recopilatorio de las precuelas de Wolverine, Rogue y Magneto según X-Men The Movie.

[Fugo Feedback]

Lo tengo porque estaba a 15$ y porque en su momento la película me pareció buenísima. No sé cuándo lo terminaré leyendo, pero es bueno saber que está. Aunque estaría mejor si tuviera más espacio :S

[(Jen) The Artist Librarian · Rating 2 out of 5]

2 1/2 stars ... Okay stories ... But I just couldn't get into the art style ...

[Daren Zaccagnini · Rating 5 out of 5]

Its an awesome book to read about the X-men Movie.