X-Men Prime #1

by Marc Guggenheim, Ardian Syaf (Cover Art), Ken Lashley (Artist)

RESURRXION BEGINS HERE! In the wake of their war with the Inhumans, the X-MEN are at a crossroads. Where do they go from here? Luckily, one beloved X-Men has the answer to that question: Xavier's dream comes full circle as KITTY PRYDE returns to the X-Men, ready to lead them in their mission to protect a world that hates and fears them. The next chapter of the X-Men's saga starts here!

Genres: Comics, Marvel, X Men, Comic Book, Graphic Novels, Superheroes, Graphic Novels Comics

30 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 29, 2017

About the author

Marc Guggenheim grew up on Long Island, New York, and earned his law degree from Boston University. After over four years in practice, he left law to pursue a career in television.

Today, Guggenheim is an Emmy Award–winning writer who writes for multiple mediums including television, film, video games, comic books, and new media. His work includes projects for such popular franchises as Percy Jackson, Star Wars, Call of Duty, Star Trek, and Planet of the Apes.

His next book, In Any Lifetime, coming from Lake Union Publishing on August 1st.

Guggenheim currently lives in Encino, California, with his wife, two daughters, and a handful of pets.

Keep up to date on his latest projects with LegalDispatch, a weekly newsletter where he shares news and notes about writing, comics, and the entertainment industry.

Reviews

[Terence · Rating 3 out of 5]

The X-Men look to the past

in order to move into the future.


X-Men Prime is exactly what you'd expect it to be. A setup issue for the upcoming titles following Inhumans be X-Men. Kitty Pryde is back from outer space and Storm is trying to convince her to lead the X-Men. We get brief glimpses of what will be happening shortly in a decently compelling fashion.

[Jerecho · Rating 3 out of 5]

Story - 3.0
Graphics - 3.5

[Andrew · Rating 2 out of 5]

with such a strong team of writers and artists on board for this new jumping-off point, i must say - this was a bit of a let down. still, good to see some old faces and new places (same school now in Central Park). hopefully this title will get going eventually

[Cory · Rating 4 out of 5]

The art isn't really my style, but I like the writing. A nice set up for what comes next.

[Siona Adams · Rating 5 out of 5]

A decent set up. I'm really interested in all of the upcoming X-Men titles (my wallet sure isn't though), so I think this issue did its job. I am curious though, is this also going to be a series since it's a number one? Because I'm not sure the point in having a loosely focused title like this one seemed to be when the groups it follows have their own books (or will shortly).

[Renzo's Old Acct. · Rating 4 out of 5]

a nice set up for upcoming x-men titles. it's a solid start for a new direction. it should be redemption time for my beloved x-men.

[Silas · Rating 3 out of 5]

I haven't kept up to speed with X-Men lately, but perhaps a bit more than some other Marvel books, since they are what got me interested in comics in the first place. Still, event fatigue got to me with a lot of modern Marvel books, so I've been reading older books. Comixology gave these out for free, though, and as of this writing, they are relatively current, and designed to bring the X-Men back to their roots as heroes. This book does little more than lay the groundwork for that, though, which makes it rather lackluster on its own. Kitty Pryde seems like an unlikely lead for the series, but it seems to work reasonably well. I like that we are at least getting to a place where the X-Men can be heroes, but this individual issue just wasn't that interesting.

[Milena · Rating 2 out of 5]

No idea what is going on. No idea what happened before. Not a good book to start reading if you have not read X-Men in forever. I'll give the first issues of the new stories a try, at least.

[Rangga Sukmawijaya · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kisah dimulai setelah Kitty Pryde kembali ke Bumi setelah petualangannya di luar angkasa bersama Peter Quill. Storm, yang merasa bertanggungjawab atas perselisihan antara X-Men dengan Inhuman, berniat mengundurkan diri dan meminta Kitty kembali. Maka para X-Men pun berkumpul kembali dan Kitty memindahkan markas mereka ke tengah-tengah Central Park.

[Mr. Cody · Rating 1 out of 5]

I don't know how I can call a book with my favorite characters weak, but damn, weak.

Weak lineup. All my heroes are dead.

Limbo to Central Park? Weak and weaker....

Sometimes I'd wish the X-Men would die a Marvel death and then get a Marvel resurrection the day all this weakness ends.

[Patrick · Rating 4 out of 5]

I can appreciate this new direction for the X-Men team(s).

With this context, the new Blue and Gold titles might make more sense to me.

[Derek Neveu · Rating 4 out of 5]

...and the dream lives on!

[Andrew Shanks · Rating 3 out of 5]

Trying out the Comixology Unlimited and this is the first one I found to read. So excited to see Marvel is participating in this now and will be reading a lot more.

[Babs · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kitty is back on Earth and Storm wants a change.
Hmmm. Promising stuff I guess.

[Casey Anderson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Behind, but, I want to get into this. I want to know this world of X-men.

[Nunya · Rating 3 out of 5]

Let's get started, shall we?

[Sans · Rating 4 out of 5]

What's this? A X-Men title I actually enjoyed? Shocking yet true!

[Vinton Bayne · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great preview of X-Men to come! I don't really care at all about Lady Deathstrike, I hope Storm sticks around because she is amazing, I'm glad Kitty is back with the crew, I'm super interested in following the time displaced team as they strike out on their own (again?) and I'm cautiously optimistic about Generation X (even though we hardly see anything about that here.)

[John · Rating 4 out of 5]

I certainly enjoyed this.Loved seeing all of the X-Men gathered together and ascertain what direction both factions of the blue and gold team will go in.Thank you Leo Burgess for convincing me to pick up this book.

[Etienne · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is one of the first new series that come as the Rebirth collection in the DC Universe. Marvel will start from a new beginning with X-Men, Cable, Weapon X, Iceman, Jean, and many more.

So, for this one it's a good star, not much to it, but it take time to give a series a new start so it's okay, but I hope it switch in next gear pretty fast in the next issues. The illustrations are stunning and I mean really really great so on a visual level it's a good start. Fro the storyline we'll see next month!

[Garth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good lead into Resurrxion. May be just enough to get me reading the X-Men regularly again for the first time in 15 years.

[Fiona · Rating 4 out of 5]

YAY KITTY'S BACK!
And leading :')

(Also Magik's fringe yay!)

[Voltago · Rating 3 out of 5]

Story: 11 von 15
Zeichnungen: 10 von 15
Entspannter Einstieg in die neue X-Men-Welt, auch die Zeichnungen sind durchweg ok.

[Jason · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was an ok X-Men reset story. I've read tons of these, as a good X-Men addict should.