X-Men 2099, Vol. 1

X-Men 2099 #1-9

by John Francis Moore

The X-Men: Not just a job - a heritage! Xi'an Chi Xan wants Meanstreak, Krystalin, Skullfire, and the rest to help rebuild Professor X's dream, but lies, betrayal, and assassination may tear them down before they've started! With the gods of the Aesir and demons from the Theatre of Pain against them, can the mutants of the future carve a future for mutants? Guest-starring Spider-Man 2099, Punisher 2099, and more! Collects X-Men 2099 #1-9.

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

224 pages, Paperback

First published May 13, 2009

About the author

John Francis Moore is comic book writer known for stints as writer on such Marvel comics series as X-Force, X-Factor, Doom 2099 and X-Men 2099. He also wrote Elseworld's Finest and co-wrote Batman/Houdini: The Devil's Workshop, with Howard Chaykin, for DC's Elseworlds series, and was the writer for Howard Chaykin's American Flagg! series. He wrote some episodes of The Flash and Freakazoid television series.

Reviews

[Guilherme Smee · Rating 3 out of 5]

Eu tenho uma relação de antagonismo com X-Men 2099 porque esse título sempre confundia a mim, meu irmão e quem quer que quisesse nos presentear com uma edição da revista dos X-Men. Esses, definitivamente não eram os X-Men que eu conhecia e amava. Demorou alguns anos para eu tirar o ranço que tinha com essa revista e pensar nela como uma coisa à parte dos X-Men, porque até o Homem-Aranha 2099 tinha mais elementos de sua contraparte original. Relendo essa HQ agora que a PaniniTM trouxe ela em encadernado pela primeira vez, a trama não é tão ruim como eu me lembrava, mas os desenhos de Ron Lim me pareceram muito pior do que me soavam nos anos 1990 principalmente em Guerra Infinita. Uma coisa ruim deste encadernado é que ele saiu logo após o encadernado do Homem-Aranha 2099 com a saga A Queda do Martelo, que republica pelo menos cinco edições exatamente iguais às desse encadernado. Um mal planejamento da PaniniTM que pode fazer com que perca os consumidores de um ou de outro encadernado. Não que a PaniniTM esteja muito se importando com isso...

[B · Rating 4 out of 5]

I don't understand the aggregate rating for this. I would think it would only be read by people who read and liked it in the first place. I heard second-hand tales of X-Men 2099 from an X-Men 2099 fan myself so I was actually primed to think this was better than it was.

Well, there's almost no connection to the regular X-Men and if you had told me this was, say, WILDC.A.T.S. or something like that, I would have believed it and maybe not liked it as much.

But I'd read more of this even if it's not at all special.

[Patrick · Rating 3 out of 5]

X-Men 2099 is a fun bit of early 90s cyberpunk, projecting what the X-Men might look like 100 years from present. There’s a lot of typical tropes of the time — mega conglomerates, media pirates, environmental disaster, arcologies — but that’s also what makes it fun.

For some reason, this TPB doesn’t collect all the issues of the 2099 “Fall of the Hammer” crossover. It’s not a very good story, but it’s omission is glaring.

[Angela · Rating 3 out of 5]

Set in the future, there are hardly any mutants left. Those that are face persecution from companies who want to exploit them. It takes a while to get into, and the Thor storyline is very confusing because you only get half of it. After that it does feel more like the Xmen but with different characters. A good read.

[Marko Perisic · Rating 2 out of 5]

I've been on a binge of reading the entirety of Marvel''s 2099 catalogue from the 90s for no good reason whatsoever. However, I have skipped Ravage because I had very little interest in reading it. It's a Stan Lee written cyberpunk story. Some will certainly find it interesting
Having reached the finish, i.e. the World of Tomorrow, I can share my short opinions on some of the titles.

X-Men was a read with some ups that kept me fairly engaged, but the overall experience was quite disappointing and boring at many instances. The plot, when they do find it, often feels contrived with some story arcs making some character feeling nonsensical. With that said, characters themselves had a life of their own that made me wish they were interconnected into a stronger narrative which would in turn strengthen their characterisation.

In the end, for a story about X-Men in the future, the series falls short at providing some interesting conflict for which the original series was known for. A wasted opportunity I'd say.

Take this as my opinion on the entire series.

[Ramón S. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beleive it or not I believe that this X- men are much better ones that the Chris Claremont ones

[Chip · Rating 4 out of 5]

Second favorite 2099 title. Still enjoy it after all these years.