Chris Claremont
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Declare Books As X-Men: Days of Future Past (Uncanny X-Men (1963) #138-143, Annual #4)
| Original Title: | X-Men: Days of Future Past |
| ISBN: | 0785115609 (ISBN13: 9780785115601) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Uncanny X-Men (1963) #138-143, Annual #4, The Uncanny X-Men Pocketbooks #5, Universo Marvel #9, Days of Future Past , more |
| Characters: | Kitty Pryde, Scott Summers, Wolverine, Doctor Victor von Doom, Kurt Wagner, Magneto, Benjamin Jacob Grimm, Mystique, Reed Richards, Susan Storm Richards, Doctor Strange, Steve Rogers, Hank McCoy, Bobby Drake, Johnny Storm, Cain Marko, Sebastian Shaw, Piotr Rasputin, Ororo Munroe, Bruce Banner, Pietro Maximoff, Tony Stark, Professor Charles Xavier, Jean Grey, Peter Parker, Robert Edward Kelly, Wanda Maximoff |
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One of the strongest X-Men stories everThis edition not only include the main story "Days of Future Past" but also several issues before and after of the story. This particular collected TPB contains "Uncanny X-Men" #138 - 143 and also the "X-Men" Annual #4. So, my rating is an overall average based on the sum of all individual ratings per story.
Creative Team:
Chris Claremont (Writer) & John Byrne (Illustrator), both co-plotters
Also: John Romita, Jr. (Illustrator) (in the Annual)
ELEGY
Uncanny X-Men #138
Rating: ***** ( 5 stars )
...Here I sit...alone! Now, for the first time, I realize how it must have been for the Professor all these long months...always apart, always alone...
This is an astonishing account of the major events of the X-Men history since its beginning to date (1981) narrated by not other than Scott Summers aka Cyclops!, the leader of the team. Told from his personal point of view, he takes the audience in an uncanny journey through the happiest and saddest moments. All done in one single issue! Definitely a marvelous reading.
NIGHTCRAWLER'S INFERNO
X-Men Annual #4
Rating: **** ( 4 stars )
Good evening. My name is Stephen Strange. I am a... physician. I believe I am expected.
Nightcrawler aka Kurt Wagner is celebrating his 21st birthday but an unexpected gift takes his soul to a hellish place that only the guest starring of Doctor Strange can help to the X-Men to go there and to help to save Nightcrawler's soul!
...SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES! & RAGE!
Uncanny X-Men #139 & #140
Rating: *** ( 3 stars )
I fought that monster durin' my first mission, as Wolverine, for Department "H". My first mission-- My only failure. I'd been sent to deal with the Hulk.
While, Professor X and Storm are doing their best efforts to make feel at home to the newest member in the X-Men, Kitty Pryde; Wolverine travels to Canada, to make peaces with his old friends, James MacDonald Hudson (Vindicator) and his wife, Heather Hudson. Nightcrawler signs up to go along with Wolverine.
When Wolverine and Nightcrawler are able to reach James MacDonald Hudson aka Vindicator, he is on an official mission of Alpha Flight, the Canadian government's sanctioned super-hero team. Alpha Flight is tracking a mysterious monster and the team is decimated due some members are away in another mission over USA, so Vindicator is having only Shaman and Snowbird. Soon enough, Wolverine knows that the monster has to be the Wendigo, which he has some reckoning to do, so he offered his help to find the monster.
DAYS OF FUTURE PAST
Uncanny X-Men #141 & #142
Rating: ***** ( 5 stars )
Our actions may not make things better--for humanity or mutantkind--but they cannot make them worse.
One of the most famous and celebrated stories of the X-Men titles, if not the best, or the only one able to compete against The Dark Phoenix saga, but taking in account that Days of Future Past was developed in only two comic book issues, that's something astonishing impressive!
Those "good ol' days" where creative teams aren't mandated by the publishing house to extend any storyline to 6 issues at least thinking already in the marketing of the trade-paperback. (Notice that here, Marvel needed to "fill up" the TPB edition with other issues to be to able to charge what they want for the TPB)
1980: Kitty Pryde is 13 and a half years old, making her the youngest student ever included into the X-Men team so far. She is the newest addition to the team. She is shy and sweet.
2013: Kate Pryde is 43 and a half years old, making her one of the very few mutant survivors after the Sentinels took over the country. She is the only hope to save humanity and mutantkind. She is outspoken and driven.
The Fantastic Four are dead. The Avengers are dead. The X-Men are mostly dead. And only like 5 mutants are still alive but living in concentration camps. The Sentinels are ruling USA.
A crucial moment, in 1980, was the trigger to this dark future, so the solution is clear... the past must be changed!
So a bold plan is forged to send the "conscience" of the old Kate Pryde to reach the body of the young Kitty Pryde, back in the past, to prevent that that future may ocurr.
Literally there was a "before" and an "after" in the X-Men's comic book history with the publication of this story.
DEMON
Uncanny X-Men #143
Rating: ***** ( 5 stars )
Finally, they're all gone. Omigosh! What am I saying?! They are all gone! I'm all alone!
Shy and sweet Kitty Pryde is all alone in the X-Mansion, but soon enough she will have a lethal visit and she will have to deal with it all by herself!
A lonely remmant of the N'Garai monsters reaches the X-Mansion and it's up to Kitty to defend home against this nightmarish creature!
Point Containing Books X-Men: Days of Future Past (Uncanny X-Men (1963) #138-143, Annual #4)
| Title | : | X-Men: Days of Future Past (Uncanny X-Men (1963) #138-143, Annual #4) |
| Author | : | Chris Claremont |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 184 pages |
| Published | : | June 7th 2006 by Marvel (first published 1981) |
| Categories | : | Sequential Art. Comics. Graphic Novels. Superheroes. Marvel. X Men. Comic Book. Fiction. Graphic Novels Comics |
Rating Containing Books X-Men: Days of Future Past (Uncanny X-Men (1963) #138-143, Annual #4)
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The Uncanny X Men: Days Of Future(Panini books edition)Contents-.Elegy.Something Wicked This Way Comes.Rage.Days Of Future Past.Mind Out Of Time.Demon.Nightcrawler's InfernoAbove mention are the contents of the book. Well, Panani edition is a pocketbook size which is same as novel books size and to be honest i don't like graphic novels to be this small. Days of future past, i remember dying to read this book so bad and now that i finally read it i felt like i have been robbed. Not exactly what i
If you are reading this book post 1995, It will be hard to appreciate the impact it has had on Science Fiction, and Story telling in general. One wouldnt stray very far from a similar analogy of reading Edgar Rice Burroughs "A Princess of Mars" story today and exclaiming out loud, "so whats the big deal about this story? Its just a rehash of stories which we have allready read". So many other stories have used the plot point which was first used here, that now this story would seem old, stale,
I was a kid when these came out, and to us kids then, there was nothing as good as the X-Men (except Frank Miller Daredevil).I did not need to reread these, but the collection on Kindle went to $.99, which was too good to pass up.I was surprised that X-Men Annual 4 was included here, a trip to Dante's Inferno with Dr. Strange, which was some of John Romita Jr's earliest (and far from distinctive) work.I was devastated by John Byrne's departure after 143, and although I stuck with the series
Forgot home interesting the X-Men are. Well rounded characters. Tight plot. Hope they don't stretch the movie into three hours of dull
I have to say, I remember reading these initial books when they came out in 80-81 and I remember being absolutely blown away by them. This was the introduction of Kitty Pryde, who, if you are a comic reader and my age, you had developed a massive crush on at just the right time in your formative years (it didnt hurt she was Jewish, as I was, so, ya know, there was a bond). So it was with this sense of nostalgia I picked up the compilation (I refuse to call this a graphic novel a Graphic Novel
One of the strongest X-Men stories ever This edition not only include the main story "Days of Future Past" but also several issues before and after of the story. This particular collected TPB contains "Uncanny X-Men" #138 - 143 and also the "X-Men" Annual #4. So, my rating is an overall average based on the sum of all individual ratings per story.Creative Team:Chris Claremont (Writer) & John Byrne (Illustrator), both co-plottersAlso: John Romita, Jr. (Illustrator) (in the Annual) ELEGY
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