Monday, August 18, 2008

X-Men: Mutant Genesis

If you bought comics in the year 1991, then you definitely bought the first issue of this story. It was X-Men #1, and we were all sure it was going to be worth a hundred thousand dollars one day. Well, turns out Marvel knew this and made five variant covers and produced enough copies of this issue to ensure that it would never again even be worth cover price. In conclusion the 90s were the worst decade in comics. Oh, wait, I should review this story. The first four issues are really good, actually, dealing with Magneto and his desire to be left alone/make a haven for mutants in space on an asteroid. Unfortunately that's over Russia, and international trouble ensues. The second story in this trade paperback sucks so don't bother reading that.

RATING: 56%

3 comments:

Chris said...

Well I'm going to keep my issue, and one day when everyone else tosses their copy I'll still have mine and it will be worth millions.

John said...

I thought it was stupid how those helicopters fired ceramic missiles and Magneto was able to break them apart anyway. Jim Lee's art was good, but he made everything look like a pin-up. At least he was less of a twat than Liefield.

DCP said...

I think Magneto said some comment like "ceramic missiles? There's metal in everything!"

Well, Chris Claremont was never really known for his logic.