X-Force/Cable: Messiah War Author: Visit Amazon's Duane Swierczynski Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0785131574 | Format: EPUB
X-Force/Cable: Messiah War Description
- Hardcover: 368 pages
- Publisher: Marvel (August 26, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0785131574
- ISBN-13: 978-0785131571
- Product Dimensions: 11 x 7.5 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds
I had to write this after reading the other customer review which claims that Utopia is the book to read. Not for this longtime X-men fan. The X-force title is the only vital X-men book in the fold lately, and this book is certainly a worthy follow-up to the Messiah Complex, although not as good as that collection.
The Bishop mini-series included at the end of the book should be read FIRST. It was pretty good-- and certainly a needed primer in X-men past and future history. I enjoyed the refresher course which helped sort out a lot of the mythology around Bishop, Cable, and the Summers' storyline.
The second section of the book focuses on Cable and Hope as they move through time fleeing Bishop. I really liked this segment, as I haven't had much interest in Cable and this was a good way to get back into the character-- the authors really deepened his inner dialog and managed to make some sense of his convoluted history (again providing a needed sorting out of a lot of this messy continuity), while painting a very bleak portrait of the distant future-- an intriguing science ficiton-esque warning of things to come. The character of the child Hope was also well done. The relationship between her and Cable was quite compellingly portrayed.
The latter half of the book depicts X-force hooking up with Cable and a big showdown between them, Stryfe, Apocalypse, Bishop, and Deadpool. This section had a few improbable plot twists involving Angel and Apocalypse, and some hard-to-follow action sequences, but overall it worked. The scripting was great--- Deadpool was hilarious, and the whole X-factor team has a neat dynamic. I enjoyed catching up with Stryfe, who made a interesting villain.
I had to write this after reading another customer review which claims that Utopia is the book to read. Not for this longtime X-men fan. The X-force title is the only vital X-men book in the fold lately, and this book is certainly a worthy follow-up to the Messiah Complex, although not as good as that collection.
The Bishop mini-series included at the end of the book should be read FIRST. It was pretty good-- and certainly a needed primer in X-men past and future history. I enjoyed the refresher course which helped sort out a lot of the mythology around Bishop, Cable, and the Summers' storyline.
The second section of the book focuses on Cable and Hope as they move through time, fleeing Bishop. I really liked this segment, as I haven't had much interest in Cable and this was a good way to get back into the character-- the authors really deepened his inner dialog and managed to make some sense of his convoluted history (again providing a needed sorting out of a lot of this messy continuity), while painting a very bleak portrait of the distant future-- an intriguing science ficiton-esque warning of things to come. The character of the child Hope was also well done. The relationship between her and Cable was quite compellingly portrayed.
The latter half of the book depicts X-force hooking up with Cable and a big showdown between them, Stryfe, Apocalypse, Bishop, and Deadpool. This section had a few improbable plot twists involving Angel and Apocalypse, and some hard-to-follow action sequences, but overall it worked. The scripting was great--- Deadpool was hilarious, and the whole X-factor team has a neat dynamic. I enjoyed catching up with Stryfe, who made a interesting villain.
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