1st Issue.
This 25 issue run was done by Joss Whedon and John Cassaday. It was the first comic I bought after a 10 year abscence. This story arc pics up months after the Grant Morrison's New X-Men run. I strong advise you check that out as well. If your not a Grant Morrison fan already you will be after that run. With the dust settled and the Xavier School for the gifted rebuilt things have once again taken on a sense of normacy. Our heroes still reeled from the loss of Jean Grey, who was killed by Magneto, posing as Xorn who was in turn killed by Cyclops. Two of the Stepford Cuckoos, Esme and Sophie also lost their lives. The new arc opens with a young girl suffering from a nightmare where she has apparently killed her mother and now about to do the same to her father. The little girl wakes up from the nightmare and is comforted by someone who appears to be a doctor. We then move to Kitty Pride returning to the Xavier school. She relives different memories( good and bad) as she makes her way from the drive way to the inside of the manison. She then phases through a wall and into the auditorium when a assembly is in progress. I'm not sure if it's the first time they have met. We find out that Emma Frost and Scott Summer aka Cyclops are the acting heads of the school while Professor Xavier recovers from his last ordeal. Ms Frost is giving a speech letting the new class know what to expect when giant sententials crash into the auditorium. Come to find out it was a hologram cursity of Emma Frost. Who over the course of the New X-Men came to be one of my favorite characters. Her cool, icy personae, she swag, beauty and intelligence make a dynamic character. What I love about her character is that she's not the cookie cutter goody two shoes that Cyclops and the rest of the X-Men are. She was the only survivor of the massacre that occurred in Gonisa where 16 million mutants were murdered. I probably should have done a review of New X-Men before doing this one and I just might. Her morals are adaptable which have caused her to come into conflict with the other X-Men on more than one occasion. I'm going to have to check and find out when she first joined the team. Seeing her as an X-Men now is still a bit jarring. She may have went a little overboard but she wanted to see how many of the students were looking for a fight. However it didn't sit well with the other X-Men. The next scene sees Emma and Scott in bed together which makes the next scene hilarious. Wolverine sits hunched on the foot of the bed staring at them while they sleep. He apparently doesn't approve of Emma and Scott's relationship. A super human fight ensues on the school lawn for all the students and staff to see. Even though she's dead Jean Grey still cast a giant shadow that Emma can't escape from. Once tempers have calm Scott calls a meeting with Emma, Wolverine, Kitty Pride and Beast in attendance. He then tells them that because of the negative light that's been cast on mutants lately he wants to reform the X-Men in a attempt to change public opinion on mutants. He then informs Kitty that she was chosen because of her mutant ability, a non aggressive ability that wouldn't frighten people. Meanwhile Dr Kavita Rao is holding a press conference. Also at the same time a high society party is high-jacked by a group of armed thugs. We then show a scene of Scott listening to the news and griping the bridge of his nose with his thumb and index fingers. He clearly has the weight of the world on his shoulders as he contemplates his next decision. The next scenes show the doctor giving a press conference, followed by one of the unknown villain that hijacked the party. Finally we come the iconic, defining scenes of the volume of the newly reformed X-Men suiting up. "We have to Astonishing them," Scott's words to Wolverine. Thus ends the first issue.
This 25 issue run was done by Joss Whedon and John Cassaday. It was the first comic I bought after a 10 year abscence. This story arc pics up months after the Grant Morrison's New X-Men run. I strong advise you check that out as well. If your not a Grant Morrison fan already you will be after that run. With the dust settled and the Xavier School for the gifted rebuilt things have once again taken on a sense of normacy. Our heroes still reeled from the loss of Jean Grey, who was killed by Magneto, posing as Xorn who was in turn killed by Cyclops. Two of the Stepford Cuckoos, Esme and Sophie also lost their lives. The new arc opens with a young girl suffering from a nightmare where she has apparently killed her mother and now about to do the same to her father. The little girl wakes up from the nightmare and is comforted by someone who appears to be a doctor. We then move to Kitty Pride returning to the Xavier school. She relives different memories( good and bad) as she makes her way from the drive way to the inside of the manison. She then phases through a wall and into the auditorium when a assembly is in progress. I'm not sure if it's the first time they have met. We find out that Emma Frost and Scott Summer aka Cyclops are the acting heads of the school while Professor Xavier recovers from his last ordeal. Ms Frost is giving a speech letting the new class know what to expect when giant sententials crash into the auditorium. Come to find out it was a hologram cursity of Emma Frost. Who over the course of the New X-Men came to be one of my favorite characters. Her cool, icy personae, she swag, beauty and intelligence make a dynamic character. What I love about her character is that she's not the cookie cutter goody two shoes that Cyclops and the rest of the X-Men are. She was the only survivor of the massacre that occurred in Gonisa where 16 million mutants were murdered. I probably should have done a review of New X-Men before doing this one and I just might. Her morals are adaptable which have caused her to come into conflict with the other X-Men on more than one occasion. I'm going to have to check and find out when she first joined the team. Seeing her as an X-Men now is still a bit jarring. She may have went a little overboard but she wanted to see how many of the students were looking for a fight. However it didn't sit well with the other X-Men. The next scene sees Emma and Scott in bed together which makes the next scene hilarious. Wolverine sits hunched on the foot of the bed staring at them while they sleep. He apparently doesn't approve of Emma and Scott's relationship. A super human fight ensues on the school lawn for all the students and staff to see. Even though she's dead Jean Grey still cast a giant shadow that Emma can't escape from. Once tempers have calm Scott calls a meeting with Emma, Wolverine, Kitty Pride and Beast in attendance. He then tells them that because of the negative light that's been cast on mutants lately he wants to reform the X-Men in a attempt to change public opinion on mutants. He then informs Kitty that she was chosen because of her mutant ability, a non aggressive ability that wouldn't frighten people. Meanwhile Dr Kavita Rao is holding a press conference. Also at the same time a high society party is high-jacked by a group of armed thugs. We then show a scene of Scott listening to the news and griping the bridge of his nose with his thumb and index fingers. He clearly has the weight of the world on his shoulders as he contemplates his next decision. The next scenes show the doctor giving a press conference, followed by one of the unknown villain that hijacked the party. Finally we come the iconic, defining scenes of the volume of the newly reformed X-Men suiting up. "We have to Astonishing them," Scott's words to Wolverine. Thus ends the first issue.
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