After the launch of the Spider, can the X-people be far behind? Nope. And to a large extent, the X-Men movie franchise has stories that are tied to this series rather than the regular X-series although the uniforms are more inspired/ or co-reflected from Grant Morrison's run in the regular Marvel-verse X-MenWhat is good about this series?
The Origin
We open the book with slam bang action and even when it slows down to talking heads, it is awesome because there is so much going on that each page is a revelation of something else or other ... basically in the Ult-verse, the X-Men are far more grim and gritty than the 616 (we kid you not!)
The opening sequence is of Sentinels attacking and evaporating various individuals leaving people wondering and panicking in the streets. Of course, we all know they are attacking mutants but to everyone else? Robots from out of the sky appearing without notice and just zapping another bystander? Yup ... then we queue a few different scenarios as we see some of the X-Men living their ordinary lives before being dragged into the melee that is the Mutant wars ... they are recruited by Cyclops and a playful yet harder edged Jean Grey ... and these are fun recruitment scenes ... love the reveal on ColossusAnd the best part is even though Wolverine is on the cover, he doesn't have much of an impact on the entire comic ... and it still read well. So all we need is a good writer and artist, eh? Adam Kubert turns in his usual ... although I would have preferred his brother Andy ... Richard Isanove is the colourist and his work is breahtaking as usual ... with some scenes looking like hand sketched with colour pencils while others digital colouring
Ratings: 8/10
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