2.130 (495) All New X-Men vol 1 #1 ... Marvel ...

Finally we are "up to the times" so to speak as we review a series that is actually an on-going and not suffering from reboot and only three years old! Howabout that, eh? Hehehehehe!

Honestly, I avoided this book even though I have it in soft copy and hard copy simply because of the artist, Stuart Immonen. Sorry but I didn't enjoy his past work and it all looks a bit rushed and murky. But I have been pleasantly surprised and now can safely categorise him similar to Ed McG where if he has the right inker and colorist and right project, the work can actually be entertaining

And in this volume, we see the return of the original X-Men

Yup for those not in the know, this is not a slotting in between past issues kind of project but the actual teen heroes who failed to sustain the first round of X-Men comics coming back once more and in the present run of the X-tales

Background recap time: basically after all the horror of the Phoenix Five where many things were destroyed and the whole world nearly destroyed with the adult Cyclops openly unrepentant and even broke out of prison, the Beast, decided to make a time-jump into the past to bring the younger kids into the future hoping that meeting his younger self would jolt Cyclops back to his senses. He theorises that the kids would not remember this meeting because if all goes well and he sends them back to their own time, Prof X would wipe this from their minds (Huh?)

So that's the gist of it. As this is a normal length opening issue, there is already a lot going on here but what I found really cool is the fact that writer Bendis injects so much more personality into these youthful X-Men. Naturally we see Scott as being a bit uptight but still noble. What is refreshing is that Bobby actually looks younger and is annoying more fun than the Torch and Spidey while Warren is equally capable of a laugh or too!

Awesome!

Ratings: 7/10