This storyline marked yet another huge change in the X-Men's history. After losing her powers back in issue #185 to Forge's neutralizer gun, Storm finally made a move to get them back. She left the X-Men in Wolverine's charge and went to find Forge, to demand that he find a way to restore her to what she was.While she was gone, Wolverine put the new team through their paces (Havok, Longshot, Rogue, Dazzler and Psylocke) and, training accomplished, he then led them against the Marauders to rescue...

Claremont’s writing doesn’t hold up decades later but it’s still a classic story with art by a young Marc Silvestri. Hokey but entertaining.

Gems include X-Men v. Marauders & Freedom Force 2parters in SF, the eponymous 3part X-Men crossover, & the Bird-Brain Saga

Boring and suffers from Claremont's wordiness. I couldn't make it through more than a few issues. Jumped over to the Simonson issues and they were just boring.

I hadn't read these issues since their original release, probably a quarter of century ago. Trip down memory lane...The whole package is more or less introductory stuff for the upcoming Inferno run. The X-Men issues are classic Claremont: solid-though terribly wordy- action and melodrama intermingled, like he was so good at. I'll be honest, I skim-read it some, I just can read pages of descriptive or introspective captions so much, but it's well done and has aged quite well all things considered...

Marvel 80's Tour, next stop - The Fall of the MutantsIn The Fall of the Mutants Volume 1, we have Uncanny X-Men #220-227, Incredible Hulk #340, and New Mutants #55-61.This collection holds a huge transition for both teams, X-Men and New Mutants, into a very different direction. The X-Men part:Wolverine, Storm, Rogue, Dazzler, Longshot, Psylocke, Havok, and later, Colossus and Madelyne Prior. They fight enemies like the Marauders (from Mutant Massacre fame), Freedom Force (formerly the Brotherhoo...

Revisiting an old classic as a bit of a bookend to my great x-read of 2017/2018... (cheating and reviewing both volume 1 and 2 together.)Man, I love me some Claremont from back in the day. While you can see some of the problems which will come to plague his later writing, he is in so much better form than he is later. It's pure melodrama, but darned good melodrama 99% of the time. Overall, this whole tale was good but it certainly had its ups (the X-Men issues) and downs (most of the non-x marve...

This is an interesting stage of the X-men. We have mostly new members like a revamped Dazzler, lucky alien Longshot from Mojo world, a powerless mohawked Storm with Forge, a vet who can do sorcery and make anything, Wolverine as a leader, and Havok is cool AF and we have a sad tragic abandoned wife of Scott Summers aka Cyclops who also has had her son removed from this world - pretty sad story line really and makes Scott unforgivable. Also we got Rogue being a new good girl and her mom Mystique

Collects Uncanny X-Men #220-227 (August, 1987 - March, 1988), Incredible Hulk #340 (February, 1998) and New Mutants #55-61 (September, 1987 - March, 1998). The X-men stuff here is good, though I wish they had held off the resurrection for another issue. The New Mutants stuff mostly just drags this collection down due to being very cliche New Mutants material, with the exception of the last couple of issues which deal with the death of Douglas Ramsey.Though the Fall of the Mutants story lines wer...

The fights are curiously flat, but the moments where people look chic in the middle of various psychic maelstroms are great comics. They'd make great movies too - maybe next time, eh?

I loved the X-Men bit, but The New Mutants stuff was straight up amazing.

Liked the development of the core members here; thought the newer members were a little adjunct. Especially stellar were Rogue and Storm. I was pleasantly surprised by Forge as I hadn't read much of his involvement with the team.

This collection first offers up a swath of Uncanny X-men which serves as an interesting first Act. Followed up by a very weak second Act wherein the New Mutants title finds the youngsters involved with an irritating Jar-Jar Binks type character, Bird Brain with an Island of Dr. Moreau rip-off in the second half of the collection. Don't be put off by the three star rating - Vol. 2 more than makes up for this collection's weaknesses.

X-men issues were fantastic but new mutants had a slow start but had a good ending.

This volume contains the Uncanny X-Men and New Mutants issues that lead in to the Fall of the Mutants crossover event. The X-Factor issues that are part of this event are collected in volume two. This is the first time I'm reading this material. The Uncanny X-Men stories are okay, albeit a bit slow and wordy at times. It's standard Claremont. Storm is on a personal quest to find to find Forge and get her powers back, and the X-Men team up with another team to prevent a time-stream distorting eve...

There were some good parts and some boring parts. Mostly boring parts.I’d rather this crossover story was it’s own miniseries, so these individual stories could intersect more and focus on the main plot. As it stands, the X Men part was pretty underwhelming. The Marauders are scary and evil... so why do fights with them seem like filler? The Storm portions were decent enough... but they dragged for too many issues. Cut to the damn chase!! The New Mutants story was actually quite a bit better. I

I really liked lot of Chris Claremont's works. Huge fan of Dark Phoenix actually. But, this work was a mixed bag for me, its good in some places & boring in some (more boring actually). Some of the crossovers were tiring and was a tonal mess for me.Liked parts w/ Storm & fall of mutants but, New Mutants was boring as hell. 2.5/5!

I’m mostly happy just to have gone to the library and picked this up. The beginning of the Fall of The Mutants plot. Collects both The New Mutants and The Uncanny X-Men.

This book is really two stories in one. The first half follows the exploits of the X-Men and Storm as they fight the Marauders and the Adversary. This was a really great Storm story as she discovered how to cope without her mutant powers. With or without her powers she is a force to be reckoned with. While Storm was on her mission to "stop" Forge, the other X-Men were fighting off the Marauders and Freedom Force in San Francisco and Dallas respectively. The story ends with their ultimate sacrifi...

I like this story. It's way better than when I was a kid. The only downfall is that they packed a novel into every page; very wordy. But The Fall of the Mutants is worth reading.