The X-Men has become more interesting in the aftermath of Avengers Versus X-Men (AVX), but the new X-Men main writer isn't content with the already fertile soil for stories. He throws a substantial wrench into the works by bringing back the original teenage X-Men straight from the pages of the Silver Age X-Men stories by Stan Lee and Kirby. There will a price to pay for this gross abuse of space-time but this new direction has already been in the works since he relaunched Avengers after Siege. S...

This was really awesome.Cyclops has kind of gone off the edge. He is hanging out with Magneto if that tells you anything. His old friends back at the Jean Grey Institute (because Xavier seems to be resting in peace for reasons you would just have to read about) can't seem to get him back on the right side of the fight.So Beast has this great idea where he went back in time (because he had a time machine laying around) and visit his former self and comrades and convince them to come help show Cyc...

3.5 starsI didn't hate this at all!That sounds silly, but when I realized that this one was about bringing the 'original' X-Men from the past into the future, I was pretty sure I would not love this title.And the cover looks lame.In fact, I thought I had accidentally picked up one of the books that are marketed toward kids.Yes, I've done that before...So Scott has gone off the chain, and the remaining the X-Men can't agree on how to handle him.If they openly fight him, they might start a Mutant

The Good: The artwork and production values are outstanding, and the story is off to a great start. As a longtime comics fan, I mostly enjoyed this one.The Bad: Some parts were confusing; I hope further plot details will be explained in later volumes.Score: 4/5

This was a cool volume as we have Beast recruit the young x-men from the past to show them what Scott has become in the present and well its a nightmare and war on all sides as the X-Men are disgusted by what they see and we have Scott recruiting his own team and its sorta fun seeing the team coming together! And then the various conflicts and melodrama as the Young X-Men confront the adult cyclops, war on all sides, their return and the young Jean learning her fate and well a new mission statem...

What do you do when a leading X-Man is out of control? You go back into the past and grab his ideal youthful self and bring him and all of his young friends to the present. What ensues is different and thought-provoking. MY GRADE: B plus.

The X-Men comics were my favorites when I was younger, and I wanted to jump back into reading them with a more contemporary story. The X-Men have been around for a while, embedded in our zeitgeist with many different iterations, and sometimes it feels like they've told every story they could. Not only that but one big critique that many people have is that the universe has gotten too big, with too many characters, and it can get a bit overwhelming. That's why I think that this story arc in the d...

Everyone has different ideas of how they would live if they knew their death was coming soon. Hank McCoy is no different except he thinks bigger. After a conversation with Iceman, Beast decides to bring the original X-Men go the future to stop Cyclops from traveling his radical path.I expected to hate Yesterday's X-Men because the overuse of time travel makes me crazy, but this first volume was really well done. Beast came up with a solid plan of using the original X-Men's presence to stop Cyclo...

I read this to see the origin of the time-travelling X-Tykes. This was actually a pretty fun volume!

This definitely exceeded my expectations. I was first afraid that it would be gimmicky - that either the writer or the artists would try to ape the old style of the original X-Men comics, and end up "having fun" as creators at the expense of any fun for us readers. Not so - this was drawn and written as if the characters got dropped straight into modern comics, and it felt very up-to-date.I was next afraid that they'd start talking just like in the originals, and screech every panel to a halt. N...

Sooooooo ... the first time I read this I was so absorbed with hating the concept of bringing the original X-Men team back from the past (as teenagers), that I didn't fully appreciate just how well Brian Michael Bendis masterminded such a great and believable story around his realisation of the progression on the X-mythos; especially when I realise and accept that the logic behind Beast doing what he did, being so on point! At heart, I still hate the concept though! Why? Because it can never be

Beast takes Original 5 X-Men from the pages of X-Men #8 (1976) on a time travel trip, and risking to end their lives (and space-time continuum...) just because he wants to punish older Scott Summers turned terrorist showing him previous better version of himself...This could have been a great tribute to X-Men's history, but storyline, besides a few good scenes, was almost unexisting.☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ to Immonen's artworks.

i had no idea what to expect from this other than one panel of warren that’s in issue 6 i think, but i wasn’t disappointed at all! i thought this story is very intriguing and this is a good set up for a volume one. it’s not overly action packed and it’s not overloaded with new information, which i think is good for a volume one. but i found its lacking in backstory of what happened with magneto, emma, cyclops and magik. also there are times when the time jumps are confusing.

This is everything I ever wanted in an X-Men story that I never thought I needed and everything I ever needed that I never thought I wanted. Brian Michael Bendis' first volume collection of All-New X-Men for the current Marvel Now! initiative is, simply put, A-MAH-ZING. Illustrated by Stuart Immonen, the first five issues comprised in this collection were endlessly entertaining and gripping.The idea of bringing back the original first class of the X-Men from Stan Lee's run in the sixties (compos...

Honestly, I can find no fault here. The writing is superb, the artwork is gorgeous, and the characters are fleshing off the pages. I've finally found some X-Men I can burn through like I was eight years old.

I just don't care for the premise of this book. The idea of bringing the teenage original X-Men forward in time just doesn't appeal to me in the slightest. This may have something to do with the fact that I'm not terribly interested in any of the original X-Men, not in their teenage states. Cyclops just got interesting five minutes ago, after all. So this just isn't the book for me, and I'm not surprised that I didn't really enjoy it.But I do find myself fascinated by the tension between Cyclops...

Sometimes it seems like the X-Men do more time traveling than Doctor Who.Following the Avengers vs. X-Men crossover, Cyclops has gone a little kooky. He’s now working with Magneto and Emma Frost to openly recruit new mutants while attacking humanity. The current X-Men fear that directly confronting him could kick off a mutant civil war so Hank McCoy decides that the best way to stop Cyclops is to let the young Scott Summers get a look at what he becomes. Hank takes a jaunt into the past where he...

I've been wanting to read X-Men since forever, and I can't seem to remember who recommended this to me. It was either Jeff or some other non-goodreads friend of mine. I'm really glad he recommended it, because this was a good read.Basically Beast wanted to change things for the better and pulled the original X-Men from the past to try and influence the current Scott. Would it work out like he wanted to? Read and find out.What I didn't like or really wanted to happen was to read more of Magneto a...

X-men First Class goes time travel road tripCurrent Hank Mccoy kindda/sorta convince the original team to come with him to the future. But, what they find is what state of their dream and their future selves.One of them grows alot of hairThe other guy becomes the lamest mutant terrorist with alot girl problemTheir's another one who get posses by a giant bird and died multiple times then die again. She also meet her alternate future daughter...Also one of them becomes a cyborg birdman.When the or...

I feel like Beast's response to past Jean's question about how she dies sums up pretty much all major comic book series. "Which time?" This also feels almost like a fourth wall break in a way. The past x-men react to the cumulative history of Marvel's X-men universe kind of feels like how I reacted when I first started reading American comics.