After the fun ride that was X-Men: Season One, this was a letdown. The dialogue was boring, the art was lackluster (and managed to cram in two ass-shots from the teenage Jean Grey when she was barely in eight panels the whole book), and the plot was so forgettable that ten minutes from now I won't remember a damn thing. Pass.

Somewhat existentially bizarre retconning of how Charles formed the first X-Men team (spoiler: by being super creepy). The style & setting of it is an interesting mix and there were some nice moments but after a while there's nothing narratively interesting about jackbooted neo-Nazi thugs and their Hitleresque leader. OH and the dialogue, oh my god, the dialogue. So painfully terribly bad.On a more pertinent note -- let's face it, we all know why I am (re?)reading these comics -- Erik and Charle...

I like this a ton, although I could see how the dialog could turn a lot of people off. It was a little too wordy at times and some of it was... just weird. But beyond that there is a ton to love here. The art style is done almost in the style of the original series but modernized. The setting is more contemporary yet feels old-timey. They do an amazing job of folding in all the retconned origin stories that appeared at the end of the original run.All in all this was a cool way to show what happe...

Kind of an odd take on the X-men, but I didn't hate it. I found the Big Bad pretty boring, but the X-men themselves were interesting. I really rather appreciated the depictions of Cyclops as tortured youth and Beast as BMOC.

Per alcune cose, questo fumetto, mi ha ricordato ciò che si vede nei film.Vediamo come ci dice la trama le origini di alcuni personaggi, come per esempio parlando di film in "X- man le origini Wolverin" abbiamo Scott "Ciclope" adolescente che frequenta una normalissima scuola;sia chiaro però che sono delle minuscole e piccole parti che mi ricordano qualcosa dei film,quindi non sto dicendo che il fumetto sia uguale ai film.. Se non li avete mai visti guardateli. Per finire, il fumetto mi è piaciu...

I really wrestled with the rating system on this one. To me two stars feels more like "it wasn't the worst thing I've ever read" than "it was OK" but that's an argument for another day. Regardless, I would have said that Children of the Atom was better than OK, but that saying I liked it would be overstating my feelings towards it somewhat. So I'll go with two stars, until such time as Goodreads allows you to rate half stars.Anyway, the review.Children of the Atom is a retelling of the X-Men's o...

An interesting intro to the X-Men, but ultimately too slow and not that unique in its focus on mutant-hating bigots.

VISUALS: 3,4 / 5,0WRITING: 2,7NARRATIVE: 3,2

The only thing stopping me from giving this 5 stars is the fact that the story felt incredibly drawn out, only to be concluded quite hastily, as if Joe Casey only realized in issue #5 that Children of the Atom was only running for 6 issues. Besides that though, I found this retelling of the X-Men to be quite dark, darker than usual, but this was something I really enjoyed about it. Jean felt a little weak and the character could have been molded together better. The others - Hank, Bobby, Scott a...

The dialogue was painfully bad, specifically anything uttered by a non-adult (most of the book). People just do not talk like that! The pop culture references were very tiring and unnecessary. The art, for the most part, did not appeal to me. It was interesting to see the media be complicit in the rise of a leader bent on genocide in the way that it was, but this is really the only success of the book, in my opinion.

Joe Casey's script was good -- true to the feel of the early X-Men under Stan Lee/Jack Kirby. Steve Rude is a great artist to capture a more modernized feel of Jack Kirby. Unfortunately, Rude didn't stick around and only did 50% of the book. Changes in artist were distracting to me.

An OK book... Presenting some interesting 'origins' for the original 5 X-men (Hank and Scott in particular have great backgrounds) but the book really suffers for a complete lack of sense of humour. It's trying very heard to be the 'Dark Knight Returns' of the X-men, but with all the fun zapped out of it, it often felt really boring.

For this month of June, I decided to read two different titles that mainly focused on the Original Core Five X-Men from Stan Lee's era in the sixties. The first one is Jeff Parker's X-Men: First Class series and the other one is Children of the Atom by Joe Casey. The former is a PG-13 series with splendid elements of comedy, action-adventure and heartfelt drama in its issues while the latter is a rather gritty prelude origin story. Unmistakably set to reminiscently match the tone and visual mann...

Children of the atom is a revisit to the early days of X-Men, prior to their official formation. The book deals with the recruitment of first X-Men and also dwells briefly in their back stories. However the book, only spanning for 6 issues, lacks the room for sufficient character growth and also leads to a hasty conclusion. The art is also incosistent, ranging from above average to downright atrocious. Overall, Children of the atom doesn't feel like it adds anything important to the X-Men mythos...

Casey erzählt in dieser 6-teiligen Miniserie die Entstehung der X-Men neu, und tatsächlich finde ich die Idee nicht schlecht, der Truppe etwas mehr gesellschaftlichen und psychologischen Tiefgang zu verschaffen, als es 1963 erforderlich war. Denn wer hätte seinerzeit angesichts des ständig vom Konkurs bedrohten X-Teams geglaubt, dass es einmal Marvels vielleicht erfolgreichste Serie würde?Casey beschreibt den Konflikt zwischen den Mutanten und dem Homo Sapiens als einen genetischen Rassekonflikt...

"Non le abbiamo disobbedito. Siamo venuti qui in segno di fede."Miniserie carina, sia nella trama sia nei disegni.Casey fa il compitino, non ci sono grosse rivelazioni o colpi di scena ma la storia scorre bene.Lo stile di Rude è particolare ma non mi fa impazzire.

Llevaba tiempo queriendo leer esta historia desde que la mencionaron en una reseña de la primera película de los X Men, pero no me he puesto con ello hasta su reedición. Y justo cuando iba a hacerlo surgieron varias reseñas negativas. Y, la verdad, no entiendo por qué.Esta precuela del primer cómic de los famosos mutantes de Marvel fue escrita a principios del 2000, adaptando unos personajes que fueron creados en los 60, pero se siente como si hubiera sido escrito recientemente, y eso es algo tr...

great retell !!!!!

Another Joe Casey mini retelling the early years of a classic marvel super team.Unlike, his Avengers and Fantastic Four stories, this one doesn't work.First big mistake is he goes back too far, and spends too much time with them as high school students. Teen angst on top of mutant angst is too much.Plus moving them all into the same school makes it feel too much like some kind of surreal Archie comic.Great Steve Rude art, but not a great story.

A look at the formation of the original team of X-Men (Scott Summers, Henry “Hank” McCoy, Jean Grey, Bobby Drake and Warren Worthington III) with a seemingly heavy influence from Batman: Year One. The art starts strong, with great covers and stylistic similarity to the aforementioned Year One, but lessens in quality the further along it goes. By the climax the art seems so off-model that it really lessens the intended gravitas of the finale.Inconsistent art is one thing, but deft writing can sav...