Published in 1975, Giant-Size X-Men by Len Wein and Dave Cockrum was the first new X-Men story in five years, serving as a link between the original X-Men and a new team. Maybe these will be better in retrospect when their fallout starts coming to fruition later down the line. Can't complain on the art front at all.Ī good idea, not a great execution, but not too bad I guess? I expected a little more. The artwork is absolutely brilliant however - Russell Dauterman bookends the collection, pencilling both Jean Grey & Emma Frost and Storm, while Nightcrawler gets Alan Davis, Magneto gets Ben Oliver, and Fantomex gets Rod Reis (which I think might have been my favourite since The World offers up a lot of zanyness). I mostly enjoyed the fact that we got some spotlight on these characters since the X-Books can sometimes get a bit overcrowded, to say the least. The stories themselves are mostly solid, although Magneto's feels especially inconsequential since nothing actually happens in it that we've seen any feedback from in any of the X-Books since. The effect is.a little underwhelming I guess? Meanwhile Nightcrawler and Magneto's stories seem to be setting up stuff for later down the line. Three of these one-shots serve to tell one longer form story, with Jean Grey & Emma Frost, Fantomex, and Storm all forming a three-parter. These are.the Giant-Size X-Men! (They're just regular size, I'm kidding).
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