X-Necrosha
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Necrosha, the massive event tying X-FORCE, X-MEN LEGACY, and NEW MUTANTS! Selene’s Inner Circle stands revealed and her master plot has been set into motion. Watch as the resurrected dead lay siege to the X-Men’s headquarters and the fight to survive the Black Queen’s vengeance starts. But while Warpath and Wolverine realize what’s happening, they may be too late to stop it. Because Selene is already well on her way to achieving essential power half a world away. And the rest of the X-Men fight mutants back from the dead! Collects X-Force #21-25, New Mutants #6-8, X-Men: Legacy #231-233, and X-Force/New Mutants: Necrosha One-Shot.
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The title says it all.
The tale works and is really a pretty excellent and appealing yarn but this terribly rushed work by Crain (illustrator for the first half) just kept pulling me out of the tale and wondering what the editors were thinking to let this pass as acceptable.
I really loved the last few Xforce tales and was able to look past Crain’s lack of structure, figure comprehension and over use of black, because his filters and layers looked ok and covered a lot of this up.
But this is just too rushed and looks like he just doesn’t care at all.
To be honest I’d recommend reading the Wikipedia entry about this one to find out what happened and as a replacement for spend your $$ on another x-book that at least has clarity
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This was a very fun read. I look forwards to these X events because frankly I don’t like to follow every single X title. These give me a fun perfect event to pick up and read and typically see a bit of all the characters as well as glimpse of the new teams to see if I want to invest more into them (ex. Yay new x-force).
Yet unlike messiah complex (which was terrific) X-Necrosha seemed out of order to me. For some reason the back tale for the huge baddie was at the end of the book, meanwhile she was defeated in the middle of the volume. Why the bloody hell did that take place?
I know Marvel was trying to keep the titles together, X-force 21-25 first followed by new mutants 6-8. Yet these books typically come out monthly so the event builds to a satisfying climax why then do you prevent that from happening when you relief the collected hardcover?
Seriously, at least give me the backstory up front and the climax at the end. I and pretty much every additional reader in history like things a satisfying conclusion but when you give it to me half way through it makes the rest of the book a bit of a chore. Deadpool bit at the end was nice though.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
I’m really a huge fan of Clayton Crain but I agree that his work just never really coalesced in the X-force Series. It can be too dark as compared to his AMAZING work on Sensation Spider-Man which was bright and vibrant and really popped. Also check out Venom Vs. Carnage. All that said, this is really his best work on X-Force up to now. (I own all three previous vol)
This was a pretty excellent read and the X-Necrosha tale is really a decent start to culminating the tale ongoing in X-Force Vol. 1. The problem is that Necrosha is ONLY the X-force section of the entire book, about 5 issues so really this Necrosha Hardcover is the closest we will get to an Hardcover X-Force Vol. 4 which is only in paperback otherwise. The additional half of the book are a few fleeting (about 3 issues each) tie-in tales which really take place during the events of the first couple of issues of the X-Force section. It’s nice because things take place during the Necrosha tale where you’re going “what the heck is happening there?” and then you find out after the main tale what was happening, but yeah it is a small disappointing that Necrosha isn’t as epic as some of these additional larger graphic novels running closer to 12 issues per tale, but at least you don’t have to track down these additional series’ trades just to get this small snippet of exposition.
Also, know that this “event” book is another tie-in chapter to the much larger Messiah Saga which started with X-Men: Endangered Species, and was told in X-Men: Messiah Complex, Cable/X-Force: Messiah War, X-Men: Second Coming, and Cable Vol. 1-4, X-Force Vol. 1-3, and any of the additional more minimal x-book tie-ins from the time. IF you haven’t read X-force up to now, this book won’t make any sense at all, I agree, and if you don’t know anything about the Messiah Saga, then X-Force will seem like a cheap violence exploit. This is the issue with comics these days, that they are all built layer upon layer to the point you can’t read anything lacking first tracing back a year or two to get the right backstory.
Anyway, for persons who have distress seeing this as an X-Men book, the problem is that “House of M” Changed the X-men status quo so that none of the X-Books are about fighting for equality or diversity or whatever people have read into the them over the years (note: I don’t deny the validity of persons readings). Yes, the disenfranchised readings were right for X-men pre-HOM, but now the X-men are about survival. All X-books have taken a tad grimmer tone because of the events of HOM. With this new X-Force series, the theme has permanently been that “the X-Men don’t kill, but these aren’t the X-Men.” Anyway, it’s not like the style of tales from forty-years previous could be maintained today anyhow. Times change, readers and what they value in their comics change, and so it’s really just a matter of this book being definitive of a different generation of fans.
Personally, I couldn’t read X-men before all these changes because it was permanently so preachy, but now the characters for me are fascinating, but this is a personal feeling and 5 years from now the style will change again and I will be on these boards complaining about the tales not being the way they should be. Such is the fickle scenery of this leisure activity.
The only additional real problem I have with this collected volume is that they didn’t include the entire X-force Annual, which for some reason they haven’t collected dry up of in the smaller volumes. The larger X-force Hardcover does though, so if you are looking to get into X-Force, get the larger, more perfect volume. I have both voluems in single issues but as a collector, I don’t want to continually take them out of their bags to read just to get the most perfect tale.
Well I reflect that’s a N’uff Said and I hope any of this ranting has helped…
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
Fantastic thought to have the dead, friend and foe alike, rise to battle the X-folks. Guess this is supposed to be Marvels version of DCs Blackest Night. This is a pretty meaty collection including reasonably a few collected issues. It never really comes together. I’m pretty knowledgeable of X-history, but I was pretty confused by much of this tale. I’ve been reading X-men for most of 40 some years. I reflect the black on black murky artwork from X-Force is mostly to blame. Like why does Wolverine have glowing red eyes? Hunh? And way too many characters to keep track of. Don’t know or remember who many of these guys are.
The one saving grace of this volume is the very last tale. It’s one of the best Deadpool tales I’ve ever come across written by Robert Kirkman. Reflect it was reprinted from X-Force annual #1. I’d save your money and just buy that single issue.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
While not as incredibly well done as Messiah Complex, X-Necrosha does make for a far more entertaining tale than either Messiah War or Utopia. The tale itself isn’t so much a crossover though as it is a common theme running through various titles, which can very easily be divided into three distinct tales each with their own merits.
The first and bulkiest of the tales is the one running through X-Force. It is written by Chris Yost and Craig Kyle with art by Clayton Crain and is the real basis behind the book itself. Sorry to say this tale is probably the weakest. It starts fantastic with the revival of some fantastic X-Villains and the invasion of Utopia which is perfectly illustrated by Crain’s dark murky style, but the event quickly loses steam. Despite a few early surprises after the initial invasion there isn’t much left to the tale and the final battle just seems to lose feeling. Even Crain’s artwork seems less inspired, probably due to timing constraints as the further into the book the more blurry the images become. Still it is a worthy piece, and if you’ve been reading X-Force for the last year and a half it’s a must since the tale has been building sense the series launched.
The next tale comes from New Mutants with writer Zeb Wells and primarily artist Diogenes Neves. The tale revolves around how the New Mutants face the invasion of Utopia having to deal with both the revival of the Hellions and their ex- teammate Doug Ramsey. Wells does a fantastic job of reviving Doug not only factually but metaphorically as well bringing depth to the character and his abilities he had been missing since his inception. The art isn’t reasonably up to the level of the speech on this one, but it is well done, you probably won’t come away dying for more Neves nor will you come away disappointed and I suspect we’ll be seeing improvement in the artist as his career develops.
Last but certainly not least is Mike Carey and Clay Mann’s X-Men Legacy tale. This one is the most removed of all the material dealing with a villain who “hitched” a ride back to life with the revived Destiny. As Proteus is not really under the control of Selene this piece really has reasonably a different feel to it. Carey’s scripting as permanently is brilliant though it’s really no surprise that the characters who get the most spotlight are Rogue and Magneto, the real surprise on this one is Mann’s artwork. The artist’s work is very reminiscent of Oliver Copiel and equally impressive, easily the best in the book, and it’s what really makes this tale the standout of the bunch.
The book itself also has a decent helping of extras, two vital issues included are back issues from X-Force and New X-Men showing some of the roots to the tale that stretched back years, but in an odd design choice the pieces are really after the tale they should precede. Also included is The Gathering (another prequel piece), a brief Deadpool tale from the X-Force Annual, and another Rogue centric issue of X-Men Legacy. None of these issues are essential to the reading but they each, particularly the later two, make fantastic reads and are much appreciated extras as I’m sure even lacking them the fee tag would have remained the same.
All in all X-Necrosha is a fantastic concept and makes for a reasonably enjoyable read and certainly brings something different to the world of X-Men.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5