After a couple issues, this title shot to the top of my Marvel NOW! reading list and has stayed there ever since. The character interactions are rich, the plot is compelling, and every page looks absolutely gorgeous thanks to Stuart Immonen’s gifted hands. Sure, there are a few places you can nitpick, but the overall package is so good that it succeeds despite the flaws. The pieces that Brian Michael Bendis has been juggling have now fallen into place, and the result is a new direction with new powers, new leaders, and new agendas -- All-New X-Men indeed!
The standout scenes in this book take place in a mental conversation between Beast and Jean Grey. Jean’s knowledge-overflow will no doubt stir up some nostalgia for X-fans, but what moved me the most was the sense of loss and love Beast feels for Jean. Bendis has played it smart so far by telling a new story that also reminds us why we love these characters to begin with. That said, I am pretty mad at Beast for risking a time/space incident because he didn’t double check his math work!
But like I said, the story succeeds despite that, and a big part of the success can be owed to Immonen’s spectacular pencils. The aforementioned mind-scenes channel the classic X-Men looks perfectly, while the large group scenes that take up the latter half are handled well by not losing focus of what’s going on. If I had to pick at one thing, it would again be Beast. More than any other X-character, Beast has seen dramatic redesigns based purely on who is drawing him. We’ve seen lion-Beast and ape-Beast and everything in between, so Beast’s new form only looks new in regards to how Immonen drew him a few pages earlier.
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