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Giant-Size X-Men by Jonathan Hickman (Giant-Size X-Men (2020) Book 1) Kindle & comiXology

by Jonathan Hickman (Author, Contributor), Russell Dauterman (Illustrator, Cover Art, Artist), Ben Oliver (Illustrator), Format: Kindle Edition
4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 214 ratings
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Collects Giant-Size X-Men: Jean Grey and Emma Frost (2020) #1, Giant-Size X-Men: Nightcrawler (2020) #1, Giant-Size X-Men: Magneto (2020) #1, Giant-Size X-Men: Fantomex (2020) #1, Giant-Size X-Men: Storm (2020) #1.

Superstar writer Jonathan Hickman teams with legendary artists to spin Giant-Size mutant tales! When danger looms, it will take two of Earth’s most powerful telepaths working together to make things right: Jean Grey and Emma Frost! Nightcrawler must venture into the unknown when the X-Men lose contact with a key mutant habitat! Despite the shelter of Krakoa, mutants still need to deal with the human world — but Magneto, the Master of Magnetism, has a plan for that! Fantomex steps into the spotlight — breaking into his own birthplace, the World! And can Storm triumph over an insidious plot that has put a countdown on her very life?
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08MFTH31G
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Marvel (December 9, 2020)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 9, 2020
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Jonathan Hickman (born September 3, 1972, South Carolina) is an American comic book writer and artist. He is known for creating the Image Comics series The Nightly News, The Manhattan Projects and East of West, as well as working on Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four, FF and S.H.I.E.L.D. titles. In 2012, Hickman ended his run on the Fantastic Four titles to write Avengers and New Avengers, as part the "Marvel NOW!" relaunch. In 2013, Hickman wrote a six-part miniseries, Infinity, plus Avengers tie-ins for Marvel Comics. As of 2015, he is writing the crossover event Secret Wars.

Bio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Photo by Pat Loika [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.).

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Nestle
5.0 out of 5 stars Dawn of x!
Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2021
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This comic is visually striking. The story that is unfolding is amazing and has me excited for more X-men. Johnathon Hickmans take on the mutants is genius.
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SuperginraiX
3.0 out of 5 stars A meandering mess of set-up with little payoff
Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2021
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I'm REALLY trying to like the new era of X-Men, you guys. Honest. It's got excitement and new stuff happening and weirdness and I'm still not really feeling it.

But I'm trying.

Anyway, here is a bunch of Giant-Size X-Men comics put together in a collection. If you are brand new to the X-Men comics world, the original Giant-Size X-Men #1 was the instrument that was used to relaunch and revitalize the X-Men comic in the nineteen-seventies after the title had gone into reprints. While pretty much every Marvel title got a number of Giant-Size comics, the only one we tend to remember is X-Men because of its importance to what would become one of the largest comic franchises.

I'm not looking it up but I imagine these new Giant-Size X-Men comics are supposed to be celebrating an anniversary? I guess 45 years since Giant-Size X-Men #1? Should we expect more of this in 2025? Whatever the case, we have five Giant-Size comics all focusing on different characters but with a very loose over-arching theme of saving Storm's life sprinkled into three of the books. That over-arching theme is SO loose, though, that it's probably best to judge the books on their individual merits instead of seeing how that Storm storyline holds together because while it is almost the only payoff this book has to offer, it is kind of a dud.

Giant-Size X-Men: Jean Grey and Emma Frost is a dejavu retelling of the silent issue from Grant Morrison's run on New X-Men. It has been a LONG time since I have read that comic but there were panels that looked like they were taking straight from the original book. The art is provided by Russell Dauterman and is fantastic. The story is ok but is also just a remix of that silent issue so it feels like something I already have read. Jean Grey is in a version of her X-Men Red suit instead of the retro Silver Age costume she's been wearing lately and while there is absolutely no reason given for the change of costume and it doesn't seem to leave the Giant-Size books... I like it a lot. This is what she should be wearing.

Giant-Size X-Men: Nightcrawler gives us a return to the mansion and art by comic veteran Alan Davis. The art is a little rougher around the edges than I'm used to seeing from Davis but is otherwise fine. We learn more about what's been going on with Doug Ramsey and get a quick tease of the original Thunderbird. Holy hell why is the original Thunderbird not back yet? I mean, that's a story I would want to read!

Giant-Size X-Men: Magneto is a beautifully illustrated story by Ramón Pérez that completely wastes a special Magneto focused comic. I'm not saying Magneto always needs to mention that he's a Holocaust survivor but in a special book like this, I expect it to maybe delve into his nature a bit, give us a look at his duality. Instead, he's running an errand for Emma Frost to buy an island from Namor with a side quest into the ocean. The island looks like it'll have something to do with the future of the Marauders comic and that ocean side quest has all the ear marks of future set-up with no payoff in sight.

Giant-Size Fantomex... is a comic I had Expectations for and it Did Not Deliver. If you've been reading X-Men comics for the past few years, you might know that Xavier was dead but was resurrected into Fantomex's body, having made a deal with the previous owner. This new version of Xavier readjusted Fantomex's body to more accurately represent his own in terms of powers and features. Fantomex was left to design his own world on the Astral Plane. So how did we go from THAT to a world where both Fantomex and Xavier are separate and Xavier is looking a LOT more like his previous self? I DON'T KNOW. THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN A GREAT TIME TO AT LEAST MAKE A PASSING REFERENCE TO THE CONTINUITY. X-MEN COMICS ARE WEIRD. Anyway, it's possible this was already answered in one of Marvel's myriad other X-books but I've been PRETTY keyed into X-Men for a while and I think I would have seen it? It just seems to be one of those pesky continuity quirks that didn't fit into how the current X-writers wanted things to be so instead of working it out (or explaining it), they just moved on to what they wanted. Sort of like how we got rid of Teen Tony Stark in the nineties. The comic ITSELF isn't terrible. The art is by Rod Reis so it looks fantastic. The story involves The World which is one of the big concepts introduced in Grant Morrison's New X-Men (see a theme yet?). Hickman expands on that concept and while the continuity of that is messy, the story works well enough.

Finally, we have Giant-Size X-Men: Storm with art by Russell Dauterman again. This answers the question of whether Storm will live or die in an age where death is barely a blip to resurrection for mutants. It's fine. It's not great but the art is very nice. Storm explains why she doesn't want to die adequately and, let's face it, even in a world of resurrection, would you REALLY want to experience death? Because that's not normal.

So... was this special? Was it Giant-Size? Eh. It was weird so that's nice. It tied back in some New X-Men big concepts that don't get played with enough. It's also more about setting up future events and less about giving us any satisfying conclusion. It's always, "oh, here's another thing we'll deal with later" instead of just dealing with the story at hand. There needs to be a better balance on that and I haven't seen Hickman in particular pull it off in his X-Men run. If you want to see a beautiful blend of world-building mixed with excellent storytelling with every story-arc, look over at James Roberts' Transformers comics. That's an excellent blueprint on how to do this sort of thing right. Heck, Hickman ended up writing one of my favorite New Mutants stories which balanced this sort of thing SO much better.

This book isn't bad. There's a lot to like. There's a lot to dislike. There are far too many missed opportunities. There are too many seeds and not enough fruit. It's weird but kind of boring. The art is beautiful.

So it's a solid three stars.
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C. Derick Varn
3.0 out of 5 stars Promising but doesn't quite deliver.
Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2022
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Hickman's focus on doing a silver-age style homage to Claremont and Morrison's run ends up being a really inconsistent set of five one-off stories. The first story, featuring Jean Grey and Emma Frost is an homage to Grant Morrison's New X-Men #12, the silent issue where the art focus really works given the surreal imaginary. However, the other stories don't fare as well, the title characters are somewhat peripheral to their own storylines, and while the art really shines here--particularly the Russell Dauterman and Alan Davis work--only a loose thread keeps them all together. One thing I have loved about the Krakoa/Hickman era of X-men is the revitalization of so many of the seemingly minor characters in X-men of the past 40 years, but keeping up with all of them can be a little daunting. Overall, it's enjoyable but not particularly memorable outside of the really stellar first story in the volume.
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Benjamin Racine
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome
Reviewed in Canada on January 11, 2023
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Very good
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Frédérick PRIME
4.0 out of 5 stars Plaisir graphique pour des scénarios inégaux
Reviewed in France on December 25, 2021
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Contient 5 Giant Size X Men de qualités inégales. Trois d'entre eux sont centrés sur la guérison d'Ororo infectée par un technovirus, mais posent plus de questions qu'elles n'en résolvent. Le graphisme est excellent (avec une réserve pour l'histoire mettant Magnéto en scène), bien que de style différent. Mais les histoires sont assez anecdotiques, surtout celle de Nightcrawler (mais quel plaisir de revoir Alan Davis sur les X Men !).
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Beasty
3.0 out of 5 stars Currently this has the wrong dimensions
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 18, 2021
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The book itself is great but this particular posting has the wrong dimensions on it. It says it's the same size as an Oversized Hard Cover/Deluxe book,28cm by 20cm , it isn't it's the same size as a regular Trade Paperback TPB 25cm by 16cm. I sent it straight back within an hour of receiving it and got a refund
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2.0 out of 5 stars Great art but slippage story
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 19, 2023
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I'll be honest in that I was expecting far more from these loosely connected stories by Hickman. Instead these feel like "filler" or annuals where the only real highlight is the art, which is excellent.
I think part of the problem is that Hickman is trying too hard to mimic certain X-Men writers of the past rather than use his regular voice. The most obvious is Grant Morrison with the "silent" issue and the Fantomex/the world issues but he also pass Chris Claremont (and the artist Alan Davis) in the Nightcrawler issue.
It just feels like an over indulgent gimmick. But it's worth a look through primarily for the art which highlights a great range, especially in the "silent" and "fantomex" stories. But for those just wanting "krakoa" story, you can pass this one.
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