X-Men: Second Coming Paperback Author: Christopher Yost | Language: English | ISBN:
0785157050 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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- Series: X-Men
- Paperback: 392 pages
- Publisher: Marvel; First Edition edition (June 22, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0785157050
- ISBN-13: 978-0785157052
- Product Dimensions: 10 x 6.6 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
X-Men Second Coming is a great X-Men story. We've had to deal with a lot of half hearted X-Events lately from the terrible Utopia to the mediocre Nation X or Messiah War, but this one really shines. If you've read any of the recent events this is most similar to Messiah Complex not only in plot but in general feel, all of the X-Men play at least minor parts and it really has an epic scope. The only real problem with X-Men second coming is while it starts fantastic (with about the first 6 issues) it does start to lose a little steam, that being said you still get a great story and about half the plot lines are resolved, and really if you were expecting any more than half the answers you haven't been reading comics long.
On to the art, we've got primarily four artists at work here, Mike Choi, Greg Land, Terry Dodson, and Ibraim Robertson. Mike Choi is one of the best artists in the business today, he's got a great realistic style and his action sequences are visceral and engaging, there won't be many who can find anything to complain about on his X-Force issues. Terry Dodson's style is also solid, but a bit more cartoony which may push more people away especially when compared to the other artists who are all strictly realistic, this is some of his best work though recently. Greg Land is possibly the most dividing comic book artist of all time, if you're a comic fan you love him or you hate him and you already know which, if your new to comics his style is amazingly realistic, mostly because he uses photo referencing and you'll probably enjoy it but be aware repeated exposure to Land will wear on you as he tends to reference his own art over and over and suddenly you'll start realizing you've already seen this picture of Wolverine before. Ibraim Robertson is the newcomer here and it shows.
The stakes are always staggering now in the X-Men universe. For our merry band of mutants (who haven't been merry in a long while), it's gone beyond superheroing and now gone beyond merely shaking off humanity's prejudice. In the aftermath of the House of M, it's become a deadly struggle for survival, a case of impending genocide. But, hey, is that a flicker of hope way over yonder, at the end of the SECOND COMING arc? Maybe. Or maybe Chris Claremont, Patron Saint of Kicking Mutants to the Curb, is somewhere stabbing needles into tiny X-Men voodoo dolls.
SECOND COMING is the final arc in a trilogy begun with MESSIAH COMPLEX and MESSIAH WAR. The Messiah Complex arc a few years ago introduced Hope, the first mutant baby born since the House of M doomed mutantkind into extinction. Hope instantly became the focal point in a frantic race as the X-Men and other mutant groups try to be the first to reach her. Messiah Complex ended with Hope and her protector, Cable, time sliding to the future, and for a while the dust settled.
MESSIAH WAR, I think I won't go into that much. It's basically a time travel adventure as X-Force travels to the future and meets up with Cable and Hope, and they get into a fighty fight with Stryfe.
The Second Coming saga features the return of Cable and Hope to the present day world, with Hope now sixteen years old and veteran of countless narrow escapes. It doesn't take long for their presence to be noted not only by the X-Men but also by the opposition, which at this juncture is identified as Bastion, the mutant-hating robot sentinel from the future, and his resurrected cronies. And here we go again.
There are only 181 people with the X-gene now left on the planet, and so things are even more desperate, the scale even more epic.
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