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Astonishing X-Men: Emma Frost, Vol. 2 - Mind Games

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The first volume of Emma Frost was really cool. To see Emma Frost as a teenager was great. This one the other hand is just stupid.

Emma finds a guy whose in trouble with the boston mob, and they get kidnapped and blah, blah, blah.

This story did not need 6 issues. Its too long and way stretched out, By issue 3, i was begging for it to end. Its just keeps going on and on and on.

Not only that, this series was supposed to show emma's life in her early years, volume one did a great job but volume two, who cares, i felt like the plot was just so unimportant. By the end, you will see the writer (Karl Bollers) wanted to show how Emma got her money to start her new life. But he did not need 6 issues! I feel like he needed to stretch this story arc out so it would fit nice in the tpb. I hope volume 3 does as good as a job as volume 1 and not his boring mess.

The second story arc of Emma Frost, covering issues 7-12, is much slower and unexciting compared to the first.

The story is very cliched and you can guess what happens before you turn the page. Its a run of the mill love story with a twist. You can find those anywhere, and most are better written than what youll find in this book.

The art is still wonderful though its not as good as Randy Greens in the first few issues.
So if youre a fan of Emma than pick this up. If not, you should probably stay clear of it.

However, the third and final arc, issues 13-18, picks up where the first let off and its a major improvement over Mind Games.

I loved this Emma Frost series, which showed us her teen years as she was beginning to learn about her powers, up through her college years, as she begins to learn how to control her abilities.

A must read for any Emma Frost fan!

Recap: Emma Frost has walked out on her troublesome family and is now striking out on her own. Unfortunatly without any of her familys money and trying to develop her erratic mental powers. Emma becomes romantically entangled with a guy who owes money to some loan sharks who are more than willing to expand on thier list of crimes. Will Emma be able to tak care of herself out in the big bad world?? The writing is still good if unoriginal and the story is a lot simpler than the previous installment. The art slightly worse than in the previous chapter, but it is not by any means bad, just...different. SPOILER: in the end Emma uses her mental powers to make her captors believe they are killing each other with guns but they really aren't?? What?? it didn't make sense, why if they didn't suffer any trauma why would they lose conciousness and "die"? Oh well, Mind games is overall a light fun read. EP