Astonishing X-Men: Exogenetic [Hardcover]

Warren Ellis (Author), Phil Jimenez (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 10, 2010

Abigail Brand, director of S.W.O.R.D., has been in some sticky situations, and she isn't the type who asks for help to get out of them. But when you're careening toward Earth in the cockpit of a damaged spaceship after being attacked on an exploding asteroid 7.5 million miles from Earth....it's time to call the X-Men. They might not have much of a plan, or much of a chance, but that's certainly never stopped them before. Watch as the X-Men go up against all-new versions of some of their worst foes: genetically manipulated Brood missiles, meat Sentinels and an island monster modeled after Krakoa. Superstar artist Phil Jimenez joins writer Warren Ellis for the second installment of this mind-bending series!

COLLECTING:
Astonishing X-Men #31-35

Product Details

• Hardcover: 136 pages
• Publisher: Marvel (November 10, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0785131493
• ISBN-13: 978-0785131496
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 0.5 x 10.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #626,355 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Warren Ellis is one of the most prolific, read, and admired graphic novelists in the world and the creator of Transmetropolitan and The Authority. He lives in southern England with his partner, Niki, and their daughter, Lilith. He never sleeps.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great artwork and Fun story., November 8, 2010

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C. Schifano - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Astonishing X-Men: Exogenetic (Hardcover)

Worth your time and money (through amazon.com of course) if you're even a casual X-Men fan. If you prefer the softcover, wait a few more months.

Phil Jimenez is the artist - he is one of the best, detailed, great to look at. He did some Amazing Spider-Man issues I recommend that are available thru amazon.com as well. Again, great solid art work.

The story is fun too - uses some of the X-Men mythos to it's advantage. Overall, New X-Men through Astonishing X-Men have been some of the best X-Men stories in recent years.

Recommended.

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Story, Good Art, September 26, 2011

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Dax S. Torres (Waukegan, Illinois United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Astonishing X-Men: Exogenetic (Hardcover)

I was hoping Warren Ellis would step up his game after the last story arc but I really didn't get into this story anymore than I did Ghost Box. Phil Jimenez art was very nice (with some amazing character renditions) but this story didn't do a whole lot for me either. Delays with the issues also hurt the first time I read this (although the collected makes for a better read).

2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Such a Lame Duck, February 13, 2011

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Tyler S. "Super-Review" (Brentwood, CA United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Astonishing X-Men: Exogenetic (Hardcover)

Most of my praise for the series, post-Whedon, has been for art. Simon Bianchi and Phil Jiminez have done a great job in Cassaday's absence. Warren Ellis, however, is failing hardcore. Ghost Box was ok, but this is just the most uninteresting X-book I've ever read. The whole plotline about a useless mutant going after the x-men by reanimating corpses didn't go far at all. It could have been great if Ellis's beats weren't so embarassing. He tried to replicate the humor from the original series, and it just falls completely flat. I lost interest halfway through and let myself be entertained by the pictures instead. While never being able to mirror the quality of Whedon's Astonishing X-men, Ellis's AXM is just a bad series by itself. My only desire to read this book, comes from me loving the characters and the line-up. But Warren doesn't do anything interesting with them. I know he's better than this. Hello? Extremis? Channel that energy you had before into something fun for the X-men.

Please do what the people at the comic store begged me to do. Move on with your life and forget about Astonishing X-men. There's nothing left here.