House of M: New X-Men -- Academy X (Paperback)

by Nunzio Defilippis (Author), Christina Weir (Author), Aaron Lopresti (Illustrator)

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When orders come down that a leader of the human resistance in Japan must be assassinated, S.H.I.E.L.D.'s highly trained Hellions squad is called in to do it. But when a team of future mutant leaders called the New Mutants find out about this, they must intervene to put an end to a guaranteed disaster of global portions! Collects New X-Men: Academy X #16-19, and Secrets of the House of M.

Product Details

• Reading level: Young Adult
  
• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Marvel Comics (March 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0785119418
• ISBN-13: 978-0785119418
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 6.6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #443,275 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars best academy x title so far, June 24, 2006

By	spacedog "spacedog7" (boston, ma United States) - See all my reviews

collects issue #16-19. i've been fairly disappointed with defillips/weir's run on new mutants v.3/new x-men academy x, but this is the best arc so far. as you prob. know, this title is part of the house of m series which, b/c of the scarlet witch's powers running amok, is basically a chance for marvel to write some "what if?" stories into their main books. in this instance magneto has overcome all of the homo sapiens (who now exist as second-class citizens). noriko, who gets a lot of attention here, is trying to find her father (a homo sapien) who is head of a resistance group. unfortunately the junior SHIELD corps (mostly hellions members) is trying to track him down as well.

the setup is much more interesting than usual and it has a lot of action, and some nice guest appearances for fans of the orig. series (cypher!! yeah! and magik!). disappointed that dani didn't kick as much @$$ as usual though, and that rahne and northstar weren't in it, but those aren't major complaints. lopresti's art is fantastic, better than his work on excalibur imo.

overall this is prob. one of the better books in the house of m series and def. one of the better academy x books, although not for newcomers to the series.

4.0 out of 5 stars What if for the new mutants, June 2, 2009

By	Mathew A. Shember (Cupertino, CA United States) - See all my reviews

The House of M was my return to the comic world. I have liked the series so far and have read the new mutants in the past. I should say long past as the Hellions weren't around.

The Scarlett Witch goes insane and becomes a threat to existence with her reality bending powers. The X-Men and the Avengers meet to decide her fate. Quicksilver pleads to their father Magneto and the world burns white. The world is remade where Mutants are the dominate species and the regular people are on the path too extinction.

It's awards day for the academy. The time to recognize the outstanding students. Too bad a Human Resistance group(terrorists to the mutants)decides to attack the proceedings to draw attention to something going on in Japan. Things look bad until SHIELDS training group, the Hellions, show up to save the day.

The students and the hellions don't exactly like each other. The students are training to be leaders a world where sapians and mutants co-exist. The Hellions are training to police the sapians. Even with these differences there is a little fraternizing.

As they look into the reasons for the attack, the groups head to Japan for different reasons.

There they discover Project Genesis. Claimed to be a dirty secret by the sapians. Claimed to be a harmless food production project by the emperor Sunfire.

What to do? Which side will the two groups end up on?

I will admit I had to dock it a point for the ending. Kind of a Hollywood glory ending.

All in all it's an ok story but you might have to have knowledge of the new mutants and the hellions to appreciate the nuances of the story.

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2.0 out of 5 stars good if you're a new x-men fan, otherwise skip it, August 12, 2008

By	Andre "just a reviewer" - See all my reviews

I could be wrong but I think the other reviewer is a fan of the "New X-Men" comic book .... if you are then you'll probably enjoy this graphic novel as a "what if" alternative version of the events potrayed in those comics. If not however they I can't say I would recommend this book as being absolutely necessary to enjoying the whole House of M experience.

House of M - Wolverine and House of M Fantastic Four/Iron Man are entertaining primarily because most comic book fans are familiar with the characters in those graphic novels... just about everyone knows who Wolverine is and is familiar with Mystique (who is also featured heavily in House of M - Wolverine)... Same goes for House of M Fantastic Four - as I mention in my review of that title it's really more "House of M-Doctor Doom" with the Fantastic Four playing an almost incidental role but again, everyone knows Doom and everyone knows Iron Man... if you're familiar with the character then "what if" alternate-reality stories are a lot of fun - you know enough about the characters in the books to appreciate the difference when you see what their lives would have been like in a different world. The problem with New X-Men, is with the exception of Magik, I don't think most readers are going to be familiar with the characters portrayed in this graphic novel... I ended up looking up "New X-Men" and "Hellions" on wikipedia just to get a better handle on everyone involved and even then still didn't enjoy it nearly as much as the other two previously mentioned House of M titles. It's not a bad read, just not an exceptionally good one either - if you're a huge House of M fan and can snag a used copy for say five dollars ... or if you're a big New X-Men fan go ahead and buy it, if not I'd advise passing on it.(please note that the new X-Men are NOT the same as the Uncanny X-Men i.e. Storm, Cyclops, Rogue, Collossus et cetera that most comic book readers will be familiar with ...this is a new, "younger" generation of heroes who aren't nearly as popular or well known with comic book fans).