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Smile Store - Astonishing X-Men Vol. 4: Unstoppable
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List Price: $19.99
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Manufacturer: Marvel Comics
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9780785122548
ISBN: 0785122540
Label: Marvel Comics
Manufacturer: Marvel Comics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 200
Publication Date: 2008-07-16
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Studio: Marvel Comics
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Editorial Reviews:
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Strap yourselves in, folks! It's Joss Whedon and John Cassaday's final arc on Astonishing X-Men! After the shocking and brain-smashing events of recent issues, the X-Men are off to protect the Earth from its destruction at the hands of the Breakworld. And when it's all over, nothing will ever be the same! No, really, we mean it! Whedon and Cassaday prove they are more than Astonishing: They are unstoppable! Collects Astonishing X-Men #19-24 and Giant-Size Astonishing X-Men #1.
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Summary: Joss is getting predictable
Comment: Alas, Joss has used his tricks one too many times. Plot "surprises" he has used in everything from "BTVS" (TV) to "Serenity" to "Dr. Horrible" (which rocked regardless) appear here. His repeated attempts to invoke pathos are getting as old as the Vaudeville pie-in-the-face bit.
Joss, steal or invent some new twists before you write any more eps of "Dollhouse." And not to be harsh, but go back to TV and leave the crossover comic-book work to, say, Kevin Smith (the "Buffy Season 8" series is already lame, only a fifth or so of the way through the series!).
If you're an X-Men fan who's not a Joss fan, you'll love this book. If you're a Jossaholic who bought this simply because Joss wrote it, it's a case of been there, done that.
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Summary: Whedon & Cassiday wind up their run with a bang.
Comment: Up until this last story arc, I wasn't too thrilled with Whedon and Cassaday's 18-issue run on "Astonishing Xmen." That's not to say the run up 'til then lacked for action, good characterization and a couple of nice twists, but nothing really drew me into the story until I read this last installment, Whedon & Cassidy's last six issue arc, which turned out to be an exciting, even memorable, wind-up of the plot threads in the previous three story arcs. It was a great pay-off to a year and of set-up -in many ways this structure reminded me of a good HBO series, if HBO did the X-men. (I am looking forward to HBO's "Preacher" adaption.) I waited a bit and picked up used copies of this book for @ $13, and previous three volumes for @ $3.50 each via amazon.com's used book marketplace.
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Summary: THE GREAT FINALE
Comment: At last the final chapter of the most intelligent and strong X-men story in years, Joss Whedon's way to tell this action tale is relly refreshing and Jonh Cassadays'art is AWESOME, the plot twist will leave you wanting more, I hope some day they will join again.
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Summary: Nearly Flawless Conclusion to a Redefining (albeit uneven) Run
Comment: If someone told me a couple of years ago that a X-Men comic would move me to tears, I'd pat them on the shoulder and tell them to lay off the booze. Well, either Joss Whedon is one of the best writers in the field or I'm more sensitive than I thought, because with "Unstoppable," Whedon finishes his redefining run on this title with an epic, action packed, character driven, emotional roller coaster that made me tear up on more than one occasion.
From Buffy The Vampire Slayer, to Firefly, to his Marvel work, Joss Whedon is pretty much my favorite writer of all time. However, it's obvious that his run on Astonishing X-Men has been surprisingly uneven. The first volume was a solid introduction to the main story arc of the series, but the second and third volumes had pretty apparent plot problems and didn't flow nearly as well as the first one. Despite those problems, Joss managed to develop the characters, particularly Kitty Pryde and newcomer Agent Brand, in ways that the X-Men certainly didn't experience under the care of lesser writers, and not enough can ever be said about Whedon's dialogue. But I feared that, like the previous two volumes, Joss would give us a somewhat muddled story with little payoff... but I should have trusted my favorite writer a bit more, because this is a climatic ending that surpasses the highest high point the series had achieved (probably in the latter issues of Volume One: Gifted) by far.
Joss brings the Breakworld saga to a great close, packing it with revelations, huge plot twists, truly heroic moments, and some really heart-wrenching drama. Joss makes up for his missteps in the previous volumes by concluding it in a way that only he could, utilizing John Cassaday's cinematic style to truly make this feel like an experience at the movies. The coloring, the mood, the dialogue... reading this book isn't just a pleasant experience, it's akin to seeing a great movie in the theatre. The book isn't perfect, and there were some loose ends that I wish Joss would have tied up. Instead of including other Marvel super heroes, under magical influence, falsely believing that they're saving the world, that page space would have been better used to tie up the Danger plot line. Emma promised Danger something, and Joss leaves that plot a bit open ended, presumably for the next writer to tackle. However, Joss's series is so self-contained that it really just felt like a long movie, so I'm left wishing he tied that up himself.
With great art all around and even better writing, Joss completely outdoes himself with this book. He doesn't match what he's done before, he completely surpasses it with this truly heroic story with a heartbreaking and utterly shocking, innovative ending that closes some doors but opens so, so many more.
Bravo.
9/10
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Summary: Breathtaking
Comment: Great series! Fantastic writing. Great art. A pleasure to read. Left me wanting more ;)
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