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Of Embassies and Origins - Justice League International Part 2 (Eaglemoss Collection v77)

  Review: Since we are doing a series of reviews focusing on Booster Gold over his nearly 40-year history, we include this one as a collection of some of his earliest appearances, dating to late 1987. That places the original publish date of these tales while his original solo series was still going strong.  This book is a beautiful, glossy hard-cover with smooth and heavy-stock paper inside, although the sometimes-low print reproduction quality leads to blurred and hard to read word balloons on occasion. It is also a rare book here in North America, as Eaglemoss Collections targeted UK fans with this series. At this point in the history of the 1987-rebooted Justice League, they have gained official United Nations recognition and sanction. To ensure their reach truly is global, they rebrand as Justice League International (as does the title of the series!) and they open new headquarters buildings around the world: New York, Paris and Moscow are included here. As this is a product of 19
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Dracula Lives! X-Men: Curse of the Mutants

 

Cover of X-Men: Curse of the Mutants


Review:

Xarus, son of Dracula, has manufactured a synthetic vampirism virus and turned it into a "dirty bomb". With massive numbers of infected San Fransisco residents, even the X-Men are not immune. First Jubilee, then Wolverine are turned, threatening the entire team. Can the X-Men make common cause with a resurrected Dracula?

Victor Gischler has spun a fine tale with intense action and mounting tension. It never lags or lets up, resulting in a fantastic rumble of a story. The strong leadership of Cyclops, especially his diplomatic showdown with Dracula, hilight some strong characterizations in the midst of the chaos and carnage.

With dark tones, decapitaions and carnage galore, Paco Medina's art is at times very intense, at times sexy, always gritty. Page-filling action and drama abound cover to cover.

There are no shocking new revelations about these characters, and a couple plot twists are telegraphed, but none that diminish the bloody pleasure of this creative team's efforts.


Description:

A human bomb explodes in San Francisco's Union Square. Dozens are covered in blood. Jubilee is one of them. The former X-Man soon falls victim to a strange manufactured virus - all part of the plan of Xarus, son of Dracula! Xarus is the new lord of the vampires, having slain his father, and he has an ultimatum for the X-Men: join his ranks as vampires, or perish! The X-Men enlist the aid of vampire-hunter Blade and even bargain with a resurrected Dracula himself, but who will win the ultimate battle between mutants and vampires in the streets of San Francisco?

Collects: X-MEN (2010) #1-6 and material from X-MEN: CURSE OF THE MUTANTS SAGA and X-MEN: CURSE OF THE MUTANTS SPOTLIGHT

Authors: Victor Gischler
Artists: Paco Medina
Published By: Marvel 
Published When: Aug. 31 2011
Parental Rating: Teen
ISBN: 978-0785148470
Pages: 176 pages



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