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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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"Time Travel Gives Me a Headache" - All-New X-Men Volume 5: One Down

 

Cover of All-New X-Men volume 5 - One Down


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X-Men of the past. Brotherhood of Evil Mutants from the future. Colliding with the fragmented school of X-Men, led by Kitty Pryde. Beast of both present and future wrestling with the conundrum of what he's done. Young Jean. Baby Xavier. Old Scott.

There are so many ripples through time in this story and these characters. A newcomer to the All-New X-Men could be forgiven for getting lost. Author Brian Michael Bendis makes every effort to help us through the mélange, and mostly succeeds, although some extended stretches of exposition are unavoidable.

The longest such stretch produces the most visually intriguing chapter. Dr. McCoy / Beast and the Watcher hold a long, pensive chat, a sleepless night of tossing and turning, wrestling with the results of Beast's actions. Who among us cannot relate to that? The visual interest is maintained, even enhanced, by the parade of artists and styles. From pencil and charcoal sketches to water colors, from cutesy cartoons to dramatic poster-worthy pinups, every couple of pages turns another artist loose, to dramatic effect. The beauty of issue #25 carries the endless exposition.

The mores standard structure of #26-29 makes them less able to carry my interest through the talky bits. Fortunately, internal and external battles break out so frequently in this section that us action junkies are satisfied, if confused by the muddled soup of timelines.

The collection ends with a sweet issue #30. Angel and X-23 take some steps, both small and bug, toward one another and love. Young Jean and older Emma lock in a psychic battle to the entertainment of the others. All this and more reveals just how human these mutants are!


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Infinite pasts, infinite futures...infinite loss! The Beast is tortured by his decision to bring the original X-Men into the present, but can he repair the damage he's done while the future Brotherhood of Evil Mutants is still gunning for the time-tossed teens? The young X-Men will need to rally to save themselves, but Jean Grey is...different. The Shi'ar trial has changed her. What does this mean for her future, for the past of the woman she's meant to become, and for the rest of the X-Men? Timelines collide when the future Brotherhood exacts its final judgment on the All-New X-Men!

Collects: All-New X-Men 25-30

Authors: Brian Michael Bendis
Artists: Various
Published By: Marvel 
Published When: May 26 2015
Parental Rating: Teen
ISBN: 978-0785189688
Pages: 152 pages


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