![]() The mutant metaphor does come up at times, but it’s never handled in a way that feels substantial. The villains they face, for instance, are aliens and conquerors with little interest in the societal position of mutantkind. Their status as mutants rarely affects the plot in ways that couldn’t be explained away by their being any other type of superhumans. All in all, these early issues lack any sort of thematic cohesion or sense of narrative vision.Īlso missing from this collection’s first half are many of the trappings that we now think of as making the X-Men the X-Men. Juggernaut epitomizes the villain-of-the-week concept in this collection’s first issue when he gets mysteriously teleported into the Xavier mansion, just to be mysteriously teleported away at the conclusion. There are many other story beats that end almost immediately after being raised, particularly when it comes to antagonists. There’s no build-up to it whatsoever, the charade ends almost immediately as Cyclops’s identity is revealed, and the whole strategy never comes across as being worth the effort. Take, for instance, Cyclops disguising himself as Erik the Red. ![]() The characters’ decisions are frequently questionable, and plot threads are introduced and glossed over in very ineffective ways. The writing is cringeworthy on just about all levels, from the plots to the dialogue. Reading through these issues, it feels remarkable that the series wasn’t cancelled sooner than it was. ![]() Though the creative teams vary, one thing remains consistent throughout the first half: the quality is terrible. The Thomas/Adams/Palmer run doesn’t start until about halfway through this volume, and the issues prior to it feature a wide variety of creators. How is X-Men Epic Collection: The Sentinels Live as a whole? Is it good? The most frequently lauded portion of this era was definitely Roy Thomas, Neal Adams, and Tom Palmer’s run, but those issues only make up about half of this collection. 1 #46-66) of the series’ original run prior to cancellation as well as some short solo stories about Angel. Out this week and coinciding with the latest Uncanny X-Men #1, X-Men Epic Collection: The Sentinels Live goes back fifty years to finish the line’s reprints of the team’s silver age stories.
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