|
Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men: Utopia |  | Author: Matt Fraction
Creators: Terry Dodson, Mike Deodato, Luke Ross
Publisher: Marvel
Category: Book
List Price: $34.99
Buy New: $16.30
as of 9/8/2010 08:19 MDT details
You Save: $18.69 (53%)
New (22) Used (13) from $13.92
Seller: great_scott7
Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 30899
Media: Paperback
Pages: 368
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 6.6 x 0.6
ISBN: 0785142347
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9780785142348
ASIN: 0785142347
Publication Date: March 24, 2010
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Tell A Friend
Add to Wishlist
| |
| Features:
| • | ISBN13: 9780785142348 | | • | Condition: New | | • | Notes: BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed |
|
| Also Available In:
|
| Similar Items:
| |
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
WHO ARE THE DARK X-MEN? He has his own Avengers team and now Norman Osborn has his own X-Men team. The other shoe has finally dropped and Emma Frost has betrayed Cyclops and the rest of the X-Men. And that's just one of the huge surprises in "UTOPIA". Is that Namor? Cloak and Dagger? Professor X?! The thing that you aren't ready for is that Osborn is right. Collects Uncanny X-Men #513-514, Dark Avengers #7-8, Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men: Utopia, and Utopia Finale.
|
| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 9
 A fantastic book, for the most part. July 12, 2010
Roman T. Caldwell (Zanesville,OH USA)
The formation of the Dark Avengers by Norman Osborn is, in my opinion, genius. In this book, Osborn forms the Dark X-men, and a war ensues between Cyclops and his X-men vs. Dark X-Men and the Dark Avengers. This is very interesting and action packed book, however slightly strange, and about half of the book is unnecessary(second half) as it just provides more insight into the first half. Definitely worth a read, but not sure about the money.
 Another Marvel "Event" ... Another Disappointment June 21, 2010
Don Guthrie (Sunset, Utah USA)
This compilation represents--almost--every reason I quit being a comicbook collector some time ago. At least they didn't have to cross over into every single Marvel title ever published. So, not quite every reason I quit the game. But close enough. I could tick off my entire list, but I won't. Just a few of the highlights (or lowlights if you prefer): Marginal story telling with mediocre and/or rare character development; endless, "epic" super-team clashes with no real resolution ... ever; a tendency to shoe-horn way to much into too little plot; and, of course, barely passable artwork.
The sad part is, overall, it's not a bad idea ... it's just poorly executed. And I really do have to give Marvel credit for keeping this "event" fairly self-contained for a change. There are parts of this story I do like, the most significant of which is getting to see Scott Summers (Cyclops) really step up in his role as the nominal leader of the X-Men. Plus--without giving too much away just in case you bother to read this thing--a few other marginal characters get a shot at the bigtime for a change. And let's just add that any time you get to see Ares (gah!) get his butt kicked ... that's a bonus.
Bottom line is this: I read it and I didn't hate every moment of it. I actually felt motivated to push my way through. There are worst ways to waste a couple of hours ... any given episode of American Idol, for example. But mostly, by the time I finished it, I felt relieved I hadn't spent an entire year wading through this mess. That would have just ticked me off.
 !!ATTENTION!!! Issues printed out of order!!! READ THIS! April 4, 2010
D. Ness (Greeley, CO)
23 out of 24 found this review helpful
I wish I had known that this collection was not printed in chronological order. If you want the full effect of this story, read it in this order:
Dark Reign The Cabal
Dark Avengers/X-Men Utopia
X-Men Legacy #226 & #227
Dark X-Men The Beginning #1 (Mimic & Dark Beast)
Dark X-Men The Beginning #2 (All)
Dark X-Men The Beginning #3 (Mystique & Jeanne Marie)
Uncanny X-men #513
Dark X-Men The Beginning #3 (Emma/Namor)
Dark X-Men The Beginning #1 (Namor)
Dark Avnegers #7
Uncanny X-men #514
Dark Avengers #8
Dark X-Men The Confession
Dark Avengers/X-Men Exodus
An attractive presentation of a problematic story. . . April 1, 2010
Nathan Blumenfeld (Wilmington, DE United States)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
The X-Men story Utopia (nominally a crossover with Dark Avengers, but make no mistake, this is an X-Men story) is problematic both within the larger context of the X-Men books and on its own terms. In the bigger picture, this story was published all of a year after the X-Men relocated their headquarters to San Francisco -- an event that was marketed as a big deal, a major change in the status quo -- so to have another big change in the status quo arrive so quickly is somewhat disappointing. Further, the line-up of X-books as a whole is suffering from "event fatigue": Utopia follows hot on the heels of the X-crossover Messiah War, and is immediately followed by the X-Necrosha event, which itself is immediately succeeded by the "Second Coming" crossover. The Events are coming so quickly that the stories and characters barely have time to breathe, and even when they do it feels like it's just treading water between events. The line seriously needs to calm down and remember that not every story has to be a Major Event.
As for the Utopia story itself, all six issues are penned by Matt Fraction, one of Marvel's bright young stars. Fraction is at his best focusing on fewer characters. Even his earlier team book, The Order, was structured so that each issue focused on a specific team member. Here, however, he's playing with a cast of hundreds, including three teams, one of which is divided into multiple squads; all these characters are being twined through multiple plot threads, and the overall impression is that Fraction has bitten off a bit more than he can chew. The plot moves along rapidly, but there's so much going on that there's very little narrative momentum to keep the reader engaged, so it's just things happening in sequence instead of an exciting story. And with so many characters all crammed into so many conflicts, very few of them have much of a chance to shine. And Fraction doesn't seem to have a grasp of several of these characters, particularly Daken (Dark Wolverine). As for the art, the cartoony style of the Dodsons and Luke Ross doesn't work terribly well with the tone of the story, especially contrasted with the sharper pencils of Marc Silvestri and Mike Deodato in the bookend chapters. This is a story that would have benefited quite a bit from a more consistent, less cartoony artistic vision.
The story is packaged nicely in an attractive hardcover edition with plenty of material supplementing the disappointing main story. Also included is the "Dark X-Men: The Confession" one-shot by Craig Kyle and Chris Yost, in which Cyclops and Emma Frost let each other in on their secrets, providing some vital background information for the main story; the superior two-issue X-Men Legacy tie-in "Suppressing Fire" in which Mike Carey, the best X-writer these days, takes his little team of Rogue, Gambit and Danger through the beginning of the conflict in the main story; the Emma Frost and Namor stories from the "Dark Reign: The Cabal" one-shot, which provide some insight into these characters; and the three-issue anthology title "Dark X-Men: The Beginning", which is basically a bunch of gathering the team stories showing how Norman Osborn assembled his Dark X-Men. These stories are not bad but are largely forgettable, serving to introduce the members of a team that got virtually no introduction in the main event; the best stories of the bunch are, unsurprisingly, those penned by Paul Cornell and Jason Aaron.
To sum up, Marvel has done a very nice job of packaging a disappointing event story with all the supplemental stories that help to flesh it out a bit. If you follow the X-Men comics, this is one you probably shouldn't skip, but don't expect to be blown away, either; the pretty cover and the hype promise much more intensity than the story actually delivers.
Continuity note: The main story in this book follows Uncanny X-Men: Sisterhood and is followed by X-Men: Nation X.
Great read! February 23, 2010
Todd R. Walsh (Rockwall, TX United States)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
The X-Men vs. the Dark Avengers and Norman Osborne, and the X-Men establishing Utopia, a place where all mutants can live in freedom without prejudice. All of this make this a great X-Men read.
Showing reviews 1-5 of 9
|
|
|
CERTAIN CONTENT THAT APPEARS ON THIS SITE COMES FROM AMAZON SERVICES LLC. THIS CONTENT IS PROVIDED ‘AS IS’ AND IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE OR REMOVAL AT ANY TIME. Powered by Associate-O-Matic
| |
