All-New X-Men 1: Ghost of the Cyclops

"Cyclops has been a dirty word for too long. Time to win it back" when Cyclops finally says that, it echoed my thoughts exactly. But this volume is about much more that just the restoration of the heroic Scott Summers; it tells the tale of familiar and less familiar young mutants becoming an iconic X-Men team. It fleshes out a new wolverine and other new team dynamics as this adolescent team grows in popularity in there hipster van equipped with a hungry little 'bamf'. This comic is a unique twist on the mutant heroes, giving a great starting point for fans, plus some great continuation on fan favorite characters. The writer does a great job of weaving subtle commentary by teenagers from the 60's on the social networking age and it's fascinating lack of privacy and social skills. Each character has its own background, own struggles, dilemmas, controversy, and motivations, and each of them gets a chance to grow as the reader gets to know them. This is a compelling start to the series, showcasing that the all new X-Men are here to take on everything the X-Books do best; big baddies, awesome powers, social issues, and personal trials... and have a blast doing it! Despite all the serious topics the young team hits on, the comic keeps a healthy vibe of comedy and lighthearted fun. A great read for old fans and new alike. Enjoy.

Hopeless' task to integrate the revived teenage original X-men with the teen children of many of the second gen X-men is done admirably here, particularly with the ghosts of Cyclops arc. The weight of Inhumans events is interesting but hardly felt. There are some jarring shifts in tone though due to the high teen angst and the number of crossover plots that can be involved in any X-book.

I absolutely love the young time displaced Xmen. I really like that they picked up some great characters from the old Wolverine and the Xmen series.

Good

good read

Hopeless nails these X-men and i want more to read

A good starting point for new readers, that has quite a bit to offer

More than ever, hatred and fear has made the world a dangerous place for mutants. But as the few remaining X-Men retreat into seclusion, a handful of mutant teenagers refuse to allow their destiny to be decided for them! And no one is more concerned about their fate than Scott Summers, whose young shoulders must bear the heavy weight of the terrible acts committed by his adult counterpart. Cyclops is joined by three of his timetorn teammates - Beast, Iceman and Angel - as well as the All-New Wolverine, Kid Apocalypse and Oya. Together, they're heading out on the highway, looking for adventure, intent on writing their own futures! But when they encounter the baleful Blob, their road trip may end before it begins... COLLECTING: ALL-NEW X-MEN 1-6

I didn't expect to like it, but I did. I fully intend on getting volume 2.

Phenomenal character-driven storytelling and characters that are easy to identify with and empowering. The art is spot-on and make this an all around experience to read.

The story is fine, not one of Hopeless' hightest moments. The visuals by Bagley are quite good. I just felt some interactions among the characters were forced or not very natural. And the group Ghosts of Cyplops does not have much depth, the reader cannot get to care for them.

I've had enough of X-men comics like this, this is poorly written and nocuous. I had felt that the initial concept of 'All-New X-men' would lead the narrative down an interesting path, and Battle of the Atom convinced me of this. Yet towards the end of Brian Michael Bendis' run, I lost interest and began to feel that the idea was turning against itself. The characters weren't developing significantly and neither was the storyline. This first volume of the new series only serves to persuade that the concept is no longer worthwhile, it's only credit is it's novel art style. *SPOILERS* Firstly, this is badly written. It's clichéd and shallow, whenever a character tries to tell you something important other than an out of place reference, there's a little mock Chris Claremont monologue that destroys any possibility of realism. The story isn't going anywhere anymore. The characters chop and change on their motivations and there is no one reason why they are together or in this story, they're just on an odd road trip. For some reason, they're being pitched against toad and blob, for the life of me I can't work out why Dennis Hopeless has picked the two most pathetic and outdated villains from the X-men universe! And why have they suddenly reverted back to being villains, toad was the janitor of the school and in a relationship with husk not so long ago and blob was a drug addict! Is an original X-men villain too much to ask for? Why must the story be so baseless and the story so convoluted. Plot holes and inaccuracies like Laura continuesly being referred to as 'the wolverine'. She's not. She's just not. Idie and Evan are totally wasted here. For some reason Idie has decided to go back to hating god, which has no place here and her resolution has been forgotten. Evan isn't even really in this story. Bobby's sexuality and soul searching is dealt with poorly. I feel like Dennis Hopeless has been hefted with attempting to portray a gay teens anxiety and of course as any hetero normative guy would do he's assumed that Bobby hates himself. That's just great. Besides, that was a random and aimless thing for Brian Michael Bendis to bring in anyway. It's attempting to be all inclusive and correct in the worst of ways. Finally, I just can't understand why they feel the need to have these characters costantly soul searching and falling out with each other, I mean there's better ways of writing an interesting narrative. I at least want to see some damn evolution in these characters, they can't whimper and sigh forever. This is just pathetic.