Customer Reviews
The Mutant Phenomenon - By: , 27 May 2004 
First of all, this is a Graphic Novel, not your average comic book. It see's Professor X writing an article on his students, & how they are coming to terms with everything that has happened to them, for example the Professor quotesin his article "But perhaps the development i'm most proud of is how Wolverine & Colossus have re-invented themselves over these last months. Both young men raisedin violence & misery, they now spend their evenings scanning newspapers for hardluck stories & unsolved crimes, walking the streets from dusk till dawnin search of people who might need their particular kind of help."
The Book also includes 2 Gambit stories which star Himself & Spider-man's HammerHead!Something that should definately be read!
This book is excellent & the later plot of Proteus is mind splitting, & there is more revealed on the "death" of Magneto.
So, like every other personin the comic book who writes in, Make Mine Marvel!
Another gripping story line with some poor artwork - By: , 24 Mar 2004 
Im not gonna go thru how the story unfoldsin this 3rd volume, but I have to say that the narrative remains pretty exciting & engaging that you can't put it down. However, the quality of this volume was somehow spoilt by the change of illustrators rightin the middle of the story. In the first part, one cannot help but marvel at Kubert's artistic skills that unfortunately aren't matched by the other artists who took over the artwork from the middle till the end. Nevertheless, this volume is still a good read.
Really Really Poor - By: Mr McMahon, 03 Sep 2003 
I have collected the Ultimate Xmen series since issue one & enjoyed them all thouroughly, except this one. After reading the first two issues i was eager to read the next installement. To my horror, i saw that the story was pointless & the later artwok is terrible.
The previous two issues were great, well drawn & with fantastic stories. This issue seems really pointless & follows Xavier's son around as he blows people up. To make matters worse, the artwork at the final battle (there always has to be a final battle between good & evil) is pathetic. At times i did not know what the hell was going on! I would stare at the picturein front of me & say "What is that supposed to be???!"
What was so sad about this issue was that the first 3/4 of te book was drawn beautifully by Adam Kubert. Then Chris Bachalo takes over towards the end & spoils the rest of the book. What makes matters worse is that Bachalo was allowed to draw the entire of Issue 5 Ultimate war, which would have been amazing with a good artist. Instead it was defiled & violated by Bachalo's poor attempt at art.
As usual, this book has a fantastic script.......but the story seems utterly pointless & the artwok is of poor quality compared to the previous books.
Ultimate. Yep that covers it. - By: , 28 Jun 2003 
When i first heard that marvel were 'reinventing' xmen for a new generation, i had very nasty pictures of the future x-men. Then i read the first issue, & i was wrong(although my fears were adapted else were as x-men evolution).
This is the perfect re-telling of the x-men story, & the perfect solution for people who what to get into x-men but balk at the idea of sifting through over 30 years of convoluted backstory. The first story-arch was inspired by the first movie (redesign characters, update storyline for post-movie audience), but it's much grittier & shocking than the movie could ever be.
Much like Dark Knight returns re-wrote the Batman universe, Ultimate Xmen adds added depth to the characters, turning the orginal four colour comic into proper adult literature (the new magneto is more imposing than ever, & The Wolverine is EXACTLY what a rewrite should be, read to find out).
So read one, & realise thats its a story inspired by the first x-men movie, then read this & discover that it inspired the second!
Someone in Professor X's closet wants to kill him - By: Lawrance M. Bernabo, 17 Jun 2003 By now it is clear that Wolverine is going to be on the cover of each & every trade paperbackin the "Ultimate X-Men" series, & Volume 3, "World Tour," is no different. The character who should be on the cover would be Professor X, because he is the pivotal characterin the major plot line of issues 13-13 of this comic book, which has to do with the X-Men coming face to face with David, his son with Moira MacTaggert, who has escaped from his confinement on Muir Island. In what is essentially the prologue to the story arc, "It Doesn't Have to Be This Way," we check up on the X-Men through the context of Xavier's article on mutants & learn that Magneto is not dead: the Professor has placed a mental blockin his lower cerebrum to prevent him from remember who Erik Lensherr really is & how to use his mutant powers. Xavier's position is that he would not take the life of another living creature when a peaceful solution was possible. In the four-part "World Tour" story that follows, Xavier learns to rue his world & rethink his position.
Ultimately, "World Tour" is not simply a retelling of the Proteus story from Volume 1 of "The Uncanny X-Men" (issues 125-128), because the fact that Doctor MacTaggert's son is now also Charles Xavier's is a significant change & placedin the context of Xavier's attempt to blitz the world with a public relations effortin support of mutants forces a reconsideration of what Xavier is trying to do. Remember,in the "original" Proteus story Xavier wasin a galaxy far, far away enjoying the first state ball hosted by the newly-crowned Empress Lilandra. The sub-plot, which has Colossus returning to Russia because of his disagreement with Xavier's tacticsin general (and letting Magneto livein particular), provides a different take on the issue of responsibility for mutants. The epilogue, "Resignation," returns Xavier to the park when Erik Lensherr is playing where the Professor is entertaining a change of much more than heart.
This trade paperback volume also includes a two part story introducing Gambit as a street hustler who ends up using his mutant gifts to protect a young girl that he has met. The idea is apparently to explore those mutants who are not part of Xavier's School for Gifted Children, the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, or another other organized group of merry mutants. These "Ultimate X-Men" stories are not, to date, superior to the original comic's glory days under Chris Claremont & John Byrne, but they are an entertaining take on the familiar charactersin a slightly different context. Like the best of the Claremont-Byrne story lines it takes several issues to tell the story & for those who remember the X-Men (both the Stan Lee-Jack Kirby originals & the Claremont-Dave Cockrum next generation) it is interesting to see Mark Millar & Adam Kubert's twists on what we remember.
