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X-Men: The Characters and Their Universe is a huge, oversize coffee-table book that should entertain a wide variety of X-fans. Author Michael Mallory wrote the same-sized Marvel: The Characters and Their Universe, and now benefits from a narrower focus on a single group: their comic books, movies, TV shows, and memorabilia. Published in 2006, the nearly 300-page tome covers topics as recent as House of M, 1602, and the third movie, X-Men: The Last Stand (though only passing mention of Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men) Also covered are the development of the team from the Stan Lee-Jack Kirby days through the 1975 revamp through the various spin-off series such as Age of Apocalypse and X-Force, and alternate realities (the great Days of Future Past story line). If you have gaps in your X-knowledge, this is a good resource for filling them, but X-perts may simply dig the large pictures of key covers and panels, movie stills, sketches, and Greg Horn's luscious take on Emma Frost. --David Horiuchi
Book Description
Among the most popular and distinctive superhero characters of all time, Marvel Comics’s X-Men have transcended the illustrated page to become an enduring part of the collective consciousness. The multicultural mutants battle not only diabolically evil villains, but also societal evils like bigotry and prejudice. X-Men: The Characters and Their Universe tells the complete story of this unique band of comic book heroes from their creation in 1963 by the dream team of writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby, through their reemergence in the 1970s as a platform for political and social commentary, up to the present, as one of the world’s hottest franchises. Lavishly illustrated, this gorgeous large-format book also serves as an encyclopedic reference for the entire franchise, chronicling all of the characters, film and television adaptations, character relationships and evolutions, and classic storylines that form this complex and fascinating subculture.
Customer Reviews:
X-Men Review.......2007-03-16
Fantastic book with alot of knowledge I was unaware of. I am still in the middle of reading it but looking foward for new information.
The editors just couldn't have worked a bit harder?.......2007-02-16
I received this book as a birthday present from an awesome friend (thanks, jon!), and I immediately read the entire thing in one night. As much as I appreciated the vast amount of information and the beautiful illustrations, I couldn't help but be irked by the little typos along the way. While it is understandable that in a book of this lenghth, that some errors were made, if I (an 18 year-old high school student) could read the book in one night and discover these grammatical and spelling errors, I feel as though the editors could have prevented these mistakes just as easily. Aside from the annoying typos, though, this collection of X-Men trivia is stellar, and I would recommend it to any X-Men fan (especially if they aren't as OCD about typos in published formats as I am).
GREAT BOOK.......2007-01-11
If you are a fan of the X-men, this is an EXCELLENT book!!! Great Pictures!!
Awesome if you love X-Men or Marvel comics!.......2007-01-09
This hardback book is of great quality and a onderful addition to any Marvel X-Men lovers collection. The pictures are vivid and the mutant abilities & information is listed with every mutant. This is truly a X-Men Geek's dream come true! Highly recommended!
Customer Reviews:
Graphic SF Reader.......2007-09-03
Arcade and Murderworld, Starjammers, Dracula, Arkon and more great X-Men. Arcade is one of those crazy nut supervillains you love, with his weird sense of honor and gamesmanship. The Starjammers are fab, as Cyclops learns about his past. Storm encounters some more personal issues, are various men want to be involved with her. Ok, Dracula is an undead vampire, but he still fancies her in the same way Arkon does.
Graphic Novel junkie.......2007-07-31
Ok, ok, I should say comic book junkie, because that's what they were called when I first started reading them some decades ago. This whole series of Essential X-men books are a fun read unless you get bogged down in details. I never did, I just enjoyed reading them. This is a great book. Enjoy
Awesome...yet in dire need of reprint........2007-02-03
These stories are amazing. Pure and simple. After I read the Dark Phoenix Saga-well, of course, no X-Men story will ever equal the depth, perception, and feeling of those nine issues, but this volume comes close enough to be hailed. From the opening arc concerning Doctor Doom and Murderworld to the spellbinding cliffhanger on the final page, it's a great thrill form beginning to end.
You get to see some X-characters that don't get a lot of steam these days like Polaris and Banshee really work it, and it's a treat to witness the short-lived (and never formally ended) romance of Scott Summers and Lee Forrester. Thier entire subplot to 150 has just the right amount of emotion and serves as a great "breather" during those early issues. Kitty Pryde fully takes her place as an X-Man, yet Dave Cockrum's art doesn't do her justice (I always felt he made her look nerdy.) For everything else, Cockrum's art excels, and it's sad to think that he recently died. The events with Magneto in issue 150 are amazing, particularly the last pages. The Storm and White Queen Saga is very unusual, and Kitty's fairytale is a joke, but the good kind of joke. Then you get the whole complicated Brood and Shi'ar saga, which is always a blast (even if it takes up a thrid of the book)and two great issues illustrated by guest pencilers that, in my opinion, are the jewels of this collection. First you get X-Men 159 guest-starring Dracula and suprisingly astounding on levels of art, stories, and personality. Then next issue is where the mutants are transported to Limbo to save Illyana Rasputin and encounter evil and dead versions of themselves and eventually rescue Colossus' sister, but at the price of her aging seven to thirteen in the moment the X-Men exit Limbo without her. And, c'mon, when it features the Starjammers, Garrok (yeah, he's back!), Dazzler, and Spider-Woman, plus Arcade's revenge, it's impossible not to love these stories.
The one bad thing about this book is that it's gotten behind the times. All the other X-Men essentials have been reprinted with new covers, a better-looking continutiy shuffle, and more content. I think they're not doing it for this one because if they do they'll have to remove the X-Men Annuals 3-4 since they were replaced in thier rightful positon in Essential X-Men #2, leaving this book with one (albiet properly placed) annual and making the book significantly thinner. Maybe they'd find a place to put Annual 6 or something, since it seemed to get lost in the transistion for Essential X-Men Vol. 4 from first printing to second printing. Ah well, the clever mind can easily deduce the chronological placement of X-Men Annual #5.
Still Lovin' the Mutants !.......2006-07-05
Bottom line definitive classic X-Men from the writer who
helped to define them in the first place, Chris Claremont.
The 'Essential' Volumes are just what the the title says.
A must if you want to get a handle on these longtime claw
slicing, mind reading, stormbrewing, metal manipulating
band of superheroes and villains.
Recommended for ages 6 - 60.
The only downside would be the black and white art,
but for the amount of material you get for the money,
it's certainly worth putting up with.
If you've enjoyed the films, and are a new fan as a result,
or if you just want to go back and relive the fun, these'Essential' titles
will leave you more than satisfied,
they'll make you hunger for more..enjoy!
GREAT.......2004-04-03
Here we have Uncanny X-Men #145-161. We have Starjammers, Dr. Doom, and all sort of goodie. I just wish it would have been in color.
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The Begining of a Legend (Not Quite).......2007-10-05
Any of you who thought that these were the first adventures of the X-men are in for a rude awakening. The X-men were created in 1963 by the man himself (drum roll please) Stan Lee. The adventures of the original team can be found in essential Uncanny X-men vol.1, Classic X-men vol. 2 and the last volume of the X-men Marvel Masterworks series (please forgive me, I forgot the exact number of that last one). That series was canceled in 1971 (don't ask me why it didn't sell, because I love it). These are the first adventures of the new X-men (who premered in 1975):
Cyclops: He is the leader (he was the leader of the old team too). He can fire laser like beams from his eyes.
Wolverine: He's probably the one you've heard the most about. I like him, but he has never been on of my favorites. Most people like him because he's a lot more violent than most superheroes. His bones are covered in adamantium (an invinceable metal that only exist in the Marvel universe) and he has razor sharp claws made out of the same stuff. He has enhanced senses and a healing factor that allows him to heal any wound (that includes poison).
Storm: The first black lady superhero. She can control the weather (trust me, it's a lot cooler than it sounds).
Colossus: The first russian superhero (thats quite a feat for a comic written during the cold war). He can change his body into an invinceable organic metal (no, not adamantium).
Nightcrawler: He may look like a demon, but he's actualy the most religous superhero ever (and since he's german, we can safely assume he's lutherian[just like me!]). He's very acrobatic, has a phrensile tale, can become invisible in shadows, and has limited teleportation ablities (he gets better at it as the series progresis).
Jean Grey (formaly Marvel Girl): She was a member of the orignal team and returns to the group several issues in. She is a phsycic who can also move things with her mind.
Last and certainly least is Thunderbird. I won't even bother to describe him because he dies on his second mission.
The X-men as a team were all gathered by Professor Xavier (he's the most powerful phsycic there is) to protect mankind. If you don't already know, there all mutants.
Anyway, just buy the dang book because it's just plain spectacular!!!!!!!!!
Graphic SF Reader.......2007-09-03
Here is the beginning of the rise to greatness and immense popular of the team of characters known as the X-Men. Claremont masterfully reinvents a cosmopolitan team of mutants from around the globe, after the east coast wasp whitebreak incarnation we had known previously. Adding a more adult edge to their relationships it is something that worked, big-time.
Graphic Novel junkie.......2007-07-31
Ok, ok, I should say comic book junkie, because that's what they were called when I first started reading them some decades ago. This whole series of Essential X-men books are a fun read unless you get bogged down in details. I never did, I just enjoyed reading them. This is a great book. Enjoy
The definitive essential edition of x-men volume 1.......2006-11-14
Finally, after a very long wait of ten years, THIS reprints the contents of X-Men volume 1 issues 94-119--plus the main feature of Giant-Size X-Men 1--in its "most essential" form: in glorious black and white (the emphasis were on the script (Claremont) and the inked pencil art (Cockrum and Byrne)). When the first ESSENTIAL X-MEN came out [circa 1996], it contained very obvious misprints:
(1) Instead of X-MEN issue 113, the reprint came from the version excerpted from the first story of Classic X-Men 14: Witness these glaring markers:
a.) The first page single panel
b.) the segue to Asteroid M wherein Magneto is almost swallowed by thought balloons.
(2) Another reprint-editorial mishap is the last page of issue 119 where the epilogue featuring Proteus smothering the poor Angus MacWhirter was missing.
This, however, is corrected in the reprint edition of ESSENTIAL volume 1 (published 2002, complete with new cover) which finally reprints the missing page. But the contents for X-MEN 113 remain the same.
This NEW EDITION will be a good buy if you are a late completist of the pre-postClaremont X-Men stories so that u won't have to buy the much expensive UNCANNY X-MEN OMNIBUS #1 (which contains the original x-men 113-in color, though), or MARVEL MASTERWORKS featuring the UNCANNY X-MEN (Volume 3).
Great Comics Great Buy.......2006-06-26
I just want to say that the essential are the best and this a great price because the comic book stores want $16.00 plus tax and online they are only 9.72; great deal
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Gorgeous, oversize, and well designed, Ultimate X-Men is also perfectly titled. It's a comprehensive overview of four decades of Marvel Comics's monstrously popular mutant superheroes--from their debut, in Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's X-Men #1 (1963), to the terrific X-Men movie (2000). Ultimate X-Men includes the many major mutants who have appeared in The Uncanny X-Men and its spinoffs (Alpha Flight, New Generation, Wolverine, X-Factor, and numerous other series and miniseries). Two-page spreads detail the most important characters' origins, powers, costumes, and relationships. In addition, every superhero and supervillain appearing in the movie receives a sidebar, with stills, that describes the onscreen incarnation. Also receiving detailed coverage are nonmutants important to the X-Men, including Ka-Zar, Longshot, and Dr. Moira MacTaggert; major alien groups and races, like the Starjammers and the Shi'ar; and important locations and technology, such as the Danger Room, Dr. Xavier's estate, and the Blackbird jets. The book also covers the best Uncanny X-Men story lines, the Dark Phoenix Saga, and Days of Future Past. A Summers family tree lays out clearly a tangle of relationships (between clonal and alternate-timeline versions of Cyclops/Scott Summers and Marvel Girl/Phoenix/Jean Grey) that could drive even an experienced genealogist crazy. Ultimate X-Men opens with an entertaining foreword by X-Men creator-editor Stan Lee and concludes with a two-page overview of the X-Men animated series (1992-1997); a four-page "Making the X-Men Movie" section with many great shots; and an insightful afterword by the series' best writer, Chris Claremont.
Ultimate X-Men is a book every X-Men fan will want. It's practically a necessity for the newcomer drawn to the comics by the movie, because Marvel's mutants multiplied like superpowered rabbits in the 1990s. Art-oriented fans, however, may be disappointed by Ultimate X-Men. While it contains a hefty amount of art, the original artwork (the preliminary character sketches, a lovely Dave Cockrum sketch of Nightcrawler and Ororo, etc.) is outnumbered by panel and cover reproductions. And if you're less than enamored with the nature of endless comic-book series, Ultimate X-Men will prove that the more things change, the more they stay the same. --Cynthia Ward
Book Description
This revised edition of DK's comprehensive guide includes the best of the X-Men films and animated series, as well as exciting new characters and plotlines from the comics.
Customer Reviews:
cool.......2007-08-16
If you're new to x-men and want a quick history this is a great buy, very informative. Lots of colorful pictures too.
The Ultimate Book for X-Fans!.......2006-05-27
Ever since Giant-Sized X-Men #1 hit the stands back in 1975, the X-Men have gone on to become a comic and pop culture phenomena with no signs of slowing down. Toys, video games, TV Shows, and now three major Hollywood films have cemented the X-Men as still the reigning kings of the comic book universe. Adding to the mega-blitz of promotion is the newly revised and expanded edition of DK's X-Men, The Ultimate Guide now in its third edition, updated right through the latest feature film, "X-Men: The Last Stand".
The book begins by taking a decade -by-decade look at the team including its very inauspicious start in the 1960's. Stan Lee's introduction provides some insight on how the team and name was developed but in the early days it was a rough go. The book was near cancellation throughout the 60's, bolstered only by the now legendary issues drawn by Jim Steranko and Neal Adams. Bios of the major heroes and villains are including describing their powers and histories and their changing looks throughout the years. One of the most interesting features are the diagrams of Xavier's mansion and the danger room. An entire two page spread is dedicated to the Sentinels, showing the different series' of the robotic villains.
The 1970's started the X-Men boom when writer Chris Claremont and artist Dave Cockrum took over the title on issue #94. But it was the new team that excited fans, made up of various ethnic groups from all over the world: Wolverine, Storm, Colossus, Banshee, Sunfire, Thunderbird, etc...The X-Men craze was on! This chapter again covers all of these new heroes as well as allies such as Alpha Flight, the Imperial Guard, and the Starjammers.
The 80's saw the X-Men continue to gain in popularity, becoming the best-selling comic title. Knowing they had a good thing Marvel decided more was better so this decade brought us X-Factor, The New Mutants, Alpha Flight, and Excalibur, as well as Wolverine getting his own solo title. The Ultimate Guide covers all of these spin-offs in great detail as well as even more new characters like Rogue, Mystique, Psylocke, Sabretooth, Dazzler, and Longshot.
By the 1990's the X-Men excess was at an all-time high. Marvel gave fans even more new group and solo titles such as X-Force, Generation X, Cable, Bishop, Gambit, and Deadpool. The guide concludes its look at the comics with the years 2000 - 2005 with such titles as Wolverine Origin and Ultimate X-Men series.
Finally the book covers the animated X-Men TV show (alas, no episode guide) and a look at all three of the feature films including pictures from X-Men: The Last Stand. While I am a long time fan, even I learned quite a few things from the book, particularly about the silver age period. It's very well-written, not the least bit fannish or self-promoting. The images in the book are fantastic and reprinted beautifully in this large, overs-sized hardcover edition. At $25 it's also a great deal, considering the book's quality. This is the Ultimate guide for any X-men fan!
Reviewed by Tim Janson
Possibly the Best book I ever Read.......2006-05-11
This book has every thing from the classic charactors to the new movies. This book has made me apriecate reading and the comic books. I've never read them, but being a fan of the 1992-1997 x-men show. I would reccomend this book too all of you that know the X-men are awsome.!!!
Review From a Future Critic.......2005-06-10
I used to know very little about the X-Men until I read this book. It's a must have for people seeking the Ultimate knowledge of superheroes. If you aren't seeking that and want the most knowledge you can get in one book go for "Marvel Encyclopedia Volume 1: X-Men".
great for the X-fans.......2003-12-16
There isn't a whole lot to say about this book. It's an 'encyclopedia' of the X-Men. It covers them and their history pretty well and also delves into some of the alternate X-Men. If you are an X-Fan, I'd definitely get this book, otherwise, go to something else.
Book Description
A work more disturbing than fiction from "the father of graphic novels" (New York Times).
Will Eisner, the great American master of comics, has undertaken what he regards as his most powerful work yet. The Plot examines the outrageous fabrication of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which purports to be the actual blueprint by Jewish leaders to take over the world. Hatched as an anti-Semitic plot by the tsar's secret police to deflect widespread criticism of the government, the Protocols, first published in 1905, succeeded beyond the propagandistic ambitions of its originators; the lie became an internationally accepted truth. Presenting a pageant of historical figures including Tsar Nicholas II, Henry Ford, and Adolf Hitler, Eisner exposes the twisted history of the Protocols from nineteenth-century Russia to modern-day Klan members to Islamic fundamentalists. The Plot unravels one of the most devastating hoaxes of the twentieth century.
Customer Reviews:
Accessible overview of the Protocols of Zion.......2007-07-29
This is a very accessible overview of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, its history, the principle players in its creation and distribution, as well as the numerous court cases that have debunked its validity. The text is a bit dry, but it would be very useful in the context of a high school classroom or library.
The Plot; a Forerunner to Mein Kamph.......2007-05-14
This animated approach to an old story about a world-wide Jewish plot to
take over the entire world is as chilling as it is artful. Will Eisner is
quite talented in his ability to render figures in animated form. His re-telling of this nineteenth century story familiarizes us with the material
that Adolph Hitler no doubt utilized in his own concoction of a worldwide
Jewish take-over plot as described in the latter's work, Mein Kamph.
This book should be a requirement for those who are serious students of
the Holocaust, of sociology, and of anti-Semetic written works.
a bit hard to follow at the beginning..........2007-04-01
but well-done at its core: I think the side-by-side comparison of the Protocols and the work it was plagiarized from is by far the most compelling part of the book. However, I did have some trouble keeping the characters straight at the start of the book.
Christians: Don't Be Deterred By The Preface..........2006-12-22
Cartoonist Will Eisner's graphic narrative format is ingeniously well-suited for portraying the absurdity of the fraudulent and ridicule-worthy #1 antisemitic book of all time: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a plagiarized fiction passed off as fact. Both the format and the eerily intriguing cover might be especially attractive to teens, and the book would be a great addition to any high school library.
Eisner starts off with The Protocols' origin in France and Russia, then traces its resilient spread through time and geography. One of the most impactive parts of the book is when it visually depicts side-by-side comparisons of the Protocols with Maurice Joly's Dialogues in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu, the near-identical similarities so outrageous how anyone can believe this stuff as true is dumbfounding. The fascinating story maintains a fast pace, noting The London Times exposing of The Protocols as fraudulent, Henry Ford's appropriation of the lie, use of it by Hitler, legal rulings against the Protocals in Switzerland and South Africa, and more...yet it will not die, even after a U.S. Senate report busting it as a "Fabricated 'Historical' Document." Spain, Argentina, USSR, India, Egypt, Italy, the KKK, Lebanon, Japan, Turkey, Hamas, and so many others helped perpetuate the myth of an international Jewish conspiracy responsible for every bad event. The book ends with 2004, and so does not cover the present-day use of the Protocols on Islamic websites, the 2006 incident of a Hollywood figure spouting off about Jews responsibility for all wars, or any of the other new forms of Protocolsesque propaganda such as blaming social and political ills on some conspiratorial controlling "Israel lobby."
The Plot keeps its focus on key peoples, places and events involved in The Protocols' history, not delving much into the historical contexts or the specifics of The Protocols' 24 items. The strength of the book is in its appealing format that manages to make a powerful presentation without being pedantic, an enjoyable read about a descpicable topic. There is one serious (and ironic) flaw early in the book: In the Preface Eisner in talking about "devices that antisemites used to promote their message" says, "There had to be some weapon other than the ancient Christian Gospels' condemnation of Jews that appeared again and again and resurrected itself, vampire-like, to reinforce antisemitism." This is a sure way to alienate Christians, surely part of the target audience for this educational book, who might likely not make it to page one of the book proper, because of Eisner's misrepresentation of the Gospels and perpetuation of what we Christians consider to be a "big lie" or myth about our faith and because of the loss of credibility caused by Eisner purporting to be correcting a prejudicial lie while hypocritically propagating another. By his general, out-of-context reference to "Christian Gospels' condemnation of Jews," Eisner does what antisemites misrepresnting the name of Christ have done, that is he falsely makes it seem as if the Gospels are against the Jewish people and thereby justify antisemitism. Hopefully future editions of this book will remove this divisive and dishonest statement that isn't even about the focus of the book anyway, and is the reason for the 4-star rating.
Powerful and fascinating.......2006-11-21
This book really shows how even a laughably unlikely conspiracy theory can be wildly effective when packaged properly. Towards the end it discusses the continued use of the Protocols worldwide as anti-Semitic propaganda. Frightening and enlightening.
Customer Reviews:
Great gift.......2007-07-22
I bought this for the a friend of mine for her b-day and it came quickly and in great shape and it was appreciated.
The White Queen has a history.......2007-04-02
"Emma Frost: Higher Learning" is a digest-sized collection of the soap opera that was young Emma's life, long before she became the White Queen, a busty telepath, member of the Hellfire Club and frequent bane and occasional ally to the X-Men. Raised in extreme wealth by a selfish, domineering father and a largely vacant mother, Emma and her problematic siblings never had a normal life. A lack of friends at her private academy made life even worse. But then Emma started suffering headaches and nosebleeds, and she seemed to know what people around her were thinking....
"Higher Learning" is geared more toward a young-adult audience and will likely appeal more to young women than men. Still, it's an interesting story that adds new dimensions to an otherwise stale character. Karl Bollers' richly layered storytelling and Randy Green's solid art make for an attractive package that any comics reader can enjoy.
by Tom Knapp, Rambles.(n e t) editor
A wonderful prequel.......2006-11-20
I loved this Emma Frost series, which showed us her teen years as she was beginning to learn about her powers, up through her college years, as she begins to learn how to control her abilities.
A must read for any Emma Frost fan!
A disturbing background on a fascinating character.......2005-06-30
Emma Frost, the White Queen has intrigued readers since she first appeared in X-Men. Strong, confident, and beautiful, she used her telepathy to get what she wanted. But it wasn't always so.
This graphic takes us back to the time Emma was a shy, brown haired, frumpy, flat chested school girl, full of fear and insecurity, with a horribly controlling family. Just how controlling that family is, in particular, her father, is revealed over the course of the graphic. The family bickering, backstabbing, and betrayal is worse than any `80's soap opera. As Emma gains her mental powers and confidence, it will be all she can do to survive.
Higher Learning collects Emma Frost #1-6 in digest form, and is perfect for teen readers. The writing is solid and the art is pretty decent. Some of the content makes it more suitable for older teens instead of younger ones, however. Because this book isn't mired in continuity, it can easily be enjoyed by long time comic readers or newcomers.
Recommended.
A Great Read.......2005-03-17
This is a really cool book for both boys and girls. The girls wil be able to relate and feel sorry for Emma as they are reading her backstory. The boys ( like myself) will read it because its so cool to see Emma Frost as a teenager, and i really wanted to know about her backstory.
This book does a great job showing readers Emma's early years. it shows her in high school, her family issues, and her first love.
The book plays out like a soap opera and it works out really well for this book, it has surprises and again its just really cool to see Emma as a kid.
Book Description
Jonathan Lethem’s new collection of stories is a feast for his fans and the perfect introduction for new readers—nine fantastic, amusing, poignant tales written in a dizzying variety of styles, as Lethem samples high and low culture to create fictional worlds that are utterly original. Longtime readers will recognize echoes of Lethem’s novels in all these pieces—narrators who can’t stop babbling, hapless would-be detectives, people with unusual powers that do them no good, hot-blooded academics, and characters whose clever repartee masks lovelorn desperation as they negotiate both the stumbling path of romance and the bittersweet obligations of friendship.
Among them:
“The Vision” is a story about drunken neighborhood parlor games, boys who dress up as superheroes, and the perils of snide curiosity.
“Access Fantasy” is part social satire, part weird detective story. Evoking Lethem’s earliest work, it conjures up a world divided between people who have apartments and people trapped in an endless traffic jam behind The One-Way Permeable Barrier.
“The Spray” is a simple story about how people in love deal with their past. A magical spray is involved.
“Vivian Relf” is a tour de force about loss. A man meets a woman at a party; they’re sure they’ve met before, but they haven’t. As the years progress this strangely haunting encounter comes to define the narrator’s life.
“The Dystopianist, Thinking of His Rival, Is Interrupted by a Knock on the Door” is a Borgesian tale that features suicidal sheep. (This story won a Pushcart Prize when first published in Conjunctions.)
“Super Goat Man” is a savagely funny exposé of the failures of the sixties baby boomers, and of their children.
Sparkling with the off-beat humor and subtle insights, Men and Cartoons is a welcome addition to the shelf of the writer “whose bold imagination and sheer love of words defy all forms and expectations and place him among his country’s foremost novelists.”
—Salon
Customer Reviews:
Genres in a Blender.......2007-09-04
MEN AND CARTOONS, an uneven but daring collection of eleven short stories by Jonathan Lethem, takes delight in juxtaposing mundane realities with absurd, surreal, or even supernatural particulars. "Super Goat Man," for instance, is concerned with a Jung-reading, jazz-loving resident at a Brooklyn commune who later goes on to teach at a liberal New Hampshire college -- and, oh, by the way, this professor just happens to be the eponymous character, a literal goat-slash-man -- previously a ho-hum comic book superhero whose unremarkable adventures never quite caught on with the masses. Lethem inserts his incredible characters and events into a quasi-real world where everything is taken at face value. It almost calls to mind magical-realism, but in the case of Lethem the extraordinary is more prosaic than poetic -- less magical than merely situational. Super Goat Man is, after all, like every man in many ways, except for his goatness.
Meanwhile, in "The Shape We're In," the longest story in the collection, a retired military "man" (who happens to be a relentless wisecracker and an alcoholic) asks the Big Questions in his own little world, which just happens to be the inside of a human body. Yes, Mr F is actually some kind of corpuscular element (blood cell perhaps?) racing from the cavernous temple-like lung to the upper nose in a quest to find his son Dennis, who has been spotted panhandling in the environs of one of the eyes. In "The Spray" a house burglary introduces a couple to the spray of the title, a mysterious aerosol chemical which, when applied to an area, reveals the image of what is lost or missing. And in "Access Fantasy" -- probably the most extreme, Phillip K. Dickian outing here -- the main character attempts to solve a suspected murder when he spots a suspicious shadow on an "apartment tape" while stuck in a month-long (or is it year-long?) traffic jam. To do so, he must become an advertising drone and venture across something called the "One-Way Permeable Barrier." (Don't ask. This is certainly one of Lethem's muddiest, least satisfying stories.)
Lethem's stories are most successful when he doesn't drift too far from the normal reaches of reality and when his stories remain firmly grounded in human relationships, as in "The Vision," "The Spray," "Vivian Reif," "The Glasses," and "Super Goat Man." Although the symbolism in the "The Glasses," for instance, seems very heavy-handed, the amusing, quirky dialogue keeps this story afloat.
For those who are familiar only with Lethem's more famous works FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE and MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN, this short story collection may surprise (or disappoint). Although FORTRESS and BROOKLYN involved supernatural and offbeat elements, respectively, MEN AND CARTOONS is more overtly experimental in the strange new realities it imposes on our world. In other words, it may tax the literal-minded.
Super Reader.......2007-08-27
A story collection with not too much of interest, they are all pretty short. A woman that does the Scarlet Witch outfit to get her bloke's crank on, a couple of kids that grow up to be opposing science fiction stylists, as could be seen by their favorite Marvel characters. Those being Doctor Doom for the Dystopianist, and Black Bolt for the Utopianists.
Then there is Super-Goat Man, the superhero who lost his comic etc. because of lameness and outspoken political viewpoints, and ended up faculty at a small college after being a hippy.
1 star for each good story.......2007-08-06
This is my first read of Jonathan Lethem. I heard his story "The Spray" on the NPR show Selected Shorts, and I was rather impressed, so I tracked down this collection. I am not familiar with any of his novels.
What impressed me about "The Spray" when I heard it, and also when I read it, was its easy style--a couple find that their apartment has been robbed, but when the police come, the couple find that they are not sure about what has been taken, so the police spray the apartment with a substance that makes what's missing appear in a salmon-colored glow. When they leave, though, the police leave the spray cannister behind, and the couple are curious to see what happens when they spray each other. The story moves forward very easily and naturally, obeying its own logic, but by the end it becomes clear that everything has been turning on an idea about loss and the inability to truly let go of things. But Lethem doesn't strong-arm the metaphor on the story. Everything seems to move along quite naturally, while by the end the overriding purpose becomes clear, and this purpose remains even when looking back through the story.
The best works in this collection move with that same sense of authority and ease. "The Vision" is a tale about a man re-encountering someone he knew in his childhood who once thought we was a superhero, but now the narrator has to deal with the oddball as a neighbor, and even worse, as the guest of this man who is hosting a party to play a game called Mafia. Keeping with the comic book motif, "Super Goat Man" is about a man's encounters with a failed comic book hero from childhood through their like-minded academic careers. These are the strongest stories of this collection.
But others just fall flat and don't seem to sustain the kind of control and laxity that made the previously mentioned stories such winners. "Planet Big Zero" is a rather dully-conflicted tale about a man and his unlikable childhod friend, and "The Glasses" may be too dependent on social commentary (maybe) to see much drive through the piece. "The Dystopianist" is quite funny, but ultimately doesn't seem to pay off by the end. And the stories that were added to this printing after the hardcover offer little reason to seek out this particular edition. "Interview with the Crab" has some interesting tensions about reality versus actuality (odd to say, when the title is quite literal to the premise of the story), but a lot of these stories read a little too much like T.C. Boyle--a lot of imagnation, but little to hang it on.
Though the three excellent stories in here may be worth the purchase itself, as a whole this collection doesn't satisfy.
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- False Gods *Bleep* With Our Lives
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False Gods *Bleep* With Our Lives.......2005-05-25
This volume reprints two separate stories and represent among the best writings by Chris Claremont. The first one is an X-Men/Alpha Flight story drawn by the legendary Paul Smith. The second one is an Art Adams classic New Mutants tale. The two stories both deal with Asgardians (chiefly the trickster god, Loki).
As the usual Claremont formula is, the X-characters sit around their mansion (or Danger Room, or sunbathing at the beach, etc.) and they get attacked by a baddie (why can't anyone ever leave these poor muties alone?). In this case, the baddie is Loki. In the first story, he offers the X-Men a chance to build a utopia with a price. In the second story, he kidnaps Storm to be his bride and also teleports the New Mutants to Asgard (their experiences in Asgard forever changes them). For longtime readers, these stories were especially rewarding - we have the first announcement that Madelyne Pryor was pregnant (with baby Cable), the first meeting of Rachel Summers with Scott Summers, the "slimming-down" of Karma, Dani Moonstar's transformation into a Valkyrie, Rahne Sinclair's meeting with the Wolf-Prince of Asgard, another Wolverine-Snowbird meeting, and the tragic story of a well-intentioned Madelyne Pryor (as Anodyne) trying to save her team-mates.
The moral of this story: Don't let false gods *bleep* with your lives. Especially if you're mutants!
Fabulous.......1999-10-30
What makes this book so good is the collection of characters. Probably the best X-Men team ever (perhaps for the exception of Rachel instead of Jean). Besides that: Colossus, Cyclops, Nightcrawler, Rogue, Shadowcat, Storm, and Wolverine. The story is very compelling, and the New Mutants play a key role as well. This is a *MUST HAVE* for any New Mutant fans as it is a pivotal point in the character developments of Mirage (Dani Moonstar) as well as Karma. Additionally, we get a very good glimpse of the different mutants personalities as each one has a miniature solo adventure as the plot begins to tie together. The storytelling is great, and the art is superb (especially for the era). I will note that the genre is more fantasy/mythology than typical superhero "street level" fare, but perhaps this is what makes it so alluring. My highest praises.
This was one of the best X-men stories i've read........1998-06-05
This story ranks right up there with "DARK PHOENIX" and the "Mutant Massacre". It feature beautiful art by Arthur Adams, (whose art has never looked as good since)and Paul Smith, and an intricate story by Chris Claremont. It features two stories, one with the X-men and Alpha Flight going up against the Asgardian god of lies Loki, and one featuring the X-men and New Mutants trying to rescue Their leader Storm from Loki (who intends to turn her into his wife and use her to conquer Asgard). I highly recommend this story for anyone who is a fan of the X-men. This is one of the high points of Claremonts long run as X-men writer.
Arthur Adams best work!.......1998-03-26
For any fan of comic art, this book is a must have. Arthur Adams attention to detail started a revolution in the mid-80's, and the medium has never been the same since. For X-men fans, this series of annuals showcases some facinating character development.
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Jonathan Lethem’s new collection of stories is a feast for his fans and the perfect introduction for new readers—nine fantastic, amusing, poignant tales written in a dizzying variety of styles, as Lethem samples high and low culture to create fictional worlds that are utterly original. Longtime readers will recognize echoes of Lethem’s novels in all these pieces—narrators who can’t stop babbling, hapless would-be detectives, people with unusual powers that do them no good, hot-blooded academics, and characters whose clever repartee masks lovelorn desperation as they negotiate both the stumbling path of romance and the bittersweet obligations of friendship.
Among them:
“The Vision” is a story about drunken neighborhood parlor games, boys who dress up as superheroes, and the perils of snide curiosity.
“Access Fantasy” is part social satire, part weird detective story. Evoking Lethem’s earliest work, it conjures up a world divided between people who have apartments and people trapped in an endless traffic jam behind The One-Way Permeable Barrier.
“The Spray” is a simple story about how people in love deal with their past. A magical spray is involved.
“Vivian Relf” is a tour de force about loss. A man meets a woman at a party; they’re sure they’ve met before, but they haven’t. As the years progress this strangely haunting encounter comes to define the narrator’s life.
“The Dystopianist, Thinking of His Rival, Is Interrupted by a Knock on the Door” is a Borgesian tale that features suicidal sheep. (This story won a Pushcart Prize when first published in Conjunctions.)
“Super Goat Man” is a savagely funny exposé of the failures of the sixties baby boomers, and of their children.
Sparkling with the off-beat humor and subtle insights, Men and Cartoons is a welcome addition to the shelf of the writer “whose bold imagination and sheer love of words defy all forms and expectations and place him among his country’s foremost novelists.”
—Salon
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An Intriguing Blend Of Fictional Styles, But............2007-06-03
"Men and Cartoons" is an all too brief, return visit to the fictional worlds created by Jonathan Lethem in his memorable novels "Motherless Brooklyn" and "Fortress of Solitude", with more than a passing nod to such classic early work from him like his literary debut "Gun, With Occasional Music". Hence it is an interesting, often fascinating, blend of literary styles from quasi-cyberpunk science fiction to hard-boiled noirish detective stories reminiscent of the best from the likes of Raymond Chandler and Elmore Leonard. However, it is not Lethem's most impressive story collection when I can find only one truly memorable tale in this terse anthology; the emotionally captivating "Super Goat Man". And yet there is another tale which almost succeeds as a work of literary art, "The Glasses", which is a fascinating glimpse into racial relations and standards of normal, mentally stable, behavior. If there is one common underlying thread which links all of these stories, then it is Lethem's ongoing fascination with Brooklyn, growing up there as adolescents in the 1970s, and a devout, almost fanatical, love for comic books. Those who are truly interested in reading some brief examples of Lethem's intriguing, often elegant, literary style won't be disappointed with this story collection.
One of the best living American writers.......2007-01-03
Lethem's novels are superior to his essays and short stories. His essays are superior to his short stories. He has a wonderful way of articulating a particular view in american culture that is sadly lacking in competant literary and critical figures. Most of his published work is far better than the majority of stuff out there. Worthy of the price - at least checking out of the library. Remember those?
Some brilliant work...........2006-10-31
but not all the stories are fantastic. By my count, 3 of these were amazing, 3 of them bland and the last one I'd read before so it doesn't count. My personal favorite is Super Goat Man, which was magnificent. Jonathan Lethem is a very expressive writer, and I can see a bit of noir in his writing. I have to read Fortress of Solitude now.
Repetitive, but rewarding.......2006-09-12
I took a long time to finally open this after getting the paperback, and finally read the first two stories on the beach at Sandy Hook, New Jersey -- occasionally glancing up to reflect on the skyline of the author's own Brooklyn. Obviously these stories are not intended to be beach material. Lethem tackles the same themes of loss, misplaced self-absorption, petty jealousy, and very occasionally, redemption. In many ways, "Men and Cartoons" tackles the same basic story in nine different styles and genres -- eleven, if you read the paperback with two extra stories. This can get a bit tiresome if you read all the stories consecutively, but spread out over several days, and best read one at a time, almost all of these stories are inventive, lively, and downbeat.
"The Vision" and "Super Goat Man" are both entrenched in the Marvel Comics universe, as told in the first person by a Brooklyn-born adult who's somehow failed to cash in on the promise of adulthood. Both stories climax at an awkward dinner party, and each end on a slightly different note of wistfulness. The last line to "Super Goat Man" is perhaps one of my favorite short story punchlines.
Similar to "Super Goat Man" is "Vivian Relf", although the title subject here is an alluring young woman (rather than a retired superhero) whom the narrator may or may not know from somewhere else in his past. The story again ends at a dinner party, with words that would have been best left unsaid. Lethem is in full-on fantasy mode in this story, with places names like Vagary and characters called Vander Polymus.
The sci-fi stories are "Access Fantasy" and, in the paperback, "This Shape We're In". The first features an unreliable main character stuck in the perpetual traffic jam that seems to take place in a bloated futuristic Brooklyn. As in the other stories, the narrator almost manages to get the girl, but not quite. "Shape", new to the paperback, is the Trojan Horse of this collection, springing a surprise literary revelation about its main character in the final pages.
Neither "The Glasses" and "The Dystopianist" make any sense. They're both very short and end on off-beat "what the heck?" moments. I suppose if I read each of these multiple times, I might grasp the theme, but I'm not going back. Also short, but slightly more to the point, is "The Spray", which first appeared in a magazine called "Fetish" and it's easy to see why.
The paperback edition ends with "Interview With the Crab", which on the surface is a satire on the fate of sitcom stars in an "E! True Hollywood Stories" vein. Lethem writes himself as the main character here, although the title subject keeps calling him "Lehman". Picture a drunken ALF interviewed by "Playboy" and you'll know exactly whether or not you'll want to read this.
"Planet Big Zero" and "The National Anthem" both concern high school friends who don't quite connect years later. The narrator in "Planet" is a modestly successful cartoonist for an alternatively weekly, who tries to write his drifter friend into his strip, with unintended, slightly paranormal consequences. "Anthem" seems like a submission idea for Open Letters, a defunct web journal to which Lethem once contributed. You'll have to accept the premise that people actually write this way to each other in this age of e-mail -- pouring personal history and emotions out onto the page, breaking down the song "Dark End of the Street", and ending with a prescient comment about the fate of the 2003 New York Mets.
In a collection full of genre stories, that makes this perhaps the most fantastic tale of them all.
Beautiful and bizarre.......2006-03-29
All of these stories at least teeter on the edge of bizarre, and many have slipped over. I consider that a good thing. Even when the themes are old, Lethem's takes on them are fresh and surprising. Even the characters' names tend toward the unusual: Balkan, Top, Vera Relf and Vander Polymus, and so on. The stories are sometimes peppered with clever pop references, and are also often very funny.
I wouldn't say that these stories are exactly easy to read. The language itself is simple enough, and sometimes beautiful ("School buses lined his block every morning, like vast tipped orange-juice cartons spilling out the human vitamin of youthful lunacy"). But the stories veer in such unexpected directions that you have to pay careful attention to where they're going.
I didn't give this book 5 stars because I feel that as a whole, there's not as much thematic variation between the stories as I would have liked. Still, I enjoyed them very much, and I think most readers will, too. I will certainly think about the Plath Sheep for some time!
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- A wonderful prequel
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Emma's fought her family, the Boston mob and her own boyfriend - and won! Now, the young mutant sets her sights on the Big Apple and Empire State University, where she becomes extremely friendly with another, more experienced telepath. But is this relationship entirely healthy? It might not be for Ian Kendall, the teacher Emma's infatuated with... whose life is suddenly turned upside down! With the love of her life on trial for his job, what is Emma willing to do to save him? Don't miss the ultimate telepathic catfight! Collects Emma Frost #13-18.
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A wonderful prequel.......2006-11-20
I loved this Emma Frost series, which showed us her teen years as she was beginning to learn about her powers, up through her college years, as she begins to learn how to control her abilities.
A must read for any Emma Frost fan!
likeable.......2006-06-30
First off I have not read the first 2 volumes in the series and I am by no means a comic expert. However, I liked this book quite a bit. It was not hard to follow even though I did not even read the first two volumes. Anyway, as you probably know Emma Frost is a bad guy that turned good in the marvel universe. The Emma Frost series explores her backstory and attempts to explain why Emma (initially at least) became a villian. The last entry (vol 3) in the series explores Emma as a freshman in college. The story flows naturally and the twists do not feel forced even if a few are a bit predictable.
This is a very human story. Emma struggles to come to terms with her powers and her "mutantness." She struggles in her love life and in her relationships, but at the same time she begins to find her inner strength. The last 20 or so pages find Emma wondering where the ethics line is in using her powers and when it is justifiable to control others with them. At the end of the book, Emma is not a villian, but after everything that has happened, the reader understands why she would head in that direction.
Summary:
The good:
focus on character development
nice artwork
easy-flowing plot
explores moral questions without getting bogged down by them
The bad:
some of the side characters (like Christie) seem flat
gets slightly soap-opera-y a couple of times
some "twists" are a bit predictable
overall: The good outweighs the bad. The writers could have done more with this title, but they have a long way to fall before they would be into bad writing territory. This is not a typical comic and I believe that it is appropriate for many readers, not just fans of the x-men.
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