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X-Men: Eve of Destruction Paperback – May 18, 2005

by Scott Lobdell (Author), Salvador Larroca (Artist), Tom Raney (Artist),
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Magneto menaces the world once again - but while he threatens to spread war, the X-Men are trapped in Genosha! It's up to Phoenix to lead a new team to victory, but can she manage it? Can they? Guest-starring Dazzler, Northstar, Corsair of the Starjammers and more! Collects Uncanny X-Men #391-393 and X-Men #111-113.
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  1. Print length
    152 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Marvel Comics
  4. Publication date
    May 18, 2005
  5. Grade level
    7 - 9
  6. Dimensions
    6.5 x 0.25 x 10.25 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    0785115528
  8. ISBN-13
    978-0785115526
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Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Marvel Comics (May 18, 2005)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 152 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0785115528
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0785115526
  • Grade level ‏ : ‎ 7 - 9
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 0.25 x 10.25 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars 13 ratings

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Superman-Blue
2.0 out of 5 stars Waste of money
Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2010
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Oh god why did I buy this. X-Men eve of destruction it's not bad it's just poorly drawn and written that's all.

The basic overview is that Magneto is planning for Genosha to take over the world. Cyclop'and Wolverine go in as a stealth team to help and free Professor X who's been kidnapped by Magneto. Also Phoenix forms together a team off x-men who most of them just developed their mutant powers.

The Good--
The artwork by Salvador Larocca and Tom Raney is okay, its basic late nighties artwork. Cyclopses and Wolverine's stealth through the genoshan sewers is pretty good. Also there's an emotional father and son trip with Corsair(cyclop's dad) and cyclops.

The Bad--
Leinel Francis Yu's Artwork is god awful his artwork in Superman Birthright(which i highely reccomend)is much better than this crap. Also the idea of Phoenix assembling a new team of x-men was stupid. The only person who was on the team who was good was Northstar. The final fight with magneto vs the x-men was abruptly short and the way they resolved it was bland.

Ultimately i say skip this book , but if your a diehard x-men fan youll enjoy it. The good thing is these arc was rushed for Grant Morrison's explemary New X-Men.
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Erik Vagen
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2017
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About what I expected. Decent read. Closing of the Lobdell era.
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Rich Stephenson
1.0 out of 5 stars Awful story line, horrible writing.
Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2010
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This story is in no way worth getting. The writing is hideous, the characters featured are given no depth. And the "team" Jean assembles don't even do anything until the last 20 pages. Also, Magneto is written as a totally generic bad guy, no shades of grey or interesting character development.
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Steve Fuson
3.0 out of 5 stars Oh, what could have been
Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2005
What you need to know: The island of Genosha used to breed mutants as slaves, using their powers to take the country to the heights of technology, agriculture and ultimately wealth. The X-Men toppled the government, and Genosha became a third world country, humans and mutants at war with each other. The Legacy Virus, a disease which only affected mutants spread quickly throughout Genosha's mutants. Magneto was declared ruler of Genosha by the UN after he threatened to destroy the world.

Then the Legacy Virus was cured and hundreds, possibly thousands of mutants were healthy, at full strength, and ready to follow Magneto.

This is where we enter. Magneto now has an army, and is ready to move upon the human population of the world. A number of X-Men aren't available, and Jean Grey rounds up a small team consisting of inactive X-Men, former villains, and brand new recruits.

Sounds interesting, right? The X-men manage to get in before Magneto's army can make it's move, thus depriving us of all kinds of potential battles. Lenil Yu's artwork seems rushed and not up to his usual standards.

The story has a dramatic and powerful climax. But it's completely ruined one issue after this story ends (see Grant Morrison's New X-Men Vol. 1)

This story had a lot of potential, but it just seems to fall short. Sorry.
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Vernon Clark Mayo
3.0 out of 5 stars a fun adventure but not much more
Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2005
See the book is a lot of fun, kind of a summer blockbuster of x-men sories, lots of bang, funny one liners, fun characters but mostly is lacking in great story telling, it's a bit short and the new x-men are not fleshed out enough and then they are gone, but overall it's a fu nread, and sometimes thats all you need, i was just looking for a fun adventure with wolvie, cyclops and the rest and thats what i got.
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Will Randolph
5.0 out of 5 stars The item arrived on time and is good condition
Reviewed in Australia on January 18, 2020
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The collected edition is well written (good storyline) and excellent graphics.
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Alan the Kaz
2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 12, 2013
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This is a review for 'X-Men: Eve of Destruction'. Some of the other reviews on this page are for completely different X-Men trade paperbacks. For some reason, Amazon have merged the reviews for a number of different titles together.

It's always an interesting experience going back to a piece of some kind of entertainment (comic, book, cartoon, movie, etc.) you loved as a child/teenager, but which just doesn't hold up to your adult self. Case in point, `X-Men: Eve of Destruction', an X-Men "event" from the early 2000s which essentially closed up the `90s era X-Men (well, it was published slightly after the `90s had ended, but never mind that) and paved the way for the new generation ushered in by Grant Morrison and Joe Casey. After months of anticipation, my teenage-self found this pretty gripping reading and was blown away by the ending. Over a decade later, however, my adult self isn't quite so impressed...

`Eve of Destruction' isn't only historically significant for dropping the final curtain on an era of the X-Men that many of us grew up reading. It's also significant, story-wise, for finally giving us the inevitable "war" between humans and mutants which had been alluded to almost since the franchise began. Or rather, the war, perused by Magneto (now the legally recognised ruler of Genosha), is on the brink of beginning, and the X-Men are the only people who can stop it from actually happening.

However, recent events (not explained in here) have caused most of the X-Men to form a splinter team (who went on to star in the embarrassingly titled `X-Treme X-Men' series) who are nowhere to be found. While Cyclops, Wolverine and Polaris are in Genosha trying to help the human refugees, victims of Magneto's warpath, it's up to Phoenix to recruit brand new X-Men to help the cause. We're then quickly introduced to a distinctly dislikeable new cast of characters, in homage to `Giant Sized X-Men' #1, who unquestioningly follow Jean and become new X-Men, only to disappear never to be used again at the end. These new X-Men are expected to help Cyclops and Wolverine defeat Magneto without any training, and they don't really do anything anyway. In fact, the whole final battle with Magneto (and, at the time, this was hyped up to really be the "final" battle) is a bit of a joke, as the new team members don't actually do anything after all that lead in, and Cyclops & Wolverine just bumble around a bit waiting for things to conveniently fall conveniently into place. The ending just doesn't make any sense (without wanting to spoil too much, are we supposed to believe that that could happen, with absolutely no repercussions, while Magneto's soldiers and thousands of followers were there standing there watching?), and it was reversed two issues later anyway.

Preceding the main story, `Eve of Destruction' features two separate episodes. Firstly, we have a short prelude, taken from the ending of an earlier X-Men comic, which won't make much sense to anyone who hasn't read that. Then we have a self-contained story where Cyclops is reunited with his father after being presumed dead, but in reality having merged with Apocalypse. Cyclops' new carefree risk-taking attitude is a big theme in this whole book and is worth noting. This is because in superhero comics, where changes to the status-quo are usually always reversed, the changes in Cyclops' personality have actually remained intact, explored further by Grant Morrison, and have had dramatic ramifications in future stories which are still felt today. From a historical perspective, this is pretty significant. Mildly significant, too, is the fact that this story leads in somewhat into Grant Morrison's ground-breaking run, explaining why at the start of that run Magneto is on a wheelchair and unable to prevent the Sentinel attack.

For the sake of my teenage self, I wanted to like `Eve of Destruction' and to give it a positive review, but I just can't. The story feels rushed, things happen too conveniently, and it's ultimately underwhelming. It isn't terrible, and there's some slight historical significance in this story for X-Men continuity, but it's ultimately passable and just not very good.
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