Geekscape Comics Reviews Marvel NOW!: ‘All New X-Men #1’

I didn’t even get out the front door of my comic shop before I opened up All New X-Men #1. As soon as I was done reading it I looked at the shelves hoping for more. Brian Michael Bendis and Stuart Immonen’s new series will launch the old children of the atom into the present of today after the events of AvX. Things are different now but a lot of the same. The mutant world is as chaotic as ever but now with the appearance of new mutants all over the globe we have Cyclops and his extinction team as wanted criminals fighting for mutants everywhere.

Bendis gets right to work with this issue building the stories of these new characters and re-establishing the longtime central theme that some X-books have been missing as of recent: a world full of fear and prejudice. We see the writer really do a great job of exploring both the fears of people coming face to face with mutants the first time as well as the people who discover they are mutants finding out that they are. We see the book bring in quite a few plot points at a fast pace but it works very smoothly and is an exciting read. It’s pretty impressive how well Bendis threads the plot points together in this issue.

The art work is beautiful and Immonen definitely is the right artist to be drawing the X-Men. Immonen’s characters are fantastically drawn in this dialogue heavy book and the moments never seem boring. The art never loses sight of being character-centric even when there’s a lot going on at the moment. And trust me when I say this issue has quite a bit going on in it.

Final verdict: If Bendis and Immonen can keep the series going as strong as this start…we’re in for a great run here. All-New X-Men #1 is definitely a solid  jumping on point for a new of generation X-readers as well as long time X-fans.

Grade: 4.5/5