Monday 28 November 2016

My top 5 X-Men comics

So like my last entry I'll be counting down my top 5 favourite X-Men comics. My last entry was my top 5 Spider-Man comics and now we're moving on to X-Men. It was a bit of a hard choice with choosing these but I eventually managed to figure out 5 X-Men comics I wanted to put on here. And so let's begin
5. Death of Wolverine:
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Being the only Wolverine centred story on here, we see Wolverine going through a ton of things and the fighting a bunch of enemies and meeting some friends like Kitty Pryde. At the end he realises that Dr. Cornelius, the man who gave Wolverine his Adamantium is up to something, he finds him and destroys a whole container of liquid Adamantium and destroys it but it covers all around him. He finds Cornelius and kills him and the last shot is him kneeling down still covered in the liquid Adamantium and as the sun is coming up, the Adamantium becomes solid and covers him to the point of not getting out and he suffocates and dies.
4. X-Men: House of M:
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In this story the X-Men and Avengers are debating what to do with Scarlett Witch with her powers getting out of control. Some say to keep her while others say to kill her. At the end, we get one of the most iconic scenes in X-Men history when Scarlet Witch says "No More Mutants." And it casts a spell that causes 99% of mutants around the world to lose their powers.
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3. Uncanny X-Force: Final Execution Book Z:

There've been a ton of X-Force comics but by far my favourite is during the Apocalypse Solution with this one being Final Execution Book Z. Apocalypse, now being reborn as a small boy named Evan is being captured by bad guys like Daken, Sabretooth and more. The X-Force go in to get him and fight their way to get him. Even through the story we see Deadpool and he's not being funny. I mean he is funny but he's actually trying to be serious here and get this job done. I like this version of Deadpool. Especially seeing how he's trying to help Evan. He really seems like a real good guy. And we even get some sad moments between Wolverine and Daken.
2. Days of Future Past:
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The inspiration for the 2014 movie of the same name, Days of Future Past sees the team sending Kitty Pryde back in time to prevent the creation of the Sentinels. To do this, she must stop the X-Men from doing something that apparently causes the creation of them. Dark, gritty and very creative, Days of Future Past was not only a huge success in the comics and movie, but also the cartoons and seeing the X-Men in this way is really interesting to me.
And my number 1 favourite X-Men comic is... The Dark Phoenix Saga:
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Was there any doubt? Just like the Spider-Man list I did, this is one of, if not the most iconic X-Men story ever. After Jean Grey was presumed dead after sacrificing herself, she comes back as the Dark Phoenix. A creature with emended power and now the other X-Men must do all they can to stop her while trying not to kill one of their own. Especially a key member like Jean. The main inspiration for 2006's X-Men 3: The Last Stand, while they screwed it up there, at least they finally did it properly in this year's X-Men: Apocalypse. And, again, seeing the team like this is super interesting and this is what I think of whenever wanting to explain to anyone what the X-Men really are. Especially Wolverine and especially Cyclops. And everyone, those are my top 5 X-Men comics. Thank you all for reading and please comment to tell me what your favourite is.

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