X-Men: X-Club

X-Club #1-5

by Simon Spurrier, Paul Davidson (Illustrations)

"WE DO SCIENCE!" In the wake of SCHISM, the X-Men's Science Team takes it upon themselves to make a gesture of goodwill on behalf of mutantkind and better the world ... using SCIENCE. But just as construction of the X-Club's state of the art space elevator nears completion, chaos erupts! And it appears to the world that mutants are to blame. Can Dr. Nemesis, Madison Jeffries, Kavita Rao and Danger clear the X-Men's name before their experiment backfires? Don't miss the story that will surely change how you look at the X-Men and the Periodic Table of Elements FOREVER! COLLECTING: X-CLUB 1-5

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, X Men, Marvel, Superheroes, Comic Book, Graphic Novels Comics

120 pages, Paperback

First published June 20, 2012

Reviews

[Nick · Rating 4 out of 5]

Awesome, with added awesomesauce. Hugely funny and weird, a welcome sidebar on the recent upheavals in the X-Men stories. I demand sequels. With starfish.

[John · Rating 4 out of 5]

Obstensibly Warren Ellis' 4th Arc on Astonishing X-Men that he never did.

The X-Men are generally not a concept that generally interests me unless they have a status quo change and start to experiment.

M-Day did this, which led to Decimation storyline and the mutants trying to find meaning/relevancy in the loss and how to bring back mutantkind and culminated in Messiah Complex.

Second coming let to Schism also did this which to to Avengers vs. X-Men and it's fallout.

So did House/Powers of X.

I usually don't care about the general X-Men books, but instead the miniseries that allow some flexibility outside of the main narrative; perhaps with an interesting mission statement. Some of these include "District X", Soldier X, The Brotherhood, Morlocks, X-Club, etc.

[Jenna · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nemesis may be even more entertaining than Deadpool....
Quotes that made me laugh but may contain possible spoilers:

"Mr. Summers, there is an empathic starfish revealing my inner monologue to the unworthy universe."
-I wish my costume was as cool as yours.-
"Someone. Is going. To pay."

-I am the shadow. I am the night. I am the tiger.-
"You are a microwaved delicacy the instant I get you off of me. Shut up!"

"Eat viral liquefaction, unethically cloned carbon-waste! I'll put my science in you! I'll put my science in all of you!"
-I have no idea what I'm saying.-

"Supernemesis wins at all science! He shall now perish in a spasm of mutagenic martyrdom, and his grateful underlings shall ensure his tombstnoe is twice as big as Darwin's! So mote it be! Underlings...?"

"I do not believe in that sentimental crap!"
-I wish I believed in that sentimental crap. Science can be scary.-
"...you kept the starfish!" (Dr. Rao)
"F...for study."
-I get lonely without it.-

[Craig · Rating 2 out of 5]

Bleah...

[Marco · Rating 4 out of 5]

"My name is Doctor Nemesis and I am a pettyminded sciencoholic."

[Alan · Rating 4 out of 5]

The truth is I really do miss Warren Ellis' writing (I know he has a novel coming out soon, but.... Here Simon Spurrier steps into an area of Ellis' expertise and pulls it off very well. Yes, the science being spouted by the characters, especially Dr. Nemesis, is probably the height of pseudo-science and technobabble. That doesn't mean its not fun.

Nemesis' snark is up with the best in this very short TPB. The man even manages to pull off walking around with a sentient starfish on his head. Poor Kavita Rao finds way to tolerate Nemesis (and arguably save the day) and Madison Jefferies and Danger give us something new to consider in the area of tolerance.

Strife, villains? None of it really matters. Read, smile and go along for the ride.

[Samantha · Rating 5 out of 5]

I absolutely loved this one!! I've never heard of the characters (except Cyclops), but Dr. Nemesis is my absolute favorite now!! He is so hilarious and the starfish bit was ingenius. In case you missed it, I would go back and find the orca that shoots hyperbeams...because that made me laugh SO hard. Imagine what would happen if that happened with a Shamu at SeaWorld?? Everyone would be freaking out so much!! Haha This was definitely thrilling....I don't really get the whole robot-human love thing, but who am I to say anything? Its odd, but hey, its a comic, the X-Men can do whatever they want. =)

[Ryan · Rating 3 out of 5]

The dialogue was great. The art was inconsistent, but still pretty good. Unfortunately, the technobabble was so convoluted that I never understood what they were trying to do. Adding to to this were three plot threads, each with its own fake science talk. Maddison Jeffries was cooler when he put on a robot suit in Alpha Flight. Dr. Nemesis has potential as a character if he could hit more than one note. And Kavita Rao doesn't have much of an interesting personality at all. I like this more for it's potential than it probably deserves.

[Shannon Appelcline · Rating 5 out of 5]

Spurrier’s writing in X-Club is mostly brilliant. It’s often hilarious and does a great job of investigating a lot of characters. He also does a terrific job of really picking his “shots”, so as not to show the old cliched comic-book scenes, but rather to offer something largely new. It gets a little too funky & crazy at the end, but it’s still a great trip getting there.

I borrowed this book from the library to decide if I wanted to give the new X-Men: Legacy a try, and the answer is a definite YES!!

[A J · Rating 2 out of 5]

The stupidest recently published comic I've read so far, but with a couple of fun moments.

[Robert · Rating 4 out of 5]

Most fun I've had with the X Men in years. Dr. Nemesis really steals the show.

[Nicole Chiodo Soares · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think Dr. Nemesis is my new favorite comic character. I actually laughed out loud more than once in this one. The empathic starfish was great!

[Brandon Daniels · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a pretty fun little miniseries. Simon Spurrier is having a lot of fun here, but some of his quirks get a little annoying and don’t age particularly well. This was the perfect x book for him though. The art by Paul Davidson is pretty good. Spurrier certainly throws him some curveballs, and he does some interesting stuff when things get weird. The coloring by Rachel Rosenberg (who I often like) feels a bit mismatched at times and brings it down a notch. As with most Spurrier books, the letterer is given a lot to do, and Cory Petit brings his A game.

[C · Rating 4 out of 5]

Continuing the great x-read of 2017/2018... (and I am really far behind with my reviews so I will be putting up a bunch of quick-takes to catch up...)

This was far more entertaining than I expected it to be. Quite a fun comics read without all of the baggage of the external x-titles.

[Alessandro · Rating 1 out of 5]

I've never understood why people who literally have no idea what science is want to write stories about scientists…and give us their opinion on what science is.
Anyway, to avoid scientism, I'll just say that reading this crazy mess was so painful that it almost became a mystical experience.

[Tim Gray · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quite fun - especialyy the empathic Starfish - I feel lonely without him!

[Mel Perry-Luce · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a lot of fun!

[Nate]

"Excuse me gentlemen. There is science to conduct... in the LABORATORY OF VIOLENCE."

“Nanobots are passé, pal. Punching is forever.”

Can Spurrier write Doctor Nemesis all the time, please?

[Madeline Rossell · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lost a star for the plot twist.

[Jen · Rating 4 out of 5]

The story itself was a little hard to follow and track, and the bad guy had a ton of exposition that I didn't think really made things clearer. He said in 7 panels what probably could have been said in three lines.

BUT I LOVED Doctor Nemesis in this!!! I like him anyway, because he's an egomaniacal asshole and doesn't lie or try to deny it. But this whole inner-monologue-starfish-thing? Hilarious.

[Travis · Rating 4 out of 5]

Tries a little bit too hard to be funny, and reminds you what a convoluted mess the X-titles are, but otherwise I like these characters.

A team of mutants use their powers to be the mutant communities science consultants and weird stuff trouble shooters. They are all going through their own personal issues and have to deal with them while coping with attacks by sea monsters, nazis and the possible collapse of a new space elevator.

Shame nothing else seems to have been done with the X-Club, as they occupy a fun little corner of the otherwise pretty dreary X-universe.

[Ernest · Rating 3 out of 5]

The X-Men do science in this romp in this short volume that features characters more well known to faithful -Men (and Marvel) readers. Dr Nemesis' snark and the inadvertent revealing inner monologue was for me the highlight and while the overall plot is actually a little light and overly wild, this volume functions adequately well as a bunch of character spotlight opportunities with fun moments rather than a fully coherent story with tight plotting and big wow moments.

[Alex Sarll]

"Supernemesis wins at all science!" In many ways, a significantly dumber read than the two toddler's books I added yesterday. But it makes up for that by having lots of Nazis killed with SCIENCE.

[Brian · Rating 4 out of 5]

Highly entertaining.

[Amanda · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dr. Nemesis has really become one of my favorite X-Men characters. He's like a snarkier, scientific Deadpool.

[Eric · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was funny, but could have been shorter. Any dialog from Dr. Nemesis is gold, but the rest of the crew works out well. Fun, but once it's over you move on with your life.

[Daniel · Rating 3 out of 5]

It had real funny parts, but I must agree with Dr. Nemesis, that the Villain's exposition, was horrid.

[Greg · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kooky

[Willow · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nemesis is such a great character and this story is super fun.

[John · Rating 3 out of 5]

preposterous story only redeemed by the characters.