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X-Men Curse Is Broken TP
As Jubilee learns more about her new vampire heritage from Raizo Kodo and the Forgiven, the X-Men fight to rescue Jubilee from the hands of her bloodsucking brethren! But when the Marvel Universe's deadliest assassins arrive, hired to kill every member of the Forgiven, the three-way battle quickly spirals out of control! Guest-starring Lady Bullseye, the Assassin's Guild and Lord Deathstrike! A squad of lost Skrulls infiltrates the X-Men, and Pixie is taken hostage - or did she go by choice? Collecting: X-Men 24-29
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First published August 29, 2012
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Victor Gischler
369 books412 followersVictor Gischler is an American author of humorous crime fiction.
Gischler's debut novel Gun Monkeys was nominated for the Edgar Award, and his novel Shotgun Opera was an Anthony Award finalist. His work has been translated into Italian, French, Spanish and Japanese. He earned a Ph.D. in English at the University of Southern Mississippi. His fifth novel Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse was published in 2008 by the Touchstone/Fireside imprint of Simon & Schuster.
He has also writes American comic books like The Punisher: Frank Castle, Wolverine and Deadpool for Marvel Comics. Gischler worked on X-Men "Curse of the Mutants" starting in the Death of Dracula one-shot and continued in X-Men #1.
Gun Monkeys has been optioned for a film adaptation, with Lee Goldberg writing the script and Ryuhei Kitamura penciled in to direct.
Gischler's debut novel Gun Monkeys was nominated for the Edgar Award, and his novel Shotgun Opera was an Anthony Award finalist. His work has been translated into Italian, French, Spanish and Japanese. He earned a Ph.D. in English at the University of Southern Mississippi. His fifth novel Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse was published in 2008 by the Touchstone/Fireside imprint of Simon & Schuster.
He has also writes American comic books like The Punisher: Frank Castle, Wolverine and Deadpool for Marvel Comics. Gischler worked on X-Men "Curse of the Mutants" starting in the Death of Dracula one-shot and continued in X-Men #1.
Gun Monkeys has been optioned for a film adaptation, with Lee Goldberg writing the script and Ryuhei Kitamura penciled in to direct.
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January 18, 2014
With this sixth trade paperback of X-Men volume three, Victor Gischler wraps up his run on the X-Men, perhaps not completely satisfactory, but as well as he can before being replaced by the incoming Brian Wood on the next volume. Subtitled, The Curse is Broken, the main story of the book deals with the ongoing plight of Jubilee who had become a vampire and her efforts to control her bloodlust. Helping her out are the ‘nice’ vampires of the Marvel Universe, The Forgiven. Of course, Storm and the X-Men are off searching for Jubilee as she has gone missing without a word, only knowing that she is among the vampires and therefore must be in trouble. Soon though, our heroes meet up with Jubilee and The Forgiven and much like good guys always do, they fight among themselves first out of misunderstanding, and then talk about it later realizing their mistake afterwards, and finally battling the real enemy.
Probably the worst thing about this volume is that it does finish off Gischler’s run, which is a shame as he is a really fine writer, and it leaves too many plot threads open. At the end of the story Jubilee heads off with Kaizo and the other vampires and we have to assume that she will learn to control her bloodlust. We only learn later on in later X-Men series that she does in fact do so, but never satisfactorily. Also, the book leaves us on a bit of a cliff-hanger with the vampires behind the machinations against The Forgiven ready to enact their next plan – which never came! Nobody else ever picked up the story to finish it off or continued with the threads that Gischler enacted.
And the worst thing of all happened at the beginning of the whole vampire saga at Marvel and that was the lack of explanation on just how the vampires did return to the Marvel Universe after the Darkhold wiped them all out. It was never explained or explored and we the audience, are just supposed to pretend like it never happened. The same thing would later happen with Brian Bendis who brought back the Guardians of the Galaxy from the Cancerverse without rhyme or reason, and even today, years later, has not explained it whatsoever. It is shoddy writing and more so, editing, to let things like these instances be published and leave the fans wondering what is going on. In cases like this, perhaps it is just supposed to be taken at face value. Vampires are back. The end.
Aside from plot holes and cliff-hangers, the book was actually quite enjoyable. It was a pretty standard superhero romp and Gischler is a fantastic writer. His work is always enjoyable and it was no exception here. It is a shame that he could not have remained on the book and further explored both the vampire world and the X-Men, but all good things as they say. He finishes off his run with a nice little two-part story that ties into Secret Invasion with some Skrulls that just want to go back home and end up facing not only the X-Men, but Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four as well. These two issues also really gave Pixie a chance to shine which was nice to see as she is a very intriguing character who, with further exploration, could really become a major player on the team.
The artwork was pretty solid throughout the book and fairly consistent, even with four different artists sharing the duties. Jorge Molina has some pretty strong pencils and deserves to be on a book in the new Marvel Now era, so here is hoping we get to see him soon. Fun and enjoyable stuff by Victor Gischler and company that ended too prematurely, but did so as they started, with good story and good art.
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Probably the worst thing about this volume is that it does finish off Gischler’s run, which is a shame as he is a really fine writer, and it leaves too many plot threads open. At the end of the story Jubilee heads off with Kaizo and the other vampires and we have to assume that she will learn to control her bloodlust. We only learn later on in later X-Men series that she does in fact do so, but never satisfactorily. Also, the book leaves us on a bit of a cliff-hanger with the vampires behind the machinations against The Forgiven ready to enact their next plan – which never came! Nobody else ever picked up the story to finish it off or continued with the threads that Gischler enacted.
And the worst thing of all happened at the beginning of the whole vampire saga at Marvel and that was the lack of explanation on just how the vampires did return to the Marvel Universe after the Darkhold wiped them all out. It was never explained or explored and we the audience, are just supposed to pretend like it never happened. The same thing would later happen with Brian Bendis who brought back the Guardians of the Galaxy from the Cancerverse without rhyme or reason, and even today, years later, has not explained it whatsoever. It is shoddy writing and more so, editing, to let things like these instances be published and leave the fans wondering what is going on. In cases like this, perhaps it is just supposed to be taken at face value. Vampires are back. The end.
Aside from plot holes and cliff-hangers, the book was actually quite enjoyable. It was a pretty standard superhero romp and Gischler is a fantastic writer. His work is always enjoyable and it was no exception here. It is a shame that he could not have remained on the book and further explored both the vampire world and the X-Men, but all good things as they say. He finishes off his run with a nice little two-part story that ties into Secret Invasion with some Skrulls that just want to go back home and end up facing not only the X-Men, but Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four as well. These two issues also really gave Pixie a chance to shine which was nice to see as she is a very intriguing character who, with further exploration, could really become a major player on the team.
The artwork was pretty solid throughout the book and fairly consistent, even with four different artists sharing the duties. Jorge Molina has some pretty strong pencils and deserves to be on a book in the new Marvel Now era, so here is hoping we get to see him soon. Fun and enjoyable stuff by Victor Gischler and company that ended too prematurely, but did so as they started, with good story and good art.
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May 15, 2020
Máquinas de Guerra, La Maldición está Rota e Infiltrados suponen los últimos arcos del trabajo de Gischler al frente de X-Men, y el escritor los gestionó bajo el paraguas de Regénesis, el landscape para los mutantes surgido a raíz de Cisma. X-Men. Si hasta este momento Gischler había podido coger libremente a los personajes que quisiera para sus tramas, a partir de Regénesis nos encontraremos con un equipo cerrado, el Equipo de Seguridad de Utopía, de modo que X-Men cae del lado de Cíclope en esta división de equipos. Con Tormenta al frente, tendremos a Dominó, Coloso (que ahora también es Juggernaut después de Miedo Encarnado), Mariposa Mental y Júbilo en formato vampira, y se mantendrán como protagonistas fijos de la serie.
En Máquinas de Guerra, el equipo de seguridad, Dominó descubre que un grupo desconocido se ha hecho con tres centinelas de última generación, lo que lleva al equipo de Tormenta a seguir su rastro hasta un pequeño país del Este de Europa que tiene fronteras con Latveria y Symkaria, y donde tendrán que hacer frente a las aspiraciones de una gobernadora que planea imponer un nuevo status quo en la región por la fuerza... y lo harán con la ayuda de Máquina de Guerra, enviado allí por la ONU y los EEUU.
En La Maldición está Rota, después de la desaparición de Júbilo en Máquinas de Guerra, el equipo de Tormenta sigue el rastro de la muchacha para encontrarse con que esta está en manos de un grupo de vampiros llamados "Los Perdonados" y que ya no beben sangre humana, dirigidos por un tal Kaizo Kodo. Probablemente este arco estaba planeado como la presentación de un nuevo equipo, estos Perdonados, pero la salida de Gischler y los nuevos intereses de Marvel después de Patrulla-X vs Vengadores iba a hacer que este concepto (y los propios vampiros) quedaran apartados de los guiones de la Casa de las Ideas.
Por último, en el que sería el último arco de Gischler, tendríamos al equipo de Tormenta en Nueva York y sumando una integrante después de que Júbilo decidiera permanecer con los Perdonados: Hada, una de las pocas estudiantes que había decidido permanecer en Utopía y no marcharse con Lobezno. Y en Infiltrados volveríamos a tener a los skrulls, retomando esta raza extraterrestre después de Invasión Secreta, y creando un nuevo team-up del Equipo de Seguridad con la Fundación Futuro para hacer frente a la amenaza skrull... que quizá no sea tal...
En fin, como casi todo en esos tiempos, atrapados en muchas ocasiones entre arcos y nuevos landscape, los X-Men de Gischler se habían ido desinflando poco a poco para quedar convertidos en una más de las muchas series de mutantes que había en el mercado, sin ese toque "especial" que había tenido en su primer arco, siguiendo un proceso bastante paralelo al de Astonshing X-Men.
En Máquinas de Guerra, el equipo de seguridad, Dominó descubre que un grupo desconocido se ha hecho con tres centinelas de última generación, lo que lleva al equipo de Tormenta a seguir su rastro hasta un pequeño país del Este de Europa que tiene fronteras con Latveria y Symkaria, y donde tendrán que hacer frente a las aspiraciones de una gobernadora que planea imponer un nuevo status quo en la región por la fuerza... y lo harán con la ayuda de Máquina de Guerra, enviado allí por la ONU y los EEUU.
En La Maldición está Rota, después de la desaparición de Júbilo en Máquinas de Guerra, el equipo de Tormenta sigue el rastro de la muchacha para encontrarse con que esta está en manos de un grupo de vampiros llamados "Los Perdonados" y que ya no beben sangre humana, dirigidos por un tal Kaizo Kodo. Probablemente este arco estaba planeado como la presentación de un nuevo equipo, estos Perdonados, pero la salida de Gischler y los nuevos intereses de Marvel después de Patrulla-X vs Vengadores iba a hacer que este concepto (y los propios vampiros) quedaran apartados de los guiones de la Casa de las Ideas.
Por último, en el que sería el último arco de Gischler, tendríamos al equipo de Tormenta en Nueva York y sumando una integrante después de que Júbilo decidiera permanecer con los Perdonados: Hada, una de las pocas estudiantes que había decidido permanecer en Utopía y no marcharse con Lobezno. Y en Infiltrados volveríamos a tener a los skrulls, retomando esta raza extraterrestre después de Invasión Secreta, y creando un nuevo team-up del Equipo de Seguridad con la Fundación Futuro para hacer frente a la amenaza skrull... que quizá no sea tal...
En fin, como casi todo en esos tiempos, atrapados en muchas ocasiones entre arcos y nuevos landscape, los X-Men de Gischler se habían ido desinflando poco a poco para quedar convertidos en una más de las muchas series de mutantes que había en el mercado, sin ese toque "especial" que había tenido en su primer arco, siguiendo un proceso bastante paralelo al de Astonshing X-Men.
December 1, 2012
It seems fitting that this final volume of Victor Gischler's X-Men run is as the rest of it; better than expected, but unremarkable overall. The trade is split into a four part Jubilee story which is decent enough, though plagued by Jorge Molina's strange facial contortions he calls smiles, which settles Jubilee's vampire storyline nicely for now with a few twists and turns (and Deadpool!) too. The final two issues focus on Pixie, and they have much better art by Will Conrad, but a convoluted storyline and far too many guest stars, especially considering the shift in focus to Pixie, a character who has played no role whatsoever in this series so far. It's nice to see that Gischler is consistent, but his storytelling needs a bit of a boost to get past 'serviceable' and into 'great'.
May 14, 2015
The plot is nothing to write home about. Pretty generic stuff. But its just done.. great. The X-Men are searching for Jubilee, a group of vamps called the Forgiven are actually helping her, and bounty hunters are all of a sudden swarming the island, including Deadpool. Good stuff.
Next is a 2 issue story, involving Pixie, Skrulls, The FF, Spidey and sure throw in some mech robots. It almost seemed like the writer just threw it all in for guest stars sake. but it was all done very well. It had a lot of cool moments.
Next is a 2 issue story, involving Pixie, Skrulls, The FF, Spidey and sure throw in some mech robots. It almost seemed like the writer just threw it all in for guest stars sake. but it was all done very well. It had a lot of cool moments.
April 19, 2017
Jubilee gets help to deal with her being a vampire, and Storms team get caught in a assassin hunt while trying to find her. Deadpool makes an appearance. Pixie are caught by some Skulls.
July 11, 2023
The X-Men finally catch up with Jubilee, who they believe is being held against her will by vampires. Once they iron out the details (after the obligatory fight scene of course), they find out that Jubilee is there of her own free will. She's trying to get a handle on this whole vampire thing, and even though it has been difficult - as we have been seeing in previous issues - she kinda is making progress.
However, after the X team and the vampire team synch up to fight off a whole lot of assassins coming for the main vampire, Jubilee makes her choice to stay and finish her vampire control training. I think this was a smart move, as going back to the X-Men with the temporary solution of drinking wolverine's blood is not really tenable - and kind of gross. But Victor Gischler made the right move here I think.
There's a couple of issues that have to deal with skrulls and the fantastic four, but the story is pretty inconsequential for the most part. I think that's the thing about Gischler's run, its not bad at all. But it never really moves higher than "good". It really establishes a base line and then sticks to that. And with runs such as Austen's or Milligan's run on the X-books, "good" is certainly better than those days.
However, after the X team and the vampire team synch up to fight off a whole lot of assassins coming for the main vampire, Jubilee makes her choice to stay and finish her vampire control training. I think this was a smart move, as going back to the X-Men with the temporary solution of drinking wolverine's blood is not really tenable - and kind of gross. But Victor Gischler made the right move here I think.
There's a couple of issues that have to deal with skrulls and the fantastic four, but the story is pretty inconsequential for the most part. I think that's the thing about Gischler's run, its not bad at all. But it never really moves higher than "good". It really establishes a base line and then sticks to that. And with runs such as Austen's or Milligan's run on the X-books, "good" is certainly better than those days.
December 13, 2019
Another collection of boring Gischler X-Men issues? Color me shocked.
This guy really does suck at telling mutant stories. I’m sure he’s a great guy, and believe me... I prefer giving praise to giving criticism... but fuck! These are dull stories!
First, Jubilee is at her special club for not-evil Vampires. Assassins come to kill them. They fail. Then, in a “surprisingly touching” turn of events, she decides not to become an evil vampire. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Then, there are skrulls. The X-Men fight them. Then Pixie demonstrates leadership or something. The end.
The art for the first few issues was bizarre. Jorge Molina is a poor man’s Leifeld (which is odd, because I thought Leifeld was a poor man’s Leifeld.)
It gets better in the last two issues when Will Conrad takes over, but it’s not enough to save this paper-thin snorefest.
The verdict? Your X books need to have an adjective in the title.
This guy really does suck at telling mutant stories. I’m sure he’s a great guy, and believe me... I prefer giving praise to giving criticism... but fuck! These are dull stories!
First, Jubilee is at her special club for not-evil Vampires. Assassins come to kill them. They fail. Then, in a “surprisingly touching” turn of events, she decides not to become an evil vampire. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Then, there are skrulls. The X-Men fight them. Then Pixie demonstrates leadership or something. The end.
The art for the first few issues was bizarre. Jorge Molina is a poor man’s Leifeld (which is odd, because I thought Leifeld was a poor man’s Leifeld.)
It gets better in the last two issues when Will Conrad takes over, but it’s not enough to save this paper-thin snorefest.
The verdict? Your X books need to have an adjective in the title.
September 30, 2018
First off, this book pissed me off because I wish I'd put it into my X-Men: Curse of the Mutants bind. Oh well. Nothing of true import happens in it, so I guess it's ok. The cover and title seem to imply Jubilee gets cured, but I knew that wasn't true. So her status quo is pretty much the same as before. Honestly, not a whole lot happens in the vampire story. Deadpool shows up and is kinda funny. The last story involves skrulls and the FF, and Pixie is our POV character. That story was honestly way better.
July 15, 2018
Continuing the great x-read of 2017/18...
Not great but not bad. It is good that Jubilee is getting some distance from the vampiric effect (I really hate that they turned her into a vampire so your love/hatred of this storyline may vary from mine a lot...) but there isn't a lot accomplished.
I was excited for a Pixie-led story but her personality seems *very* different from what we've seen of her in the past so it didn't really feel particularly like a Pixie story.
Not great but not bad. It is good that Jubilee is getting some distance from the vampiric effect (I really hate that they turned her into a vampire so your love/hatred of this storyline may vary from mine a lot...) but there isn't a lot accomplished.
I was excited for a Pixie-led story but her personality seems *very* different from what we've seen of her in the past so it didn't really feel particularly like a Pixie story.
February 8, 2025
Art is fine to good.
Back to the vampires which isn't as interesting as the first arc. Just a big battle, Deadpool turns up which puts me off. A disappointing last arc for Gischler.
His last issue has Pixie against a group of skrulls, the FF make a reappearance. It's fine.
I appreciate how he gave the spotlight to some different characters. Not the best run, not the worst either.
Back to the vampires which isn't as interesting as the first arc. Just a big battle, Deadpool turns up which puts me off. A disappointing last arc for Gischler.
His last issue has Pixie against a group of skrulls, the FF make a reappearance. It's fine.
I appreciate how he gave the spotlight to some different characters. Not the best run, not the worst either.
June 12, 2019
This is actually one of my favorite of these X-men TPB. Jubilee has a POWERFUL and interesting arc throughout the entire story, and the characters have a lot of resonance. I really enjoyed it. Plus, any story where Deadpool shows up is hysterical.
April 13, 2019
I think probably the best moment was when Domino found Deadpool and she was like 'Are you self narrating again? We talked about..."
September 5, 2020
Eh. Competent enough, but all the vampire stuff isn't nearly as compelling as Gischler thinks it is.
September 8, 2016
A little vampire hunting/protecting, a little alien wrangling crossover with Fantastic Four and Spider-Man, a bit random for a volume but not bad. I haven't followed this team of X-Men at all and I don't know where exactly it falls in time with the other stuff, but the art was nice (other than some crazy faces), I liked the good vampires (the Forgiven) enough that I wouldn't mind reading more about them even if I don't particularly care about Jubilee, and while I don't feel any need to follow up on this team reading it wasn't a bad way to spend some time.
August 11, 2014
I was grateful for the focus to return to Jubilee, and enjoyed this volume more than I have the last few.
I liked Pixie, too. I've seen her in a few comics, and am interested in learning more about her.
The art feels like a series of micro-aggressions to me - the center of a panel will be the back of a woman's spandexed ass, and you're looking at someone else *from between her legs*. Like, really? Obnoxious. Not to mention the breast-accentuation.
I liked Pixie, too. I've seen her in a few comics, and am interested in learning more about her.
The art feels like a series of micro-aggressions to me - the center of a panel will be the back of a woman's spandexed ass, and you're looking at someone else *from between her legs*. Like, really? Obnoxious. Not to mention the breast-accentuation.
September 14, 2014
The Curse is Broken (24-27). A better take on vampires than the original story, helped by the fact that it wasn't yet another shallow team-up. The biggest problem is the impenetrable vampire politics which are touched upon at the end, but went straight over my head [6/10].
Skrulls (28-29). The final story is more typical for Gischler's run, which unfortunately means it's a sort of dull team-up. The only saving grace is Pixie's great characterization [5/10].
Skrulls (28-29). The final story is more typical for Gischler's run, which unfortunately means it's a sort of dull team-up. The only saving grace is Pixie's great characterization [5/10].
November 15, 2012
The first part of it was good, to continue what we left off with Jubilee in the first issues, it was good seeing her again and how she adapted to the whole Vampire situation.
The second story with Skrull wasn't as good though as I didn't know anything about them and they came out of nowhere for me so :/ pat the end of it was very cool with all of the fighting, space ships and Spidy :)
The second story with Skrull wasn't as good though as I didn't know anything about them and they came out of nowhere for me so :/ pat the end of it was very cool with all of the fighting, space ships and Spidy :)
December 16, 2012
The first part was really good - Vampires and Deadpool and other bounty hunters and a Lady Bullseye and whatnot; the second part was a little clean-up from the Skrull invasion, with Pixie taking a leading role. Not all that great, and I'm not a big fan of Pixie anyhow, but it did have Spidey in it!
February 2, 2016
This is the best of the series so far. Lots of action, back to the Jubilee vampire story, the addition of Deadpool to the action, and a secondary story involving Spiderman and the FF. Probably a good graphic novel on its own, but as part of the X-Men Vol. III series, this one is a stand out. Two more to go. Hope they keep up the momentum.
November 22, 2012
Liked jubilee story. Artwork was okay. Pixie/Skrull was cute. Overall gave it an average. Some good, some bad.
March 15, 2014
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