X-Men: Grand Design - Second Genesis #2

X-Men: Grand Design #4

by Ed Piskor

SPACE INVADERS! The Shi’ar! The Brood! The Starjammers! Watch as Marvel’s merry mutants take to the stars for the very first time all over again. See the inaugural X-Men adventures of Kitty Pryde and Carol Danvers. Marvel at the conclusion of the now-classic DARK PHOENIX SAGA.   A great entry point for new and lapsed X-Men fans alike!

Genres: Comics, X Men, Marvel, Comic Book

48 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 29, 2018

About the author

Ed Piskor had been cartooning professionally in print form since 2005, starting off drawing American Splendor comics written by Harvey Pekar. The duo continued working together on 2 graphic novels, Macedonia, and The Beats. Ed began self publishing Wizzywig after developing a huge interest in the history of Hacking and Phone Phreaking. 3 volumes, making up 3/4 of the full story, have been published to date.

Recently Ed had designed the characters for the new Adult Swim series, Mongo Wrestling Alliance.

Reviews

[Robert · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've kind of jumped in mid-stream with these "Coles Notes"-style classic X-Men accelerated retellings, I enjoy the consistent art and pacing though and will no doubt circle back to the preceding volumes as well as continue forward.

[Siona Adams · Rating 5 out of 5]

Can't wait for the next Grand Design series to see more of Storm!!

[luciddreamer99 · Rating 3 out of 5]

A comment on these: the continuity is way off. Most times it's just a simple rewriting, but with this volume it was too distracting and took my review down a star. The art, though, is excellent. And it's not as if the story isn't entertaining, it's just that I've read the originals, and that's not the way it went in most cases. With some stories, the changes in continuity are noted in the footnotes at the end, but sometimes they're not. I'm still interested in this title, and I would recommend it, but don't use it as any true measure of how the stories actually went.

[Gonzalo Oyanedel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ambicioso proyecto del historietista independiente Ed Piskor, quien intentó brindar como autor completo una narrativa coherente a una franquicia intervenida por docenas de equipos creativos, condensando en cada entrega una década de historias protagonizadas por los célebres X-Men.

La continuación de Segunda Génesis presenta numerosas licencias respecto al personaje de Madelyne Pryor, sustancialmente reescrito en favor de la continuidad mostrada y reemplazando a Lee Forrester

Un meritorio esfuerzo de continuidad, si se obvia cualquier pretensión artística.