X-Men: The Animated Series - The Further Adventures

X-Men: The Animated Series Omnibus #2

by Ralph Macchio, Ben Herrera (Illustrator), Marvel Various (Writer)

Collects Adventures Of The X-Men #1-12, Adventures Of Spider-Man #3 And Material From Spider-Man Magazine #1-13 And Spider-Man Magazine Special #1-2. Animated-style adventures from one of the X-Men's greatest eras! Wolverine tackles the Hulk and Cyclops battles demons, while Beast and Gambit face Mister Sinister's evil machinations - with help from Spider-Man! When Magneto and his Brotherhood commit an act of war, it triggers the coming of Apocalypse! Gambit finds himself in the middle of a showdown between the Thieves and Assassins Guilds, and the X-Men battle Sabretooth, the Sentinels and more - but will they become media darlings in the maddening Mojoverse? And when the Shi'ar Empire, the Watcher, the Living Tribunal and more gather, brace yourself for a big finish on a cosmic scale! The X-Men take on Juggernaut, Mystique, the Morlocks and more in rarely seen tales!

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Marvel

448 pages, Paperback

First published February 28, 2023

About the author

For the Karate Kid actor, click here: Ralph Macchio

Ralph Macchio is an American comic book editor and writer, who has held many positions at Marvel Comics, including executive editor. Macchio is commonly associated with Daredevil, the Spider-Man line of comics and the popular Ultimate Marvel line. In Macchio's words, he "made probably the longest run on Daredevil of anyone."

Macchio is not related to the actor Ralph Macchio, but is nicknamed "Karate Kid" after that actor's famous role.

Reviews

[Niche · Rating 2 out of 5]

Mixed bag

Set in the same continuity as the 90s cartoon series, this is a collection of various shorts. The early very short stories that were only a handful of pages long were not great. They had an "lesson learned" vibe that made it feel more juvenile. The longer stories were better, but on the whole it suffered from the overly expository dialog that plagued older comics and a lot of plots/writing that were just okay.

[Yuuto · Rating 2 out of 5]

I don’t know what was worse, the horrible art in a few of the stories, or the ones that had the very 1980s “I learned an important lesson today” morals.

[Liz · Rating 4 out of 5]

a fun call-back! Probably wont watch the X-Men but this I enjoyed a lot

[Blake · Rating 3 out of 5]

(FYI I tend to only review one book per series, unless I want to change my scoring by 0.50 or more of a star. -- I tend not to read reviews until after I read a book, so I go in with an open mind.)

I'm finally going through my physical tv, film etc. tie in library owned book list, to add more older basic reviews. If I liked a book enough to keep then they are at the least a 3 star.

I'm only adding one book per author and I'm not going to re-read every book to be more accurate, not when I have 1000s of new to me authors to try (I can't say no to free books....)


First time read the author's work?: Yes

Will you be reading more?: Yes

Would you recommend?: Yes


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How I rate Stars: 5* = I loved (must read all I can find by the author)
4* = I really enjoyed (got to read all the series and try other books by the author).
3* = I enjoyed (I will continue to read the series)
or
3* = Good book just not my thing (I realised I don't like the genre or picked up a kids book to review in error.)

All of the above scores means I would recommend them!
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2* = it was okay (I might give the next book in the series a try, to see if that was better IMHO.)
1* = Disliked

Note: adding these basic 'reviews' after finding out that some people see the stars differently than I do - hoping this clarifies how I feel about the book. :-)

[Rakib Khan · Rating 3 out of 5]

X-Men The Animated Series is definitely one of the best animated shows ever based on Marvel characters. So my expectations were quite high when I decided to check this omnibus which was supposedly a continuation of the story of the characters from the show.

While there were definitely some high points in this collection, the varied nature of the stories seems to hold back some of the fun of this one. The drawing also seemed a bit too unorthodox and out of place at times.

Some of the writing was quite good, specially stuff by Ralph Macchio. The Magneto and Apocalypse issues, the Cyclops centric issue, the Jubilee vs. Sabretooth issue, the guest appearance of Hulk etc. were some of the best issues and the ending also does an interesting thing trying to connect it to the Marvel-616 continuity.

While this won't fill the whole left by the X-Men TAS on the fans, this collection is definitely worth the time and a great motivator for rewatching the show while we eagerly wait for X-Men '97.

This gets 3.5 out of 5 stars from me.

[Jameson · Rating 2 out of 5]

I don’t get it. Although the last issue is interesting: the TAS universe gave birth to the 616, which is the exact opposite of what really happened.

The writing and art aren’t always terrible, but they’re never quite good enough either.