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Emma Frost #2
Emma Frost, Vol. 2: Mind Games
Explore the younger days of the X-Men's most controversial member, collected in a convenient digest size! Finally free from her overbearing father, Emma Frost is on her own for the very first time. She's found love - but she's also found trouble, as her new boyfriend is in deep with the Boston mob! As Emma learns more "creative" ways of using her newfound telepathic abilities, will it be enough to help her escape the grasp of the criminal underworld?
144 pages, Paperback
First published February 1, 2005
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Karl Bollers
192 books22 followersBad Idea Managing Editor, former Valiant Ent. Sr Editor, Eisner Award-nominated writer, former Marvel Comics writer, former Sonic the Hedgehog comic book writer.
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August 22, 2022
This was another good one omg!
I loved this one and here we have Emma trying to make her own life but well its not going good and then we see her meeting this man named Troy and what it leads to but even then there is more troubles when a man named Lucien to whom he owes money to kidnaps and harasses him for money and then the whole kidnapping angle with Emma and how it gets her family involved but here we see the rise of the White Queen and her psychic powers and how she manipulates people into doing her bidding and its awesome to see telepathy being used that way and I just love how the writer shows the deadly side of Emma and explore it in an even more fascinating angle! Plus the art is so good here, each page a joy to read for real.
I loved this one and here we have Emma trying to make her own life but well its not going good and then we see her meeting this man named Troy and what it leads to but even then there is more troubles when a man named Lucien to whom he owes money to kidnaps and harasses him for money and then the whole kidnapping angle with Emma and how it gets her family involved but here we see the rise of the White Queen and her psychic powers and how she manipulates people into doing her bidding and its awesome to see telepathy being used that way and I just love how the writer shows the deadly side of Emma and explore it in an even more fascinating angle! Plus the art is so good here, each page a joy to read for real.
April 28, 2018
When I read comics/graphic novels I always pay special attention to the art work and I got to say FANTASTIC artwork in this one. Great drawings, great inking, great coloration and interesting perspectives. There wasn't one panel I didn't like. The target audience is 12+ but it felt more like an adult story but without being gruesome and bloody. Exciting story not one boring page and believable dialogues. I can't find anything wrong -besides maybe being too short ;)- therefore my first 5 star rating this year. This was my first one out of this series but I'm sure not my last one.
July 25, 2017
Continuing the great x-read of 2017...
Read this as 3 and a half stars.
I continue to be pleasantly surprised by this series. It is well-written and fun to read. There are some good twists and turns here and a slightly different take on the mutant/ superhero origin story.
That said, I’m not sure that there is anything so far that is important to the ongoing continuity – either of the x-books or of Emma’s life itself. I would like to see mention of some of these characters in the future, show that they had an impact on Emma’s life but I feel that this will be like other limited series and solo books in that they don’t often have much of an impact on the ongoing story. That is not this author’s fault, though. And at least we are getting an interesting story of Emma’s past with some really good character moments that could definitely play into her future path, particularly why she wants to be a teacher and help troubled mutant youth (and why she has a different way of going about teaching them how to use their powers than someone like Charles Xavier…).
Definitely worth a read if you’re a fan of the character in my opinion.
Read this as 3 and a half stars.
I continue to be pleasantly surprised by this series. It is well-written and fun to read. There are some good twists and turns here and a slightly different take on the mutant/ superhero origin story.
That said, I’m not sure that there is anything so far that is important to the ongoing continuity – either of the x-books or of Emma’s life itself. I would like to see mention of some of these characters in the future, show that they had an impact on Emma’s life but I feel that this will be like other limited series and solo books in that they don’t often have much of an impact on the ongoing story. That is not this author’s fault, though. And at least we are getting an interesting story of Emma’s past with some really good character moments that could definitely play into her future path, particularly why she wants to be a teacher and help troubled mutant youth (and why she has a different way of going about teaching them how to use their powers than someone like Charles Xavier…).
Definitely worth a read if you’re a fan of the character in my opinion.
January 23, 2020
🤩 that was a great read. I’ve loved Emma since I read her in Astonishing X-Men. In there we see that she has levels to her as do we all. I’m glad we finally get a glimpse into what formed the person she is today. From her learning herself and her powers. This book had me all in the feels. Must read for Emma fans....even the haters should read.
September 3, 2021
Not bad. Emma is down on her luck and we see her honing her skills.
Art was good. And strangely the covers seemed more appropriate for the previous set of books. These covers imply she's in school but she's not.
Art was good. And strangely the covers seemed more appropriate for the previous set of books. These covers imply she's in school but she's not.
April 2, 2019
Se deja leer pero al final del todo no es gran cosa. Entretiene eso si.
March 7, 2020
Again, Emma’s origins are fascinating to me. This section didn’t speak to me as much as learning all her family’s dynamics and the past with them, but I still had a lot of fun reading through it.
March 7, 2024
3.5/5.0
February 23, 2025
3.25 stars
March 14, 2015
How did the Hellfire Club's White Queen become the woman she is today? As one might expect, there is quite the story behind the woman's rise in power and self-confidence.
As stated in my review of Volume 1, I found the first book, collecting issues 1 through 6, to be quite disappointing. Volume 2, giving us issues 7 through 12, builds – and improves – upon it. Same writer, different artist – since the art wasn't the issue in the first book, this substitution was surprising and could have been disastrous. Fortunately, there was no loss (and as expected, no gain) in quality or in storytelling resulting from this change in personnel.
Writer Karl Bollers, however, has managed to up his game with this second set of 6 books. Emma has left home, has left her family, and is attempting to make her way in the world without benefit of her father's money and influence. Her mental powers help, but her lack of understanding and control over them results in their not helping all that much, at least not to start. As one would expect, her abilities increase over time – but she is still a teen and cannot be expected to possess an adult's experiences. This is true in day-to-day life, and in the use of the power of a mutant psychic.
My favorite aspect of this book may seem a bit esoteric to some, as it is more of a technical issue than a plot point. The writer and artist manage to team up in this volume to successfully show, in a graphical medium, no less, a character actually using psychic powers. Think about this – comics are a visual medium, while mental capacity is most certainly not. Early X-Men artist Werner Roth might have shown Professor X bowing his head and squinting, perhaps bringing his hands to his temples, while little lines radiated from his head. Pagualayan is more subtle; in some cases, the technique is simply the careful – and prolific – placement of captions around the character.
Perfect? No. An improvement over Volume 1? Definitely.
P.S. As with the first volume in this series, this collection of pre-published comics is not simply a reprint of the first/next X books in the series – there is a theme to the comics reprinted here, and a clear conclusion to the story when we hit the end of the last comic in the collection.
RATING: 3.5 stars, rounded down to 3 stars where necessary.
As stated in my review of Volume 1, I found the first book, collecting issues 1 through 6, to be quite disappointing. Volume 2, giving us issues 7 through 12, builds – and improves – upon it. Same writer, different artist – since the art wasn't the issue in the first book, this substitution was surprising and could have been disastrous. Fortunately, there was no loss (and as expected, no gain) in quality or in storytelling resulting from this change in personnel.
Writer Karl Bollers, however, has managed to up his game with this second set of 6 books. Emma has left home, has left her family, and is attempting to make her way in the world without benefit of her father's money and influence. Her mental powers help, but her lack of understanding and control over them results in their not helping all that much, at least not to start. As one would expect, her abilities increase over time – but she is still a teen and cannot be expected to possess an adult's experiences. This is true in day-to-day life, and in the use of the power of a mutant psychic.
My favorite aspect of this book may seem a bit esoteric to some, as it is more of a technical issue than a plot point. The writer and artist manage to team up in this volume to successfully show, in a graphical medium, no less, a character actually using psychic powers. Think about this – comics are a visual medium, while mental capacity is most certainly not. Early X-Men artist Werner Roth might have shown Professor X bowing his head and squinting, perhaps bringing his hands to his temples, while little lines radiated from his head. Pagualayan is more subtle; in some cases, the technique is simply the careful – and prolific – placement of captions around the character.
Perfect? No. An improvement over Volume 1? Definitely.
P.S. As with the first volume in this series, this collection of pre-published comics is not simply a reprint of the first/next X books in the series – there is a theme to the comics reprinted here, and a clear conclusion to the story when we hit the end of the last comic in the collection.
RATING: 3.5 stars, rounded down to 3 stars where necessary.
February 10, 2016
Another story about young Emma Frost. She's out on her own, trying to make her way in the world without her family wealth, and finds herself in trouble after trying to help a friend with his debt. A bit better than the previous story.
August 21, 2012
Quick read. Riveting plot; quite a page turner!
January 16, 2014
Genial. magníficamente escrito y te mantiene en vilo y con ganas de saber mas de principio a fin.
June 20, 2014
3.5 stars
July 28, 2014
Hrmm. Well. I'm trying to like this.
September 30, 2014
I love the series. I have almost all the comics I only need two more.
March 12, 2024
2019 review:
It was interesting to see how Emma Frost dealt with making her way without her family and the artwork was as great as in the last volume too.
It was interesting to see how Emma Frost dealt with making her way without her family and the artwork was as great as in the last volume too.
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