Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN num: 9780871359223
ISBN number: 0871359227
Label: Marvel Comics
Manufacturer: Marvel Comics
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 224
Printing Date: November 01, 1992
Publishing house: Marvel Comics
Sale Popularity Level: 477682
Studio: Marvel Comics
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don't bother with this, unless you meet the following:
1. you are 13 years or younger
2. you need this to complete your xmen collection
3. you read at a fourth grade level
i may be being really really harsh here...the problem is the new mutant and xfactor issues, the xmen issues are actually pretty entertaining and have decent artwork. buy this at your own risk. i give it 2 stars based on the fact that lee was involved.
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Magneto, Apocalypse, Sinister, the Hellfire Club, the Sentinels... the major arcana of X-Men foes, and yet there is one evil that ranks above even this rogues gallery of dark demigods: human fear and hatred of mutant kind. The Genoshan government is human bigotry toward mutants incarnate; all which Magneto had warned the rest of Homo sapiens superior against made real and localized to a tiny island that built a utopia on the backs of a slave class of mutants.
In the X-Tinction Agenda an entire nation declares war upon the X-Men (and subsequently X-Factor and the New Mutants). To ensure their victory, the militant, mutant hating Genoshans form a dark alliance with Cameron Hodge.
At the time the war on the X-Men is declared, the X-Men hardly exist as a team, a Diaspora that has been in place for some time (Xavier was off planet, expected not to return and nearly every X-Man was long ago counted for dead). A small number of them have regrouped in the ruins of the X-Mansion, still devastated after the climax of Inferno, but the New Mutants, under the care of newcomer Cable, are also in residence, and chafe at the sudden invasion of their home by X-Men who have seemingly risen from the grave. Storm, who at the time had physically reverted to a 13-year-old form, and several of the New Mutants are kidnapped by a squad of Magistrates in a lightening strike assault of the campus.
Although the kidnapping was widely publicized, the US government was taking little action against the abduction of children on their own soil, and so the remnant X-Men, X-Factor and the remaining New Mutants gather together to coordinate a clandestine rescue effort. Meanwhile, one of the New Mutants held captive is apparently killed, the rest of the now-powerless captives make an escape attempt, and one of the groups of fractured X-Men (Wolverine and Psylocke, along with Jubilee) launch a rescue mission of their own, and discover one of their own (Havok) is a point man for the enemy.
What ensues is a desperate battle for the heroic mutant children of Xavier against an entire nation of humans that view mutants as little more than a convenient resource, and a mad cyborg butcher that just won't die. Death, mutilation, injustice and incarceration are all levied upon the X-Men, X-Factor and the New Mutants, making any hope for victory as bitter as it is slight.
The X-Tinction Agenda brought to a close the established order of the X-universe of the (latter half of) 1980s. The X-Men reformed as a team once more. X-Factor questioned their decision to remain apart from the X-Men and would soon return to the fold. The New Mutants, under the radical mentorship of Cable, and no doubt further swayed by the horror endured in Genosha, took a more militant path and abandoned their position as mere students of the Xavier Institute to become soldiers in the war for mutant rights (and survival) without the oversight of the X-Men (who they viewed as being poor stewards in Xavier's absence). The X-Men had long been scattered and divided for most of the '80s, and their struggles were mainly defensive pursuits of survival; but following the X-Tinction agenda there would be more unity between the extended family of the X-Men, and the series would adopt a much more apocalyptic tone for the rest of the `90s. In the X-Tinction Agenda one sees the state of Genosha as it originally was, a slave nation ruled by human prejudice. Eventually it would come to be regarded as the mutant homeland, undergoing a series of trials such as the dictatorship of Magneto and a genocidal assault by Sentinels under the control of Cassandra Nova. This volume is both an ending and a beginning that reverberates on into even current issues of the uncanny X-Men.
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right lets make this very clear there are only 3 good issues out of the nine here...the actual x men issues with art by jim lee and scott williams are essential...claremonts words and lees pencils have always been a good combo...the fight scenes are dramatic and exciting and everythings...well...everythings just right
however
the other 6 coming from new mutants and x factor are crap...the arts rubbish and especially by the last 2 chapters you just want it to end...seriously it just drags on...they lose their powers get em back...still they get beat down. dont know about you but i dont particularly enjoy watching the x men lose fight after fight after fight (which they seemed to do a lot of in the late 80s early 90s) unfortuantely its quite an essential story as it brings all the x men back together after a few years apart
buy it for jim lee and try to stomach the other stories
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I didn't come into this story expecting it to be great, but it was a whole lot worse than I thought. With the exception of the issues featuring Jim Lee, the art is horrible. The coloring is atrocious, some of the worst I have ever seen in a comic book story. Even though some of the writers are quite good, here they all collectively sucked, even Chris Claremont. Claremont's dialogue has never been his strong suit, but here it's just rediculous. The scripting by the rest of the crew is even worse. The only thing I could think about while reading this was how much money I wasted on it. Even the title is stupid. Avoid "X-Tinction Agenda" at all costs. If your looking for a good X-men crossover, pick up "Bloodties", which is kinda/sorta the same story as this, but much better. Hell, pick up anything as long as it's not this.
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Good:
-Jim Lee's Art
-The crossover has lasting impact to the X-Men mythology
-Plenty of action
-It's good to see our heroes hit the lowest level and beaten to the ground in a mutant hostile territory and somehow come out on top in the end.
Bad:
-The New Mutants and X-Factor artists
-If Cable didn't spell the end for the New Mutants as we knew them, then this crossover surely destroyed them.
-This fast paced type of crossover would become the model for all other crappy crossovers in the future. Mutant Massacre was classic. Inferno complicated, but I liked it. I enjoyed X-tinction Agenda, but Marvel got out of hand with the crossovers after this.
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