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Really? An easter egg shaped woman who steals babies into a spaceship and a annoying little boy who turns his wheelchair into a spaceships, cars and computers with the aid of a trachcan. For every page of interesting character motives we get 3 pages of crap. I sold this garbage the day after I finished it.
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This is a must have for the X Men fan. No current story from recent X men saga has even come close to the late 80's early 90's mini series. except maybe Messiah Complex. There is a ton of character developement, fans actually get to see the characters as they were before many marvel writers ruined them. Rogue actually is written with a southern accent. Wolverine is a decent leader, and yet still has his berserker rage. Well you get the picture buy the book & you wont be disappointed.
Rating:  -
Originally released in the late 80's, Inferno was one of the first major X-Men crossover events, and was one of the longest. Ostensibly, Inferno was supposed to be about the fallout that occurred when New Mutant Magik unwittingly opened a gateway from Limbo right into New York City, unleashing a flood of demons to terrorize the populace. The focus soon shifts to the real reason this story matters in the long run - the truth about Jean Grey, Phoenix, Madelyn Pryor, Cyclops, and Mr. Sinister's role in manipulating them all.
The overall storytelling by Chris Claremont and Louise Simonson works pretty well. I thought there was way too much time spent on the power struggles in Limbo, and the initial clash between the X-Men and X-Factor was less than believable (don't any of these characters believe in talking before fighting?), but the Madelyn/Sinister storyline was very compelling. Claremont's dialogue was ridiculous as usual, with characters issuing paragraph-length monologues, explaining the nature of their powers every other page, and conducting complex psychoanalysis in the heat of battle. Several plot threads were cleaned up in this series (most importantly X-Factor knows that the X-Men are indeed alive, and the X-Men know that X-Factor really isn't persecuting mutants), but just as many are created. I think the Jean Grey issues are still ongoing 20 years later!
The art in this volume is hit-and-miss (mostly miss). Marc Silvestri, who made a name for himself with his creations Witchblade and the Darkness, handles the penciling chores for the Uncanny X-Men issues, which are by far the best illustrated of the bunch. Walt Simonson, whose work on Thor was absolutely breathtaking, seems completely out of place here. His work on the X-Factor issues is serviceable at best. Bret Blevins' work on the New Mutants is the weakest of the whole collection. Fortunately there isn't as much New Mutants material in this book.
Overall, Inferno is a very interesting X-Men crossover event, and marks an important chapter in the X-Men continuity. It's a flawed series that could have been a lot better (and perhaps a lot shorter), but it's still a fun ride that most serious X-Men fans owe it to themselves to check out.
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This is in my opinion a great example of how not to create comics and exemplifies everything I did not like about the X-Men of the era.
The problems with this work are many. Primarily an overly-convoluted continuity involving multiple clones, deaths & resurrections, and alternate time-line deaths that only the most avid reader of every X-Title in the Marvel stable could keep straight. Secondary to the needlessly complex continuity where there is always a spare copy of a character somewhere to bring back is the adolescent soap opera. Scott loves Jean Grey. Jean Grey loves Scott. Wolverine loves Jean Grey, Jean Grey maybe loves Wolverine. Scott got married during one of the periods Jean Grey was dead. His estranged wife has an affair with his brother. Is this the X-Mansion or Peyton Place? Infidelity, heartbreak and relationship troubles are all adult ideas that should elevate a comic strip but in this case remain at a purely sophomoric adolescent soap-opera level.
The inter-squad bickering of X-Men and X-Factor, even under the influence of the evil taking over the earth is really just too much. It's really old hat to have groups of superheroes fight when they meet and are we to believe that the new X-Men are really stupid enough to believe the original X-Men are now hunting down mutantkind. That's a lot to swallow. Thank goodness the New Mutants and X-Terminators behaved better than their elders, which leads me into the unlikeability of the characters. Really the X-Men and to a lesser extent X-Factor are portrayed as shallow, venal and downright mean with redeeming features few and far between. Colossus stands out as doing what is right, but the humanization of the heroes via various psychological flaws makes them rather less likeable and leaves the reader wishing they'd go get the centuries of therapy they all obviously need.
The art in all 3 comics this combines, X-Men, New Mutants and X-Factor is average at best, in the case of X-Men, and downright bad in the case of Walt Simonson's X-Factor work. Simonson had done great work on Thor so I don't understand the sloppiness of his craft in this title.
Combine an overly-complex soap opera with weak art and unlikeable characters and you have a long, unpleasant read.
Rating:  -
Inferno is by far my favorite x-men x-over. It is so intriguing and exciting, and the art is superb, as is the writing. I found no cheesy dialogue whatsoever which is nice.
There are a couple plot threads that intertwine, and the nice thing is that there is an introduction that explains the background. Anyways, the layout it this: Madelyne Pryor (The Goblyn Queen) strikes a deal with the Limbo demon Nastrith that through the sacrifice of her own son, a bridge will form between Limbo and Earth, and the Earth with be destroyed. Throw in the Mister Sinister factor, as well as problems with Jean Grey and Cyclops along the way.
Meanwhile, the other major storyline focues on Illyana Rasputin transforming more and more into the Darkchylde as the New Mutants try to save her from damnation. Oh, and while all this is going on, demons from Limbo have already invaded via a teleportation disc and a pentagram, transforming all of Manhattan into Limbo itself.
Its a lot to take in, but its very interesting and I was always left wanting more after each issue. There is tons of action and the villains include Nastrith, S'ym, Mister Sinister, The Marauders, and limbo demons. Our heroes include the X-Men, X-Factor, the New Mutants, and the X-Terminators.
This is one huge x-over, consisting of 12 issues, 3 of which are double-sized. My only complaint was that the 2 Excalibur issues were left out and so were the 4 X-Terminator issues. The Excalibur issues were stand alone I guess, but the X-Terminator ones would have explained better some of the background. Nevertheless, I was completely satisfied with the 12 issues anyways. I guess the other ones would have interefered with the focus probably.
Anyways, I definately reccomend this x-over if you are a X-Men fan. Espciailly if you like reading issues from the past, this is a good read. Alot of what happened in Inferno still echoes storylines recently.
I know Amazon doesn't have this one in its own warehouse, but you can get it directly from www.bn.com (Barnes and Noble).
Inferno contains: X-Men 239-243, X-Factor 36-39, and New Mutants 71-73.
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