REVIEW: All New X-Men, Volume One: Yesterday's X-Men

PLOT: It's a blast from the past as the original five students of Professor X - Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Iceman, Angel and Beast - are plucked from the past and brought to the present. But what they find, the state that their future selves are in and the state of Xavier's dream, is far from the future they dreamed of. And how will the X-Men of the present deal with their past coming crashing forward?

REVIEW: Another Marvel NOW! title that just doesn't impress like the New 52's do. All New X-Men is definitely all new, but at the same time the threat seems so familiar. Somehow, they have maintained that the X-Men's worst enemy is themselves and the human race. It's all a story that's been done before, which makes you wonder what the writers of this series were thinking. I'm usually a fan of Brian Michael Bendis' work, but this just fails to live up to its NOW! name. You get a chance to start over and be something completely different for a new generation and you tread on the same stuff you've been doing for years now. Cyclops is out of control, and becoming more like Magneto by the day it seems. Present day Beast brings back the original 5 X-Men to show them what their future holds. There's some interaction between the timelines, self-analyzing and characters putting some perspective on the times. Other than that, I wasn't all that impressed by yet another Marvel NOW! title. If you're an X-Men fan, I say pick it up and give it a shot, but if you're not then I'd just look for your favorite character's new Marvel NOW! title and try it first instead. Unfortunately, All New X-Men is fairly lackluster and failed to find a new voice in an industry that is in the process of re-defining itself to new audiences.

WRITING : ( 5 / 10 )

ARTWORK : ( 7 / 10 )

STORY : ( 3 / 10 )

COVERS : ( 7 / 10 )

AWESOME : ( 5 / 10 )

FINAL RATING : ( 5 / 10 )