Universe X, Vol. 2 Paperback – January 1, 2007

Great condition throughout. Small significant crease in cover, just as described.

I just received this book and haven't had a chance to read all of it, but from what I have read of it, it is very well written, I have always have heard to read these particular books, Earth X, paradise X, and universe X , that they were of a marvel story line you just had to read if you were a marvel fan, I believe that it's true, I would highly recommend it.

Part two of universe X wraps up all the loose ends from the first part, it also contains some of the most interesting twists in any comic I have ever read.

As the with the other volumes of this series this book shouldn't be read as a stand-alone, the storyline is simply too convoluted to understand. As it is, even with the knowledge of the previous books I found myself wondering about certain plot points. A flow chart would be helpful here. The art is fine, as is the writing. This book, the entire series makes the reader work, light entertainment this is not.One thing that bothers me about the whole series is the amount of money a fan has to spend to get the whole thing. The books become more expensive as the series continue, which is a bit of a turn off. As I said, the series must be read as a continous story, and that means shelling out big bucks. Consider yourself warned.

Just an amazing story! This series is the most amazing thing I have ever read in my life!

"Universe X, Volume 2" is the second half of the middle part of the "X" trilogy created by writers Alex Ross and Jim Krueger. If you have not read " Earth X " and " Universe X Volume 1 ," then you have no reason to pick up this trade paperback collection because you will be completely lost as to why Peter Parker is a policeman, T'Challa is half-man and half-panther, Thor is a woman, and dozens of other twists on the regular Marvel Universe. This volume collects "Universe X" #8-12, "Universe X: X," "Universe X: Beasts," "Universe X: Iron Men," and the "Universe X Omnibus." Now, the whole idea of the "X" saga is to really go out on a limb with the Marvel Universe, but by the time we get to these stories we are way out there and I do not think the branches are capable of supporting the weight.In terms of what has happened in the first half of the "Universe X" story the big problem is that because the Celestial embryo is gone the mass of the Earth is reduced, which causes shifts in both polarity and orbit resulting in catastrophic climate changes. Meanwhile, the Tong of Creel is running around collecting the pieces of the Absorbing Man, Pope Immortus has founded a church advocating mutant rule, and Captain America ends up sacrificing his life to save the Mar-Vell child. In the wake of Cap's death, the superheroes that remain on Earth are following the reborn Captain Mar-Vell in his quest to bring an end to Death. At this point memories of various stories in which Death dies and human existence becomes much worse, immortality aside, and I am reading everything with one eyebrow arched. But killing Death actually matters more for the dead, who are still "alive" as far as they know, then it does for the living, who all have superpowers because of the Terrigen Mists that Reed Richards is trying to negate with his string of "Human Torches."I read one issue a night in this collection to get a sense of each story on its own and re-create how it came out originally, where you could not race through the entire thing in one sitting. But by this time in the sage the weight of everything is achieving an escalating sense of pomposity (I only made things worse because every time I picked up this book my inner voice would announce, "And now more deep thoughts..."). Beyond that, the effort to account for seemingly everyone and everything in the Marvel Universe is complicating the narrative at an exponential rate. On balance, what was happening with the traditional Marvel villains (Loki, Doctor Doom, Thanos, etc.), was proving to be more interesting than what was happening with the heroes. Ultimately the focal character here become the Absorbing Man, and why it was rather intriguing that because of his powers it is Crusher Creel who becomes the most dangerous person on the planet. But when we get to the end game here and how the Absorbing Man becomes the solution instead of the problem, I was taken to the comic books of my youth where all sorts of outlandish things happened (albeit, not in the Marvel Universe, if you get my drift), which is not a good thing.The "X" trilogy concludes in the two parts of "Paradise X," which will be republished as trade paperbacks in the future and I am going to see how this one plays out. Given what happens at the conclusion of "Universe X" I can readily understand how a paradise will need be created, and I hold out hope that I will better appreciate the direction Ross and Krueger take the story and their characters. I may well end up limiting my recommendation to just "Earth X" by the time I have read the entire saga, but I am not there quite yet. In the afterword to this collection, Ross revels in the carte blanche they had in these comic books to play with the characters in the Marvel Universe to their heart's content (and beyond). Once you buy into that idea I think you are ultimately doomed, because when it comes to alternative reality comic book stories I would once again take refuge in the commonplace that less is more.

It was a missed delivery, eventually I received it love it.

Great condition!

Very quick delivery, happy with purchase.

Fast delivery, thankfully. But for a product labelled 'very good' it had its fair share of issues on the exterior, especially in the book's spine. It seems as if it was stashed away in some basement. Thankfully it is only mininal damage but still, not very reasonable to labelled 'very good' and stock images on Amazon won't help with the consumer determining how a product looks.Everything else was ok, the interiors were perfect and it was in good shape

Universe X follows on from Earth X and is set in a universe alternate to the real Marvel universe. Jim Kreuger and Alex Ross manage to tie together everything in the Marvel Universe so that it makes sense, even though it was built by diverse hands.In the future mankind has been mutated into supermankind. Children are no longer born and being a superhero means little. Reed Richards has developed a method for undoing the mutation but many seek to stop him, including the Tong of Creel who are trying to reassemble the Absorbing Man who was shattered after he killed the Avengers. Meanwhile, we learn that Mephisto is responsible for creating endless alternate realities in order to maintain his own existence and Captain Marvel is working to defeat Death.It's a heady brew and if you like the big picture then Universe X is great. But there are a few leaps in logic in the story as heroes figure things out without evidence to back it up, and that makes it a little confusing. There are also some horrendous typos in there too. There's good art in there from Dougie Braithwaite and other hands.If I have a complaint it's that the writers fail to really bring the story back to a personal level, and I'm still not clear on why Mephisto was doing what he was doing.