This is an interesting place to start reading X-Men Legacy. Most of these issues are characters talking and the author found a somewhat clever way to remind the reader of Professor Xavier's backstory while still giving him a conflict he has to solve. I'm a pretty inexperienced X-Men reader and I didn't know almost any of the backstory referenced so I guess the refresher was nice. It never overwhelmed me, but I could see it doing so to newer readers. Then again, I have always heard X-Men Legacy w...

The draw to this book is Professor Xavier as the main lead. Hard to believe that this is probably the first monthly book that doesn't feature him as a supporting character and carries his name. This is the man who named his mutant militia after himself, "X" indeed.The story immediately picks up from the moment Bishop shot him in the head in Messiah CompleX. So it wasn't a temporal anomaly or art mishap that made the body disappear; it was Exodus and his Acolytes that spirited the body away. Exod...

I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this one, although I had no real expectations of it to start with. It focuses on Professor X as he deals with the consequences of the Messiah CompleX crossover, with a little help from Exodus, Magneto, Omega Sentinel and Gambit.'But, wait a minute,' I hear nobody cry, 'didn't the Prof die in Messiah CompleX?' Well, that's superhero comics for ya, folks! Nobody stays dead forever...

I like it and I kind of don't like it. Like, I begin to like the way a story is going, then it flips, and I think it's confusing just to be confusing and not well told. Anyway, this is about Xavier. The poor dude was shot right in the head by the insane man Bishop. Of course have his good old buddy Magneto to help bring him back along with a bunch of other mutants. Then we take a trip down memory lane with our good old professor in what could only be considered trippy as fuck and weird and tus e...

I always enjoy reading x-men

Great way to get back into the X-Men universe. Has a side-story after the main Prof X plotline that helps catch you up on most of the bigger story-archs that have happened in the past few years.

For all his strength, I wouldn't want to be Charles Xavier. You'd think getting shot in the head by Bishop was the worst that could happen to him, or even the subsequent abduction by the Acolytes, but that's nothing compared to getting resurrected by Karma, Exodus and Magneto, only to come back missing vital parts of yourself, and your agony doesn't end there, but you have a hit on your head, coz a surly old crone called Amanda Mueller knows of Sinister's plan to resurrect himself by possessing

As a long-time X-Men fan, one who's read pretty much everything that the X-Universe has to offer, I have a strong love for some of the old, more prominent stories of past issues. Mike Carey appearently does too, as he beings the X-Men: Legacy storyline with Xavier going through his memories and reliving a lot of key moments. With Professor X having lost a large part of his memories and past life, the rebuilding process begins with old and new events.The old stories being touched on is great, but...

I liked this. Less kaboom and splatter and a more ponderous character introspection.After comicbook death #gajillion, Xavier is resurrected. This would be annoying if it wasn't actually used to look at a character which has dominated the series and shaped the X-Men universe. It feels like Carey is turning the character over and over in his hands and asking himself what it is.The big contradiction of Xavier's character is he preaches peace while training an armed militia. He stresses that he shou...

After the events of Messiah Complex, Xavier was taken by Exodus and his crew. He is brought back to life but missing some memories. He tasks himself with journeying alone to recover those memories. However along the way, he realizes someone is after him. Not the greatest, but not the worst. Interesting plot just laid out without too much energy or excitement. Decent I suppose.

Spoiler Alert!After the events of Messiah Complex, Professor X is trying to piece his life back together, literally. After being shot in the head by Bishop, Xavier's body is taken by the Acolytes and Exodus repairs the damage to his brain, but isn't able to reconstruct all the memories in his head, so Xavier then goes on a mission to meet up with people from his past so that he can read their memories of him and try to reconstruct his life, even though he doesn't necessarily like the person that...

Interesting Not much of action but i don't care . Sometimes too much action gets boring . This one more about Charles xavier trying to get peace with what he's done in the past and trying to remember his past. Really interesting backstory but kind of confusing if you haven't read the old comics but you'll still understand most of it. It's really philosophical too . If you interesting in more backstory of prof. X. This one is for you and also this takes place directly after messiah complex.

A Xavier story! And a very interesting one, to boot.Following Messiah CompleX, Xavier suffers from heavy brain damage. As he regains his memory, we get a very intimate series of flashbacks detailing the most significant moments in his life. We learn some new facts, and we also glimpse some familiar moments in a new context. Also... a great (and sinister) reveal!The art is really off the chain. Scot Eaton is one of the best, and his shiny, gleaming renderings have so much detail, the almost look

Continuing the x-read of 2017/18....I really enjoyed this one. Some great character moments with Xavier, some introspection and self-examination of his past while taking a nostalgic tour of big moments in his life.It works well and is well-written. The only thing that I found odd at all was with Magneto's inclusion - all the talk of lost powers and such and no mention of his last appearance, when he was given the information from Destiny's diaries and told that he had not lost his powers. (?) Th...

Mike Carey was the author that brought me back into X-Men at the age of 19 after almost a decade hiatus. His run on X-Men and subsequently X-Men Legacy are, in my mind, nearly unmatched. He knows the X-Men as well as Frank Miller and Paul Dini know Batman. This collection follows the further aftermath of the (brilliant) Messiah Complex crossover and contains my single favourite X-Men issue of all time, Legacy #210.

Taking a book about a team of young mutants and changing its focus to be about the old guy that leads them and his quest for identity through memory is a daring move to say the least, and it works out well. As Charles Xavier dives into his past, we learn some things about the X-Men's past as well. This book is drenched in continuity. Mike Carey is clearly a big X-Men nerd, and seems determined to tie off dangling plot threads from 20 years ago and beyond, which is an amazing turn and one of the

You know what? I thought this was excellent. Xavier was cool. Magneto was cool. Everyone's motivations mostly made sense. People were a little more on edge than usual, but I accept it. I could use more Action Hero Xavier books.

Partly this felt like a best-of, flashbacks episode of every long-running TV show you've ever loved, which makes me wonder if Carey is really so self-indulgent to think he would do an awesome job to rewrite/retell/reinvent the decades of X-Men history. Partly this felt like an interesting way to reboot the X-world in the post-annihilation era. I think I enjoyed the storytelling, but I'll know better when we (hopefully) get into some non-flashback writing in the next book.

An interesting read coming out of Messiah Complex with Xavier as the main character and going into his head. The art is a bit scattered due to different artist being on the book, but overall a good start to a new story.

I really enjoyed the concept: Professor Xavier repairs his damaged mind by using his telepathy to recover and reconstruct his memories from the people closest to him.