For millions of years, mankind’s place on Earth was unchallenged – until five young people paved the way for a new kind of human! While students at the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters, Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Angel, Beast and Iceman taught the world what it meant to be X-Men. These are the hidden stories of the team that laid the foundation of a mutant dynasty! Written by Jeff Parker (AGENTS OF ATLAS) and illustrated by Roger Cruz (ARAÑA). Collecting X-MEN: FIRST CLASS #1-8.The X-Men these day...

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This was a lot of fun. Light hearted compared to some of the X-Men collections I've read. Great art, a cool look at the beginning of Xavier's school. I'd read more in this series.

3.5 stars.

After bringing most of the X-Men movies this week I wanted to get a feel for what they were like in the comics. X-Men comics have always been incredibly intimidating, but I was told this was a good place to start and I concur. This comic was a fun series of adventures set in the early days of the original five X-Men.I will say Jeff Parker's dialogue was a little on the nose at times. Characters would occasionally spout lines that were clearly intended to inform the audience about a character's p...

A fun update to the original X-Men team, allowing for curious readers to get caught up in an 8-issue mini specifically designed to do just that. In this mini, Parker hands us the original five: Scott, Jean, Warren, Hank, and Bobby, and puts them at the Xavier school, only this time they're older teenagers (it's noted they're in a college environment), and Xavier is only about 10% as creepy as he was back in the day (there's still occasional mind-reading-without-permission). It's a really fun boo...

For a set of six stories that try to simultaneously transport the original cast of Xavier's School to the modern age of internet and pop culture while also filling in fun inconsequential stories about the first year of the Xavier School. It was fun to see the kids interact, with a predominate focus on Bobby Drake's perspective. For feeling like filler issues, it was enjoyable and some good character studies.

Not to be confused with the 2011 X-Men film adaptation that features the young, hot versions of Professor X and Magneto going all-out bittersweet bromance of the same name, Jeff Parker's kiddie-to-early-teen series is nothing nearly as gripping but is rather so insistently fucking adorbs with a heartfelt sincerity that matches its varied visual color and illustrations courtesy of artist Roger Cruz.Though basically a re-vamp of the sixties version where the core five as mentioned before have the

A bargain find at the local thrift shop found right between the store’s hundredth stocked copy of Twilight and a book about Carrot Top…It’s a movie tie-in without being a movie tie-in. Marvel who doesn’t own the film rights to the X-Men wanted to somehow cash in with a same-titled yet unique-from-the-film volume. So they contrived some tales from Charles Xavier’s long lost notes – a cockamamie Untold Tales of the X-Men, if you will. *This one harks back to the original five X-Kids.Not all the wa...

The initial volume of the less angsty more 'fun' tales of the original X-Men team. First Class volume 1 #1-6 and Special. A pretty pointless addition to the X-men mythos! 4 out of 12.

This book was incredibly fun to read. The writer has done an excellent job with the early lives of the very first X-Men. The vivid personalities of different characters, their lack of experience, the jokes and dialogues are exceptionally well done.I wasn't a very huge fan of the art at first, but it grew on me. I have to admire the fact that the artist has added lots of details and easter eggs in the book.

This is a really fun and relaxing read! There are eight different stories featuring the characters: Angel, Cyclops, Iceman, Beast, Marvel Girl and Professor X. I picked this up because the X-Men are probably the superheroes I know the least about. This is a really nice read. You don't really find out the back stories of each of the characters, but it's a really good first novel for newbies like me. I would recommend this and I already put the second graphic novel in the series in my "to read" on...

2 stars for adults4 stars for kidsThis was cute. If you're looking for a kick-ass mutant story, skip this one and move on to something else.I'm going to assume that the target audience here is kids, because there is not much here that an adult would find interesting. It reads like one of my son's Marvel Adventres books. In other words, if you're looking for a comic that's appropriate for the younger set, then this one would do just fine.

It's a very lighthearted read. The stories are all separated and are very much based in humour.Although I've never been a fan of the original "first class" lineup, they are actually fairly likeable in this run. It's a fairly enjoyable read with a stronger appeal to kids. Remember: don't expect any high stakes or serious moments and don't expect big villains, serious conflict or much reference to the quintessential mutant discrimination that is synonymous with X-Men.

2,5/5I liked it, but it was a rather simple, uninteresting way to get into the X-Men universe. I think I'm going to jump from this directly to the Phoenix Saga story arc and more fascinating stories about my favorite mutants.

First Class is easy reading, episodic, and easy on the eyes. Though I'm unsure where each issue lands in the timeline, I'm not too bothered by it. It's enough to know we're teamed up with literally the 1st class. From what I can tell, this volume doesn't replace the original 1960's run, just adds to it somewhere. I hesitate to use the word "filler" because there's so much negative baggage that comes with that word and this was genuinely a fun read.

Well I’m about to seriously delve into X-Men, which I have been avoiding until now for 2 reasons. Firstly, it’s difficult to know where to start. I would like some sort of origin to start me off, but I hear that the pre-Claremont issues from the 60s are not that good. Secondly, there are so many issues of X-Men and its spin-offs that I was afraid of opening a Pandora’s Box given that I’m a bit OCD about collecting stuff.Anyway, I decided to give it a go, starting with ‘First Class’ from the mid-...

This is an excellent new series by Jeff Parker (art by Cruz), and this trade consists of 8 stories. The beauty of First Class is the novelty ironically mixed with nostalgia. Although the stories are all new, the setting and time is back when the X-men first began with Beast, Marvel Girl, Angel, Iceman, and everyone's least favorite X-man, Cyclops. There are many guest appearances including Dr. Strange, which allude to things that happen in the future or in other series. Rarely do I laugh out lou...

True story: on my way home from picking this up at the library where I'd put it on hold, a friendly stranger sitting across from me on the train asked which one I was reading, so I held up the cover for him to see. "How long have you been reading comics?" he asked, and I just shrugged. Since forever, really, since I could read. I grew up on Tintin and Asterix and Suske en Wiske, at first mostly in Dutch. I tend to forget that not everybody reads comics, that they're kind of marginalized even whe...

Delightful! Fun! I like the X-Men, but it can be hard to read X-Men because (like any comic series, actually) I haven't read every previous issue and don't always know what's going on. This series can be a great introduction to X-Men, I feel, but it also served Marvel fans well since various other characters "guest starred". It was also just an enjoyable, light-hearted read!