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| | Uncanny X-Men Volume 1: Hope TPB |  | Author: Chuck Austen
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Media: Paperback
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 10.2 x 6.6 x 0.3
UPC: 759606110605
EAN: 0759606110605
ASIN: B000LSBR4E
Publication Date: January 15, 2003
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Product Description
Uncanny X-Men is relaunched with a new creative team to become a fast-paced action comic with the X-Men as soldiers fighting for peace between mutants and humans. Hope -- it's the one thing Professor X offers to troubled mutants cast out from human society. In the face of every crisis, it's this chance for a normal life that has kept the X-Men together as a family. But while they heal from their latest battle at the Xavier School, an unexpected new villain confronts the team -- one whose identity threatens to destroy the very core of the X-Men.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
 Great Place To Begin OR Continue Reading May 27, 2008
What i love about Hope is that you can just pick it up and get sucked into the X-men universe. You don't have to read all the previous volumes to get what's going on. And to me that makes Hope a easy 5 stars.
Also i love the team which consist of side character that sadly don't get enough time unless there in this collection of comics. Like Nightcrawler, angel, and so on. So go pick up this great volume of uncanny x-men and get ready to travel into one of the coolest universes out there.
 Mixed Feelings about this one, and its author December 10, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I read this TPB once, kind of shook my head over the bizarre direction that Austen took the merry mutants, and then...actually read it again.
"Hope" is an interesting arc of Uncanny because of all the new characters that are introduced into the mansion and to the team. Unlike most X-Fans, I actually kind of like Annie Ghazikanian, Havok's nurse after he becomes vegetative. Yes, her relationship with him (i.e., a nurse that becomes emotionally attached to him while she is taking care of all of his needs) is a little creepy, but she herself isn't a bad character. Annie doesn't like mutants (which we don't see justification for until "Dominant Species"), yet she is willing to take on the duties of seeing to the medical needs of Xavier Institutes entire gene-advanced population, no matter how bizarre they all are. She is a vulnerable character, and a nice foil to Northstar. She also had some excellent dialogue written for her right off the bat.
Even though Austen made the X-Men more angst-ridden than they were before, and definitely more potty-mouthed, he also gave some of the characters more depth than they had before.
The addition of Juggernaut to the book was something I never saw coming. But as we saw from previous X-books, Cain Marko is hysterically funny when he wants to be. (Note: Best book on Austen's run in regard to the development of Juggernaut's character is "Day of the Atom." Especially his ongoing fights with Iceman.)
Other standout characters in this book are Sammy (Squidboy) and Northstar. I like Northstar much better on this title than I ever did on Alpha Flight. I wasn't crazy about Annie's son Carter, since his age was indeterminate from how he was written, I couldn't tell how old he was supposed to be. Stacy X is a little too over the top for me, I didn't think the team needed a quasi-porn star with pheromone powers who literally (and figuratively) sheds her skin on the roster.
Some of the other things about this book that grabbed me were the narrative blurbs here and there, and an unexpected change in Nightcrawler's character. He's darker and more sarcastic. He actually has something meaningful to say in most frames instead of just exclaiming "Unglaublich!" when anyone gets attacked. I love the character descriptions of the team as they were flying in the Blackbird to answer Cain's distress call: "Iceman: Used to being the team's comic relief."
Villains like Black Tom were revamped and made much, much more psychotic. This is a good thing. I never really had much of an opinion about Black Tom before, but he's amazing in this issue.
There were some throwaway bits in this book. Iceman has a fling with a Genoshan refugee in the mansion, who is both vapid and airheaded, not to mention ridiculously drawn. Warren and Husk start to ackowledge each other's feelings, but they're just not an interesting couple. Logan doesn't have much time in the spotlight in this book, so if he is your favorite character, you will be disappointed by his reduced status.
Again, Chuck Austen is not my favorite author, at least not for this title, but this was not boring reading. My general thinking is that he is good with dialogue, but perhaps not plot development. It just seems like he hates anyone to have a happy ending, in any of the issues that comprise this novel. Bring on the angst, Chuck! Time to make the mutants suffer!
 Lacking, at best. August 25, 2004
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
By no stretch of imagination is this a good story. But even so, this is Chuck Austen at his finest. Sammy's story is somewhat interesting, and there's something to be said for the actual plot. It makes sense, at least, although absurd coincidences nd other contrivances are immediately apparent. The artwork is also decent. Not recommended, but it's bearable
I would absolutely advise against buying this, unless if you can find it at a very, very low price. It isn't worth more than four dollars.
uncanny x-men #410-415 March 16, 2004
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I liked this story. There's a good tension that runs through it as well as a thread of hope (which explains the title). It's got some interesting twists in it. And the art is good.
pretty good. beginning of chuck austen's run. February 19, 2004
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
this collection includes UXM#410-415. the first three (and also the fourth) form a story arc involving juggernaut soliciting the help of the x-men and a nurse named annie caring for the catatonic havok and joining the staff at the institute to care for him. the fifth issue focuses on northstar, who joins the the institute also. the issue w/ northstar is extremely well-done and makes the whole book worth reading, in my opinion. the last issue focuses on iceman and northstar.
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