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| X-Men: Day of the Atom | 
 enlarge | Authors: Chuck Austen, Salvador Larroca
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Category: Book
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $15.30
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 350172
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 6.6 x 0.6
ISBN: 078511534X
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9780785115342
ASIN: 078511534X
Publication Date: March 2, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: NEW BOOK UNREAD MAY HAVE REMAINDER MARK
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 Good and Bad... March 15, 2005
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Ok, Day of the Atom isnt a horrible tpb, and some of it is quite enjoyable.
The first arc has its moments (the first issue is pretty good), but overall is a mess. Its pretty boring, and just stupid. The characterization is pretty bad, although Iceman is a clown, hes not immature and stupid and wouldnt just start fighting a teamate when they have a serious crisis on their hands!
Also, i hated what he did to Gambit, who hardly talked for the whole issue, and then Austen decides to just blind him for no reason,its just messed up. And as if the whole Xorn thing wasnt confusing enough, Austen decides to bring in his twin brother or something, i dont even know what he was trying to do there. If he was trying to solve the xorn mystery thing, he failed and confused us even more, it should of just been left alone or solved in Excaliber.
The second arc in this tpb "heroes and Villain" is quite enjoyable. It has the new brotherhood attacking the mansion, a death, and some real emotional moments and great action scenes. And i always liked how Austen wrote Juggernaut.
This tpb also includes The 2004 x-men christmas issue, writen by Claremont, its really good, and has X-men from all the teams, and just shows them as a family during christmas, having snowball fights, exchanging gifts, and having fun.
Not the best x-men tpb but i recomend it.
 Goodbye Grant Morrison, hello Chuck Austen (bah) November 22, 2004
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
With Grant Morrison departing New X-Men after his prolific run, much criticized Uncanny X-Men scribe Chuck Austen received the duty of writing the book (dropping New from the title), along with his art partner Salvador Larroca as part of Marvel's X-Men: ReLoad event. Shifting the team lineup of the title a little bit, the new team of this book features Havok, Polaris, Iceman, Gambit, Rogue, Juggernaut, and of course, Wolverine. Day of the Atom starts out with all the X-Men members gathered at the mansion (the little joke with Wolverine telling Cyclops that he appreciates the faith in him, but he can't be on all the teams, is pretty funny), but it's all downhill from there, as it is revealed that Xorn (who Morrison had written as Magneto in disguise) is alive and well, has a brother, and there is so much more that readers will be stabbing themselves in the brain to sort it all out. Austen's writing is the typical mellow dramatic flare that drove Uncanny X-Men readers up a wall, while Larroca's art is still mouth watering. Austen's characterizations of Havok make him look like a wimp, while his take on Iceman make him come off like a whiny, cry baby. Not only that, but his Gambit story is pretty lame. Thankfully for X-Men readers, Austen has announced that he is leaving the book, and X-Statix and Human Target writer Peter Milligan is taking over pretty soon. All in all, Day of the Atom is worth a look due to the great art, but other than that this is better off left on the shelf.
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