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[X-Maniac]

There are five copies in stock at amazon.co.uk

http://www.amazon.co.uk/X-Men-Chara...id=1164568488/ref=sr_11_1/026-7007585-0802056

It says it's a paperback, but mine that was ordered from that same link was the hardback. It's a VERY big book, but you can get free delivery if you are in the UK. Total cost £23.10 in the UK, not sure what it goes up to if you are overseas.

That link also shows 34 copies for sale in the Amazon marketplace of new and used products.

There are plenty available.

 

[Rac]

wow it would cost you less to import it

Yeah, I'm going to do that.

 

[04nbod]

just ordered that book x maniac from the link- will report back upon delivery

 

[Pauluz]

I got the book yesterday and it's worth money! It's awesome and its HUGE!

 

[04nbod]

mine was meant to be delivered today- didn't

 

[04nbod]

finally got it. it was huge- you think what the art of X2 collectors edition was big- this is twice the size . it is bigger in cover size and thickness. the cover is a hardback soft cover. the picture is indented into the cover. the red around the x is all shiny and the pic is covered in plastic. the inside is full of writing that will take me hours to read- it is NOT a picture book. Anyone tried reading it- i can barely carry it!

 

[javon]

Wow! I GOTTA get this book! Can you scan a page with Storm and Magneto please?t: Little too high for my taste, I'll wait a while though.

 

[Pyroschik]

awesome pix!! I want that book!!

 

[BMM]

Wow! I GOTTA get this book! Can you scan a page with Storm and Magneto please?t: Little too high for my taste, I'll wait a while though.

I'll try and post some soon.

 

[javon]

^Okay, thanks. Must be really recent images if they have Rogue with Sunfire's powers.

 

[ChlorineFriday]

I got it for my birthday, it's the best thing ever. *has read it 25234132545 times*

 

[BMM]

Here you go javon.

This picture of Storm (below) is featured in a different book called Marvel: The Characters and Their Universe. It's a big, two-page spread . . . and probably one of my favorite classic pictures of Storm.

 

[X-Maniac]

BMM, considering your obvious love for the source material, do you think the X-movies have done justice to it?

I was watching Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow again last night with a friend and revelling in its fantasy elements - the giant robots, prehistoric monsters, mythical worlds etc, not to mention the incredible CGI within that largely computer-generated movie. Afterwards, I wished to myself that I could see the X-Men's more fantastical elements on the big screen. Stuff like Magneto's base beneath an Antarctic volcano, Asteroid M, The Savage Land, the M'Krann crystal, Shi'ar, The Living Monolith, the more cosmic Phoenix.... Only someone like Peter Jackson could bring those to life successfully (Singer would tone it down, Ratner might ham it up!)...

I'm sure some might dismiss the Savage Land as impossible to bring to life in an X-movie, but it could work if slightly reworked (and perhaps merged with the idea of the Krakoa island) as an eperimentation facility where someone (Sinister? Apocalypse?) was tampering with evolution and genetics to ensure the survival of the mutant gene, protect the gene pool and perfect the mutant strain. In the comics, it was where Magneto created his 'mutates' (artificially mutated humans); the dinosaurs could similarly be reimagined as genetic abnormalities resulting from experiments on animals.

 

[Angamb]

X-maniac, I understand you. The xworld is so so big, that the xfilms seems a little poor. I'd like to see something bigger, but good drama too, so things as big as the ones you say could end with a more action film than a drama. It's a difficult work to combine both elements, but I think is possible, of course.

 

[X-Maniac]

X-maniac, I understand you. The xworld is so so big, that the xfilms seems a little poor. I'd like to see something bigger, but good drama too, so things as big as the ones you say could end with a more action film than a drama. It's a difficult work to combine both elements, but I think is possible, of course.

Yes. It was seeing those pictures that BMM posted that made me think how diluted the movies are at times.

I keep thinking that only Peter Jackson could do the comics justice. The X-Men is a mix of the epic and fantastical with the serious and socio-political and the personal and intimate.

In terms of the personal and intimate, we haven't seen many scenes of character depth between the X-characters - in the first movie Cyclops, Storm and Jean were very one-dimensional. I'd have liked to see more warmth between them. They were as cold and soulless as employees who just happen to work in the same office building. No real bond of friendship was shown. We only saw Cyclops and Jean's romance in X3 and that was only for a few seconds before he seemingly got atomised. That's why Jean's sacrifice at the end of X2 had limited emotional impact. We didn't know them well enough to care and we saw more of her with Wolverine in X2. There just wasn't enough character 'downtime' to show the X-Men in the setting of their mansion home. X3 did try to give us more of this - Bobby and Kitty talking in her room, the scene of them pond-skating, Storm on the balcony, and many other scenes at locations in and out of the school. .

The serious and socio-political themes were covered pretty well in all three movies, though the cure was perhaps less explored than it might have been in X3.

And the epic and fantastical were done in a toned down way. A lot of stuff was either scaled down or omitted. X3 tried hard to give us some of the more fantastical elements - Beast, Angel, Danger Room, Sentinel, Storm's flight, the various weird and wonderful Brotherhood/Morlock mutants, the Dark Phoenix, Magneto's awesome power... All that was a pretty big order to fill, so some still ended up being scaled back, sometimes to remain in keeping with the previous movies. Oh well.

 

[BMM]

BMM, considering your obvious love for the source material, do you think the X-movies have done justice to it?

I was watching Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow again last night with a friend and revelling in its fantasy elements - the giant robots, prehistoric monsters, mythical worlds etc, not to mention the incredible CGI within that largely computer-generated movie. Afterwards, I wished to myself that I could see the X-Men's more fantastical elements on the big screen. Stuff like Magneto's base beneath an Antarctic volcano, Asteroid M, The Savage Land, the M'Krann crystal, Shi'ar, The Living Monolith, the more cosmic Phoenix.... Only someone like Peter Jackson could bring those to life successfully (Singer would tone it down, Ratner might ham it up!)...

I'm sure some might dismiss the Savage Land as impossible to bring to life in an X-movie, but it could work if slightly reworked (and perhaps merged with the idea of the Krakoa island) as an eperimentation facility where someone (Sinister? Apocalypse?) was tampering with evolution and genetics to ensure the survival of the mutant gene, protect the gene pool and perfect the mutant strain. In the comics, it was where Magneto created his 'mutates' (artificially mutated humans); the dinosaurs could similarly be reimagined as genetic abnormalities resulting from experiments on animals.

I will get around to answering this eventually. I haven't had the time as of late, but I'm not ignoring your question.

 

[javon]

Here you go javon.

This picture of Storm (below) is featured in a different book called Marvel: The Characters and Their Universe. It's a big, two-page spread . . . and probably one of my favorite classic pictures of Storm.

Thanks! tHE BOOK LOOKS/SOUNDS VERY INTERESTING. iF IT WASN'T SO HIGH, MAN i'D GET THAT IN A WUICK SECOND. Can u scan ONE more thing? I promise this is the last....PLEASE??

 

[Retroman]

Well it's taken a long time but i finally got the book this week!t:

It's huge and filled with lots of info and artwork of X-Men's many characters in their various incarnations over the years. Well worth the money and if you're a fan i think you'll really love this.

I bought the book from Amazon using using some gift certificates i got.When i orderd it the price at the time was 24.95 (only a few weeks ago) but now i noticed it's been slashed to 18.96!

http://www.amazon.com/X-Men-Charact...=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1251314544&sr=8-2

This looks like the 2nd print of the book BTW so i assume the first was a big success.