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' This child could be more useful to the UNSC than a fleet of destroyers, a thousand Lieutenants - or even me.

451.3 kilograms (994.9 lb) (with Mark V Mjolnir).

179.0 kilograms (394.6 lb) (with Mjolnir undersuit).

218 centimeters (7 ft 2 in) (with Mjolnir armor).

I either already own or don't want to own most of that stuff I just want the 'Present' crossover on its own, so I didn't pick up the book and there's a small story hole in my collection. In 2014, Marvel published a DAYS OF FUTURE PAST hardcover to tie in with the movie, collecting the original storyline, 'Days of Future Present', and I think the Alan Davis and Warren Ellis sequels from EXCALIBUR, as well as Ben Raab's WOLVERINE: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST from the nineties.

Chronologically, a reader should next pick up the X-TINCTION AGENDA book, which features them back among the X-Men with no explanation, because the reunion occurred in Annual 14. This book ends with Storm and Gambit off on their own. What bugs me is that the 'Days of Future Present' crossover, including Annual 14, doesn't show up in any of these collections. I agree, Annual 13 is unneeded here, but I understand Marvel wanted an archival experience, so I don't really mind its inclusion. By the time we reach book 2, the X-Men will be reunited and we'll be well on the way to the 'Blue' and 'Gold' era of the nineties. This book contains pretty much the entirety of that status quo, and I appreciate having the entire 'non-team' era in one single volume.

#JIM LEE ART MASTER CHEIF SERIES#

As the X-Men leave their short-lived Outback base and become a non-team, various members moving around the world like pieces being positioned for some major endgame, my interest in the series tics up considerably. But this is the point where he begins to win me back. Around the time he writes out Cyclops, it just doesn't appeal to me all that much. I've noted before - probably too many times - that I don't care much for the middle portion of Chris Claremont's run on the X-Men. The book came with two cover options, both in the form of promotional artwork Lee drew around the time he was gearing up for X-MEN volume 2, and both featuring teams - and in a couple cases, costumes - which never ultimately came to pass in the series itself. The reproduction is excellent as always, and the energetic artwork of Lee and Silvestri, two of Image's eventual co-founders, really pops in the oversized format. I appreciate the gigantic ones for their comprehensiveness, but this really is the perfect size for comfortable reading. It's a very nice collection, altogether - just about the right length for an Omnibus in my opinion. But the cover and spine simply call it X-MEN and list the primary authors as Claremont, Lee, and Marc Silvestri, as the latter was the series' regular penciler when Lee began doing fill-ins. That's what it says in the indicia, at least. So this book is officially called X-MEN BY CHRIS CLAREMONT & JIM LEE. This would result in a comprehensive two-book collection of Claremont's final couple years on the X-Men, and would make these volumes a direct continuation of the X-MEN: INFERNO hardcover which had been released a few years earlier. It was proposed instead that all Lee's issues be released in sequential order with non-Lee issues, under the banner of X-MEN BY CHRIS CLAREMONT & JIM LEE.

Fortunately, cooler heads in the collected editions department got wind of this and realized that, since Lee started out as a fill-in artist and worked in tandem with other pencilers even after he became the series' regular artist, such a collection would be an incredibly disjointed reading experience - basically nothing more than a glorified art book. As I understand it from a handful of 'insider' posts at the Marvel Masterworks Message Board a few years back, Marvel brass originally wanted to publish a simple X-MEN BY JIM LEE OMNIBUS, collecting only Lee's work on the merry mutants.

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