Firefly: The Official Companion Volume Two - Joss Whedon

Astonishing X-Men Volume 1 - Joss Whedon

Why bother reading then? Well, the monthly comics Uncanny X-Men and adjective less X-Men really deliver on the boring, run of the mill same old front. Joss Whedon, on the other hand, follows hot on the footsteps of Grant Morrison who invented a radically different approach to telling these kinds of stories. It goes like this. continuity, * the fans and what they think they want; give them an up-to-date, relevant, well written story and Chris Claremont and his old fashioned, not actually that great writing can go hang. Whedon presents us with a jazzed up, fresh looking new and exciting X-Men that s noticeable, to me, for having characters that actually feel like ...

Astonishing X-Men Volume 2 - Joss Whedon

Initially Joss Whedon was only signed up to write twelves issues of Astonishing X-Men but apparently he was having so much fun that he signed up for twelve more. I m not completely convinced by that argument. Joss Whedon likes to tell stories on a large, broad scale, giving us a piece of the character jigsaw a little at a time whilst, generally putting his characters through the wringer and facing them off with his latest inventive definition of what a baddy ought to look like. He can t do that in just twelve issues True to form, Joss doesn t just bring back his own Ord of Breakworld or Magneto or any other classic X-Men for another few rounds in the ring. This is ...

Astonishing X-Men Volume 3 - Joss Whedon

and get going and for the first time in this series (strange to say, given my glowing praise of the first two volumes) Whedon really finds his storytelling element. Joss Whedon is at his happiest and best when he can create a device that somehow delineates and highlights the primary character traits of his protagonists and even more so when he can mix in a little dissent in the ranks and tension within the group. Well, Torn offers both as Emma Frost has apparently joined up with the Hellfire club, turned villain and cast some powerful telikenetic spells to make all of the Astonishing X-Men revert back to their basest of instincts. The beast becomes a Beast . Wolverine ...