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As I said in my last review, I was borrowing Volume 2 through my local library's ILL program. I also got them to get Volume 3 for me, and I read them both roughly back-to-back. Volume 2 covers from Giant Size #1 through the Phoenix saga, and Volume 3 covers through the X-Tintion saga. So why not review them both right now? Volume 2 covers from Second Genesis (where the All-new All-different X-men have to rescue the old team who have been captured by Krakoa) up until the end of the Dark Phoenix saga. The volume is once again done in Ed Piskor's re-coloring style and scripted by Piskor (so it isn't a faithful sumary of events as much as it is a piecing-together of the main points). Like Volume 1, Volume 2 includes a re-coloring of a classic issue, this time the story is 'Second Genesis'. The last volume in the series, Volume 3, covers from the birth of Nathan Summers through The Fall of the Mutants before wrapping up with Days of Future Past. Of course, Piskor re-told and colored everything in his recognizable style. This issue seemed to present a conundrum for the ending story: whereas Volumes 1 and 2 say Piskor re-coloring a story that made sense in the context of the volume, there wasn't really one story that fit this volume as nicely. So which story gets the piskor-colored nod? In this case, it was 1990's Uncanny X-Men #268, 'Madripoor Knights', a fun little story starring Wolverine, Black Widow and Captain America. This being the only re-colored story I hadn't read previously, it was my favorite out of the three volumes' entries. Overall, Volumes 2 and 3 kept the same story-telling spirit and fun that Volume 1 started. If you liked Volume 1, you'll like Volumes 2 and 3. If you like the X-Men but haven't read Volume 1, you'll still like any one of these volumes (or both, if you so desire). | ||