“If you’re looking for a primer on early X-Men history, this is the way to go. Piskor sort of remakes old X-Men stories with new art, and he mixes in some of the better-known and more obscure stuff. It makes for a great blend. Plus, the format has yellowed, old comic book pages, it’s oversized, and it just smells like old comics. Very cool as an artifact, totally worth your time to see how bonkers some of this stuff was. Although, caveat, if you’re intimately familiar with early X-Men, you might not love it as much.
There’s still this thing with Piskor’s work where he tends to jump between pages without any real transition. Sometimes it’s really jarring and takes me a minute to figure out that we’ve moved between scenes or even jumped quite a bit in time. It was a big problem I had with Hip-Hop Family Tree, Piskor’s other big work. I could just use some panels that said “Meanwhile…” or “1977” or whatever. I’m sure there are less lazy ways to do it too, but for the sake of understanding, I’d take lazy over confusing any day. “