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X Omnibus vol. 2 Kindle & comiXology

by Various (Author), Javier Saltares (Illustrator) Format: Kindle Edition
3.8 out of 5 stars 15
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Nothing in Arcadia is what it seems. Beneath its façade of order and industry lies a corrupt brotherhood of criminals, cronies, and cops all drawing from the same tainted well. But there's a wrench in this dirty machine, a leather-clad, one-eyed, one-man wrecking crew bent on tearing down the lie of Arcadia, brick-by-brick. The man known as X cares about only one thing, the rule of law. Unfortunately, that law is X.

X Omnibus Volume 2 collects for the first time the audacious, critically-acclaimed Dark Horse series. Violent and morally ambiguous, X walks the thin line between mission and madness and shows that the devil you know may be better, much better, than the devil you don't.

* Includes X #12-25; "Someone to Watch Over Me" from Dark Horse Extra #28-31, all never before collected.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00THDO74Q
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dark Horse Books (February 25, 2015)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 25, 2015
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 196614 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
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Theodore R Riddle
5.0 out of 5 stars X Ominbus volume 2 hit's the (X mark)!
Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2011
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On X Ominibus Volume 2: I did a review on Volume 1 which people really didn't like. However, I did enjoy it even with it's artistic problems and trying to follow the story,etc. It was very hard to make sence of what was happening. I was still able to put in the missing pieces and get something out of it. I said I wanted to get the Volume 2 to see if they were able to fix the problems from the first volume. They did it beautifully. The art work was much better, there was no mistaking who was who where why and when. I believe there are several versions of this book floating around. I was lucky enough to get the version that had new artwork in it. That version totally wrapped up the entire story and concuded the book. This was great read.

The artists that rendered this book were consistant with each others styles. In Issue #1 there was only one artist "Vince Giarrono" who I felt really did a good job with his one section of the book. He did the pencils and inks all on is own. He even used foreground and back ground elements, dynamic angles, recognizable characters. He even did well when the exspessions of the chartacters changed. All the stuff you are encouraged to pay attention to when you are a trained artist.

Volume 2 is a masterpeice and I enjoyed it very much. I just wish Dark Horse, who is still here after all these years, would bring back the "X"! Things are changing rapidly in this field so they might license the rights to someone else, if they or someone else publishes The X. I will be the first in line to read it.

Theodore Raymond Riddle Artist/Creator/Author
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richard a tyler
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome !!!
Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2020
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I wish there was anothe rvolume to buy .
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James Seger
2.0 out of 5 stars Mr. X goes to Washington
Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2014
The first X omnibus surprised me. Though I'm not a superhero fan, I liked X's dark tone and focus on mafia and political machinations within the corrupt city of Arcadia. In the middle the book lost focus with the inclusion of Dark Horse's other heroes, but it got back on track at the end. I was intrigued enough to immediate start in on the second omnibus.

And that's where the series dies. The second half of X's adventures is awful. X's quest to seize control of the city is pushed to the back burner as guest appearances from the rest of " Comic's Greatest World " take control of the series. If I were collecting this as the issues were released, I would have dropped the book somewhere in the Washington DC storyline.

John Ostrander wrote a celebrated  Spectre  series in the nineties. It was firmly in the DC universe, subject to the same dumb crossovers and guest appearances as other superhero books. But Ostrander was always able to balance this, keeping the tone of his series firmly in place and remembering whose name was the title of the book. Steven Grant wasn't able to do that here. In multiple issues, X is relegated to a guest appearance in his own book. And the other characters introduction were handled clumsily. I'm not sure if writer Steven Grant lost his grip or was under editorial pressure to feature other superheroes, but either way it is intrusive and destructive to X's own book. And let's be honest, most of the CGW superheroes were pretty dumb.

On top of the story telling slip-ups, the new regular art team of Javier Saltares and Andrew Pepoy is awful. X was plagued by changing art teams. Some good (Doug Mahnke and Jimmy Palmiotti, Chris Warner and Tim Bradstreet), some not so good. Having a standard team should have been a good thing. But the team they settled on just didn't fit the tone of the character. Look at the cover for the first issue of X or at any of the covers Frank Miller did for the series. X's world should be full of inky black shadows, grimy back alleys and mystery. Instead, the backgrounds are typically squeaky clean and brightly lit. And vanilla. Arcadia had no distinct personality to it.

Saltares is just not a very good artist. All of his characters are muscle-bound and stand in awkward poses, making fists at inappropriate times. He is unable to draw two average people standing in a room, talking (which is a major handicap in a series dealing with back room politics and mafia power plays). Also, his style is a grab bag of the worst of the nineties. Poor anatomy, speed-lines everywhere, pouches, pouches, pouches. It's a mess. I imagine Dark Horse wasn't able to attract top of the line artists for their superhero titles. But they should have tried a little harder to match the skills of the artist with the needs of the series.

The character and background of X remains a good seed for a series. Perhaps if Dark Horse wasn't so eager to cram an entire new superhero universe down reader's throats, X could have gone somewhere. If each title were allowed to stand on its own, with other characters only being mentioned or included as the story required it, Comics Greatest World might have gotten some legs and X might have lasted.

X has been  rebooted  and the new series looks promising. Let's hope Dark Horse has learned some lessons.
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Tim Lasiuta
4.0 out of 5 stars Non stop action
Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2008
Volume 2, X Omnibus is a book packed with action from Steven Grant, Chris Warner, Janvier Saltares, Christopher Renaud, Chris Pepoy, and Tim Bradstreet.

There's more grit, more gore, and adventures of the hero, X, who walks and lives with obsession and heroism. These are stories the way pulp writers like Norvell Paige and Robert E Howard would have tackled comic books.

Read this, with the lights on, and a shot of whiskey for courage!

Tim Lasiuta
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Arthur
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Canada on July 24, 2017
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Awesome!! One of my personnal classic!
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Aitor O. Hernandez Franco
4.0 out of 5 stars Good article
Reviewed in Spain on March 9, 2014
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X is a kind of bloody batman. The article is good and the comic book funny enough. But it is not a cheap book...
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