X-Men: Endangered Species

a story about beast trying to find a solution to the mutants extincion problem that wanda caused after house of M not a thrilling story but well written and interesting

Awesome graphic novel, excellent artist although slightly overpriced but well well well worth it so Make Mine Marvel lol yolo

excellent reading, at a brilliant price in perfect condition

xThis storyline runs through X-Men - Endangered Species (one shot); X-Men #200-204; Uncanny X-Men #488-491; X-Factor #21-24; and New X-Men #40-42, all collected as  X-Men: Endangered Species TPB (Graphic Novel Pb) . However, apart from the double-sized one shot issue, the Beast's odyssey appears to be only a part of each of the issues listed, consisting of eight-page segments, so there will be a `main' story in those issues also.Following on from the `House of M' story, wherein the Scarlet Witch switched off the mutant X-gene, only a few hundred mutants still exist with powers or abilities. The one-shot issue takes place at a funeral for one of them, nobody we knew, who died in an accident. However, it is an occasion for lots of mutants to get together and discuss their situation. The Beast - Hank McCoy - sets out to find a cure, beginning with a conference call with all the major super-scientist villains, then a follow-up call on the High Evolutionary, who was a bit cryptic in his reply. On a visit to Neverland, a disused research facility in Canada where the Weapon X programme used to operate from, he runs into the `other' Beast from the alternate time-line controlled by Apocalypse, who is also on the hunt for a cure. They join forces for a few episodes before the Dark Beast's methods become too much for our Beast, and they go their separate ways, After a visit to Doctor Strange, who shows him just how deeply reality has been affected by the Scarlet Witch, the Beast goes to look for her...This is an interesting story, well-written and well-drawn, visiting a lot of people and places from the X-Men's long history, though with a more philosophical than a practical ending.

I really enjoyed this tpb but do appreciate it may not be to everyone's taste.There is little action and much dialogue. The art and writing is of a very high standard and remarkably consistent despite the input of different writers and artists.The plot is Henry McCoy's quest to unravel the chaos from Wanda Maximoff's no more mutants spell.The moral heart is what would you do to save the whole of your species? When do the means justify the ends? Who on earth would you work with to save your people? What compromises are too far and would destroy you?For me the best X-man tale for many a year.

What a well executed book. If you expect a brainless story with simply action sequences and empty fight scenes and explosions, this is not for you. Endangered Species is a profound and thought provoking story about the extinction of a species, the limits of science and the moral of mankind. How far are you willing to go to save an entire species? Is it fair to sacrifice some for the benefit of others? This is the kind of question that Dr Hank McCoy, the Beast, has to answer...Endangered Species has very little action scenes but it is full of emotion and philosofy. It was a nice surprise.Note: this series fits between Decimation and Messiah Complex, being all consequence of House of M. Although I have not read Decimation, I could perfectly understand Endangered Species.

This books stems directly from Marvel Comics 2005 revolutionary "House Of M" event which curbed their fictional world's mutant population down to a few hundreds out of millions, as well as preventing (for all of one "real time" year, WOW) new mutant births. Let's forget for a moment that train wreck though, and let's go back to the book at hand.The plot: Doccor Henry McCoy, aka beast, one of the original X-Men and one of the world's premiere scholars on mutantkind, is hell bent on finding a way to reverse the apparent imminent extinction of the mutant race. In desperation, he tries everything he can to find out the truth and a way out of this evolutionary dead end, consorting with villainous mad scientists and worse on the way. Eventually, he gives up after seeing that it had nothing to do with science but all with magic, that maybe not all that looks bad also is bad, that even the "villain" deserves her newly found amnesiac idyllic peace.Sigh.Never mind the fact that the villain is a mutant born with genetic based magic powers (sic), never mind the fact that X-Men have dealt with the supernatural (hell, vampires, assorted demons...) often enough for Henry McCoy to be much more willing to look into magic scientifically. Never mind the fact that the villain's powers are thus written off as one of the worse deus-ex-machina devices of literary history, barely matched by Peter/Parker's nearly contemporary deal with the devil that cost him his marriage and all memory of it, while also deleting from everybody's memory the fact that he outed himself as the Spider-Man on national TV.Yes, sadly, and despite a lot f top-class material, superhero comics are that bad.This particular book should deal with Beast delving into his darkest side and coming out of hit, Heart-Of-Darkness style.The Beast though, mostly comes off as naive, hysterical, much more stupid than writers like Grant Morrison and Josh Whedon had made him, and nearly written in a void. Nobody needs a backlog of decades of muddled continuity, but you could use good characterisation and plot points. The book is overly written as it is, less 2 cents psychoanalysis and more meat on its bones wouldn't have hurt. As a character, Beast is left unchanged and very much diminished by all this. Thak God I had forgotten about this muck when I read the brilliant SWORD book by the insanely talented Kieron Gillen, or I might have dismissed that one and I would have made a horrible mistake.If you liked Beast n that book, in Grant Morrison's New X-Men and in Josh Whedon's Astonishing X-Men, please forgive him here though: What can he do about it? They just wrote him like crap...Paradoxically, in a tale that strives to be so deep and manages to misquote Machiavelli in the process, it is still the classic superhero artists like Mark Bagley and Tom Grummett that manage to turn out the best artwork, even more suited to the book than the dark, more realistic art of the rest. Probably,because it remains at heart a below average superhero yarn, not science fiction, not fantasy, not horror, not introspective fiction: Thus only good superhero artists can make sense of it. Scot Eaton comes close in his efforts, but after some great pages he gets sucked into the genera mediocrity too. Mike Perkins is a total disappointment, he is good enough with realistic but he is given two furry monsters to draw, and all he can do is draw ugly men and awkwardly stick tufts of hair on them.There is also nearly no difference to be noted among the writers of the various chapters. My half-guess is that Carey excels at the psychological portrait, sometimes remotely remembering us of his Unwritten and Hellblazer work, while Gage is the most hard-boiled writer of the bunch and Yost is competent and leagues above his abysmally bad New X-Men work.I had rated this book at one stars first, but I'll settle for two, in reluctant honour of Carey's, Bagley's and Grummett's misguided efforts. There's worse, after all.