TV ON DVD: Marvel DVD Comic Collection X-Men: Volume 3 and 4

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As a long time comic book fan and collector I never purchased X-Men comics their world was too dense with too many characters, to rich a history and way too many comics that I would have had to purchase. Luckily in the early 90s Marvel created one of the greatest Superhero Cartoon Series of all time – X-Men. A lot of times when revisiting my childhood things don’t hold up and I wonder what was I thinking – I used to love Johnny Socco, watched it recently, woh, it was bad.

The animation used in The X-Men don’t hold up that well over time because it was highly "stylized," and the voice acting wasn’t on the same level that was used in Batman The Animated Series. The story however is still amazing. If future writers want to learn how to tell story Arcs that hook viewers, look no further than this. There are plenty of standalone episodes but everything builds on top of each other and leads somewhere with real consequences to their actions. Season 3 is one season long arc that centers around one of the most acclaimed Comic Book Sagas of all time – The Dark Phoenix Saga.

Volume 4 of this new Collection includes the 4 Part classic Beyond Good and Evil Saga, Proteus, Sanctuary and a couple of nice stand alone episodes. Sadly neither volume includes any extra features beyond a couple of lame trailers – and Disney stop with the freaking G-Force trailers! Every time I see it I get excited thinking it’s going to be for Battle of the Planets and it ends up being that stupid rat movie. The DVDs are each split into 2 disc sets and have French and Spanish Audio and Subtitle tracks.

Volume 3

Disc 1

34 Savage Land, Strange Heart (1)
35 Savage Land, Strange Heart (2)
36 Obsession
37 Dark Pheonix: Dazzled (1)
38 Dark Pheonix: The Inner Circle (2)
39 Dark Pheonix: The Dark Pheonix (3)
40 Dark Pheonix: The Fate Of The Pheonix (4)

Disc 2

41 Cold Comfort
42 Orphan’s End
43 The Juggernaut Returns
44 Nightcrawler
45 Weapon X, Lies and Videotape
46 One Man’s Worth (1)
47 One Man’s Worth (2)
48 Courage

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Volume 4

Disc 1

49 Proteus (1)
50 Proteus (2)
51 Sanctuary (1)
52 Sanctuary (2)
53 Beyond Good and Evil (1)
54 Beyond Good and Evil (2)
55 Beyond Good and Evil (3)
56 Beyond Good and Evil (4)

Disc 2

57 Have Yourself A Morlock Little Christmas
58 The Lotus and the Steel
59 Love in Vain
60 Secrets, Not Long Buried
61 Xavier Remembers
62 Family Ties

Grades

  • Both Volumes – A
  • Features – F

Final Overall Grade – A

 

EM Review
By Michelle Alexandria
Originally posted by 10.06.09