This is an excellently told story X-Men or no, but it'll make you a believer in the epic and awesome history of the X-men. Read Full Review

Done in a yellow toned classic feel, this book is so fantastic. To be able to relive the history of the X-Men in such a concise format is a great feeling. Piskor hits a home run with issue #1, leaving me waiting for the second issue to drop. X-Men Grand Design is the blueprint of the Marvel mutant verse, there is no better way to be introduced to it than right here. Read Full Review

This book is a fantastic retelling of the X-Men story and perfect for new readers eager to learn and old salts looking to take a walk down memory lane. Ed Piskor doesn't give a page per page retelling, however, but takes all the years of expanded stories, puts them into place and makes it all easily digestible with his classic style. I can't wait for the next issue and hope that Marvel gives him free reign to do this for all of their franchises. Read Full Review

This book is a fantastic retelling of the X-Men story and perfect for new readers eager to learn and old salts looking to take a walk down memory lane.  Ed Piskor doesn't give a page per page retelling, however, but takes all the years of expanded stories, puts them into place and makes it all easily digestible with his classic style.  I can't wait for the next issue and hope that Marvel gives him free reign to do this for all of their franchises. Read Full Review

A beautifully delivered homage to X-Men history, that has the potential to breathe new life into a struggling franchise. Read Full Review

A dense, joyous, occasionally frightening, often-hilarious reimagining of five years worth of X-Lore. This is an essential read for fans of all stripes. Plus, there's a panel in which Dr. Doom plays with a Barbie. Read Full Review

Grand Design is what a retelling can look like when done incredibly well, with the history of these famous characters retold in a way that appreciates the originals and acknowledges how the passage of time has made these stories into a mythology that warrants the creation of this type of book in the first place. X-Men: Grand Design is on my pull list, and I recommend that fellow X-Men fans add it to theirs. Read Full Review

X-Men Grand Design truly is the whole package and so is the man behind the work, Ed Piskor. ...Ed Piskor clearly loves the X-Men and he is paying it forward 100 fold. Read Full Review

It is a Herculean effort to condense almost 55 years of material into a limited series but Ed Piskor greatly succeeds in doing so. He also manages to inject an easy to follow and fresh take on the X-Men's often convoluted, overly complicated at times, history. This is a well thought out, product. It's the perfect introduction to the superhero soap opera we continue to be obsessed with called the X-Men. Read Full Review

Piskor is giving us the definitive history of the X-Men like he's done with hip-hop and doing so in a way where it feels fresh and new despite 54 years of existence. He's doing what feels like the impossible, taking a complicated history and distilling it down to the important moments and presenting it in a way that's perfect for new and long time fans alike. Read Full Review

I hadn't been looking forward to this before, but it's proven to be much better than expected. Read Full Review

X-Men: Grand Design is the type of bold, creator-driven project that Marvel needs right now. Read Full Review

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This is worth the price for the quality of the paper and page count alone. The content is just as fantastic with vibrant art and an amazing history lesson on mutants in the Marvel Universe. I also appreciate his works cited list, giving readers a page by page breakdown of where they originally occurred in the comics. I knew the guy who brought us Hip-Hop Family Tree would deliver and he has.

This will be a go to book for x men fans in the years to come.

I like this condensed retelling of the mutants' side of the Marvel Universe. Good price for the size of this issue. I liked the art except for young Charles Xavier lol. I thought it was interesting that the pages were colored yellow a little to show the age of these stories with subtle bright white flashes to show how bright these actions are. Looking forward to the next issue.

Nicely done. Cool book! Well paced and well researched story. I had to take my time and read and re-read it as i went along and i wanted more. Spent so much time looking at his illustrations.

Ed Piskor tackles the monumental job of reconciling decades of retcons with the original Silver-Age X-Men stories. While the result is perhaps less entertaining than it could be, the scrupulous logic is undeniably impressive. The comic's bravery becomes clear in the disquieting portrait it paints of Charles Xavier. He emerges as a driven man who rejected love and ran from familial responsibility - who hurt people - to chase his dream of mutant harmony. This is neither a hatchet job nor a hagiography but a warts-and-all portrayal of a man who was both great and terrible. A similar feeling of balanced, "good or bad, it is what it is" reporting comes out of the story as a whole. It's more than a clinical history but it's not quite a subjective opinion piece. Most of all, it is just about as epic as it's intended to be. more

What an unexpected gem!

This is "Marvel Saga" all over again. Art ist fun, so is the format. But it's a plain boring read. Meh.

Interesting series with some really poor art. I won't be coming back for another issue.