{"id":20857,"date":"2016-05-31T20:21:20","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T00:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=20857"},"modified":"2016-05-31T20:22:20","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T00:22:20","slug":"epic-history-x-men-volume-3-the-dark-phoenix-saga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/31\/epic-history-x-men-volume-3-the-dark-phoenix-saga\/","title":{"rendered":"Epic History X-Men, Volume 3: The Dark Phoenix Saga"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"EpicHistory1\"<\/a>There\u2019s no bigger an X-Men fan online than Comic Book Girl 19. The web personality has made her claim to fame from online personality to bonafide geek goddess by providing insightful, lucid, and very controversial opinions about comic books and pop culture in general. Among some of the biggest pop culture dynasties, Comic Book Girl 19 is one of the most passionate X-Men fans around. Like me, she hates the movies, but loves the X-Men comics and longs for a day when we can finally see them adapted properly on the big screen. \u201cEpic History X-Men\u201d has nothing to do with the movies, and is in fact about a certain stream of storylines and character arcs involving the X-Men.<\/p>\n

Comic Book Girl 19 and director Tyson Wheeler have their cut off point, and end episode three of three with the \u201cDark Phoenix Saga.\u201d The massive science fiction arc was penned by Chris Claremont and is one of the most complex, complicated, and unusual storylines ever put to the comics. And Bryan Singer actually is going to try to simplify it for one or two films. That aside, \u201cEpic History X-Men\u201d is a fantastic and very entertaining documentary where Comic Book Girl 19 and her sidekick Robot lay out the events of \u201cThe Dark Phoenix Saga\u201d and explain the storyline\u2019s nuances and emotional strong points as thoroughly as possible.<\/p>\n

Though the series as a whole could just being Comic Book Girl 19 sitting in a chair and laying out every point of the storyline, she and director Tyson Wheeler switch up the monotony by adding splashes of panels from the comic books. They also animated a lot of the panels, and even add their own voice overs and great sound effects, all of which really add a flavor and excitement to an already enthusiastic host. Comic Book Girl 19 loves the X-Men, and she seems to have a ball describing every storyline, from Jean Grey returning as the Phoenix, the big rumble with the X-Men and an erotic mutant organization called the Hellfire Club, Wolverine taking down a whole army of guards single handedly, to Jean\u2019s eventual transformation in to the dark side as the Dark Phoenix which ultimately split the team apart.<\/p>\n

Comic Book Girl 19 even takes the time out to introduce her favorite X-Men: Dazzler. Dazzler is a light controlling mutant that Comic Book Girl 19 has fought for, defended, and consistently taken scrutiny for favoring over everyone else in the comics, but makes a darn good case for the character\u2019s significance to the \u201cDark Phoenix Saga.\u201d What\u2019s punctuated through most of Volume 3 is that the \u201cX-Men\u201d isn\u2019t just a series about young people going on adventures. It\u2019s a long and very unique consistent epic about people with extraordinary powers from various ethnicities and nationalities fighting for humanity, and learning that they themselves are human, in the end.<\/p>\n

Though considerably low budget, \u201cEpic History\u201d volumes 1-3 garners some bang up production with excellent voice work. They\u2019re undoubtedly very exciting, entertaining, and heartfelt glimpses in to only some of the most important storylines in one of the most unique and original characters in comic book lore. Comic Book Girl 19 treats the material with great reverence and will likely leave you seeking out the books and appreciating the characters so much more. Suffice it to say I had more fun with the third chapter than I did with \u201cX-Men: Apocalypse.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEpic History X-Men Volume 3: The Dark Phoenix Saga\u201d is now available on Vimeo On Demand<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s no bigger an X-Men fan online than Comic Book Girl 19. The web personality has made her claim to fame from online personality to bonafide geek goddess by providing insightful, lucid, and very controversial opinions about comic books and pop culture in general. Among some of the biggest pop culture dynasties, Comic Book Girl […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[58,71,223,292,310,469,633,791,906,1210],"class_list":["post-20857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-indie","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-adventure","tag-comic-books","tag-documentary","tag-e","tag-history","tag-marvel","tag-pop-culture","tag-science-fiction","tag-x-men"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20857"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20861,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20857\/revisions\/20861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}