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BEWARE! product does not work on Macintosh

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 17 / 32
Date: April 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Although it is listed as Mac compatable, this DVD cannot be recognized by Mac OSX. After struggling to figure out what was going on, I found numerous complaints on the Internet regarding this problem, with no solution. Mac won't even mount the DVD.

A Chimp With a Xerox Machine

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 12
Date: December 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This package in a nutshell is all of the Uncanny X-men comics scanned in a decent resolution. Which is NOT every X-men story. To top it off X-men, because it branched off into different cover franchises, have many story arcs that cross over to the other series. Which means you will Read part 1 of an arc and then next issue you'll be reading part 6.
Age of Apocalypse seems to be entirely missing as well.
A little more thought should have been put into this in order to make this worth a buy. Anyone with a robust Marvel collection and a decent scanner could've done a better job putting this package together.

like constant glare on your tv! aaargh!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: February 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

i have been an x-men fan since the 70's. i love marvel. i love the x-men. i completely understand the need for copyright protections. however, trying to read the comics on this dvd-rom is nothing short of irritating. yes, you can mess around with your acrobat or preview (mac) settings to make all the pages display right but in the end you have to try not to be completely distracted by the big ole "MARVEL" watermark right in the middle of every page...every PHOTOCOPIED page. honestly, it's like trying to watch your favorite movie on a VERY sunny day with a big open window directly across from the tv screen! as a devotee of john byrne's art it has ,sadly, really limited my enjoyment of this product.

Interesting Product

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: June 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

40 years of X-men, the collector's edition has many good points and bad points.

First the bad:

It is not made clear right off the bat that it is only a collection of the Uncanny X-men, nor does it include crossovers into other marvel comics.

It is not easy to read. With two pages per screen, it is hard to just magnify and read page by page. You must consciously be moving and shifting the images around to be able to read the small print; something that Marvel did not take into consideration, I fear.

The Annuals do not say or actively show when they were published, so you have no idea where in the timeline they take place.

Now for the good,

Aside from the fact that they are scans of the comics themselves, and therefore have printing flaws, they are actually very good quality, and it is highly enjoyable to watch the evolution of the artwork as the series progresses.

From the stand-point of a new collector, anyone who has heard of and/or liked the X-men as children, this isn't a dvd to pass up. I have had it for about a month and a half now, and I can say that I am enthralled with how the characters have grown and changed throughout the 40 years in which they have been in print.

From an avid-fan of the series, I wouldn't pass this up for anything. If you have ever wanted the back issues, if only just to SEE what it was like "back in the old days," this DVD is a Must-Have.

This is great...but...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: July 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The 2 bigegest diappointments for me so far are the quality of the scans (many of the 120-160 issues have blurry text).
The large "Marvel" watermark graphic on each page is quite annoying as well. Overall worth about $20, but not $40 or $50.

Not exactly wonderful

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: January 25, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I bought this in part just to have the 1960s and 1990s issues since I have a good run of X-Men collected from about 1976 through to about 1987 starting with Giant Size No. 1, in fact this dvd cost me roughly the same as my copy of that comic book, which i bought sometime in 1980.

I have a nice new 24" iMac so the double page spreads of pdf files look gorgeous. You have to use the Adobe Reader or else a Marvel watermark appears, but Adobe Reader is of course free to download so only a minor hassle for those who normally use Apple's Preview for pdf files.

The interface is not the most elegant of designs and is a very simple pdf file with a set of hyperlinks. I have seen some of the various shareware programs for reading scanned comic books and those interfaces are more appealing and user friendly. But most people shopping here at Amazon probably are interested like me in getting a legal copy and not a torrent so the issue may be moot.

The dvd includes a bio section but this is slow to load off the dvd and is not much faster when copied to the Mac. I have a 2.8GHz processor. I put it in my PC laptop with a 1.73GHZ processor and oh my was it slow. How useful this section is given that the information is available on the web is debatable. The comics though load much faster than the bio and sometimes a bit to fast so I have to be very careful when paging through.

So if you want to read and enjoy old X-Men it may be better to buy the bricks available. For me I wanted a reference collection that will not take up space. Its ok and does the job I need.

The good, the bad, and the ugly

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 203 / 204
Date: February 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

First off, this isn't a game, or a movie. Its a DVD-rom that can only be viewed on a DVD capable computer.
THE GOOD
This the first 40 year run of the comic book X-men, currently titled Uncanny X-Men. It includes issues 1-461, in order by year, including Giant Size X-Men 1. It also includes all the annuals in a separate menu. These are high quality scans, all in PDF format.
THE BAD
This includes ONLY Uncanny X-Men issues. Thats all fine and dandy, until you get to the mid-80's when X-Factor and New Mutants began their runs. So when you get to major cross over events, like the Mutant Massacre, Inferno, X-tiction Agenda, X-cutioner's Song, and the minor ones inbetween, you only get the Uncanny issues. This leaves some major holes in the stories. Sure, you can go buy the TPBs of the crossovers, but then you're re-buying the Uncanny issues. All the Age of Apocalypse is missing too, along with X-franchising one shots like X-Men Prime.
THE UGLY
You'll have to play around with the viewer settings to make the pages readable on a standard screen, without making them too difficult to flip through. All pages seem to be scanned in two page spreads. And all the original ads are intact.
Overall, its nice in and of itself, I just wish something could have been done about the cross-overs. That and the general lack of knowledge about this product here on Amazon and on the net in general are probably making this a rough sell at $50.

The 40 years of X-Men DVD-rom has great quality!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 9 / 11
Date: March 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This 40 years of X-Men DVD-rom has great quality! All the Uncanny X-Men issues you dream of having since you were kid to own is here! The DVD-rom also has the early Original X-Men issues that most people don't remember or own. (Uncanny X-Men#1-#93!)

Also,You have most of Chris Claremonts 17-year run of the X-Men in this DVD-rom! ( X-Men Giant-Size#1, Uncanny X-Men #94-#277!)

I wish it also had published X-Men (2nd series)#1-#3 with writer,Chris Claremont and artist, Jim Lee. That would have made this DVD-rom more complete. It's missing those issues.

These Uncanny X-Men issues are great! Chris Claremonts finest work is here! There are some great artists who worked on this book including Neal Adams, John Byrne, Marc Silvestri, Whilce Portacio, & Jim Lee, etc.,

I highly recommend this DVD-rom! It's great!

Awesome collection for the price

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: March 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I echo other reviewers' comments that no other format offers you a complete collection of the Uncanny X-Men for anything remotely approaching this price. One additional benefit of having scans of the books, as opposed to trade paperback reproductions, is that you get all of the advertisements and back covers, letters pages and editorials as well. For those who might have collected these books way back when (I was an avid collector in the late 80's), this has very high nostalgia value. The one star is missing from my review because a computer screen can never compete with paper as a medium for comic books. But it's pretty awesome to be able to carry hundreds of books with you on a long flight or bus trip!

For those of you on a Mac, these are easy to read. Open an issue with Preview, then hit Shift-Apple-F to enter full-screen "slideshow" mode. With your mouse, select the Fit-To-Screen option, so that the two-page spread fills the available screen space. To flip to the next page of the book, just press the right arrow key. It's simple and not difficult at all to read.

Hundreds of comics scanned on one DVD for a really low price

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: June 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This set (and the already-released Fantastic Four and Avengers sets) does a great job of presenting hundreds of comics, completely scanned (including ads, letter pages, etc.) for a really low price compared to the original books. I dropped a star since it doesn't include books that crossed over into the title (not a problem with me, but I'm sure other people might have issues with it).

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