X-men: The 'Chaos Engine' Trilogy
| Published 11/12/04

Graphic by: Doni Neel

The great thing about this book is that the enemies aren't always enemies and the heroes are not always heroes. By looking at the covers of the books, you can guess who the main villains are in each book. The first book was about Dr. Doom, the second about Magneto and the third about the Red Skull. It's funny: not only do these stories intertwine, but so have the characters in the Marvel universe.

I really liked it because there was a great amount of previous histories of the characters. For example, Red Skull and Magneto are enemies; Red Skull is a Nazi and Magneto is a Jewish man who was imprisoned in an internment camp. The writing kept up a good amount of this throughout the story and it worked in a very powerful way.

The story is based on the cosmic cube, an item that can set the life of anyone who holds it. Just by command it can change worlds and delete history.

The X-men were in space at the time it was activated, so they were the only heroes unaffected by this. Therefore, they are sent to stop the threat before it destroys not only their universe but many others, as well.

Want to know what happens? Check it out; it's available now as one novel at most bookstores.