Product Description: Ultimate X-Men is the wildly successful relaunch that jettisons over forty years of continuity and sets the clock back to the beginning for Marvel's first group of mutant super heroes.This is a fresh start for the X-Men that begins when they're still teenagers just becoming a part of Charles Xavier's School For Gifted Youngsters and chronicles their new first encounters with Magneto, the Sentinels, Juggernaut, etc. The book is published on a monthly basis and is a cornerstone of the Ultimate Universe, a separate line of comics Marvel produces all sharing the same taking-it-from-the-start philosophy. Ultimate X-men includes 70 issues from February 2001 through May 2006, including annual. It also includes bios of all characters!
I wish they had more Ultimate titles on disc -- this is great! GIT really did a fine job with these comic collections. Too bad Marvel is now going totally online and won't let anyone have the actual comics in hand anymore. *sigh* Oh, well -- but if you can get it used (or from GIT), go for it. It's definitely worth the money!
Works fine on a Mac; a great bargain. What comes in the box: A single CD in a DVD-style clamshell with a protective sleeve. The CD contains dozens of comic books in PDF format, plus Mac and Windows installers for Adobe Acrobat Reader 6. The comics are scans from printed comic books, so you can see the page seams, staples, etc. in the scans. The scans are of good quality.
Using the CD: I loaded this CD into both a 12" G4 iBook and a Core Solo Mac Mini with a 22" widescreen monitor. I was able to read the comics on both Macs without problems. Since the comics are PDF files, I tried to view them in both Preview (the preinstalled Apple app) and Adobe Acrobat Reader. Both programs work fine, except that in Preview, a large "MARVEL" watermark is distractingly visible in the center of each page. That's too bad, since Preview will remember the last page viewed and jump right to it (newer versions of Acrobat Reader do this too; but not version 6 that comes on the CD).
There is a "start.pdf" file in the top-level folder of the CD. It contains links to each year of comics (2001 - 2006); a link to the 2006 "Annual" comic book; a link to the "Bios" (biographies and backstories for the various mutants and groups), a link to send email to tech support for the CD; and a link to the Marvel.com website. Clicking on a year's link opens another PDF file with links to each of the individual books from that year. The individual books can of course also be opened directly; they're all in sub-folders organized by year.
To view the comics on the iBook's 12" screen, I needed to switch to full-screen view (available in both Preview and Reader) and then select the "fit page to screen" option, so that the comics completely filled the screen. After doing this, the text in the comics was small but clear, and I was able to read it with a little squinting.
On the Mini's 22" screen, putting the comics in full-screen mode was a treat; they were larger than the printed comic books and made it easy to really appreciate the artwork.
Verdict: This CD contains a lot of comic books. It is well executed for the price. Reading the comics on a desktop Mac is a pleasure. Reading them on a compact laptop is doable; the CD is a good option to throw in the laptop's case for long trips, as it'll provide many hours of entertainment and could prove quite handy in airport layovers, hotel rooms with limited TV and internet options, etc. Definitely worth the price!
Convenient, but less than stellar quality I have been a fan of the X-Men for many, many years. I decided to purchase this Ultimate X-Men Collection first, to see if I really liked it before purchasing larger collections on CD-ROM.
It is very convenient to have all of these comic books sitting on my laptop, allowing me to read them pretty much wherever I go. I only gave the collection 3 stars for two reasons: 1. The scan quality is poor, primarily because the colors are washed out, and 2. The PDF's can only be viewed in Acrobat Reader.
Because of the two issues listed above, I don't think I will be buying any of the other collections on CD-ROM. If you want to see for yourself, buy this collection FIRST, as it is one of the cheaper ones. But I would recommend purchasing the actual books rather than the CD-ROM version.
X-men collector Don't have the time to go out and hunt down the printed books , me niether so i bought this .
It's in pdf format , so sit back and read untill your eyes water , all you need is a PC or mac and adobe reader . I like it a lot , I just copy the CD contents to my hard drive and use Adobe reader to zoom in and out on hard to read areas .
X-men fans , buy this collection.
Ultimate X-Men Complete Comic Book Collection on cd-rom Looks brand new- but haven't opened it yet. More than 70 comic books on these cd-roms. Had I purchased the comic books it would have cost more than $210.00 so I'm very happy to be able to read the coolest x-men comic book title. All the comics in a row from February 2001 thru May 2006. Plus it's nice to be able to read many issues one after the other at one sitting; instead of waiting for one story every month. I can read a year's worth of comic books in one sitting this way.
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