The X-Men fighting dinosaur men in the Savage Land. A good story with this plot is impossible. To be fair, Claremont's run on this series seems to be a throwback to the style of the eighties, and plots like this did occur in the X-Men of the eighties. However, this kind of story represents the extremely bad and cheezy side of eighties comics that people make fun of. This easily ranks as one of the worst X-Men stories I've read.
The reason I gave this two stars instead of one is for the last couple of issues, which are actually quite good. One is Psyclocke dealing with her return home, which spans the X-Men's return from the Savage Land through Wolverine: Enemy of the State and X-Men: Phoenix Endsong. The other is a fairly amusing issue featuring Mojo, although I'm not sure how he's alive, since last I saw he was killed in X-Men #11. His return could have been a story in a spin-off X-book or another Marvel title, however.
All in all, I would only recommend this book for completists (like myself)or if you'd rather not go to a comic shop and pick up the last two issues of this volume individually.

I don't read as many comics as I used to back in the day, (60's and 70's), but when Alan Davis illustrates such exotic locales such as the lost savage land of Kazar - I must have and read it!

Alan Davis's reincarnation of Killraven was utterly fantastic, his writing skills and fabulous, beautiful artwork shining bigger and better than ever before.

And it shows in this blazing mix of savage jungle and mutant X-men graphic novel. Most excellent in all ways. A must have for any comic book fan who loves great artwork blended with beautiful colors and imagery.

The XSE goes back to the Savage Land in this TPB. Bizarre things always happen to this team in the Savage Land. This book is no exception.

The beginning of this arc was what threw me, and what made me only give it four out of five stars. Wolverine departs to the Savage Land to investigate some strange findings that an old ex-girlfriend of his (with red hair, go figure) alerted him to. He goes alone (or so he thinks), not realizing that X-23, his teenaged clone, has tagged along as a stowaway on the Blackbird. First, why does Logan insist on going alone? Why was Storm, the leader of the team, okay with it?

Second, why was there no exposition of who Logan's ex-girlfriend was? Granted, she gets killed in the first few pages, but it's nice to have that history.

The Savage Land Mutates make an appearance, as well as a new band of mutated dino-lizards called the Haukka. It's always nice to see some new antagonists for a change. Ka-Zar returns, too, but he didn't have much of a speaking role in this arc.

When the X-Men are taken hostage by the Haukka, they brainwash Marvel Girl into thinking she is one of them. She's so convinced that she begins mutating herself on a molecular level to even physically resemble one of them. THAT was cool. It was neat to see her lope along with the bent posture like the other lizards, further testament to Alan Davis's artwork.

We get to see some interesting interaction between Storm and Marvel Girl in this book, as well as see more of what Storm's powers can really do on a larger scale. Psylocke returns to the X-Men (and from the dead), still looking Japanese, and no longer telepathic, but she's pretty damned cool. If you are a fan of Bishop, you won't see much of him in this story. Logan also inexplicably disappears, by the second issue of this arc, and you never are offered an explanation as to why (even though we know he was kidnapped and brainwashed by HYDRA in his own series, but that doesn't excuse his absence from the Savage Land, hello?).

Marvel Girl's character begs further exploration, both in terms of her powers and how she will grow with the team. This book made me forget all of the previous "Days of Future Past" arcs, thankfully. All of her previous timeline jumps just gave me a headache. Like her mother, Rachel Grey has the greatest capacity for heroism or ultimate destruction.

This is one more story arc that made me very grateful that Chuck Austen is no longer writing this series.

Wow was this bad. I was so hoping to like it as I love some of these characters so much (especially Rachel Summers!). Unfortunately, these characters act out of character throughtout and ignore past history and relationships. The X-Men run around like chickens with their heads cut off from battle to battle spouting the same Claremont cliches that they've spouted 100 times before. If you really want to read the legendary Chris Claremont, track down the reprints of X-Men #94 - 200; unfortunately, not even the gorgeous Alan Davis art makes this book readable.