X-Men: The Characters and Their Universe Book

I bought this book for my X-Men loving fiance and he was not disappointed. Though the text could be better at times, the pictures and the sheer amount of X-Men history packed into this book is worth the price. My only negatives were that there was no character spotlight for Rogue, but that is a personal nitpick as she is my favorite X-Man, and that Mallory frequently tried to pull parallels between X-Men and Harry Potter. We get it. You think that J.K. Rowling took her idea of Hogwarts from Xavier's boarding school, and that the struggle between mutants and normal humans is the same one that Rowling used in her wizard vs. muggle mentality. I would just have rather that those opinions been left out to solely focus on the amazing creation that is the X-Universe. Still, it is a gorgeous volume and makes a nice coffee table book for comic fans. I give it three stars.