The art is beautiful and makes up for the fact that a lot of it seems cast on if not a mean light an uninformed one. While it does sumerize it, it misses the nuisance and has a lot of the creator's own biases and introjects things he either made up or misremembered. It's a good place to start, but should not be considered the definitive summery of the X-Men of that era. I was let down from the first Grand Design.