Sackman11 wrote:
I've said this on a couple of occassions in the past, but I really think that how much you enjoy the stories really depends on the historical context in which you first read them. If you read the original X-men stories today, as an adult with a fairly sophisticated comic-reading background, it's difficult to really enjoy the stories because you're comparing their relative simplicity with the much more complex stories and more detailed artwork. We didn't get the latter until the Thomas/Adams run prior to the book going to reprints.
Perhaps, but the majority of the work in the Masterworks I've read for the first time as an adult and the majority of the work I really, really like and appreciate. It's like watching old films or reading old books -- sure our modern sensitivities have changed and our lives have grown more complex in some ways -- but craft is craft, and what Stan & Jack did on FF or Stan & Ditko did on ASM was clearly magic, imo.