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Oct 23 09 11:58 AM
Cancer754 wrote: even Don Heck channelling Adams. In fact, regarding the Heck issue, I remember reading several pages into it before I realized that Adams' work looked a little different, and my shock when I checked the credits. Couldn't be Heck, not possible, no way. But it was, and it was great.
even Don Heck channelling Adams. In fact, regarding the Heck issue, I remember reading several pages into it before I realized that Adams' work looked a little different, and my shock when I checked the credits. Couldn't be Heck, not possible, no way. But it was, and it was great.
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Oct 23 09 5:42 PM
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.
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Oct 24 09 5:59 AM
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Oct 24 09 6:40 AM
You can't go wrong with the Roy Thomas/Neal Adams run, which are among the best comics of the Silver Age and which - as Adams correctly states - basically created the X-Men template that all later X-creators cleave to. Personally - but I am biased because Neal Adams is my favourite comics artist - I think their run is the best mutant run ever. Only Claremont/Byrne/Austin at their peak can compare.
Otherwise you can write off the X-Men's first series. Issues 11-19 have some highly entertaining stories and interesting concepts and some prime Kirby artwork so they're worthwhile too.
I hated the X-Factor concept from the very beginning - especially resurrecting Jean Grey - and saw it as the ultimate sell-out to the X-Men's then burgeoning popularity. Little did I suspect in those naieve days just how bad exploitation can get. Compared with Marvel's policy today, Marvel under Shooter was a model of restraint and good taste which it came to exploiting popular properties.
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Oct 27 09 2:12 AM
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Well, you retcon the original story (a great, story, one of Marvel's best ever!) so that it actually wasn't the real Jean Grey in that story to begin with - and completely ruin its tragic pathos.
The original X-Factor was one of the great Marvel botch jobs. After going through great lengths to bring back Jean Grey and risk marginalizing one of the all-time great X-Men story lines.
Are you doing the Reader's Digest versions of your posts now? Thank You!!!I prefer it to the normal 20 pages of repetitious posts.
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MakeMineMarvel wrote: What i never understood was, why did they switch to reprints instead of cancelling the book all together? If it wasn't selling- why did they waste their time with reprints for 2 and a half years?
Oct 27 09 3:06 PM
Lockjaw wrote: I'm not getting the folks that say only the first 11 were any good until Adams arrives. Are you saying that Kirby & Lee were in a slump during the Juggernaut/Sentinels/Magneto run 12-17?? That makes no sense.
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