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An enigma of a man shaped hole in the wall between reality and the soul of the devil.
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 5:13 pm Posts: 39820 Location: 6000 feet beyond man and time.
On a whim I bought a shit ton of 1980's Uncanny X-Men comics.
- I forgot how grim they were. The X-men are constantly getting their asses kicked by everyone, and mutants die in droves. It's great.
- They are a lot slower than I remember, but this isn't a complaint. Kinda nice.
- too much soap opera stuff, but that's Clairemont.
- I wonder if it's still possible to get comics printed like this (4 color process on shitty newsprint). I want to make a comic that looks exactly like this.
I loved the X-Men in the 80's. I've been trying to recapture that feeling for 30 years but I'm just not into them anymore. It's funny how wordy those comics are looking at them now. You got your money's worth anyways.
An enigma of a man shaped hole in the wall between reality and the soul of the devil.
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 5:13 pm Posts: 39820 Location: 6000 feet beyond man and time.
Looking at the reprints with modern printing techniques and there is just no comparison. The new ones look so dead to me. I need my printing errors, limited colors and little dots!
Joined: Sat January 05, 2013 1:57 pm Posts: 32497 Location: Where everybody knows your name
BurtReynolds wrote:
wease wrote:
What issues did you get?
Most haven't arrived yet, but I got most of the 200's. Missing about 20 issues I guess. I also have a few earlier ones.
The Australian days were probably the best. They have such a harsh vibe. Silvestri was kinda underrated then, too.
I stopped around 230 and didn’t pick back up until Jim Lee came aboard. I have since picked up all the issues I missed. I’ve thought Silverstein was badass from the first time I ever saw his work. Probably the Avengers/X-Men miniseries. Or Web of Spider-Man. Yeah, I think he did that before the A/X mini.
Other than Byrne’s run my favorite period is 165-around 210 or so. Thru the Mutant Massacre. 165 or so is when I started and I still have absolute love for that era of the book.
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- I forgot how grim they were. The X-men are constantly getting their asses kicked by everyone, and mutants die in droves. It's great.
This stood out to me in the 90's animated series pilot where they get their asses kicked by sentinels and Morph is assumed dead. I must have been 8 years old when I first saw the rerun on morning TV and was shook and hooked.
An enigma of a man shaped hole in the wall between reality and the soul of the devil.
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 5:13 pm Posts: 39820 Location: 6000 feet beyond man and time.
It's almost Game of Thrones-like at times. Sometimes they just lose. And its not a small loss on the road to some greater victory - they just flat out lose.
Joined: Sat January 05, 2013 1:57 pm Posts: 32497 Location: Where everybody knows your name
If you read Claremont’s entire run, you’ll see they never have just an out-and-out win. On the occasion they do win one, it’s always with a “except for this part”.
_________________ Let me tell you, Homer Simpson is cock of nothing! - C. Montgomery Burns
Started reading the original Aliens Dark Horse books. The almost sketch-like B&W is really refreshing compared to modern computer colored works, the layout and art overall tend to evoke Giger's work as well.
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Just read the first issue of the new Amazing Fantasy limited series and it was pretty cool. Not too many Marvel books hold my interest nowadays it was a nice surprise.
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