![]() How is it then, that these were the comics, the last issues of Claremont’s run, that killed my Something new came into existence that permanently imprinted itselfįrom the characters themselves to crazy alien space-tech, you just can’t beat Jim Lee. His talent swirled with the particular aesthetic of the Uncanny X-Men, magic Gifted, but Jim Lee was somehow transcendent on a whole other level. None of them can touch Jim Lee’s work on X-Men. In my opinion, as much as I love all those other artists, Love with the work of Barry Windsor Smith. And that comes after years of maintaining this blogĪnd meticulously reading every X-Men comic that was released, and falling in For a kid in the 4th grade, this was Shakespearian.Īnd then Jim Lee came along and ruins everything. ![]() I was only beginning to form myīonds with these characters, and that process was aided by the narrative drive Written so intimately they felt like close friends you visited once a month. A great loss of safety and security for characters that were They had been scattered, their family destroyed. These characters were real for a lot of people, and This was a dire timeįor the comic, and I think for many it deviated too far from what they had String, students, and attendants to continue the fight. Growing threats rising from all over the world, it’s left to the X-Men’s fourth Longshot is … well nobody remembers what happened to Longshot. Villains he personally carved into cyborgs during his previous adventures. Wolverine is captured and broken by an alliance of Colossus, Rogue, Psylocke, Havok, and Dazzler areĬonsumed by Siege Perilous. Legends, both in story and in real world pop culture, but then their team isĭecimated. One of my older brother’s friends heard me saying that shit and he laughed his ass off at me. When I was a kid, I thought Psylocke was pronounced Time for the X-Men instead of being cluelessly dropped into the middle of itĪnd not even knowing how to pronounce a lot of the characters names, I found these Reading, where I actually got to read everything that lead up to this point in This is generallyĬonsidered to be the weakest part of Chris Claremont’s 17 year long run, but IĬannot find the objectivity to agree with this statement. The top of their game, and this particular run represents the exact set ofĬomics that captivated me as a child. I didn’t start collecting Uncanny X-Men until around issue #250. ![]() This collection of comics is the most nostalgic for “Yeah ma and then they did that shit where they smash the cake in each other’s faces and I puked all over everything! No ma, this was in a comic! A comic!”įor posterity sake, this reading and review cover the I mean how am I gonna be reading this and not be sprinting to my blog to shit post about it. Reading, but I think I’m done writing for now, and maybe indefinitely. How that was to be defined, I didn’t know, butĪt the very least it was going to include everything up to the end ofĬlaremont’s big run, which I have now accomplished. I set out with a goal, to readĮvery X-Men comic ever written. Years, and I guess that’s kind of what this is. But I still want to tie a bow on what I’ve been doing here for the past seven I’m a shadow of my former hilarious self. Nowadays it’s all I can do to keep my queue from emptying out while doing one post a day. Or maybe I’m busy and not as focused on this blog as I used Review that’s barely two years old? I’ll tell ya how. That happen? How do I just completely forget that I did bunch of work on a Thinking that this was going to be a lot more comics, because I completelyįorgot that I already wrote a review covering the big three X-Men crossoversįrom the 1980s (Mutant Massacre, Fall of the Mutants, and Inferno). Uncanny X-Men, along with the crossovers and spinoffs that accompany it. It covers the last chunk of Chris Claremont’s original run on This is the last review I’m going to writeįor this blog.
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