Saturday, January 15, 2011
My Favorite Era Of The X-Men
John Romita Jr. was doing the art and the team was undergoing great change. Rogue had just joined them and was in the midst of transitioning from villain to hero.
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I remember that issue...I was just getting into comics at the time, and I saw this one and was mildly intrigued. I didn't start regularly reading X-Men until the next issue after this one, which had Peter dumping Kitty Pryde (he'd fallen in love with an alien woman on the "Secret Wars" planet), and then Wolverine taking Peter to a bar to chew his ass out. Good times, those were!
Some great stuff during that time. Rogue was my favorite.
ah, when the x-men were not a self parody.
After Chris Claremont stopped writing X-Men it all went down hill pretty fast.
I don't know much at all about what happened after Claremont left (I had to stop actively buying comics when I went to college, and needed my scant money for food instead), but I do think that his own run was starting to show some signs of wear even when he had two years ahead of him. The comic was starting to bog down in a serious sense of self-importance. I also thought that X-Factor really hurt things, but that wasn't Claremont's idea, if I remember correctly. I have wondered if X-Factor kind of forced Claremont into places, story-wise, that he really didn't want to go.
Claremont left believing he never got to finish telling HIS stories so they brought him back and he has an X-man title all his own right now. It's not continuity and I have only read a few issues but it doesn't seem all that great. The biggest thing I saw him do was kill off Beast. Big deal.
I think it was a good time for the book. They were still telling stories in at least a semi coherent fashion. There were characters that were still viable. Oh so much hope to be dashed in the future.
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