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Post by urrutiap on May 22, 2019 13:55:30 GMT -5
Anyone remember what story arcs etc were going on in any of the X-Men comics back in 2000 when the movie was in theaters?
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Post by brutalis on May 22, 2019 17:02:56 GMT -5
Sorry, this old timer had given up on X-Men waaaaay before the 2000's. So no clue what was occurring in any of the mutant titles.
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Post by beccabear67 on May 22, 2019 18:17:26 GMT -5
There was 'The Shattering' in late 1999 followed by 'Apocalypse: The Twelve' and then the fall out of that story with a bunch of alternate worlds titled 'Ages Of Apocalypse'. I have the two main X titles from the period and most of the tie-in issues of Cable, Wolverine and X-Men United. Most of it was written, and some of it drawn, by Alan Davis. Also X-Men: Hidden Years began with a preview bonus in X-Men #94 and then on to it's own title. There was some Movie tie-in comic(s), but only seen the ads for that, not read any.  I really like this mini-era of the comics for the most part, but I don't have them starting where Chris Claremont came back as writer. |
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Post by Icctrombone on May 22, 2019 19:13:56 GMT -5
I think that's when Grant Morrison started his run on X-men with # 112 .
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Post by Bronze age andy on May 22, 2019 19:18:42 GMT -5
The only two X titles I was reading at the time we're The Hidden Years and the mini series Children of the Atom.
Afraid I don't remember much about either. Remember them being so-so.
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Post by urrutiap on May 22, 2019 19:44:24 GMT -5
Ok thanks. I was in a phase from 1997 to 2003 where back then i was dealing with college stuff so I missed out on alot of X-Men stuff including other Marvel comics.
But mainly just curious what the X-Men comics were doing with story arcs in 2000 when the X-Men movie was in theaters
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Post by rberman on May 23, 2019 5:58:48 GMT -5
I think that's when Grant Morrison started his run on X-men with # 112 . Grant Morrison's run began with cover date July 2001 and the story of Cassandra Nova. It attempted to capitalize on the first film by taking the team out of costumes, in favor of matching utility suits modeled after those used by emergency squads.  A new Claremont series, X-treme X-Men, also began with cover date July 2001 and a story about the search for Destiny's diaries. Its characters wore more superhero-looking suits with thigh high boots on the likes of Storm and Psylocke, but still with black as the predominant color scheme in response to the film. Bishop at one point refers to the team wearing "uniforms" even though they are not actually uniform.  |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 23, 2019 8:38:29 GMT -5
I, for one, did not miss the yellow spandex.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 23, 2019 10:47:55 GMT -5
There were comic books? I thought it was all the creation of Hollywood; their press sure seemed to indicate that! You'd think they would have tied them together, somehow.....
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Post by beccabear67 on May 23, 2019 13:02:03 GMT -5
Too much black leather and too many trench coats (never mind trendy hair-dos) and I get repelled. Sorry. I liked the Byrne era where they had relatable civie clothes and the more they were out of costume the closer it got to decent science fiction to me... but Claremont seemed to have a penchant for wanting clothing that was yet more costuming, like all the corsets and tights of the Hellfire Club folks. I knew so few people who looked remotely like anything out of Vogue or whatever compared to say the Sears catalog Byrne may've drawn from, all the mohawks and unrelatable get-ups put me right off. At least the Moorlocks weren't all hair-gel and extreme shoulder pads, but seemed like just about everyone else was. Alan Davis was a move back away from that so I responded to the comics he steered I guess because of that factor.
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Post by badwolf on May 23, 2019 13:46:07 GMT -5
I read Hidden Years and had some of the issues of the regular book with Alan Davis on art. I don't remember anything about the latter though I'm sure they looked nice.
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Post by urrutiap on May 23, 2019 13:56:19 GMT -5
Guess Ill have to go to the comic book shop some time looking through the X-Men back issue long box to pick through the comics from the year 2000 to see what was going on.
Also was Iron Man or even Dr Strange still popular in comics back in 2000 also? or were their comic series getting old losing popularity?
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Post by Mormel on May 23, 2019 14:49:25 GMT -5
I have a soft spot for those Alan Davis issues from around that time. Not so much the Claremont ones, though.
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