Read "Third World War" Book 1

Man, this was a total thrill-power overload...

Taking place in the semi-near future, a multinational corporation (simply known as Multi-Food) seeks to expand it's grasp into the reaches of impoverished colonies as a means of giving them a better shot in the world stage, at least that's how it seems. In reality, there's a lot of exploitation afoot, and needing people to be the eyes and ears of the company, they send out impressionable youths like 18 year old Eve to win the hearts of the people. Unfortunately for them, Eve is not as docile as she seems and has quite the rebellious streak. Because of that, she's put with other "Freeks", or kids her age that basically have something wrong with them that prevents them from being totally obedient. With her unit, she sees a lot of injustice and hard truths that are tough to swallow

Probably one of the best things I've read by both Mills and the late, great Carlos Ezquerrea and that's truly saying something

I've been making the recent Brave and the Bold posts on this thread, but I will accept compliments under the name Hoosier as well.

#1 is a pretty iconic cover, so I can see that having some value... maybe that carries the whole miniseries?

If you weren't there, you really can't get a feel for how big that Wolverine mini-series was at the time it came out. Uncanny X-Men was rapidly becoming the #1 comic book. Miller was hot off his acclaimed run on Daredevil and was one of the hottest artists out there. This was well before the inundation of all things X, much less Wolverine. The book was just a huge critical and commercial hit.

I haven't read it in probably better than 25 years (probably closer to 30) and I find Claremont to be pretty much unreadable now. But at the time it came out this was a huge book.

I was a few years behind in the UK, but did read the stories in the 80s. I loved Uncanny and loved Daredevil, but I think I expected something akin to peak Miller Daredevil, so was left cold. If it had been a lesser artist/writer than Miller involved I probably wouldn't have had such high expectations and been disappointed.

So yeah, as an adult taking a critical look at it- awesome character progression, but very middling comic that is wildly overrated from what I can see online.

I read Legion of Super-Heroes #262-265. The first couple of issues have stronger writing than the batch of LOSH before this I read a couple weeks back. Writer Gerry Conway is joined by artist Jim Sherman on #262. His art is really beautiful, and I realized at some points it reminded me of Steve Lightle who would have his own stint on Legion a few years later. The Legion has temporarily been divided into three separate groups, and this issue follows a group in space that is helping R.J. Brande build back his fortune. They strangely encounter a group of pirates that seem to come from Earth's ancient past, and I won't spoil the rest.

Jimmy Janes handles the pencils in #263-265. In #263-264, a villain kidnaps the parents of several Legionnaires. It's not as creative a plot as #262, but it has some nice character moments for folks like Shadow Lass, Wildfire, and Dawnstar. Also, Tyroc who has rarely appeared since his debut, surprisingly shows up and then shockingly seems to run out on his teammates.

Unusually, #265 focuses on just three Legionnaires: Dawnstar, Shadow Lass, and Tyroc. J.M DeMatteis scripts the issue, joining regular writer Gerry Conway. The issue attempts to offer some context for Tyroc's very off-putting personality. In perhaps an attempt to feel relevant, Tyroc was introduce as a separatist black militant, which didn't seem to fit the idea that hopefully racial equality would be firmly established by the 30th century. Perhaps the creators realized that only so much could be done to rehab Tyroc's image, the plot of the issue is basically the "Poochie returned to his home planet" caption from "Itchy & Scratchy" in an episode of The Simpsons.