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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jul 2, 2024 9:54:54 GMT -5
In July 1984 I was already buying fewer comics, and mostly out of habit or out of loyalty; luckily, there were still a few good eggs here and there in the lot.
So on that sunny month, 40 years ago, I bought...
Arak Annual #1 : definitely a loyalty buy. The Lord of the Serpents, who had been introduced as basically Satan (albeit in a Native American context) is here confirmed to be just a magician with horns. One wonders why the change... was Roy feeling skittish about using actual religious figures in his stories after all? Anyway, the good guys win in the end. Lord of the Serpents? Lord of the Wet Petards is more like it!
Conan #163: no recollection, except that the cover is a pin-up by Ernie Chan that was most definitely not meant for this issue. Before the arrival of Jim Owsley, the book would be essentially a succession of fill-ins.
Conan the king #25. More intrigue in Aquilonia! I believe this is the issue where assassins try to poison the king. Meanwhile, his neglected queen spends more and more time with a noble named Lysander, who clearly means to make a Lothario of himself. At the other end of the world, in Khitai, Prince Conn meets his illegitimate brother Kang Sho. The two look like twins, a plot point that was clearly meant to be very important at the time but was totally dropped in following issues when the writer was replaced. (And when he came back dozens of issues later, the plot he had doubtless been setting up had been rendered moot).
Kull #6: I remember really liking the title "Goblin Moon". Another nice Michael Golden cover, another good story by Alan Zelenetz. That short-lived Kull series was always a pleasant read.
Machine Man #2: Barry Windsor-Smith coming back to comics, even if it's just to ink Herb Trimpe's pencils? I'm so there.
Secret Wars #7: Was this series *really* critically acclaimed? Apart from a few notable moments (and, admittedly, one of the best Doctor Doom scenes ever), it was mostly a slog. The art also felt rushed, which is probably was. ("Quick, guys! You have to complete this new issue by... last week!")
New Mutants #21: Introducing the new Warlock, a sentient machine who can infect living things with a virus turning them into machines and drain them of energy. I was a bit annoyed at Marvel using the name "Warlock" again, since it meant Adam Warlock was going to stay dead for a while... but this new addition to the New Mutants' roster offered all sorts of possibilities. He tested Xavier's principles, as he was clearly someone in need despite being insanely dangerous; he would give the team much needed hitting power, and Bill Sienkiewicz drew him in a very intriguing way. (Few people ever managed to draw Warlock properly).
Sadly, Warlock would suffer the same fate as many other menaces turned allies: über-powerful when villains, but always hampered and inefficient as heroes. *Cough* Magneto *Cough*.
New Teen Titans #2: I gave the new Titans book a try, mostly for Perez' art, but the script made me think that Wolfman was just writing a "Dark Raven" storyline. I didn't read issue 3.
Sub-Mariner #2 and 3: they were at the newsstand so I bought them. I remember they had Bulanadi inks, but even that didn't stop me.
Savage Sword of Conan #104: the guy on the cover has a zipper on his vest!!! Conan meets the Brotherhood of the Falcon again, a group that was initially meant to be *another* scary order of assassins but eventually degenerated into a farce. Even writers realized it after a while.
Savage Sword of Conan #105: NOW you're talking!!! Under a striking Michael Golden cover, we get writer Don Kraar's first contribution to the mag (at least as far as the main story goes). Kraar did not refer to Howard's writings per se, but he wrote actual Conan stories. No flying cities. No long-lost brother. No other-dimensional twins. No ninjas. But proper references to the Hyborian world, believable conflicts and down-to-Earth drama!
In this story, Conan and the survivors of a defeated band of mercenaries find refuge in a large mill, in the middle of winter. Conan is not above eating the miller's family's food, but he draws the line at hurting them for no reason; his comrades, though, are intent on raping the women and murdering the rest. The Cimmerian, needless to say, is moved to interfere. The ensuing fight is long and brutal, because even Conan should not be able to get rid of five opponents easily. As a reader who had suffered light comedy-adventure since the departure of Roy Thomas in issue #60, I was delighted!
Thor #348-349. I was a big fan of Simonson's Thor at first, but his run was starting to run out of steam... and I thoroughly hated the character of Malekith.
X-Men #186. Barry Smith once again, with the classic, beautifully-drawn Lifedeath. Forge's home had an incredible design that must have taken forever to draw. I don't think I had seen the female Dire Wraiths up to that point; they sure looked scarier than the shmoo-like ones we had met in Rom.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jul 2, 2024 11:01:22 GMT -5
Holy cow, that's right: it's July. As usual, not much from me, to wit: New Mutants #21  I recall the story in this one a little better than the preceding two issues, maybe because the titular mutants were actually doing teenager things here (the girls having a slumber party), but I was still not liking the Sienkiewicz era very much. And I did not at all like the addition of Warlock (he's an alien, not a mutant!) to the team. Nor making Doug Ramsey an active rather than supporting character. This would be my last issue of this series. X-men #186  Another issue/story that is much loved and much lauded by everyone, except me apparently. Yes, Barry Windsor Smith's art is beautiful, but that's the only positive thing I can say about this one. I was not enjoying any of the developments in X-men for a while at this point, and having Storm depowered was kind of a nail in the coffin for me. I think I held on for one or two more issues. Otherwise, I usually don't comment on stuff I picked up later in this thread, but since Barry Windsor Smith's art came up and Roquefort Raider mentioned the Machine Man mini-series, I have to say that I was really underwhelmed by that one as well. Beautiful art by Trimpe and Smith (with Smith doing pencils and inks in the last issue), but a mostly dull and uninteresting story. And thanks to Mike's Newsstand, I realized that I did, in fact, pick up something else this month, Superman #400...  I specifically recall going to the comic book shop in Salem (OR), which I had not visited for a while, and the owners were really talking this one up. I decided to get it and was not disappointed. However, it wasn't enough to rejuvenate my flagging interest in comics at the time. That would end up being my last trip to that specific comic shop - the next time I stepped into one would be almost two years later in a different state. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jul 2, 2024 12:11:09 GMT -5
I recall the story in this one a little better than the preceding two issues, maybe because the titular mutants were actually doing teenager things here (the girls having a slumber party), (...) Well put. Claremont took a while to get started, but eventually New Mutants would develop a new "voice". It was a little more about a school (like Mutant Degrassi) and a little less about a Junior X-Men team. Yeah, that's true. I didn't mind adding an alien to the team, myself, but I think that to satisfy the Xavier School bylaws they said Warlcok was an alien mutant (since he wasn't as bloodthirsty as others of his kind). The same conceit was used to keep Longshot around, even if he was introduced as an other-dimensional alien and not as a mutant. ("He's an other-dimensional mutant! So there!") They eventually did, then made him Rahne's love interest(!!!), and then killed him. They killed the most relatable, most interesting New Mutant around. Having a natural ability to decipher things, not like a Star Trek translator but like a super-linguist, is all kinds of awesome. And why did they do it? Because some benighted souls thought Doug "boring", and because blood was required to make yet another crossover event "relevant". Oh, the humanity!!! Doug probably went through the death turnstile several times since then, this being comics. But what a waste. That was one of the gutsy moves from Chris that actually paid off, in my opinion. I expected Storm to get better soon (and in fact I wanted Storm to get better soon) but she grew so much as a character during her depowered period that I was a little disappointed when she gained her powers back! I quite enjoyed the X-Men up to the Mutant Massacre storyline, around issue 210. After that, well... Let's say not all of Chris's gutsy moves were to my taste. I couldn't disagree less! I loved the art (and issue 4 is Windsor-Smith solo!), but the story was pretty ordinary with a bland version of a future Earth. I also didn't care for the "future slang" created for a few characters. There's no way in hell that "give us a break" would one day evolve into "give to us the break". It may evolve into "grunt" or something equally short and illiterate, but I can't see the day an expression would grow into something more elaborate rather than the opposite. I'd have definitely picked that if I had seen it! Look at that list of contributors!!! |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jul 2, 2024 16:53:21 GMT -5
(...) Doug probably went through the death turnstile several times since then, this being comics. But what a waste. (...) On Doug Ramsay, I liked it when he was introduced in X-men as a mutant with a 'passive' ability, and I think they should have kept him in that capacity, i.e., no costume, not a regular member of any team, but brought in when his special talents are required.
Oh, man. I'd completely forgotten about the 'future slang' in that story. Yeah, it just made a bland story all that much worse.
Yep. I've gushed about it elsewhere before on several occasions, including here quite recently. It's an anniversary issue done right.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jul 2, 2024 22:19:48 GMT -5
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Aug 1, 2024 12:22:12 GMT -5
August 1984.
Relatively few books this month... I am still surprised to see how disenchanted I seem to have to been with comics at the time.
Arak #38 : The story jumps a few weeks ahead and brings us to Haroun Al-Rashid's Bagdad. It reintroduces Valda and Malagigi, who had been the main (and well-loved) supporting characters for the first two years of the title. Alas, after a year of so-so stories, this move did little to re-ignite my interest. Malagigi the wizard was now kind of redundant since Arak himself had become a shaman, and he was always ill to boot. Valda, meanwhile, had been a great character in the beginning; sort of a Red Sonja almost done right (there was a pointless supernatural aspect to her origin). The sexual tension between Arak and her had been a high point of the series. Alas, now that the two lovebirds had declared their mutual flame, the tension was gone... and Valda was reduced to the status of fawning girlfriend/occasional hostage.
Epic Illustrated #26 : Bought at the newsstand rather than via Heroes' World. It had been a while since I had read Epic, but I would try to stick around to the end. The mag was really, really good; like Heavy Metal without its adolescent obsession with sex. In this issue we have the first chapter of The Last Galactus Story, a John Byrne/Terry Austin/Glynis Oliver production, which was right up my alley. We also had a short Cerebus story (in colour) by Dave Sim, and I must say I loved those brief glimpses of the aardvark's youth. (Sim was still a superstar back then, and a good catch for Epic). And what about that Tim Conrad serial set in the Middle Ages? Nothing but good stuff here, effendi!
Kitty Pryde and Wolverine #1 : I was an X-fan, I was a Wolverine fan (how tings change, I must say!), I had ben a HUGE fan of the first Wolverine limited series, and I had to follow that mini-series. Alas, it's drawn by Al Milgrom. Going from Frank Miller to Al Milgrom is not like the opposite. (In fact, logically-minded folks might say, it is the exact opposite). The plot starts well, with Kitty's dad being drawn into an embarrassing financial scheme involving Yakuza. She decides to fly to the land of the Rising Sun and Logan follows her, and for the life of me I can't remember why the entire team didn't follow... Maybe it was a case of "I'll call y'all if need be, but for now I'll just find out what's going on")
The following issues would see Kitty be possessed "body and soul" by an evil immortal ninja master who also coached Logan back in the day, and as a result she would retain her instant ninja abilities for good. We'd revisit a lot of material from the first Wolverine miniseries and from the "Logan doesn't marry Mariko" issues of X-Men. Honestly, the world of our merry mutants was starting to feel pretty inbred -a trend that would continue forever. Still... good superhero action, I guess.
Secret Wars #8 : Spidey gets his new costume, although we had already seen it in other mags a few months prior. I really didn't care for the idea of a "magical" suit for Spidey; the pysicial limitations of his gear (running out of web fluid, having to sew up tears) had been a part of his charm. Luckily, the symbiote stuff would move to greener pastures a bit later. That being said, and although I think it's really hard to replace a true classic, the black costume looked very good.
New Gods #6 : I was a near-complete neophyte when it came to the New Gods. I had read a few issues of Mister Miracle, but they didn't deal with Darkseid or the Apokolips-New Genesis conflict; the closer I had come to it was when Darkseid, Izaya and Orion showed up at the end of the Great Darkness Saga in LSH. I did know that Kirby's Fourth World was supposed to be a big deal, though, and when this issue claimed to conclude the as-yet unfinished New Gods series, I thought it was probably fair to give it a shot. Besides, while not being an actual Kirby fan at the time, I had learned to appreciate his unique style on Kamandi and 2001.
So how does this grand saga end? Orion is shot by dog soldiers and dies. The end. But wait! A Kirby graphic novel is in the wings! Not reading The Hunger Dogs for several decades, it took me a good long while to learn that Orion wasn't actually dead.
New Mutants #22 : In the tradition of Kitty's fairy Tale, we get a fantasy version of our young mutants's lives. It sets up their meeting with Cloak and Dagger, if I'm not misremembering things.
Swamp Thing #30 : Giordano's editorials brought me here! Dick had opined that this mag was cruelly under-appreciated, so I took a chance on it (after dropping it after issue 13). BOY!!! That Alan Moore fellow could WRITE!!! And the art was pretty awesome. I was a bit taken aback by having Abby, Arcane and Matt back; they were in the original series, but had not appeared under Marty Pasko's pen, so I thought we had taken a step backward... but I had always liked them so no worries.
Star Trek #8 : A comfort purchase for this Trek fan who still didn't know how Kirk and the gang would fare without the Enterprise. This issue stars Saavik, whose future husband is a Vulcan named Xon. As old fans remember, Xon is also the name of the Vulcan who was supposed to replace Spock as first officer aboard the Enterprise when was would eventually become Star Trek: The Motion Picture was being developed as a TV series and Leonard Nimoy wasn't interested. I wasn't thrilled by Xon, but there we are.
Super Powers #5 : bought because it was a comic and because it was there. More Kirby, which was a rare thing for me. I expected a DC equivalent of Secret Wars, but although this limited series was also supposed to help sell toys, it didn't claim to change everything and everyone forever and ever.
X-Men #187 : Kind of a cross-over with the ROM series, as Dire Wraiths show up. The recently depowered Storm is angry at her new beau Forge because he's the one who created the device that stole her abilities. The no-longer windrider nevertheless comes back to help him when he's attacked by shape-shifting imposters from space who can also do magic and... augh, the plot was contrived and needlessly confusing, even for an X-book.
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 1, 2024 14:59:01 GMT -5
Not much, then, as I was starting college and Navy ROTC at the end of the month. I was trying to get into better shape and was buying supplies for school, including a Sharp solar pocket calculator (with trig functions), which I still own. Later:            Reuben Flagg in Canada, the end to a highly unappreciated but great run of Blackhawk, Thunder Bunny, the other half of the DNAgents/Teen Titans "unofficial" crossover, Jon Sable returns hom to Africa to lay flowers on his family's graves, a Blackhawk pastiche from Dave Cockrum, an unpublished Kirby New Gods story, and more Alan Moore. Crash Ryan was a little oddity that missed most radars. I actually saw the character first in Dark Horse Presents, in a story published after this Epic mini-series. The mini is a cool little alternate history/pulp adventure, where a pulp conqueror has an aerial fortress and launches a sneak attack on Japan, while Crash flies for The United Airmen, in a pseudo nod to HG Wells' Shape of Things to Come (with Wings Over the World, who in the film adaptation, Things To Come, defeat The Boss, with massive art deco bombers and sleep gas). It was a nice mix of pulp adventure, Republic serials, HG Wells, alternate history, and just old fashioned adventure, from Ron Harris. Sadly, his art was never quite up to his imagination, though he gives it a good try. The villain of the piece owes more than a little to The Lightning, in Republic's Fighting Devil Dogs. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Aug 1, 2024 15:11:42 GMT -5
Not much, then, as I was starting college and Navy ROTC at the end of the month. I was trying to get into better shape and was buying supplies for school, including a Sharp solar pocket calculator (with trig functions), which I still own. This one?  Best pocket calculator ever!!! I bought it in '85, and like you I still use it today. When I eventually had kids and had to buy them a calculator for school, I really wanted the same model... but it was apparently no longer made. What's the point of making calculators that last 40 years, eh?  |
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Post by chaykinstevens on Aug 1, 2024 15:33:44 GMT -5
American Flagg #15
Aztec Ace #5
Batman #377
Beauty and the Beast #1
Coyote #8
Dalgoda #2
Defenders #137
Detective Comics #544
Eclipse Monthly #10
Green Lantern #182
Grimjack #5
Infinity, Inc. #8
Jemm, Son of Saturn #3
Jon Sable, Freelance #19
Marvel Fanfare #17
New Gods #6
New Teen Titans #3
Saga of Swamp Thing #30
Six from Sirius #3
Star Reach Classics #6
Starslayer #23
Tales of the Teen Titans #48
Vigilante #12
Warp #18
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 1, 2024 16:20:59 GMT -5
Not much, then, as I was starting college and Navy ROTC at the end of the month. I was trying to get into better shape and was buying supplies for school, including a Sharp solar pocket calculator (with trig functions), which I still own. This one? Best pocket calculator ever!!! I bought it in '85, and like you I still use it today. When I eventually had kids and had to buy them a calculator for school, I really wanted the same model... but it was apparently no longer made. What's the point of making calculators that last 40 years, eh? Close, if I am reading the model number correctly. Mine is the EL-510, with its original case. It was the store display, too, as I recall. Only problem was, I had a physics class, at the Univ of Illinois, with a quiz segment, done in a computer lab, where the lighting was kept low, to make the screens more readable. I had trouble getting enough light to power it and the quizzes were timed, on the computer. I hated that class. Didn't help that I was an Economics major and only took the class because it was an NROTC requirement, for whatever reason (probably to weed people out). |
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 1, 2024 17:53:38 GMT -5
ps As a side note, I own one of my Dad's college textbooks, a collection of Shakespeare's plays, copyright date 1948, from Harcourt, Brace and Co. It has his name and the address of the boarding house, where he lived. I tried to locate the address, after he died and I was living and working in Champaign-Urbana, but it had been absorbed by the University and the Alumni Center. No dual text in this one; you had to figure out the meaning from the context of the play.
My brother owns my Dad's 12 ga, double-barrel shotgun and .22 cal bolt action rifle, which he used for hunting. I think both of them are older than either of us. Somewhere, I have a McKinley campaign button, that belonged to my Great-Grandfather. When my family cleaned out the house, we all chose items. My Great Grandparents collected salt & pepper shakers and had them in a curio cabinet, which we used to look at, when we visited. The collection got picked apart, but my mom took a set that was an upright piano case, which when you pressed on the keyboard, pushed a lever that lifted the salt & pepper containers. I took the button and some other commemorative medal, a pair of mini-pocketknife keychains (he collected those, two) and one with a little viewfinder that had a nude picture of a woman, from what looked like circa the 1920s, at the latest. My mom took the hair wreath that they had-completely fashioned out of human hair, then had the case it was in repaired and a newspaper clipping, explaining the history of such items. No idea whatever happened to that. I'd have to ask my sister if she has it or if they got rid of it, when they moved.
We all wanted a cast iron stove playset (child's toy set) that was an antique, which we all played with, as kids. My late aunt was the one who got it; I don't know if my cousin still has it or not, since she passed away last year.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Aug 2, 2024 2:17:47 GMT -5
(...) Epic Illustrated #26 : Bought at the newsstand rather than via Heroes' World. It had been a while since I had read Epic, but I would try to stick around to the end. The mag was really, really good; like Heavy Metal without its adolescent obsession with sex. In this issue we have the first chapter of The Last Galactus Story, a John Byrne/Terry Austin/Glynis Oliver production, which was right up my alley. We also had a short Cerebus story (in colour) by Dave Sim, and I must say I loved those brief glimpses of the aardvark's youth. (Sim was still a superstar back then, and a good catch for Epic). And what about that Tim Conrad serial set in the Middle Ages? Nothing but good stuff here, effendi! (...) I had only read through a few issues (from a few years earlier), but I definitely agree that Epic Illustrated was better than Heavy Metal - I'd add that another plus in its favor is the lack of pretentious text pieces with Rolling Stone-wannabe book, movie and music reviews. |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Aug 2, 2024 2:49:15 GMT -5
In August 1984, I picked up... X-men #187.  I only vaguely recall the story, but I do recall that this was the point - just before my junior year of high school - that I finally admitted to myself that I was just picking up X-men on automatic and had not been liking it for quite some time (in fact, I think I mentioned upthread that #176 and the annual that came out that month were probably the last issues of that series that I enjoyed reading). I said then that the end of the preceding summer, 1983, was the end of my personal golden age, but this was, officially, the end of my long first phase of comics-reading. After that, I only occasionally flipped through a few comics when I would pass by a spinner rack in some store, just to see what was going on, but I was never tempted to start buying/reading again. That would only happen about 2 years later, in the summer of 1986, when I stepped into a comic shop for the first time after many years and got back into comics in a limited way. Since I only posted the comics that I actually picked up at the time 40 years ago, I'm now bowing out of active participation in this thread for the time being.
Another depressing thought is that in about a year or so, I'll be able to start participating in the "50 years ago this month" thread... |
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Post by tonebone on Aug 2, 2024 10:24:25 GMT -5
I'd have definitely picked that if I had seen it! Look at that list of contributors!!! It's a crime against all humanity that DC has not reprinted this yet. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Sept 2, 2024 12:43:00 GMT -5
Purchased in September 1984. Alpha Flight #17: A reprint of X-Men #109, which introduced Vindicator (wearing the best flag-themed costume ever, in my humble but patriotic opinion), with a framing sequence and added material. Notably, John Byrne makes canon the explanation that had been given off-page for Vindicator just popping out of sight at the end of the fight; he had made himself immobile relative to the Earth’s rotation, the equivalent of zooming westward at tremendous speed. I started reading Alpha Flight again on a whim, and thought that Byrne’s handling of James Hudson’s passing was very well handled indeed. Amazing Spider-Man #259. Something of a cheat, as I bought this comic in its French translation. It was fun to see Ron Frenz's Steve Ditko impression, although I wasn’t sure that such a backward-looking look was a good idea in the long run. Nostalgia is all well and nice, but progress might be a good idea. Thankfully, that's just wha the script seemed to be doing!
Arak #39, in which Harun Al-Rashid’s menagerie is shown to contain several fabulous creatures. This had the potential to be quite interesting, but it turned more or less into a dropping name contest for mythology and ancient history nerds. The idea behind the Arak was great, but as I said before I feel it lost its way after the first two years. Conan annual #9. O.K., so clearly Marvel wasn’t going to get back on track with the Conan annuals focusing on the man's later years, as had been planned starting with #7 and dropped after Roy Thomas left. I don’t remember the story, so I probably didn’t bother re-reading it too often... my guess is that it was a decently entertaining and well-drawn issue, but not a must-have for Conan fans. Conan the barbarian #165: More of the Michael Fleisher Conan. See the description above. Conan the King #28: Some background information on Count Trocero, one of Conan’s closest friends. We get the impression that he sacrificed much for his king and country, and was taken for granted by the Cimmerian. The man's history revealed here does not fit with what we would learn in Conan #200, and Roy Thomas had to later do some continuity tweaking. Conan the King was still the best Conan mag around at the time.
Indiana Jones #24. Another lovely cover by Michael Golden! The inside story is standard issue. Kitty Pryde and Wolverine #2. I don’t remember the details of that specific issue. I know that at some point in the miniseries Kitty reflects that her superhero name should be “shadowcat” instead of “Sprite” or “Ariel”, even if in continuity she had never been called Ariel. (As far as I know, the only time she was called that was in the GN “God Loves, Man Kills”. Kitty also becomes an instant ninja. Where do I sign up for that? It sounds like what the comics ads often promised! Kull #7. “Masquerade”! Beautiful Michael Golden once again, good script by Zelenetz and serviceable art by Buscema. I wish Conan had been half as good as Kull in those days. Without writing a soap opera for Kull, Zelenetz slowly introduced supporting characters and stayed true to the feel of the original series. This was not Conan. Machine Man #4. An all-Barry Windsor-Smith art job makes this issue stand out, even if the script is so-so. Secret Wars #9, in which Galactus has the good idea of trying to eat Battleworld. I'm not ot a big fan of the Battle Royale type of story, but I kept buying because we Marvel fans were expected to! New Mutants #23. Something about Cloak and Dagger. I forget what it was but I’m pretty sure it must have involved some heroes being corrupted body and soul or something. Sub-Mariner #4. I know I bought it. And that it had Bulanadi inking. Rom Annual #3. I was never a big Rom fan, nor even a regular fan… but the comic did provide regular and decent super-hero fun. Swamp Thing #31. Alan Moore, Rick Veitch and John Totleben bring us a true horror story. This would very quickly become my favourite title, and remain so for a few years. Savage Sword of Conan #106. Kind of odd-looking Michael Golden cover, but I’ll take ‘em any day! The hilarious Captain Boraq Sharaq is back, likely to be become a joke again! Thor #350. To this day, I remain convinced that Walt’s planning for this major story arc didn’t go exactly as planned, since Ragnarok doesn’t occur in the 350th issue. But its comin’, it’s comin'! X-Men #188. More about the demons Forge and Nazé are supposed to be fighting, and some ominous glimpses of the future. X-Men annual #8. Drawn by Steve Leialoha, if I remember correctly; it’s a story in the vein of Kitty’s fairy tale but with a SF slant. I did enjoy these lighter X-Men tales. |
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