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Post by masterofquackfu on Oct 13, 2017 21:49:01 GMT -5
Ah yes, the English X-Men. Another attempt by Marvel to maximize profit form the X-Man avalanche of the late 80's. Bought the first issue back in the day(1988, I believe) and a few subsequent issues. I was excited at first, but eventually the series did not hold me enough for me to continue purchasing it. After about the first seven issues or so, I stopped buying it. I thought Captain Britain and Nightcrawler were okay...even Megan wasn't bad. However, like New Mutants and Power Pack, it will remain a tertiary Marvel title to me.
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Post by tingramretro on Oct 14, 2017 4:42:36 GMT -5
The art is certainly not "below par". Alan Davis was one of the best artists to come out of the eighties. Excalibur was, to me, a continuation of the Captain Britain series, and while Claremont is nowhere near as good a writer as any of the people who worked on that series, I still enjoyed the book for what it was, until they stupidly wrote CB out for awhile and it became just another boring X-Men book. I've did a little thinking here and the art is just about slightly above average; and having said that respectfully, I did not know who did the art and you said it was Alan Davis at the time that I read that book it was a very boring book with average art to boot. Remember, I was a much younger man back then and I did not care for this book at all and I lost all interest after reading the first 10-12 books and it's wasn't my cup of tea. At the time i did not know that this was a continuation of the Captain Britain series and that comment that you made totally caught me off guard and that's why I didn't know that. Back to Alan Davis, at the time that I saw this book - it was my first exposure of his work and now you've mention him in your post - I'm take back being "below par" and promote to better than average. This is best that I can do and I'm still don't care about this book anymore. Most people don't share your opinion of Davis's art. |
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Post by tingramretro on Oct 14, 2017 4:47:29 GMT -5
Ah yes, the English X-Men. British, not "English". The group was based in England for a lot of its existence, but then moved to Scotland, and only Captain Britain, Kylun and possibly Meggan were English (in fact, Meggan may have been Welsh). |
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 14, 2017 5:27:53 GMT -5
Years back I bought a huge run of this book for the Alan Davis artwork. I've yet to read them. I have to give it a try.
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Post by The Captain on Oct 15, 2017 16:22:31 GMT -5
I read this entire series straight through a few years back and wasn't terribly impressed. Will always think of it as a second-tier X-book, even though it did run 125 issues. So many hit-or-miss stories and lots of new, uninteresting characters introduced, although I am probably in the minority of people in that I actually like the character of Pete Wisdom (although his relationship with Kitty is pretty skeevy).
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Post by chromehead on Oct 16, 2017 19:39:36 GMT -5
I enjoyed it a lot for it’s quirkiness when I was really young and on a big X-Men kick (and because it was the only place to read Kitty at the time who I liked). Looking back, a lot of the book was over my head as a young reader. This would have been the post-Davis era as well, and the book had some particularly awful art at the time.
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