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Post by wickedmountain on Mar 11, 2024 11:26:02 GMT -5
Was just curious what everyone thought .
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2024 13:17:02 GMT -5
Hasn't changed much for anything from 2000up. Some arcs, minis, Annuals, relaunches are good, others meh. If I get a good deal on a run of issues, or a Hardcover, I might pick them up. Like when Midtown Comics has a 60-75% off sale.....
The one exception to this is X-23, I like Laura so I get anything with her.
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Post by Dizzy D on Mar 11, 2024 16:40:16 GMT -5
I really liked a lot of the comics in the Krakoan Age (especially the first issues of Duggan's Marauders, William's X-Factor, Ewing's S.W.O.R.D./X-Men Red, Spurrier's Way of X/Legion of X, Hickman's Inferno and New Mutants and Gillen's Immortal X-Men), but the moment they decided to wrap this up, my interest went with it.
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Post by wickedmountain on Mar 12, 2024 9:13:24 GMT -5
I really liked a lot of the comics in the Krakoan Age (especially the first issues of Duggan's Marauders, William's X-Factor, Ewing's S.W.O.R.D./X-Men Red, Spurrier's Way of X/Legion of X, Hickman's Inferno and New Mutants and Gillen's Immortal X-Men), but the moment they decided to wrap this up, my interest went with it. Yea I'm reading Marauders right now from 2019 been fun so far 😊
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Post by majestic on Mar 12, 2024 13:09:25 GMT -5
Last X-Men I read was 2013 All New X-Men by Bendis. I read the first 12 issues because I liked the original 5 members. It was a decent concept but didn't hold my interest enough to keep reading. Before that I read Whedon's Astonishing X-Men. I think when the whole X-Men titles got too numerous that they felt like they were their own universe I lost interest.
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Post by Dizzy D on Mar 12, 2024 13:58:10 GMT -5
I really liked a lot of the comics in the Krakoan Age (especially the first issues of Duggan's Marauders, William's X-Factor, Ewing's S.W.O.R.D./X-Men Red, Spurrier's Way of X/Legion of X, Hickman's Inferno and New Mutants and Gillen's Immortal X-Men), but the moment they decided to wrap this up, my interest went with it. Yea I'm reading Marauders right now from 2019 been fun so far 😊
I think after issue #16 the series loses direction, but until then it was my favourite of the X-Men titles at the time.
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Post by DubipR on Mar 12, 2024 14:47:52 GMT -5
Haven't read an X-title since Morrison's run. I tried Hickman but it was too Hickman-y for me to give a care.
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Post by Cei-U! on Mar 12, 2024 17:23:06 GMT -5
I haven't read an X-book since 1986 so I have no opinion.
Cei-U! I summon the cluelessness!
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Post by johnnygobs on Mar 12, 2024 22:21:55 GMT -5
I usually try reading every time they restart but it almost never sticks.
I read the earlier part of the Hickman/Krakoa Age when it was all available on Comixology Unlimited. Once I had to start paying separately, my interest waned.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Mar 13, 2024 21:57:40 GMT -5
I really like the concept of the Krakoan age if you ignore the Hickman nonsense... they kinda did the concept of the X-Men as a nation a couple times, but never totally pulled the trigger... this time they did it, and it was really interesting for a while.
Of course it can't last long without an event to blow it up, which annoys me immensely, but that's modern comics for you. My favorites have been the Si Spurrier corner of the X-Verse (with Legion and Nightcrawler), those have been great. The rest I've popped in now in then via hoopla or the occasional cover that grabbed my attention.
I'm looking forward the the X-Men getting the heck out of my Iron Man comics when this story is over now that they took it apart. I suspect the next run will be more typical.
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Mar 14, 2024 17:03:30 GMT -5
I read the House/Power of X minis when they came out and was just a bit meh. For full transparency, I am not a huge Hickman fan, as I often think he rarely sticks the landing and his big ideas result in interchangeable characters in his books (his FF being an exception for me). I later read the first year of so of most of the Krakatoa era books via Unlimited, took a break and really never went back. For me, too many moving parts trying to tell too big a story too focused on ideas and not characters and their conflicts, consequences, and growth. They weren't bad, just felt disjointed, and trying to do too many things too quickly without really digging in and doing much of it well.
That said, I did like some of the books, but the problem was I couldn't really get what I needed for those books without also following books I wasn't that enamored of. I've often said if a publisher puts me in a position of choosing all or none instead of being able to select the titles I like, I'm going to choose none just about every time. And that's how I felt about the X-line.
Looking at the announcements of the new X-books coming out of Wonder Con today, I might check them out when they hit Unlimited, especially the Gail Simone and Jed McKay books.
-M
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Post by wildfire2099 on Mar 14, 2024 17:38:29 GMT -5
looks like the next story stuff has been announced..3 main books
Uncanny by Gail Simone (sounds 90s-ish...Rogue, Gambit, Nightcrawler, Jubilee, and Wolverine) based in Louisiana
X-Men by Jed McKay ( Cyclops, Beast, Magneto in a hover wheelchair, Psylocke, Kid Omega, Temper (formerly Oya), Magik and Juggernaut) Based in Alaska
Exceptional X-Men (Kitty and Emma Frost with new people) based in Chicago
Other books are Phoenix, X-Factor, Wolverine, NYX, Storm, X-Force
Definitely feels like a return to status quo of the X-Men just being a superhero group.
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Post by sunofdarkchild on Mar 15, 2024 5:01:54 GMT -5
The current state is pretty dreadful. Krakoa had its flaws, but the way they're ending it has been terrible. Between the rushing, the way Orchis is treated as a joke despite supposedly being such a huge threat, and Gerry Duggan seemingly forgetting everything he ever learned about writing it's as bad now as the dark days of the pre-Krakoa years. It's been a long time since I've seen a writer fail so badly at action, character, dialogue, and plotting all at once as Duggan is doing in the main X-Men book and Fall of the House of X right now. I can't believe the same guy who wrote Savage Avengers is writing this crap.
I liked the Krakoa era as a whole, but it has been getting worse and worse as the years progressed, to the point I can't wait for the end anymore. Here's hoping the MacKay and Simone books are a return to form.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Mar 15, 2024 7:48:47 GMT -5
The current state is pretty dreadful. Krakoa had its flaws, but the way they're ending it has been terrible. Between the rushing, the way Orchis is treated as a joke despite supposedly being such a huge threat, and Gerry Duggan seemingly forgetting everything he ever learned about writing it's as bad now as the dark days of the pre-Krakoa years. There's a character called Orchis? That's nuts!!!
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Post by EdoBosnar on Mar 15, 2024 8:54:23 GMT -5
There's a character called Orchis? That's nuts!!! I'd say it's ballsy...
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