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Xmen had the issue of trying to be 3 completely opposed things at once: 1: A comic about how "le racism against minorities is bad!", 2:Cool superhero powers, 3: Low to high-tier adventure!
Combining all three had the result of a bunch of guys who are constantly in dramas and complain how everyone is scared of them accidentally blowing up the world and how mutants are bad (while every other Marvel character looks away for reasons), and then the next chapter they travel through time to stop the Terminator future from happening. Mutant powers are all over the place and some are clear winners, and if that's the case, you're pretty much god, doubly so if you practice as it seems they have infinite improvement (if you're important enough to matter).
 
Magneto's been de-aged a few times, the earliest I think was when he got turned into a baby (and then wanted to turn the X-Men into babies in revenge). I think there's also some overwrought explanation about how he controls the iron in his blood to slow his aging or some such comic-y nonsense.

As for Storm, she was pretty much a Mary Sue even back in her initial X-Men stories, clearly a favorite of Claremont's. But Claremont was actually a decent writer, so he knew he had to occasionally challenge her and lay her low, taking away her powers (or otherwise messing with them) for fairly long periods.
 
Marvel as a whole is just a mess.
The only two characters I regularly buy are
She-Hulk and Daredevil.
The new Wolverine Black, White, & Red #1 has me interested.
Just picked up the new Rogue, not read it yet.
Also getting into Ultimate Spider-Man.
Almost everything else I'm reading right now is DC.
 
DocAwe said:
Marvel as a whole is just a mess.
The only two characters I regularly buy are
She-Hulk and Daredevil.
The new Wolverine Black, White, & Red #1 has me interested.
Just picked up the new Rogue, not read it yet.
Also getting into Ultimate Spider-Man.
Almost everything else I'm reading right now is DC.
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DC is in a good spot right now.

Marvel feels like the out of touch guy that peaked in High school
 
You know, I remember reading somewhere once that the original Galactus Trilogy was a fine capstone to the initial days of the Fantastic Four, all well and good then. Where do you go from there in a sense and all, right.

I gotta look up the equivalent storylines for other major heroes of the time, give or take a year, and see if they have any high or at least appropriate points to end on as well. It'd be interesting to imagine a Marvel Comics that phases out in that time period than (obviously) continue on as it did in reality.
 
Anon88 said:
Something boring in a series called Exceptional X-Men by Eve Ewing. It's a series so bad that even the retards willing to follow modern marvel aren't willing to buy or read.
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Eve Ewing, that's a name that's setting off alarm bells in the back of my mind. Remind me what she's done?
 
A quick search reveals runs on Black Panther, Ms Marvel, Photon, Ironheart, and a couple of "real" "scholarly" books about institutional racism.
 
Newcomer 42 said:
The same is said about the Joker. Where's the Punisher when you need him? Oh wait, he was killed off because "GUNS BAD!", then brought back later once his replacement failed, kek.


For what's worth, while Terry will avoid directly killing people, he sure doesn't care about collateral damage: frequently during the series you see stuff like a giant round container he pushed off to cause a distraction crushing bad guys in the background and he doesn't give a damn.
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Ah, yes... such as when he takes down the Venom drug ring.
 
DocAwe said:
Riri... Good gosh what a terrible name.
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Invented by a jew who is whiter than most white dudes.

I've heard claims that Bendis was actually trolling SJWs when he created her by having her demand to be oppressed as a child so she could use it as motivation later in life... despite already apparently being a genius. I think it was in response to the issue he did where Miles is pissed off at being labeled the black Spider-Man instead of just Spider-Man and Tumblr called him an out of touch white man because obviously minorities like being singled out for their race.
 
I bought the complete Megaton Man 80s collection recently, as I liked the original run from the mid 80s, but only had a few issues. It's interesting to see the quality Don Simpsons Megaton Man art regress, not just in the 10 issue orignal series, but especially in the "comeback" series from the late 80s (and it's been all downhill from there imo). Don will insist his original MM art was "neurotically overdone", and he said he wanted to draw the characters in a more realistic fashion, but his art, to me, was never as good as it was in that original 10 issue series. Also, his insistence on taking these parody characters and treating them as serious character studies just made the book/strip boring. Simpson is a weird dude, lol.
 
GloryHole Stalker said:
I bought the complete Megaton Man 80s collection recently, as I liked the original run from the mid 80s, but only had a few issues. It's interesting to see the quality Don Simpsons Megaton Man art regress, not just in the 10 issue orignal series, but especially in the "comeback" series from the late 80s (and it's been all downhill from there imo). Don will insist his original MM art was "neurotically overdone", and he said he wanted to draw the characters in a more realistic fashion, but his art, to me, was never as good as it was in that original 10 issue series. Also, his insistence on taking these parody characters and treating them as serious character studies just made the book/strip boring. Simpson is a weird dude, lol.
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This happened to Neal Adams and Frank Miller as well. I think they just get so big they don't care as much anymore. I'm sure they'll couch it in "Well, all my experience has led me to need less detail to convey the same thing." No, nigga. You got lazy the bigger your cheques got.
 
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