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[QUOTE=Wolfsbane;5907380]Outside of Scott and Jean, is Beast the most successful Original X-Man? Or is he the most successful? Was he the most popular in the 60’s when X-Men first came out?
I love Beast so much. I wish he would go back to his 90’s form. Kill him off and resurrect his 1994 self.[/QUOTE]
From what I hear, he was the most popular among the O5, which explains a few things, he's the first of the O5 who got an origin story, after X-Men got cancelled, he got his own stories in Amazing Adventures while the X-Men were in limbo, and he got to join the Avengers around the time the X-Men returned.
Reading the comics themselves, it's easy to see why he was popular, Cyclops, Jean and Angel were kinda bland, Iceman was a less interesting version of Human Torch, Hank was his own thing after his sudden personality shift (He was just a copy of Thing in the first three issues), and he was generally pretty amusing, he's the only character from the Lee/Kirby era who I found interesting.
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2017 cover recreation commission by John Byrne of Hulk #161...when Beast and Hulk crossed paths.
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More Dark Beast please...it was fun reading him trick Hank during Onslaught.
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[QUOTE=Lucky99;6022677]More Dark Beast please...it was fun reading him trick Hank during Onslaught.[/QUOTE]
Have you not been reading the current run of X-Force?
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[QUOTE=ARkadelphia;6023046]Have you not been reading the current run of X-Force?[/QUOTE]
Dark Beast isnt in that. Unless something changed that I missed, he's still dead
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[QUOTE=Havok83;6023712]Dark Beast isnt in that. Unless something changed that I missed, he's still dead[/QUOTE]
I think he means that the way Hank has been acting since this Krakoa thing started he may as well be Dark Beast.
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[QUOTE=Chris0013;6024201]I think he means that the way Hank has been acting since this Krakoa thing started he may as well be Dark Beast.[/QUOTE]
That's exactly what I think he means, and it's true. He might as well be Dark Beast. He sure is heading that way.
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[QUOTE=Chris0013;6024201]I think he means that the way Hank has been acting since this Krakoa thing started he may as well be Dark Beast.[/QUOTE]
He's not like Dark Beast though. Dark Beast was evil yet had a charm about him infused with dark humor. Current Beast lacks that and is just bad with no redeeming qualities or interesting personality beats. I would actually prefer Dark Beast back over the Beast in X-Force. Hank is arrogant in a way that Dark Beast wasnt
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[center]George Perez (RIP)
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Wow!
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I always preferred his X-Terminators costume.
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Damn, didn't know angelfire was still alive.
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[QUOTE=McFarlane's Green Hulk;6087412]Wow!
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Fuzzy wuzzy lil Beastie.
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Returning to my old job in a new position has brought extra downtime on the weekends, so I'll be making a second attempt to read these via the Marvel Masterworks tonight. I recall my first effort and the...less than enthusiastic reaction to the writing.
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Those [I]Amazing Adventures [/I]comics that introduced fuzzy Beast are from 1972- dammmm that a look time ago.
As far as I am concerned Beast was replaced by Dark Beast during the whole Children of the Atom when Dark Beast supposedly died, it would certainly explain ‘Beast’s’ Behaviour since.