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I'm assuming this takes place towards the end of Claremont's New Mutants run. Dani became a Valkyrie in the 1985 Special Edition. Doug and Warlock first merged psyches in NM Annual #2 and the...

Nostalgia probably plays some role in it, yeah. That would explain my love of Starlin, Aparo, and Breyfogle.

However, I didn't grow up on Denny O'Neil and Neal Adams' Batman. They were before my...

Totally agree.

Batman has been too dark and unrelatable for awhile now. I'm not sure where I lost officially interest -- maybe Morrison's BatGod was the watershed moment for me? Or maybe it was...

Yes, very bad.

Tom King's Batman is trash.

You. You? You -- you liked it? You like the writing. Oh my God. What's happening? What's going on? You. You liked it. The book -- the book Bendis wrote. What? What's happening? The books....

This is a dark day for Superman fans. Bendis hasn't bee readable for over a decade now.

Was this hamfisted and cheesy? Maybe a little yeah.

But it totally worked for me. It's stuff like this that makes me love Supes. It's like that scene of Chris Reeves in the original Superman...

No, this is simply lazy writing and editors playing on their iPhone instead of doing their jobs.

You actually did more brainwork with your No-Prize than most current Marvel writers and editors do...

Williamson gets it. I hope he stays on this book forever.

It's issues like #38 that really capture the essence of Barry -- his great heart and good soul. You can keep your anti-heroes, it's...

Yeah, AvX would've been a great opportunity to get them together, under interesting circumstances, no less.

I'm convinced that Marvel editorial is no longer concerned with any of the...

Evidently, yeah.

And that's Leech in front of Warlock.

Agreed. This is entire series is nonsense.

These aren't inconsequential tweaks.

The stuff like replacing Jean and Annie's frisbee with a basketball is no big deal. No cares about that. Fine,...

Great point. And even with the dumb airplane joke -- they still could've put Kitty in the classic Excalibur costume for several pages, because Brian explicitly tells Kitty he has her old costume on...

Y'know -- I love Chris Claremont. But that's one thing he did I was never fond of -- the transformation of Elizabeth Braddock. I thought she was amazing as the feminine British aristocrat. So...

Yeah, that was my assumption too.

But the reader shouldn't have to assume that. Most kids don't gain their mutant abilities until puberty or during a traumatic event. So why does this child have...

Amen. This was embarrassing.

- The major continuity error on page one. I've said it a hundred times, but the editors at Marvel are doing absolutely nothing these days.

- A stork delivers...

Because very little here is accurate X-History. It was more than "a few tweaks." It passes itself off as canon, yet entirely re-writes several major events.

Honestly, I woulda been cool with...

Amen.

This is offensive to those of us who have spent lots of money and time reading and collecting the real history of the X-Men.

I honestly don't blame Piskor all that much. He's probably...

The editors should take most of the blame for this.

Back in the day editors used to do their jobs. They reigned in creators when they became too self-indulgent. Editors used to clarify...

As in Unus the Untouchable #8...? From 1964?

Or the Jim Lee X-Men #8 from the early 90's...?

Man, just look at that... Alan Davis is such a master.

Sabretooth was a legitimately terrifying villain back in those days, before he was jobbed out too much.

That's a great first issue. Well,...

Uncanny X-Men #210, summer of 1986. I had just turned 9 years old:

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I bought it off a spinner rack at the local 5-and-dime store named Ramsey's. (For those of you too young to know, a...

I totally agree. I think at that time in the late 80's, it was a fairly novel idea -- turning a female character into an ass kicking badass. I don't think it was a bad idea by Claremont at the...

Doh! I totally forgot about Wildfire. He's great...

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