Reading through X-Men 1-66

[ElectricStrider1]

Hey, everyone.
I am rereading X-Men 1-66.
I am currently on issue 25.
I have a question.
Who is more annoying, young Hank McCoy with his expansive vocabulary or later Etrigan with rhyming speech pattern?
Thanks for your time, folks.

[Phoenix Raptor]

Don't forget that in the very early issues, Hank was basically written as The Thing without the rocks. Quite a change to the verbose quasi-genius he morphed into a short time later!

[ElectricStrider1]

You are correct.
LOL

[ericng]

Don't forget that in the very early issues, Hank was basically written as The Thing without the rocks. Quite a change to the verbose quasi-genius he morphed into a short time later!

I don't think that was the original plan, he was always meant to be the brains with brawns mutant but I wish that Marvel had stuck to his original look instead of the blue beast look.

[ElectricStrider1]

I agree!
I was stoked when X-Factor 3-4 restored the original beast, for a while anyway.

[ElectricStrider1]

X-Men #26.
Hooboy, is Hank at his pretentious peak?
He claims to know Mayathan, a form of ancient Mayan language.
Hahahaha!
Gotta love the Marvel Age of Comics!

[Rift]

X-Men #26.
Hooboy, is Hank at his pretentious peak?

Hahahaha
Haha
Ha ha ha ha
Haaaaa

No.

[ElectricStrider1]

X-Men #26: Thank God that's over!
It took me days to read it.
I might be wrong, but I found the El Tigre story line very boring.
On to X-Men 27!

[Micabe]

No!!! I must resist digging out X-Men 1-66 -- Since he's not a mutant, Etrigan...

[ElectricStrider1]

No!!! I must resist digging out X-Men 1-66 -- Since he's not a mutant, Etrigan...

Hahahaha, sorry!

[Uncanny X-Man]

Hey, everyone.
I am rereading X-Men 1-66.
I am currently on issue 25.
I have a question.
Who is more annoying, young Hank McCoy with his expansive vocabulary or later Etrigan with rhyming speech pattern?
Thanks for your time, folks.

Oh man, I did this years ago and it was a bit rough at times. There's a certain cuteness to those early Lee/Kirby stories and it's fun to see so many of the X-Men's fundamental concepts and characters being introduced for the first time, however there's also a long middle part before the arrival of Neal Adams that was a bit too old-style for me to enjoy.

It would be nice to segue this with John Byrne's Hidden Years to see how it all flows

[ElectricStrider1]

Oh man, I did this years ago and it was a bit rough at times. There's a certain cuteness to those early Lee/Kirby stories and it's fun to see so many of the X-Men's fundamental concepts and characters being introduced for the first time, however there's also a long middle part before the arrival of Neal Adams that was a bit too old-style for me to enjoy.

It would be nice to segue this with John Byrne's Hidden Years to see how it all flows

You are spot on, friend.
I am chomping at the bit to get to that short but significant Thomas/Adams run.
I will say that early Roy Thomas has had some good moments.

[ElectricStrider1]

The Banshee!
'Nuff said!

[Sin Nick]

Tried reading through the original X-Men stories once and it felt like literal torture. I said eff it and fast forwarded to the Giant Size crew. Also Etrigan is a funny entertaining character IMO who I don't find annoying at all.

[bearman]

[QUOTE=ElectricStrider1;6115567]The Banshee!


Damn right.