Magnus the Magnificent
King Koopa
didn't want one.
I could write a book about what you don't know!
Posts: 12,632 
|
Post by Magnus the Magnificent on Mar 15, 2017 11:18:25 GMT -5
The first issue I read was #132, so Byrne/Claremont for me.
|
|
|
|
Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Mar 15, 2017 12:45:43 GMT -5
Sometime around the tail end of the Jim Lee era. The animated series on Fox had just premiered. Yeah pretty much the same for me when I Started reading the books. |
|
|
|
Post by The Heartbreak TWERK on Mar 15, 2017 13:01:05 GMT -5
Which team has Goldballs?
|
|
|
|
Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Mar 15, 2017 13:07:49 GMT -5
Which team has Goldballs? post 2010. |
|
Ultimo Gallos
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
Dreams SUCK!Nightmares live FOREVER!
Posts: 15,318
|
Post by Ultimo Gallos on Mar 15, 2017 13:15:30 GMT -5
I started with 129 and read it every month until right after Inferno. I still got it,had a subscription,but wasn't reading them. Then around 281 I started reading it again. By 300 I gave up and haven't read more than an issue or two since then.
|
|
|
|
Post by mcmahonfan85 on Mar 15, 2017 13:58:46 GMT -5
THIS ONE'S FOR YOU, MORPH! Tell Cyclops I made him a convertible |
|
pegasuswarrior
El Dandy
Three Time FAN Idol Champion
@PulpPictionary
Posts: 8,748
|
Post by pegasuswarrior on Mar 15, 2017 14:03:32 GMT -5
Prof X
Cyclops
Marvel Girl/Jean/Phoenix
Beast
Storm
Colossus
Nightcrawler
Shadowcat/Kitty Pryde
Wolverine
Rogue
Iceman
The rest are mutants, yeah, but meh about them being *the* X-Men. Late to the party X-men maybe. And certainly some of them as "wannabe" X-men. But the above are "my X-Men."
Honorable mention to Angel, but he kinda faded out. So he's a "founder" for sure, but not totally in with that core above.
Also, eff Gambit.
|
|
|
|
Post by Duke Cameron on Mar 15, 2017 14:51:45 GMT -5
Jim Lee
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2017 15:09:51 GMT -5
I didn't read a lot of X-men.
Obviously the Jim lee stuff was at the forefront of my mind.
For me, it's always the team from that pilot that was never picked up, "Pryde of the X-Men." That and the game that game that it inspired really shaped my idea of what the X-men were.
It would have been perfect if they used Mohawk storm.
|
|
Bub (BLM)
Patti Mayonnaise
advocates duck on rodent violence
Fed. Up.
Posts: 37,742
|
Post by Bub (BLM) on Mar 15, 2017 20:21:30 GMT -5
I didn't read a lot of X-men. Obviously the Jim lee stuff was at the forefront of my mind. For me, it's always the team from that pilot that was never picked up, "Pryde of the X-Men." That and the game that game that it inspired really shaped my idea of what the X-men were. It would have been perfect if they used Mohawk storm. It's strange to me that they didn't, because Dazzler had her look from that same period. Maybe they thought Storm looked too punk or something. |
|
|
|
Post by BrodietheSlayer on Mar 16, 2017 0:13:53 GMT -5
This thread just tells me that I stopped reading comics at the right time. My first issue was the final Dark Phoenix chapter, but at the time, I had no knowledge of the team outside of that one issue so it made zero sense to me. My next issue would be #191, part of a Kulan Gath alternate reality trip, so again, no context and I was out of the loop. Couple of months later, #193 dropped and that one finally grabbed me. A great entry point for new readers. Fell back out of reading it right before Fall of the Mutants, came back just for the Inferno issues, and didn't come back until the issues right before the Jim Lee/Portacio relaunches, stayed with it until right before Onslaught and haven't been a regular since. I was on board with all this, except in a different order. I started reading during the Lee/Portacio period and gradually sought back issues as I became more familiar with the franchise (I desperately wanted X-tinction Agenda and Inferno). Then I quit sometime between Age of Apocalypse and Onslaught. The price of comics jumped at the time since Marvel started printing on glossy stock. And it didn't help that a bunch of artists took a break after AOP and the fill-in artists' work didn't appeal to me. Age of Apocalypse was definitely the high point of the Lobdell/Nicieza run, although, I think it pretty much led to Nicieza surrendering first his (By then, pretty kick ass) X-Force run to Jeph Loeb writing  and Adam Pollina doing terrible art. Then his X-Men duties were taken over by Lobdell, and for the last run of that period (95-97), other than a brief Mark Waid run on the plain X-Men during the time of ONSLAUGHT, Lobdell was writing both the main X-books. He did a decent job keeping the ship afloat, especially since the team was at its most visible point at that point, due to the Fox cartoon. For his flaws, though, I would take a Scott Lobdell written X-Men comic today over most of today's X-Men writers. |
|
Mackenzie Gorn
Don Corleone
I want my personal title back, but I don't know how!
AND THE WAVE OF POSSESIONS DEVOLVE INTO A CHEVY!
Posts: 2,036
|
Post by Mackenzie Gorn on Mar 16, 2017 0:21:35 GMT -5
I started reading comics around Nation X so Utopia's always gonna have a special place with me however my favorite's always been the Wolvie, Britlocke, Dazzler and others era when they were running out of the Ol' outback.
|
|
ERON
Hank Scorpio
Posts: 6,825
|
Post by ERON on Mar 16, 2017 8:49:56 GMT -5
My first issues were at the tail end of the Australia period leading into the Jim Lee era. I stuck around through the Lobdell era, even though I didn't really like it, finally giving up around the time of Onslaught.
Then I went back and started collecting back issues from the Claremont era, eventually getting the whole run, though mostly in reprint form. Having read all that now, the Byrne and Cockrum eras are my favorites by far - not just for X-Men, but for any comics - but the Outback era still has a special place in my heart.
|
|
|
|
Post by Kevin Hamilton on Mar 16, 2017 9:36:53 GMT -5
Claremont/Byrne.
Everything after has been building on or a response to their run.
Cockrum deserves more credit than he gets for his design work though.
|
|
|
|
Post by MrElijah on Mar 16, 2017 10:40:52 GMT -5
THIS ONE'S FOR YOU, MORPH! Tell Cyclops I made him a convertible Logan: I think she's here to kill me. Cyclops: Why am I not surprised. |
|
|
|
Post by Kevin Hamilton on Mar 16, 2017 10:47:21 GMT -5
My first issue though was Claremont Cockrum reprint where team fought Nefaria's Animen and Thunderbird died.
|
|
and Adam Pollina doing terrible art. Then his X-Men duties were taken over by Lobdell, and for the last run of that period (95-97), other than a brief Mark Waid run on the plain X-Men during the time of ONSLAUGHT, Lobdell was writing both the main X-books. He did a decent job keeping the ship afloat, especially since the team was at its most visible point at that point, due to the Fox cartoon. For his flaws, though, I would take a Scott Lobdell written X-Men comic today over most of today's X-Men writers.
