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Well I finally had my first bad experience with a used book. Bryne's FF Vol. 1 arrived with a big knock in the spine.Regardless, posting a picture of my updates collection although I still have a few on the way.
That's always disappointing. It's always safer to buy new if nicks and dents bother you. I don't mind minor imperfections if the price is right.
Nickviola wrote: "Well I finally had my first bad experience with a used book. Bryne's FF Vol. 1 arrived with a big knock in the spine.Regardless, posting a picture of my updates collection although I still have a..."
Nice photos. I need to update mine.
I took mine, I just need to post them. Maybe tonight.
Just uploaded a quick pic of my collection so far. Might have to take a better one as it didn't turn out all that well.
Lee wrote: "Just uploaded a quick pic of my collection so far. Might have to take a better one as it didn't turn out all that well."Nice.
Are these photos viewable only in the desktop version?
Donovan wrote: "Are these photos viewable only in the desktop version?"No mate, they just take forever to load on the app for some reason. A bit glitchy.
Donovan wrote: "Are these photos viewable only in the desktop version?"Try this
https://www.goodreads.com/photo/group...
I made an order from Tales Of wonder a while ago. DO tehy always make you wait for your whole order until all teh items are released?
Uncanny X-men Omnibus Vol 2 and 3 showed up yesterday. That Jerome Opena variant cover for vol 3 is just the best, I love that guy. I'll upload a pic.I've been reading the early, pre-Claremont Uncanny X-men issues on Marvel Unlimited these past few months. Some of it has been rather tedious and exhaustive, but there's undeniable gold in those pages. And hey, gotta have that firmament, right?
Anyway I'm on issue 55 right now, and once Uncanny X-men hits issue 66, it goes through five years of reprints, until the Giant Size X-men in 1975, which is the unofficial "first issue" of Chris Claremont's run.
So I'm getting there! I'll probably start the first omnibus sometime next week. This year looks like its going to be quite a bit of X-men for me.
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guanaeps wrote: "Uncanny X-men Omnibus Vol 2 and 3 showed up yesterday. That Jerome Opena variant cover for vol 3 is just the best, I love that guy. I'll upload a pic.I've been reading the early, pre-Claremont Un..."
Brace yourself man.
Claremont doesn't write in arcs. Realistically, at any given time he had at least 2-3 storylines developing at the same time and when one ends the others mature and a new one stars. It's impossible to read him in any othet way than chronologically from Giant Size #1 to Vol 3 #1. His whole near 20 year run is one big epic arc.
PorkPiePusher wrote: "His whole near 20 year run is one big epic arc."Seriously, it's s beautiful thing how every panel matters and ultimately comes into play. Characters and relationships evolve but slowly and realistically. Characters have to address multiple ongoing situations and devote time and energy accordingly, just as you would in your own life.
Honestly sometimes I go back and read it and then find a lot of modern stuff unbearable with the rough characterizations limited to allow for enormous explosions every 2 minutes.
Brian K Vaughn actually reminds me of Claremont in the ways I just wrote and I never made that connection before but love both.
Is the uncanny ordered sequentially appropriately. Is the stuff that should be red before or while?
Nickviola wrote: "PorkPiePusher wrote: "His whole near 20 year run is one big epic arc."Seriously, it's s beautiful thing how every panel matters and ultimately comes into play. Characters and relationships evolve..."
Yeah. I really feel that Claremont's uncanny should be up there with the great graphic novels like Watchmen, DKR, DD Born Again, etc, but just doesn't get mentioned due to the lenght if his run and the impossibility of taking out one single arc from his X tenure and looking at it on its own.
Dark Phoenix saga gets mentioned sometimes on the all-time graphic novels list, but that is only a small part of the Claremont Phoenix story, and really feels incomplete when read on its own. It's just so much better when you read the original Phoenix story and then the DP saga and then the Fall of the Mutants and the Outback saga and allow those to all flow into Inferno.
Nice, all this talk has me excited for the run! I love the epic slow builds, so I'm sure I'm gonna have a time. This pre-claremont X-men got really good though with Neal Adams on the art. He's bringing the book to a whole new level, his Havok is incredible. The Sauron origin was also really well done, it reminded me of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Six issues remaining.
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This pre-claremont X-men got really good though with Neal Adams on the art. He's br..."
I remember reading those stories for the first time in that Omnibus, and Adams' art was such a tremendous change with characters breaking panels, panels that were not rectangular, etc. It was very exciting and I'm sure some of that is what helped bring the X-Men back into the new series.
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I really liked Claremont's stories, but I couldn't stand the writing.
Blindzider wrote: "My Absolute Superman for Tomorrow finally arrived from Hamilton books. Shipping took awhile and the book was wrapped in heavy cardboard so there was no damage. I don't mind the longer shipping beca..."Nice. Kinda how I feel about IST taking a week.
I just finished Uncanny Avengers and it was much better than I expected after hearing mixed things (but personally loving Remender).Sidenote: What a much more interesting X-men world we'd be living in if Remender got All-New X-men. Imagine him building up the old team from scratch.
Yeah Morrison's run was a bit weird IMO.
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At some point I'm going to try to reread Morrison's run but I didn't care for it either.
I didn't like Morrison's run the first time either and got disinterested every time Beak showed up. But now I love the new mutants that are introduced and that they arent only super attractive people with enviable superpowers, I love the depth given to the original X-men, the art is obviously fantastic, I always love a little Fantomex, and the last arc in the future tying everything together is wonderful.I'd recommend everyone give it a second read, especially X-men fans disappointed by lackluster work in the current books who have memorized Claremont by now.
Good points, especially the "unattractive" mutants.
I always loved Morrisson's run; I always thought he understood what it meant to be an X-Man. I also think his writing on Beak, Angel, Glob Hermand and the rest influenced Remender's Deadly Class at leat a bit. They both have a way of writing nostalgically about ugly puberties, and that's what I love most about both runs.However, New X-Men is 110% better when Astonishing is read immediately after it - kinda like Age of Ultron gets better if you watch Civil War immediately after.
I didnt Care about morrisons x-men at All and IMO the set is very very bad.. wolverine looks like a retarded alien and Emma frost costume is probably the most unrealistic thing i have ever seen a on comic character. :/
Loved it. It's original. Quietlys artwork does take some getting used to though.
Haha. Mixed feelings on that run clearly. The artwork is definitely different.
As per usual, Morrison is polarizing. People tend to either love or hate his stuff. Regardless of how you feel about it, it has been pretty influential upon the X-Men universe in the characters he introduced and the direction he took the team. I personally thought it was great. Compared to a lot of the other X universe stories it stands out as one of the best in my opinion.
I didn't finish his run, only got a couple hundred pages in, but it was one of the most unique X-Men stories I'd ever read.
hah, Morrison is unique, but it's such a good run when you stand back and look at it all. I admit when I read it for the first time, it felt...bad. Or something. But it's reputation forced me to finish it, and alas it proved to be quite entertaining.
But it wasn't until much later, when looking back on the run that I started to see its real scope and framework. A re-read then helped me see all the little intricacies Morrison planted throughout the run. Plus I just love the mind bending stuff.
Like Cheese said, wholly original, and like Reece said, hugely influential in the realm of the X-men.
But yeah since we're talking of What-if's, Marvel should've given Remender the reins to the X-books instead of Bendis.
Bendis could've done a Cap book and Remender could've...well who knows what he would've done, probably something amazing. Maybe he wouldn't have soured to the genre as quickly as he did.
The state of the X-books would likely be in a much better place.
I got all 3 uncanny xmen and miller daredevil omnibus. How many omnis would the Claremont run be total?
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What's new mutants so many runs I have no idea what is what and where.
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At a certain point (I believe somewhere in what will be Uncanny X-Men Omnibus 4) Marvel created a second X-Men title called "The New Mutants" except it involved a younger (teenage) group of mutants who were in training and never intended to be sent out on missions. It wasn't "kiddie" but did deal with teen angst, growing up, but it did have adventure and action and the interpersonal drama. It was also heavy on captions but like Uncanny, you had very well developed characters. There was also a good run with Bill Sienkiewicz art. This title ran in parallel with Uncanny.
I don't remember it being as good as Uncanny but if you like Claremont than you would probably like it.
I think there are 33 issues between Uncanny Omnibus 3 and Mutant Massacre so that will probably be Uncanny Omnibus 4. After Mutant Massacre I think there is an arc never collected before Fall of the Mutants but not enough for its own hardcover and I don't have the material memorized so could get mixed in with New Mutants? Not sure.New Mutants will have its own Omnibus that would probably be the first 30-ish issues leading to Secret Wars II and then maybe another Vol 2 for issues after?
I'm no historian level collector but that's my amateur expectation.
Dustin wrote: "I got all 3 uncanny xmen and miller daredevil omnibus. How many omnis would the Claremont run be total?"http://notahoaxnotadream.blogspot.pt/...
I finally reorganized so threw up 2 new pics! Found a decently priced Secret Warriors so that's on the way, otherwise waiting for Daredevil, War of Kings, and Alpha Flight in February.
Im waiting on my Bishop's Crossing OHC to close my X-men run. :)
Just got the Flash: Silver Age Omnibus vol.2!! What a nice book although it doesn't match vol. 1 LOL!!!
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Blindzider wrote: "Doesn't match in quality or the cover/spines aren't the same design? If it is the latter I really hate when they do that."It's the cover... The first omnibus had a re-creation of the Showcase Intro cover, and the second has their standard Silver Age cover as the other recent omnibuses....
I've updated my photos of my collection. It's amazing what a year and a half can do. 2015 Photo
https://www.goodreads.com/photo/group...
2017 Photos
https://www.goodreads.com/photo/group...
https://www.goodreads.com/photo/group...
Nicely done. I know exactly what you mean : )
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