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Post by fairchild on Jun 12, 2016 21:59:51 GMT -5
Since we have been talking about the soon to be 80s Avengers series, I did start researching well thought X-Men eras. The one that kept coming up on multiple list surprised me, yet I loved the series so much. I never saw them as X-Men yet it was a good series
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Post by travis on Jun 13, 2016 9:27:16 GMT -5
Excalibur was a great line-up and a great series.
As an old-school guy, I'd say the original line up is one of my favorites. John Byrne's 'Hidden Years' series I think was the last time I read X-men on a regular basis.
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Post by Meriades Rai on Jun 13, 2016 10:06:11 GMT -5
I have that issue!
I didn't collect Uncanny X-Men until the late 80s, and only then when Jim Lee was on art duties, but I loved Peter David and Larry Stroman on X-Factor and I liked Alan Davis' art so picked up the first issue of Excalibur. I'm pretty sure it was the debut of Captain Britain's new costume (obscure fact: Brian Braddock is credited at being born in the small town of Malden, Essex. That's a misspelling. It's actually Maldon, Essex, which is where I grew up and went to school! Don't know who first got that wrong, I'm assuming Claremont rather than Alan Moore, who should know better).
I didn't persevere with Excalibur, even though it was set in the UK, because the characters didn't do anything for me. Not sure if I'd feel different if I went back and read it now.
My favourite X-Men are Colossus, Storm, Wolverine, Shadowcat, Psylocke and Nightcrawler, so any line-up with them at the core would be okay for me. Psylocke's probably the odd one out timeline-wise.
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Post by brawl2099 on Jun 13, 2016 11:30:23 GMT -5
I have two favorite line-ups.
The immediately post-Dark Phoenix group is damn near perfect (Storm, Nightcrawler, Colossus, Wolverine, Rogue and Shadowcat, iirc).
Secondly, Jeff Lemire's Extraordinary X-Men. I mean, holy shit, what a perfect team of X-Men. Storm, Nightcrawler, Colossus, Iceman, Magik, Jean, Logan... Kitty is literally the only thing that team is missing.
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Post by Stephen Crosby on Jun 13, 2016 14:45:36 GMT -5
I have that issue!
My favourite X-Men are Colossus, Storm, Wolverine, Shadowcat, Psylocke and Nightcrawler, so any line-up with them at the core would be okay for me. Psylocke's probably the odd one out timeline-wise. After so many years, I only just noticed the Werwolves at the bottom of that cover. That lineup may work just before the Mutant Massacre, if you mean Psylocke before Jim Lee got to her. Otherwise, maybe Wolverine makes a trip to England before going to rescue Storm and the others in Genosha. I can't deny a fondness for the Australian team. My first X-Men story was their battle against the Brood mutants.
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Post by iamcrute on Jun 13, 2016 14:49:08 GMT -5
X-Men were my first comic love so unsuprisingly I like ALOT of their line-ups.
The classic during the Mutant Massacre onwards.
The Australia era.
The orignal 5 (when they were in X-Factor)
Oddly enough I really liked 'Adjectiveless team' Havok, Northstar, Juggernaut, Iceman, Husk, Nightcrawler, Jubilee, Polaris team it felt like the 'also rans' of the X-Men when compared to the other teams but ones who could also totally have better stories. I LOVED this team (even if the stories weren't great)
The new X-Men teen group (Hellion and crew! Love them so much...the best teen team ever following the original new mutants)
Genosha Excalibur team. Oh I would've loved that title
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Post by fairchild on Jun 14, 2016 12:41:42 GMT -5
I got to say I like the outback team. A series I would like is Age of Apocalypse First Class edition. I know AoA had some flashback arcs, like when Scarlet Witch died, but alot of stuff appeared out of nowhere with established continuity. Everything would happen post Xavier death to get to the established continuity. If you read the AoA arc, it provides a lot of space for writers to write their lives up to Apocalypse attack on North America.
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Post by straussdc on Jun 15, 2016 3:42:48 GMT -5
I can't deny a fondness for the Australian team. My first X-Men story was their battle against the Brood mutants. Oh, wow, that was my first X-Men story as well. In fact the issue with the Silvestri image of Wolverine turning Brood may have been my first comic book period, not sure. Probably as a result I've always had an affinity for the Outback era myself. It had a nice outlaws-on-the-run everything-going-wrong-at-once feel to it, plus pre-Gambit Rogue when she was still interesting and Dazzler in her blue outfit with the red bandana. Oh, and totally overwhelmed Havok with a scruffy five o'clock shadow because things were so bad he *didn't shave*, the only version of Havok I've ever managed to be interested in, haha. Plus Silvestri made everything look ridiculously cool, like an '80s fashion spread almost, and the coloring was pretty excellent too, although I can't remember who did it.
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Post by Cory W. on Jul 2, 2016 17:08:28 GMT -5
I know it may not be the most popular position, but I loved the early '90s X-Men line-up with the Gold and Blue teams. Heck, it's probably because they're the ones I grew up with as a kid. Xavier overseeing Cyclops, Psylocke, Gambit, Rogue, Wolverine, Jubilee, Storm, Iceman, Colossus, Jean Grey, Bishop, and Archangel with Forge as a supporting character? The first two or three years were actually pretty good, IMO, and there were a lot of strong personalities for the writers to play off of. But things began to flounder a bit and it became obvious that either editorial didn't know where to take the X-Men or just had the writers spinning their wheels.
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