Ishin Ookami
01-30-2008, 10:56 AM
Okay, maybe it's just the fact I've recently turned thirty, and I'm a bit older than most comic readers... but personally I really can't get into marvel comics these days. There have been far too many resurrections, too much writer overlap, too many halfhearted attempts to shake up the status quo (jean is dead again, and cyclops is shacking up with emma frost) and if civil war was any indication, marvel has lost the ability to fill their "Epics" with a sense of consequence and drama.
So what bygone stories of yesteryear, or even today, from the house of M that you find most awesome. Heres a list of mine...
X-Men: X-cutioners song (cables, apoccalypse, and sinisters, Oh my)
The Onslaught saga: There is so much I could say about this series, and the ending made me a bit misty eyed
Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix: Nice little time travel story that gives Cyclops and Jean some family time with a younger cable.
Dark Phoenix Saga: Just awesome. Incredibly, utterly, thoroughly, awesome.
Deadly Relations: A dramatic and shocking storyarc that literally, tore certain key characters apart.
Hulk: The End: this recent graphic novel is two storylines in one. The Awesome Future Imperfect where the intelligent hulk from the ninties is brough from to the future to fight his greatest enemy ever. The Maestro. Who is a future, and irrevocably insane, Hulk with all the intellect of bruce banner, the hulks might, and none of the humanity. The second is the one shot, The Last Titan, which is a psychodrama in which Bruce Banner is 200 years old, and the last man alive, with only the hulk inside his head for company.
Wedding of Scott Summers and Jean Grey: An awesome X-men one shot that very heartwarming and uplifting with hardly any of the angst that X-men is known for.
X-men: God Loves, Man Kills: The best X-men story ever. I dunno what Chris Clairemont was eating, drinking, smoking, or injecting when he wrote this story, but I wish he'd do it again. It's just... wow.
Also worth mentioning is the Twelve storyline, Mutant Massacre, and Mutant Genesis.
Anyone else got any favorites?
So what bygone stories of yesteryear, or even today, from the house of M that you find most awesome. Heres a list of mine...
X-Men: X-cutioners song (cables, apoccalypse, and sinisters, Oh my)
The Onslaught saga: There is so much I could say about this series, and the ending made me a bit misty eyed
Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix: Nice little time travel story that gives Cyclops and Jean some family time with a younger cable.
Dark Phoenix Saga: Just awesome. Incredibly, utterly, thoroughly, awesome.
Deadly Relations: A dramatic and shocking storyarc that literally, tore certain key characters apart.
Hulk: The End: this recent graphic novel is two storylines in one. The Awesome Future Imperfect where the intelligent hulk from the ninties is brough from to the future to fight his greatest enemy ever. The Maestro. Who is a future, and irrevocably insane, Hulk with all the intellect of bruce banner, the hulks might, and none of the humanity. The second is the one shot, The Last Titan, which is a psychodrama in which Bruce Banner is 200 years old, and the last man alive, with only the hulk inside his head for company.
Wedding of Scott Summers and Jean Grey: An awesome X-men one shot that very heartwarming and uplifting with hardly any of the angst that X-men is known for.
X-men: God Loves, Man Kills: The best X-men story ever. I dunno what Chris Clairemont was eating, drinking, smoking, or injecting when he wrote this story, but I wish he'd do it again. It's just... wow.
Also worth mentioning is the Twelve storyline, Mutant Massacre, and Mutant Genesis.
Anyone else got any favorites?