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Didn't see one up, so let's have an X-men thread.
I got the Claremont Omnibus vol 1 a while ago, and whilst I'm really enjoying the stories, I'm finding the huge amounts of text kind of annoying. It's also kind of annoying that every character describes what they're doing or what's happening on the panels. But I guess this is just who they did it back then and as I said, I actually do enjoy the stories. How much does Claremont's writing change over the years though? Vol 3 goes all the way up to the late 80's doesn't it?
Also, why did people like Wolverine so much? He's mostly andass, has no common sense in combat and just always attacks and often gets his ass handed to him. Thank god the X-Men have Cyclops. Best X-Man.
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>>86656318
>Also, why did people like Wolverine so much?
Yeah, I got the first omni a few weeks back and in pretty much the same place as you. Wolverine comes across as a complete arsehole except for that bit when he buys flowers for Jean when she's in the hospital.
On that subject considering how crazy hot Storm is I'm not sure why everyone's still fawning over Jean.
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>>86656365
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>>86656365
>>86656373
Yeah, Storm is always being propped up as the hot one. She also has several panels like that, and Colossus and Banshee drool over her all the time.
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Marvel, stop raping the X-Men.
>>86656365
Muh heart of the X-Men and glue that holds the family together.
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>>86656365
It's not just that he's an asshole. He constantly makes very stupid descisions and Cyclops have to reprimand him, at which point you get some internal monologue from Wolverine that goes like
"That bossman can't tell me what to do, I'm the wolverine and I do what I feel like!"
He comes across as a manlet with a inferiority complex the likes of which has seldom been seen.
So I ask again, when and how did he become so popular?
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>>86656318
>Also, why did people like Wolverine so much?
They didn't until after John Byrne did. Byrne saw something in the character and worked out some traits with Claremont that he wanted to see Wolverine begin to show. Eventually, Claremont kept running with everything and made Wolverine into a more multifaceted character. Then, in the late 80s, he started getting pushed a little too hard, with being able to be anywhere in 616 because of having a global scale teleporter living "with" the X-Men at the time.
>Vol 3 goes all the way up to the late 80s.
Nope. UXM omni Vol. 3 ends in 1984. The next UXM Marvel Masterworks is going to fill the gap between the existing omnis and the X-Men Epic Collection: The Gift, which covers 1985.
Also, you get used to Claremont's writing style, though a lot of expository things he does were common Marvel practice in the Jim Shooter years. Late 80s X-Men either has less of it, or you quit noticing it so much.
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>>86656465
Guess I'll have to wait and see with Wolverine. The same for Claremont's writing.
And I really liked Wolverine in New X-men, but he wasn't pushed that much in it.
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>>86656465
Comic Code approves of hard nipples!
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Maybe someday X-Anon will come back to us.
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>>86656607
I hear he's possessed by the Dark Anon Force these days.
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>>86656607
/co/ hasn't been the same without him
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>>86656465
Insufficiently punk.
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