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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [QB] Much of what is considered the heart of the X-Men, not just in terms of plots but character relationships and themes and the like, is all Chris Claremont, who wrote the book when it was reintroduced after its first run, as Jason mentions. You might think that the original Lee/Kirby version would be it, but by all accounts it was pretty minor stuff compared to, say, the Fantastic Four, as far as their output goes. Now personally, I was only really into the X-Men for a few years in the late 1990s, which was a decided nadir for the. . . franchise? Anyway, I wisely stopped just before Marvel wised up and hired Grant Morrison, and then [i]started[/i] again after he left and Marvel took a great step backwards as far as risk-taking goes. So, basically, it is like this: Twenty or so issues by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, only Kirby didn't draw all of them, and Lee didn't write all of them. Uh, Neal Adams and somebody else was on the book for awhile before it was cancelled and replaced by reprints of the previous issues. But I am scoffing at Wikipedia here and going from memory. Then the book was reintroduced with Chris Claremont writing, and he did that for, what, twenty years? A fan favorite, I guess, but I am very much not a fan of his stylistic quirks. Still, I would bet that, if any X-Men stories are in the public consciousness, he probably wrote them. Then the crossover era of the 1990s, again mentioned by Jason, written by. . . well, Scott Lobdell took most of the flak. But wasn't this the era of Peter David's X-Factor, too? People seem to like that run, even though, once again, I am not a fan of the author. (I bet this would be a great spot to fit in a delightful pun! Or better yet, twenty thousand!) Then the various X-Men spinoffs flap around for awhile waiting for a kind passerby to mercifully drag them off the highway and shoot them. Although there are some aborted runs in here that I can remember enjoying. Joe Kelly, who wrote the comic Deadpool, was on either X-Men or Uncanny X-Men, and I was excited, being a fan, but that lasted all of half a year or so. And then Grant Morrison, who is probably the most critically respected comic writer to take a long-term pass at the core title(s). (Or, OK, respected by greasy postmodernist punks and nerds.) I only rarely buy comics now (though paradoxically I read more comics reviews and criticism than I did when I was buying them), but I do like Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men. After buying the first six issues I quit, though, in favor of waiting for the collection(s). I'm not sure why anyone still buys comics in pamphlet form. It's an interesting time to follow the economics and, like, cultural. . . you know, adventures? of American superhero comics, since it is pretty clear that actual comics with superheroes in them are dead and awaiting burial, while those same characters are hugely popular in other mediums. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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