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1) Lee/Kirby 2)Byrne 3) Millar/Hitch 4) Hickman/various I really don't like anything Millar has written except his Fantastic Four but I still hate what he did with Aunt Petunia.

​@afroscifizianzcomix7836 excellent choices my friend 🤙 I'll be diving in Brynes run and some of George Perez's art era soon

Agreed, the craft is truely suffering. I think it doesn't help how fast companies want products pushed nowadays as well. It's insane, doesn't give artists a chance to breath.

@jamesmoss3424 Mr. James, the classy collector 🤌🤜🤛

@@ChrisMacPresents thanks. 😀👍

@@jamesmoss3424 Anytime! BTW, send your address via our email chain and I'll send you a card first

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@TuggernautCollectables I knew Tuggy Bear would be Wise One to enlighten us. Thsnk you homeslice 🤜🤛

@ChrisMacPresents cheers man 🤝

@woodromeillustrations anytime I find them, I snag them now for sure. You may want to go through those long boxes, there may be some in there

@@woodromeillustrations thanks honie, this figure was a delight to photograph 👍🤜🤛

@afroscifizianzcomix7836 I'm glad you enjoyed it friend 🤙 I suppose I am holding out hope for what Matthew Rosenberg did on the latter half of Uncanny X-Men. I couldn't put that book down. It felt like a reinessance of sorts.

Thanks for stopping by and checking out the Vid homeslice 🤜🤛 I'll have to check out Hickmans Ultimate book. I'm glad Marvel is allowing the characters to age. The sliding time scale bit has become a bit stagnant. I am hoping for a bit more Avenger/Xeno Action in the issues to come

@ChrisMacPresents Me too👍👌All the current Ultimate books are set in "real" time including the books not written by him. Ultimate Spider-Man is the only book written by Hickman. You should check out Ultimate Invasion mini series( Jonathan Hickman and Bryan Hitch) for all the world building first.

@@afroscifizianzcomix7836 If I stumble upon them I'll give them a read. The LCS in my new town doesn't keep a lot of product on hand unfortunately

@@afroscifizianzcomix7836 I'm glad you are enjoying homeslice 🤙 I'm definitely investing in the lore of how Weyland Yutani was about to jump universes

@@thorbartzi994 to save you all from looking at hairy hobbit hands 🧌

Nice 👌 m I will definitely check out your full video 👍👌. This was the last Marvel event I really enjoyed. The Captain America tie in was amazing. The Black Panther and Wolverine tie ins were superb.

I might have to hunt those down. I wanted to enjoy Age of Ultron, but sadly, that quickly went off the rails

Agreed. At least during this era, though you could tell traditional story tellign was shifting, or dying out, it was at least still relatively entertaining to read.

NOICE! This is definitely the golden age of X-Factor

@@ChrisMacPresents I agree. 😀👍

@@fujinator242 I procured a Ron of different Conan Comics at a yard sale, among them is a slew of Davage Sword in the delicious magazine format. I am chomping at the bit to go over those 🤌🤙

@@Supertron1 Anytime homeslice 🤙 I've been trying to fill the holes in my collection during the Claremont era and realized I was butting into House of M, so I'm like, it's time to dive headlong into the event. House of M was also one of the last Marvel events I enjoyed as well. I really wanted to like Age of aultron, but it went of the rails quickly.

@SamGuthrie1977 Eggsactly! It loses the one thing that's important in Comics, THE HUMAN ELEMENT. Digital should be an aid, not the whole process

Agreed. Comics have always had corny references here and there, but not to this degree that it completely dilutes the story with no substance rather than making some memorable

@SamGuthrie1977 At this point, it wouldn't surprise me if it was the latter lol

@glennwelsh9784 I wonder if the cape may vary on each figure. This one behaved itself quite nicely. I'm also glad he is using bendy wire capes on the Multiverse Figures. I am over those bulky heavy plastic capes lol

I'll have to see what I can find! The only other books I found at the garage sale, were the magazine sized Savage Sword of Conan issues. I want to go through the regular comic sized ones before diving into these. Thank you for the insight homeslice!

NOICE! I need to get off my arse and go back through more of my New Warrior issues

@@ChrisMacPresents that is a good idea 💡 and thanks. 😀👍

@woodromeillustrations this is the same one mom got me way back in '91 for Christmas

@woodromeillustrations was always aggravating trying to get him to zip up lol

@@woodromeillustrations I was stoaked to have won this so I wanted to make tge piece pop

@luxetoybox8018 Welcome to the channel, I appreciate ya checking it out 🤙

@Supertron1 Agreed, I'm glad that it is now in existence and that we can enjoy 👍 I think the photographer in me was itching more for the opened hands, more so than the collector in me 😆

🤌🖖 I picked up a mini fog machine. Plays quite nicely with the lights

Thanks buddy 🤙🤙🤙🤙

@Supertron1 all those 90s marvel figures, articulation aside, are still goated my friend 🤌

Hell yes my dude!

@ChrisMacPresents thanks. 😀👍

Aside from certain writers making the X-Men more quirky and popculture jokey, I really feel the decline of the Mutants started with the MCU. Fox and Marvel Studios wouldn't play ball and they started shoving the X-Men aside in favor of the Inhumans. Really made the books during that time unbearable. The only shining lights during this period was Lemire's Old Man Logan, Kelly Thompson's Gambit & Rogue/Mr. & Mrs. X, the latter half of Matthew Rosenberg's Uncanny X-Men as well as Ed Brisson's Cable & X-Force runs.

@@ChrisMacPresents You're not wrong. I think the movie and TV thing has hurt comics altogether. Also, I feel like the X-Men have been becoming less objectively heroic for decades now. It started when Claremont brought Magneto into the X-Men for awhile, then over the years, it became almost anyone who was a mutant was an X-Man, regardless of their actions. But I felt like Krakoa was the explicit watershed moment where they officially became segregationists and Xavier's dream died. (Nevermind the fact that a bunch of the mutants on Krakoa hated each other and would never have lived alongside each other. Also, nevermind that a bunch of those same mutants had humans who were friends and loved-ones; they wouldn't have turned their back on them. Krakoa made no sense to anyone had read previous eras of X-Men comics.) I see what you're saying, though. It's not as if X-Men comics were great before Hickman and Krakoa. They weren't. But I think Krakoa was the point of no return.

@SamGuthrie1977 Agreed. I hated it more that they did the whole bit that Mutants who weren't restored from M-Day were forced to go by their human name until Apocalypse slayed them in an arena. Then they we're allowed to don a Mutant name. Or how they called themselves cowards if they didn't subject themselves to dying/resurrection. I think Hickman had an interesting concept and, I think, intended to show why Krakoa didn't work. However, the rest of the writers wanted to do their cutesy BS, and that's what led him to leave because they dragged it on and on. Another thing x-writers need to learn is, as you said, because you're a mutant doesn't mean you're an x-man. Granted, it doesn't mean you assist like Stevie, original Motia, and Val Cooper, all NON-MUTANTS. I mean, ffs, Magneto wanted Stevie as his second in command when he led the New Mutants, and I thought that was great. IDK what the solution is. Claremont said at one point that he wanted to get a roster to continually grow and rotate. That's what I liked about the post-Siege Perilous. Everyone was scattered while Banshee and Forge tried to rebuild the X-Men, which later evolved nicely into X-Factor, X-Force, and then Generation X. I know for a fact they can't go back to the well of X-Mansion, and Utopia was an interesting concept, but then they add the problem of too many Mutants in one place. The early teams worked because stories would crossover, but they were all over the world (Excalibir). I do believe, if they'd stuck to the end of Rosenbergs Uncanny... that'd been a good step in the right direction. Cyclops is essentially humbled at the cost of an eye. He chooses Jean over Emma. Been neat to see him and Jean ride off into the sunset like Claremont had intended with Madelyn, Storm lead again, or Kitty lead the X-Men and setting up teams all over the globe etc. And make the books serious melodramas instead of tongue and cheek books relying on 'member berries. These Rise from the Ashes books could have been "IT" but the new writers have no concept of what made the X-Men the powerhouse they had once been.

@@ChrisMacPresents ...and remember how a bunch of the X-Men used to have love interests that were human? Zelda and what's her name (the girls that Beast and Iceman dated in the late 60's), Lee Forrester, Opal, Mariko, Trish Tilby, etc. What about humans like Fred Duncan? I was thinking about Wolverine, for example. Why would he turn his back on close human friends like Mac and Heather Hudson, and Puck? Yet willingly live alongside mutant genocidal villains like Apocalypse and Sinister in segregation? I know fans keep saying Hickman had a plan, but it's stuff like that which makes me wonder if he simply had very little idea about the characters and property he was writing. Also, I get the impression he's never written traditional moral heroes. If I remember right, he mostly turned the Avengers into a team that was sacrificing alternate universes in a Machiavellian fashion to save themselves, and I remember his Secret Warriors being mostly about a cast of self-serving jerks operating in a moral gray zone. I don't remember at the end of those runs good winning or there being any kind of moral comeuppance. I could be wrong, but I'm unconvinced he was going somewhere with Krakoa and that there was going to be some kind of lesson learned. If so, it would be the first of that type of writing I've ever seen from him. I think Hickman is big on presentation, ideas, world building, and stuff like that - and poor on storytelling, especially with established characters. And not to go off-topic, but there was that one issue with Apocalypse on Krakoa giving hugs and crying. I was like wtf. I do agree with you on the cutesy writing, though. If possible, Krakoa got worse with even lesser talented writers after Hickman. That self-impressed, immature, annoying humor is pure cringe. I think it's typically written by writers who have no real life experience and very little real-life social interactions with other real people. It's usually written by some Gen Z writer who's lived most of their life on social media and really wants to be working on TV shows, not comics. I actually thought Rosenberg's run wasn't that bad, either.

That's why I've canceled all my pull lists. After decades of regularly collecting, I'm done with it. When I got to my LCS or shop for books, I lean more into back issues now. Once in a while, I'll come across something new and exciting, but it's very few and far between anymore. Comics need some sort of reinessance, but I doubt we'll see it anytime soon. I know there are tons of indy publishers out there, and I hope they have success. However, we need an injection like Image did in the 90s.

That's what made the 90s so awesome. Everyone looked swol, and you did not want to cross them, lol.

Nice! Now, do you have 65 and 67 though?

@@ChrisMacPresents just issue 65.😀👍

@@jamesmoss3424 underrated comic arc. I enjoyed that they made Cable into Nathan Summers

@@ChrisMacPresents I agree. 😀👍

@Supertron1 making Cable Nathan Summers was a good call. Really added to the X-Factor and Summers mythos. Also, bailing on Sam being an X-Ternal was bad, in my opinion. Would have been an interesting next step other than him moving to the X-Men. Then again, I highly disliked Sunspot becoming a villain leading A.I.M.