Originally Posted by frost:
“I think it depends on whether you like his writing style or not, and I dont really. some of his work is very good as I said, but a lot doesnt hit that high note as far as I'm concerned, and when it doesnt, his flaws in style are more apparent, and I really dislike them.
Plus when he came back on the book around #444 or so, truely terrible. Dino-Rachel anyone?”
I just got my Uncanny Xmen down from the attic acouple of days ago, and im giving them a once over. I started reading them in '83, when I was 12, and so I'm quite fond of the Claremont stuff, more 'cos it was the era i grew up with. I was particularly fond of Rogue at the time.
I think the rot started for me after the group was fragmented after the Nimrod saga. Shadowcat & Nightcrawler went off with Captain Britain and those two were my other favs.
Then X factor started and the group progressively looked more and more like they were on steroids! Jubilee annoyed the hell out of me too! I dropped out of it, but bought the Jim Lee issues because his artwork reminded me of Mike Golden.
For me personally, the Claremont/Sienkiewicz run on the New Mutants was amazing, both storywise and artwise.It took me awhile to 'get it' artistically, it was so dark & dense but those issues never went up in the attic! So much darker than the Xmen, ironic considering it was about a younger group of mutants!