hippie_hunter
The King is Back!
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Oh come on, I started buying Checkmate and X-Factor, that should be enough for you

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I'd honestly forgotten that X-Men comics could be so fun. They became the industry standard for angst and shock-based storytelling somewhere along the way. The main titles are getting better now, but none of them are just outright, uncomplicated fun the way First Class is.Glad someone else besides me is starting to admire the simple charm of Parker/Cruz's X-MEN: FIRST CLASS.![]()
Yeah, that'd be nice. Isn't the real Jamie still in the present, too? What's stopping him from actually helping out the other characters there again?
A coma.
I'd honestly forgotten that X-Men comics could be so fun. They became the industry standard for angst and shock-based storytelling somewhere along the way. The main titles are getting better now, but none of them are just outright, uncomplicated fun the way First Class is.
I also reserved Umbrella Academy #1-4 at my shop.Still on the fence,but might pick them up.
Pick 'em up. UMBRELLA ACADEMY is great.
Glad you are enjoying THE ORDER.
Pick 'em up. UMBRELLA ACADEMY is great.
Indeed. That is why I have stuck on. In terms of the X-Mythos and how the X-books tie together, there really is no purpose for FIRST CLASS, as the stories are short and random. But I enjoyed the simple fun of them, especially, as you said, the X-Men have become poster children for bleakness, which MESSIAH COMPLEX is again living up to. I'm surprised all the X-Men haven't drank the poison Kool-Aid and committed ritual suicide. Everything they do, try, or don't do ends in death, destruction, horror, and underachievement. When you're a teenager, that's great, but as I have grown up, even a pessimist like me feels it is cyclical.
FIRST CLASS is a breath of fresh air. Vaughan on ULTIMATE X-MEN also spent his 19 issues trying to wash away the bleakness that Millar & Bendis did in their runs/launch so the kids could actually have fun every now and then, and did a good job of that, too. Then Kirkman pooched it.
I kind of wish Parker's AGENTS OF ATLAS had some better, though. That was his best 616 work so far to me. But, the sales tanked and Namora's a Renegade, so that's pooched too.
Pick 'em up. UMBRELLA ACADEMY is great.
Co-sign.