Ole X-Man fan here. :) One of my best friends in college let me read her Neal Adams illo'ed X-Man comics that she had stashed away from when her older brother didn't want them any more. And another good friend got me into the revival, for which I thank both of them. Happily read X-Men and assorted books for many years afterwards, and only mostly gave up comics over a decade ago when I found myself living for a while in a very rural area with no decent comic book store within a 2-3 hour+ drive. (Quite a shock to this townie gal, I tell you. *smiles*) The number of X-Men titles then was almost too much; I see over the years that it's just grown. *shakes head*
I don't like retcons in comic books or TV shows (what Enterprise was doing to TOS history bugged me, so I stopped watching the show early in the second season). I didn't like the way Jean Gray was killed off in 1980 (was it that long ago? ye gods and little fishes!), but we just dealt with the fact that she was dead. When they brought her back, I was displeased. I loved the character, but thought that whole story arc was as pointless as killing off Spock in the 2nd Trek movie and not lettting him stay decently dead, which alas gave us the 3rd and 4th movies (okay, so I like the whales, but still) wherein Spock gets back together in the 3rd one, but only at the end, and then spends all of 4 getting his act together. All this stuff smacks of soap operas. :(
Jim Starlin's "The Death of Captain Marvel" was a *great* book. If anyone tells me that they brought him back after all that, I shall be unhappy. You can see how little I've kept up with comic books in recent years.
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I don't like retcons in comic books or TV shows (what Enterprise was doing to TOS history bugged me, so I stopped watching the show early in the second season). I didn't like the way Jean Gray was killed off in 1980 (was it that long ago? ye gods and little fishes!), but we just dealt with the fact that she was dead. When they brought her back, I was displeased. I loved the character, but thought that whole story arc was as pointless as killing off Spock in the 2nd Trek movie and not lettting him stay decently dead, which alas gave us the 3rd and 4th movies (okay, so I like the whales, but still) wherein Spock gets back together in the 3rd one, but only at the end, and then spends all of 4 getting his act together. All this stuff smacks of soap operas. :(
Jim Starlin's "The Death of Captain Marvel" was a *great* book. If anyone tells me that they brought him back after all that, I shall be unhappy. You can see how little I've kept up with comic books in recent years.