All of those #4 issues below mean I'm getting close to the end of the main story. So, I'll need to decide whether I want to dip my toe into the prequels or the sequels before my Marvel Unlimited subscription runs out.
My money's on the prequels.
My Recent Reads
Gambit and the X-Ternals #3
Cover Date: May 1995
Writer: Fabian Nicieza
Artist: Salvador Larroca
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The Astonishing X-Men #4
June 1995
Scott Lobdell/Joe Madureira
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Generation Next #4
June 1995
Lobdell/Chris Bachalo
Gambit and the X-Ternals #4
June 1995
Nicieza/Larroca
X-Man #4
June 1995
Jeph Loeb/Steve Skroce
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X-Calibre #4
June 1995
Warren Ellis/Ken Lashley
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Factor X #4
June 1995
John Francis Moore/Steve Epting and Terry Dodson
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1995 was a good year! My goodness. My husband will have to check his comic box.
ReplyDeleteIt was a big year! I was busy with other things at the time - had no idea this was going on.
DeleteHere's my big thought on all of this:
ReplyDeleteBack when these were released, this all seemed so important in the Marvel Universe. Like it was going to... change everything. But, really, the Marvel Universe is still approximately the same today as it was in the mid-90s. Or the mid-80s. Any changes that have happened have had nothing to do with story development as things always revert to the approximate norm. Changes happen due to real world social developments. Which is as it should be, I suppose.
Yes, and I think that's part of my problem: I have a hard time getting invested knowing that it won't really matter in the long term.
DeleteI'll write more about this next week in my final analysis. Basically, Age of Apocalypse is a decent what-if story. I have structural problems with it but I'm willing to concede that's due to my own pet peeves. All else being equal, I'll take an overly complex X-Men story over an overly complex Avengers story. The one franchise works better for me than the other.
Stay tuned...
I always wanted to do a comic series where things... change.
ReplyDeleteNot that it hasn't been tried. Even Marvel tried it with New Universe back in the 80s.
But those universes never seem to make it.
Of course, there is some change over time but permanent change - even permanent death - is rare. To a point, I respect that. The Amazing Spider-Man is the series it is in large part because of consistency. But Peter's world does gradually develop.
DeleteYeah, very gradual but mostly due to social and societal changes and the need to keep the series in the current day rather a series still set in the 60s. Which is fine.
DeleteI'm actually going to be talking about this idea in my MCU review tomorrow.
I'll be over shortly...
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