![]() If you’re a fan of the movies, you’ll see familiar faces (Wolverine, Storm, Jean Grey, Cyclops) in their prime. Starting with the team’s 1975 rebirth and concluding in the middle of the legendary “Dark Phoenix Saga,” this sucker contains over thirty issues of Uncanny X-Men and constitutes what could be considered the X-Men’s Bible. ?This is a big purchase, but oh my stars and garters is it essential. Yeah, the Neal Adams run is great, but it’s only an album track to this list’s hit singles. Most of those stories don’t age well and, in all honesty, all of the mainstream media adaptations of the merry mutants draw exclusively from the material from 1975 and onwards. Note that this list excludes the initial ’60s run of X-Men. Plus you’ll be able to point out the discrepancies between the comics and films and officially become that guy. ![]() What follows is a chronological list of the 11 purchases you can make to jump into any current X-Men comic with a real working knowledge of this team. In their nearly fifty years of publication, the X-Men have enough comics and characters to be considered their own comic book company. There’s no way a human brain can handle reading it all. It’s hard to tell what’s important and what’s toilet paper when you’re staring at decades worth of funny books. Anyone wishing to get into Captain America from his metaphorical season one is subjecting themselves to hundreds of insane Golden Age stories that appeal only to that dude in your comic shop whose t-shirt is always moist. The same cannot be said for superhero comics. ![]() Those friends who keep demanding you watch The Wire are also keen on showing off their DVD box sets by letting you borrow them. One hermit weekend holed up with your best friend Netflix Instant and you can plow through a few series of the new Doctor Who. The awesome thing about television is that you can catch up. ?You know that TV show that your friends just don’t shut up about? The one they throw viewing parties for or, depending on their level of soul-sadness, write fanfic for? And you get so annoyed at their continued insistence that you seriously consider killing them with your feet, Sayid-style (you haven’t watched Lost? DO IT!). ![]()
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