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Raj Dhami
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The X-men lost me soon after the Madelyne Pryor storyline was completed. Issue 176 with the cover by Romita Jr was essentially the last issue for me. I got pretty tired, pretty quickly with Claremont as sole provider of plot and script.
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John Byrne
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When Colossus strained to pull from the ground a stump with speed lines on it!.......Oh, not what you meant?
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Petter Myhr Ness
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Shortly after Magneto became one of the good guys. The stories were getting too convoluted. I'd pick up the book from time to time, allowing me to experience the horror of Morrison's run, among other things, but there was nothing worth staying around for. "My" X-Men were gone.
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Kip Lewis
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Around 1984 but then I come back for a
while then leave again then back then
leave and do it again. But that cycle
really slowed down in the 90s to 2010ish.
That might have been the longest period of
no x-titles.
Edited by Kip Lewis on 21 June 2015 at 6:57pm
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Robert Bradley
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Shortly after Paul Smith left. I liked JRJR's art, but the stories were becoming less and less interesting to me. In retrospect it was probably because Claremont was going further and further off the rails.
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Wallace Sellars
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If I correctly recall, it was around the time of the Brood storyline. It's
been a looong time though.
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Jim Petersman
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I didn't begin reading until the DOFP storyline, so changing artists was kind of the norm for my time with the X-men. I hung around through JB's brief return as writer (plotter?), although my interest really waned around the Australia storyline.
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Paul Kimball
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Before gambit. I think it was also around the first time I remember reading
"my heart's desire", not sure which came first
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Michael Wolner Jr
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I started loosing interest around the time of Paul Smith. I think it was mohawk Storm and Cyclops marrying Madelyne Pryor. None of this "felt" right to me. Still doesn't.
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Joe Hollon
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The X-Men had already jumped the shark by the time I got into comics. It was the late 80s with villains like Mr. Sinister and the characters and storylines were already impenetrable. Fortunately my introduction to comics and the characters was separate and somewhat independent from the actual new comics that were available at the time. I was able to learn about the characters and I "knew" the X-Men were cool even though the comics at the time had already passed their peak (to be nice).
All that being said...honestly I've never been an X-Men guy. The early issues are important in terms of the history of the characters but very spotty in terms of quality. Neal Adams comes along and propels things into the stratosphere for a handful of issues (as Neal does...). My advice to anyone interested in exploring X-MEN comics history: read the first 20-25 issues. Then jump ahead to the Neal Adams stuff. Go straight into JB's HIDDEN YEARS run (which fits chronologically). From there read GIANT SIZED X-MEN #1 and all the "All-New All Different" X-Men until JB leaves the title. Stop there. That's all that matters.
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Joe Zhang
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I lost interest after Claremont left (the first time). I enjoyed the madcap changes he put the X-Men through in the late 80's and early 90's. After Scott Lobdell took over, it felt like the book died.
Edited by Joe Zhang on 21 June 2015 at 5:19pm
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Neil Lindholm
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143. I bought X-Men comics for years afterwords due to the collector in me but I could not tell you one story line after this issue. I was quite crushed when JB left the book.
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