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Phillip L Lightfoot
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There was an issue where Phoenix 2 (Rachel Summers) was going to kill The Black Queen, who had killed about a person a day for a thousand years. Wolverine, yes, WOLVERINE made a speech about how X-Men don't kill, then when Rachel refused to back down, used lethal force to stop her. (She got better.) I actually threw the book across the room. Feh. No more of that!
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David Bensette
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I think my first issue was #123.
Spider-Man and pinball on the cover likely drew me in.
I stopped around the Jim Lee era.
Just got too darn confusing!
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Marcel Chenier
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I hung on for a long time after JB left, mostly out of habitbut it was never the same. Paul Smith offered something special art-wise even though the stories were flailing, so at least that was interesting.
But once he left the book, it just started tanking. I gave it my best shot, but when something sucks, it just sucks. I forget the issue where I packed it in, but everything was basically coasting after 143. Until I just stopped. It was a relief to finally let it all go.
Edited by Marcel Chenier on 22 June 2015 at 4:03pm
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George Lee
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My introduction to the Uncanny X-Men was issue #164. The last issue of Dave Cockrum's second run. I was 10 years old. Paul Smith and JR Jr's art kept me going. But what I was really doing was hunting down JB's issues, which was not easy. With each JB issue I got my hands it was clear that I enjoyed JB's issues infinitely more than what was currently being published.
I lost interest around the time of the Mutant Massacre storyline (pretty sure I had tracked down all the JB issues by that time, it took years) and completely gave up when Jim Lee more or less became the regular artist. JB's issues are the gold standard for Uncanny X-Men.
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BRIAN ASKEY
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I gave it up more or less permanently around the time of the Phalanx Covenant and Joe Madureira.
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Mike Norris
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I gave up long before I stopped reading. Bad habits are hard to break.
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Paul Greer
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I finally quit reading the X-Men after the second JRJr run. Early 300's. I
had actually lost interest in the book around the Silvestri years when
they were in the Outback. It took many years to break myself of the
habit of buying and reading a book I didn't enjoy storywise. For the most
part I enjoyed the various artists over the years.
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Rick Whiting
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The X-Men started loosing me with the first few issues of the Morrison and Casey runs on Mew X-Men and Uncanny X-Men (both of which I dropped). I picked up both of those books sporadically after Morrison and Casey left them, but dropped them for several years after the terrible Deadly Genesis mini series. I picked up the books again during the Bendis run, but after several months, I dropped them again. And after the retconning of Iceman into being gay, I have no desire to pick them up again anytime soon.
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Michael Penn
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The X-Men as the characters I'd known and loved were, almost instantly, gone along with JB. So, the comicbook lost me immediately after he left.
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Daniel Beziz
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I lost interest somewhere in the space adventures when Dave Cockrum came back to the book after JB left.
The last issue I really liked was Kitty Pryde's fairy tale to Colossus' sister with all the X-Men listening behind the door...
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Michael Penn
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I think that issue was the best thing by far in the second Claremont-Cockrum run. Beautifully written, beautifully illustrated. But for me it was again a highlight of what went totally wrong with the comicbook: the only way the X-Men got a true win, scored some genuine happiness, was... in a fairy tale?!
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Marcus Hiltz
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X-Men started to lose me with Dave Cockrum's second run on the book. I really like his art but so many little things popped up that seemed...wrong. My interest diminished over the years (#183 was a low-light as was Rachel Summers coming to the present) but I still bought the book. #200 was the point of no return.
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