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Robbie Moubert
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Although I carried on buying X-Men for a while after JB left, my interest dwindled almost immediately and I gave up sometime during Paul Smith's run.
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John Byrne
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Although I carried on buying X-Men for a while after JB left, my interest dwindled almost immediately and I gave up sometime during Paul Smith's run.•• How far into Smitty's run did you last? There was almost two years between my last and his first!
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Lars Sandmark
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I'm sad to say that I was an INERTIAL collector and guilty of collecting the book way longer than necessary.
I finally quit at #350 (!)
Some years ago I sold off my X-Men comics from the last Paul Smith issue up.
(around #176- #350 ???)
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John Byrne
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I'm sad to say that I was an INERTIAL collector and guilty of collecting the book way longer than necessary. •• I've been there. There were built-in shelves in one of the closets in my first apartment, and they fit my comic collection nicely. One day I looked and noticed my stacks of the Warren horror comics were WAY beyond what I had read. I'd been buying reflexively for almost two years!
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Stephen Churay
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My last issue in my X-Men run was 200.
I came back briefly when Jim Lee started the new book and
left three issues in.
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Robbie Moubert
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Looking at the covers on Mike's I don't think I lasted that long with Smith. In fact, it's only his first issue (165) where I could state with certainty that I bought it. Your work aside, I was definitely buying a lot of comics out of habit as we got into the '80s but had finally cut right back by this point. That same month, the only other Marvel comics I bought were Fantastic Four and Indiana Jones (because you drew it!). Actually, looking again I also bought Marvel Tales for the Ditko Spider-Man reprints.
Edited by Robbie Moubert on 27 June 2015 at 3:39pm
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Steven Myers
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I started with 138, so caught very little of the Byrne era (But loved what I did catch!). I enjoyed Cockrum and Smith a lot, but got bored when Romita Jr came aboard. Not due to his art, which I loved on Spider-Man, but because the stories no longer interested me. I came back after the Australia stuff (after I read a couple of someone else's issues when I was in the Navy) until Claremont departed.
I've read a few spurts since then, but not much.
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Craig Markley
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To many space adventures and the Brood.
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Stephen Robinson
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I agree with Craig about the space adventures. I read an
issue from that period and thought with only some minor
tweaks, it could have been an Avengers story.
X-MEN lost me as it began to stray from its core concept.
They were no longer students or even the "strangest teens
of all" and even Professor X started to be sidelined. I
also love the Adams costumes but I think the school
uniforms was another aspect that distinguished them.
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John Byrne
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Chris' take on the x-Men was shaped almost entirely by the Thomas/Adams/Palmer issues. When he and I started working on the series, those were the only issues he'd read. He did not get round to doing his homework until shortly before I left. Those T/A/P issues were very atypical as X-Men stories. There was the Living Monolith, who seemed mostly to be a mutant because he said so; Sauron, who was not a mutant at all; the Savage Land and Magneto's "mutates", also not mutants in the Marvel sense; and even a space story (scripted by Denny O'Neil).
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Jason Larouse
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It's hard to say that X-Men ever "lost" me because I go back and check it out every now and then, but I stopped buying it every month when Grant Morrison came on and started writing it like a vertigo book while giving them all black leather movie costumes.
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David Bensette
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Chris' take on the x-Men was shaped almost entirely by the Thomas/Adams/Palmer issues. When he and I started working on the series, those were the only issues he'd read. He did not get round to doing his homework until shortly before I left.
Those T/A/P issues were very atypical as X-Men stories. There was the Living Monolith, who seemed mostly to be a mutant because he said so; Sauron, who was not a mutant at all; the Savage Land and Magneto's "mutates", also not mutants in the Marvel sense; and even a space story (scripted by Denny O'Neil).
Wow JB, that explains a lot.
Love these behind the scenes stories (almost like a dvd commentary)!
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