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Brian Rhodes
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I'd say I connect more with the FF for being contemporary with me when I first read them.
Same here. JB was long gone from Uncanny X-Men by the time I starting reading the book on a regular basis. I had read individual issues sporadically, but I certainly wasn't collecting/subscribing.
Conversely, I pretty much started reading FF monthly with #236, the 20th Anniversary "Terror in a Tiny Town" issue.
I've read the entire JB/Claremont X-Men run and JB's FF run. I'd still say FF, all the way. X-Men was very good. FF, at times, was great.
Edited by Brian Rhodes on 03 January 2017 at 6:07pm
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Wallace Sellars
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Their #5 is my #1.
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Mine as well. JB's FF run would be right behind it though.
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I wouldn't have a problem with that at all.
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Ronald Joseph
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Plus Roger and JR Jr on Amazing Spider-Man.... loved those comics!
Still my very favorite run of ASM.
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Marcio Ferreira
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Because I was a child and fell in love with John Byrne art reading X-Men, it is only natural to choose them.Fantastic Four by John Byrne was not available in Brazil until I was older and comic books took a backseat on my interests. In the end of the day, my favorite character was Hulk and the short run (314-319) of my favorite artist on the book caused me to loose most of my interest in comics during teenage days.
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Flavio Sapha
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X-Men for me.
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Scott Morrissey
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X-Men. X-Men built up for a couple of years to the Dark Phoenix story, and to top that off Days of Future Past. The book kept on improving. JB your artistic growth was incredible between issue 108 to 143.
Strong stories kept on proceeding from what came before. Just a lot of momentum, which continued to build.
The Fantastic Four run has just about my favourite comic ever, issue 236. Which was coincidentally the first issue of Fantastic Four I bought. First half of the run is incredibly strong. My particular favourite run of issues being 240 through to 250. I really did love 248 inside that dream of Mr Fantastic.
Just feel that the Fantastic Four run tapered off towards the end. Unlike the X-Men stories that, for me just kept on building up the momentum, like a thrill park ride. JBs She Hulk is fun, but the book lost a bit when the Thing stayed on Battleworld. I think that is my bookend. Enjoyed more stories prior to 264 (was it?) than after it.
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Scott Morrissey
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I've tried to read the Lee Kirby X-Men but I really just couldn't get into it. Professor X would have driven me out of the school very quickly, I prefer a more mellow Xavier, but he has always been prone to telling someone off.
Magneto is purely insane, there is no Malcolm X there, he is just evil.
Great concepts, but for me the book didn't fly until the Thomas/Adams issues.
Will say the concepts were fantastic though. Original X-Men, Magneto, Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch, Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, Sentinels.
Their Fantastic Four run, now that was just magical.
Edited by Scott Morrissey on 15 January 2017 at 3:41am
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Mike Thompson
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I enjoyed the FF run slightly more than X-
Men. Seeing John Byrne ink his own work,
and handle the entire storytelling process
was truly inspiring. My favorite part of
the FF run was the trip through the
Negative Zone. So much imagination in
those issues.
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John Byrne
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Just feel that the Fantastic Four run tapered off towards the end. •• Completely agree.
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Michael Penn
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FF #250 was the last comicbook I ever bought as a reader, so at least I went out with JB's work flying high. (When I'd heard some years later that She Hulk had replaced Ben, first I groaned and then I assumed that it was a switch forced on JB, given how much he'd endeavored to bring back Lee-Kirby-ness.)
As for X-MEN, I agree with Scott's assessment above that the work just kept getting better. As rightly lauded as the Dark Phoenix storyline was, my impression back then based on JB's final issues was that the best was still yet to come! (Judging from some of the prospective storylines that have been discussed on this forum, that seems to be true too, at least in my opinion.)
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John Byrne
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She-Hulk was "forced upon me" by practicality. When Ben was co-starring in MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE there was, to me, always the question of why he wasn't teaming up with the rest off the FF. After all, he was not a "loner" like Spider-Man, who did not have a home team.Then, when the book became THE THING there was that problem of giving it an identity of its own -- of eliminating the sense that the rest of the FF were "in the next room," so Ben was not really on his own. Having him remain on BattleWorld to "sort things out" was a solution of sorts to both problems. Plus I got to play with She-Hulk!
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Brian O'Neill
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MARVEL TWO IN ONE, or "What Ben Does On His Day Off."
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