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Steve Jamrozik
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Next month is the 25 anniversary since JB initially returned to the Marvel Universe to do West Coast Avengers. Thoughts? Remembrances? Also, was there a publication gap between the last issue of JB's Superman and the first issue of WCA?
A highlight was seeing Magneto in his original outfit. Despite enjoying the series when it came out, it is strange to revisit due to the unfinished original story.
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Steve De Young
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I was a kid buying comics with allowance money at the time. The local comic store tacked a little card under WCA #41 to say that John Byrne was about to take over the book. I didn't really get the hype at that age, but I figured out that he was the guy who wrote and drew a couple of Fantastic Four comics (#242 and 243) that I had gotten years before as an even littler kid from a gas station spinner rack that got me into comics in the first place. Since Speedball had been cancelled, I had $.75 a month free, and I started picking it up, and it was great.
As a side note, JB's run on the book got me to go back and grab some back issues. Englehart's run on the book was some pretty solid comics storytelling. After JB left, though, the renamed AWC started circling the drain, and Force Works was downright terrible.
Edited by Steve De Young on 05 October 2013 at 8:29am
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Jason Mark Hickok
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25 years!?!? That can't be right! :)
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Charles Sanders
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To this day, I am still bitter (at Marvel) that JB was unable to bring to conclusion the long simmering build-up of the Scarlet Witch saga.
Edited by Charles Sanders on 05 October 2013 at 9:00am
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Bill Guerra
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25 years?? A quarter century ago?? Dear heavens, where does the time go?
I remember it well! I was still a punk kid and had already begun to "branch out" and was already reading West Coast Avengers when I first read the news of JB coming to the title (I think it was in the old newspaper format of Comics Buyers Guide). As I was already getting the title and loved the Avengers, I got excited for his arrival...and I wasn't let down! What a ride.
25 years? Can I be that old??
Edited by Bill Guerra on 05 October 2013 at 9:32am
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John Byrne
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OF COURSE it's not 25 years! That's CRAZY TALK!!!It's 24 years.
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Shawn Kane
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I remember loving Stern and Hall's mini and the first year or two of Englehart and Milgrom. I dropped the book around the time that the team found Maria Pym because I didn't like what they did with Hank's characterization up to that point. It was almost like they admitted that the infamous slap of Jan was a mistake and they wanted to rehabilitate Henry Pym's character but he was still kind of a wuss. I couldn't wait for JB to take over and in his first issue, we get a confident Hank who was basically the leader of the West Coast team. Plus I liked the change in his look with the red jump suit that made way more sense than the fedora and trench coat look that he had under Al Milgrom and Steve Englehart.
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(Yeah, I was gonna say, didn't JB start WCA in 1989?)
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Bill Guerra
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24 years?
Okay, I feel a little bit better now.
But I still feel old...
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JB, in a scene with the US Agent, you had him talking to himself in his room. Were you implying he was mentally unstable?
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Shawn, I thought the title went down hill during the Englehart / Milgrom run after the "Lost in Space and Time" and "Zodiac" sagas. I think this was when Englehart and DeFalco were having their major fall outs and as a result the last 10 issues or so of Englehart's run were painful.
JB got the title back on track, and then after 16 issues he was gone...
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Steve Jamrozik
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Marvel Age, house ads and copyrights indicate the first two issues
came out in 1988.
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