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Originally Posted by omega145

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Things evolve and change with time in everything and so do comics. I'd argue that overall the artwork is better today then of yesteryear. People criticize Liefeld and his feet but have you seen some of the anatomy choices of Kirby/Ditko? Today has some fantastic artists in Finch, Quesada, Dell'Otto, Yu, Copiel to name a few.
Always easy for people to favor their own personal generational content over the current one. I favor 90's Jim Lee Xmen as that is what I grew up on. Doesn't mean that it's automatically any better then Powers of X or anything modern.
For what its worth, i've found that Image comics has been consistently putting out great stories and original content for years, much better then anything Marvel has put out for some time.
Wait, isn't this a Marvel Legends appreciate thread and not a comic discussion thread?
I redid my entire closet space this weekend to reorganize some Legends and comics while also making sure I had space for the Haslab Sentinel.

1) I'm not a boomer. GenX here, and proud of it!

2) I like the older comics because they seem more real. It looks like a person wearing clothes. Look at Chris Reeve's Superman. He put on lots of muscle for that role. He looks very similar to the Superman of comics in the 40's and 50's. A muscular man in tights. Look at Supes in the comics now. He looks like someone was skinned and the costume sprayed on over the raw muscle. All the muscles, tendons, and veins stick through the costume. I prefer the look of realistic costume. For me, it takes more skill to show dynamic action and realistically depict cloth costumes than it does to basically draw nudes. Again, it's all subjective. Like what you want. I'm merely stating what I like. I've tried to read a few modern collections at Barnes N Noble, and the art was so busy and crammed it gave me a headache.

3) 90's were one of the worst years for comics art, IMHO. Everyone was 10ft tall, either had massive shoulders or massive shoulder pads. Female heroes were constantly sweating strippers. Also, really was the start of the abusive "every book is a crossover" thing, that made trying to follow a story difficult when you would be following a team you DID like and it crossed over to a team that had an artist that looked like a 5 year old's scribbles (Maximum Carnage is one of the worst victims of this. Some art is decent, others look like it was drawn with Magnum Sharpies).

Anyway, back to Marvel Legends love... There was a 10/11 yr old kid at toy aisle who was THRILLED to find one of the PS4 game costume Legends figures. He was holding onto that toy like he was Indiana Jones with the gold idol. Makes me happy to see the intended audience for toys still enjoying them, and not completely saturated with desire for all things electronic.