[Exodus]

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

You know what, I remember that story now and that is where I stopped consistenly reading X-Men when I was a kid. I had no idea what they were talking about and I was just like, "So Psylocke is now a clone? This is dumb, I'm done!"

Haha at least they killed off the Clone...

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

So I started reading the Claremonet/Lee Volume 2 Omnibus and all I can say is that the comics feel weird to me now. I mean, I grew up with them being done like this, but after spending the last few months reading the earlier Claremont stuff, the artwork just feels out of place in the way the panels are done. Hell, half of the time they don't even feel like there are any panels, just large images that have dialog placed in an order that wants you to guess what order to read the bubbles in. Not only that, but it seems like every third page has some female character in some strange pose that shows off her assets in one way or another. Also, I just noticed something, Psylocke is now Asian. Or rather, I never knew she was British before now, and in the Fall of the Mutants and Inferno she didn't look very Asian. Now she is suddenly full blown Asian. WHAT?! How is that even possible? Did someone travel back in time and change the race of her parents?

Okay, issues wise, so far they have been pretty good. The stuff with Iceman and his girlfriend in Japan was all right. The Savange Land adventures of Magneto and Rogue was awkward because one minute Rogue's powers worked, then they didn't the next, and then they started working again when it was convenient to the plot. And of course we have Magneto who seems to have some sort of love relationship with her and just out right kills again. Something just seemed off about the way this entire scene was executed. Now the Skrull Shi'ar ordeal was interesting to read, but I'm surprised it took Claremont like 8 years to conclude that. Deathbird took over the empire in the third Omnibus, which covered the stories from 82 and 83, so I expected that plotline to have been concluded well beforehand. I guess it was nice that it hadn't though, since I got to read about the end of it. It was interesting, but those generic yellow and blue costumes need to go. What were they thinking? I forgot about those ugly things. I remember getting a Wolverine toy as a kid in that costume and I hated it even then. Anyway, Jubilee is even more despicable in the comics than she was in the cartoon. In fact, now thinking about it, the cartoon gave Jubilee Kitty's personality and I can see why given how much of a little shit she is here. She feels like the precursor to the comments section on Youtube.

Currently, I'm reading the X-Factor issues that deal with Apocalypse stealing Nathan away. That baby can never catch a break. It's been enjoyable so far but I do not know any of those mutants working for Apocalypse outside of Tusk, at least as far as I can remember. Not a fan of Jean being stripped down of her powers just like Rogue has. Did something happen between these issues and Inferno that I don't know about with them losing their powers?

The artwork was great though during that time even if the stories were so so, although I did actually enjoy them they had substance for me at least.

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Originally Posted by lordbest

Everyone seems to love those bootlegs, am I the only one that doesn't? It's a good likeness for Jeremy Renner and they deserve some credit for giving Black Widow double elbows but Hulk looks like a washed up ex-Hulk starting to go to seed, Vision looks like a cosplay by a middle aged banker and something just seems off about Iron Man and War Machine. Something in the proportions.

Probably cause they're easily obtainable and cheap, I for one aren't down for the bootlegs, just because you don't know what chemicals they used to create them and could be toxic.

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Originally Posted by Boy Blunder

Rogue seems to be a little easier to find now than when the wave first hit, so hopefully you won't have to search much longer, at least for her.

Wolvie and DP, still the hot items of the wave, though.

DP is the only one I haven't seen out of the entire X-Men wave.