Favorite run?

[Bane]

What's your favorite run in an X-title? From the creating team to the story, which period of an X book caught your attention the most?

Might as well kick it off? Mine was the Casey/Landron run on Cable. Landron's art is pretty retro, but very detailed and was pretty much different from most comic artwork I'd seen up to that point (I have heard he is much like Kirby, but I am not familiar with that artists work.) Anyway, your turn : )

(you can go into mroe detail if you like ; )

[jeangreydp]

My favorite would have to be Grant Morrison's New X-men. He blew my mind and made the X-men more interesting than they had been in a long time.

Also, Louise Simonson on X-factor. I loved that shit.

[Lawrence]

I know this sounds really typical, but my favourite runs have been Claremont's original run and Morrison's run. Not sure what appeals to me about them but I love them. I'm not a Claremont fanyboy though, my worst one is probably the part of X-treme where Larocca stopped pencilling. Not sure if it's anything to do with the artist or not, but that's around when I started disliking the series.

[DDM]

Uncanny X-Men #94-278

[Sentinel K]

Uncanny X-Men #94-278

There's a surprise.
:rolleyes:


I'd probably agree with you though :D

[Fede]

My favorite would have to be Grant Morrison's New X-men. He blew my mind and made the X-men more interesting than they had been in a long time.



that's mine too :p

[Lorendiac]

I guess I'm just a rock-solid conservative on this subject. Give me the classic Claremont/Byrne run any day! Especially the Dark Phoenix Saga. (If only the ending hadn't been retconned six ways from Sunday in subsequent years.)

There have been other runs on various mutant titles that I have liked a lot - some of those also things written by Claremont; some not - but a classic is always a classic.

Before you ask, I wasn't even buying X-Men at that early stage in my life, when those stories were first being published. I've read this run mainly from the "Classic X-Men" reprints a decade later. So it's not just a case of falling in love with some of the first superhero stories I ever happened to read as a wee slip of a lad - by the time I had actually read the Dark Phoenix Saga all the way through, I'd also read an awful lot of other comic book stories about the mutants and various other DC and Marvel concepts, so I had some basis for judging it in comparison to a lot of other things I had previously experienced over the last several years.

[Twigglet]

X-Force/X-statix

New X-men which I recently read is cool.

Claremonts original run to Mutant Massacre.

[dazzler_slave]

My top 5 runs:

1. John Francis Moore and Adam Pollina/Jim Cheung on X-Force
2. Peter David on X-Factor
3. Claremont on Uncanny X-Men the first time
4. Claremont/Davis on Excalibur Vol. 1
5. Louise Simonson on X-Factor tied with Warren Ellis on Excalibur

[DDM]

The New Mutants #1-75
X-Factor #1-89
Excalibur #1-34, 42-67, 84-100
X-Men #1-3, 100-109, 114-154 (second series)
Generation X #1-25

[jj9126]

1) Morrison on New X-Men
2) Claremont / Byrne's Uncanny run (although much of the dialogue is painful to read as an adult)
3) Milligan's complete X-Force run and the first X-Statix arc.
4) Claremont's tenure on New Mutants
5) Alan Davis' second run on Excalibur (as writer/artist...forget the issue #'s)

A month ago, I would have put Peter David's X-Factor run on here - but reading the trade made me realize just how dated the material is. There's still a lot of good stuff...but it's not a top run anymore.

[streator]

1. new x-men 114-154
2. gambit (3rd series) 1-24
3. uncanny x-men 351-365 (seagle) + x-men 70-85 (kelly)

[generalbradicus]

For me it was Uncanny introduction to the gold team on through now. Fatal Atractions turned me into an ongoing fan.

[fishtaco]

Wow. There are a lot.

- Fabian Nicieza's Cable and Deadpool
- Chris Claremont's Excalibur
- Alan Davis's Excalibur
- Chris Claremont's New Mutants
- Louise Simonson's New Mutants
- Chris Claremont's Uncanny X-Men
- Larry Hama's Wolverine
- Louise Simonson's X-Factor
- Peter David's X-Factor
- John Francis Moore's X-Force
- Terry Kavanagh's X-Man
- Chris Claremont's X-Treme X-Men

[Babylon23]

Thomas/Adams on Uncanny.

Claremont's initial run 94-278, with the Claremont/Byrne issues and the Claremont/Smith/Romita Jr. issues as the real highlights.

New Mutants 1-54

Claremont/Davis on Excalibur 1-24, Davis on Excalibur 42-67

The Simonson's on X-Factor 10-40

Peter David's X-Factor

[Flight]

I loved it when Havok ran in Inferno.

[Xris]

besides Louise Simonson's run with X-Factor
i actually really liked the AoA arcs

[DDM]

I loved it when Havok ran in Inferno.

Havok was practically naked when he became Madelyne's "Goblin Prince."

[streator]

Havok was practically naked when he became Madelyne's "Goblin Prince."
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[SpartanX]

For me what got me in X-men comics was X-Men #1-3 (god i loved Magneto), Claremont/Byrne X-Men, I liked Morrison's run, but i hated/still hate Quitely's art. Xtreme-X-men, Ultimate X-Men (all of it :cool: )

[Mister Mets]

Claremont/ Byrne

You had............
X-Men VS Magneto story ever.
Proteus
Wolverine VS The Hellfire Club
Dark Phoenix
Days of Future Past

And those are only the better tales. There's also the Alpha Flight issues, and Kitty Pryde's solo story.

Morrison's a distant second.

[steve2275]

all the COLOSSUS runs

[streator]

all the COLOSSUS runs
STEVO?






sdhsds

[Jake V]

New X-Men #114-154
X-Force #116-129
Ultimate X-Men #1-33 (except for #13 and #14)

[thik_3rd]

uncanny x-men # 286 - 349 lobdell is the best ever
x-men # 6 - 69 lobdell and nicieza goodness
x-factor - 70 - 89 pad

@ the thread starter...
i've been meaning to check out that cable run. casey is one of my favorite writers and ladronn is one of my favorite artists. something tells me i'll like it.

[The Sword Is Drawn]

Claremont's/Davis' and Warren Ellis' runs on Excalibur, vol. 1.

Now there's a surprise... :rolleyes:

[Ikaris]

1. Morrisons New X-Men
2. Dark Phoenix Saga
3. Early X-Factor!

[Titan76]

In no order:

Claremont's first Uncanny run
Morrison's New X-men run
Peter David's X-factor run

[Turd_Ferguson]

PAD's X-Factor
Joe Casey's Cable
Judd Winnick's Exiles

[aderechelsea]

in this particular order:

Morrison - Quitely on NXM
Lobdell on UXM
David on X-Factor

[comicartfan]

1. Lee/Kirby
2. Thomas/Adams
3.Claremont/Byrne

[steve2275]

STEVO?
........OF COURSE :cool:

[rudy]

Hmm, tough call.

I'd have to go with Claremont/Romita Jr/Green run as my favourite with honourable mention to Claremont/Sienkiewicz in the New Mutants.