In Your Face Jam - Nov 7, 2012

[CBR News]

This week, Brett hops down from the pulpit and raps, real honest-like, with you guys about why he loves comics and why his emotional bond with the medium makes him take them so seriously.


Full article here.

[Kaiolino]

Yes, Claremon/Smith was the greatest X-Men run of all time.

[doolittle]

Yes, Claremon/Smith was the greatest X-Men run of all time.

Agreed. And Brett White is a funny mother.

[Knight of Steel]

How you feel about Claremont and Smith run on X-Men is how I feel about the New Teen Titans by Wolfman and Perez.

[Devan]

How you feel about Claremont and Smith run on X-Men is how I feel about the New Teen Titans by Wolfman and Perez.

X-Men all the way! Watching the Fox cartoon kickstarted my comic-book habit, and stories I tend to go back to are the aformentioned stories from the "From The Ashes" -tpb and the X-Cutioner Song, which for my money ranks as the greatest X-over of all time. Oddly enough, I feel hardly any nostalgia for the X-Men tales from the mid- and late Nineties: the Lobdell-, Seagle-, Kelly-runs were simply "alright".

I can understand that many fans would feel the same way about the Teen Titans. It's the team books with adolescent themes and a good serving of "angst" that seem to strike a chord. The fact that we could actually watch these characters grow up makes us feel even more affection for them.

[starman]

I love Parks and Rec too. Glad you got a Rocket Raccoon mug. I'm planning on making my own because the ones on ebay are too expensive.

[Imraith Nimphais]

Yes, Claremon/Smith was the greatest X-Men run of all time.

Damn Skippy! My first comic book was issue 176. And it took me years to get the back-issues...but when I had them all...OH. MY. GODDESS!
I've read and re-read those issues a gazillion times over and I've never gotten tired of them.

[epp101]

Man, that eight issue Claremont/Smith run was like this perfect little bubble of comic awesomeness in the malestrom of X-Men history (not that other parts weren't awesome, but this one just sticks out as special, unique and almost unfairly brief).

I read those issues, as they were coming out, when I was twelve years old and in the process of moving from Florida to Pennsylvania. Twelve is a weird, transitional age anyway and make such a dramatic move, to an area with such a different culture and having my old peer group ripped away, let's just say that the characters from those issues became my transitional peer group until I could get settled in and made new friends over the next couple of years. I'm a lifelong Spidey fan first and foremost but for that summer, nothing was more important to me than the X-Men. So, yes, that Claremont/Smith run is intensley personal to me too and is to many individuals, I'm sure, for widely various reasons.

Thanks for sharing your experience as well.

[Knight of Steel]

X-Men all the way! Watching the Fox cartoon kickstarted my comic-book habit, and stories I tend to go back to are the aformentioned stories from the "From The Ashes" -tpb and the X-Cutioner Song, which for my money ranks as the greatest X-over of all time. Oddly enough, I feel hardly any nostalgia for the X-Men tales from the mid- and late Nineties: the Lobdell-, Seagle-, Kelly-runs were simply "alright".

I can understand that many fans would feel the same way about the Teen Titans. It's the team books with adolescent themes and a good serving of "angst" that seem to strike a chord. The fact that we could actually watch these characters grow up makes us feel even more affection for them.

Oh but I loved X-Men too! Yes Claremont and Smith's run was great -- that and the Claremont/Byrne run too!

[ViewtifulJC]

I knew I was gonna like this article when I saw Paul Smith Mohawk Storm alongside "Why I love Comics". The Wolverine-in-Japan two-parter, the Morlocks story with the badass Storm, the two issues of the X-men kinda hanging out and doing whatever with their lives(and the iconic "Professor Xavier is a jerk!"), the great From the Ashes finish...such a short run, but with so many great stories and moments.