Back from the hiatus: 2 memes, and what you can expect to see in this journal soon
Wow it's been a while since the last time I posted anything on Livejournal or Dreamwidth. (The last thing I posted was in April.) But I had a really good reason for this hiatus, due to having been extremely busy these last 3 months with work - I had a huge translation job with strict deadlines, so lots of things got put on hold (frak, I didn't
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I would like a letter.
Figuring out comic book continuity is pretty much a full time job. The most famous run on X-Men was the creative team of write Chris Claremont and artist John Byrne from the mid-seventies into the eighties (at some point, Claremont went downhill as a writer). Claremont started writing with Giant-Size X-Men #1 in 1975. Giant-Size X-Men #1 was a special issue, and the storyline starting that continues in Uncanny X-Men #94. As the 94 implies, there were lots of issues prior to that, but they were a different team lineup, and most of them were extremely bad (the first ten or fifteen issues were okay, and then they went rapidly downhill and the title was eventually temporarily cancelled).
Giant-Size X-Men #1 features the introduction of Storm and Nightcrawler and a few other characters, and it also is the first time the Wolverine is on an X-Men team (although he first appeared as a character in an issue of Hulk).
Parts of Claremont and Byrne's run is available in trade paperbacks, things like The Dark Phoenix Saga and Days of Future Past.
Grant Morrison also had a run that was pretty famous, and that is sort of the prelude to Whedon's run, but I've only read an issue or two of it, so I don't know if it's good.
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I give you the letter... G.
Yeah, I figured that comic book continuity would be complicated. Reading AXN, I had foreknowledge about some things via the movies and general pop culture osmosis, but some things I looked up in Wikipedia character pages so it helped me understand things better (e.g. at the very start of the comic, I looked up how and when Emma's and Scott's relationship started and learned about the 'telepathic affair' - which they reference later), and some stuff just confused me so I had to look it up again.
Another problem is that I don't know if I can find these older comic books. Those I've managed to get my hands on are all from the 2000s: the rest of The Astonishing X-Men, and some New X-Men, X-Men Legacy and the recent Avengers vs X-Men - but it's gonna be confusing what follows what and which stories are connected, with all those different titles (though I've found one reading order list for some of them on a forum). And there's a lot of those missing, so I'll have to fill the blanks through Wikipedia again, LOL.
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