MY FAVORITE COMICS - X-Men by Chris Claremont, John Byrne and Terry Austin

   

The (Uncanny) X-Men by Chris Claremont, John Byrne and Terry Austin.  THIS IS IT! The still-unsurpassed mold for the modern superhero team. No matter what the opinion makers might tell you, this is THE ONE every single creative team has been trying to mimick, beat down or surpass ever since it was first done. This is the one that jumpstarted the whole X-Men franchise into the moneymaker it became later on. This is the one that gave us the Wolverine we all love and hate and love to hate.

This one has it all: gorgeous artwork, memorable characters, action, grandeur, tragedy, humor, romance, friendship, betrayal, star wars, a secret society, brainswashing, the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it, an apocalyptic future,  time travel, battling superteams, dinnossaurs, giant robots, shapeshifters, cyborgs, aliens, mutants, a demon... everything and the kitchen sink. A perfect recipe for failure, right? Yet, it works. And it works beautifully!

MY FAVORITE COMICS - Star-lord by Chris Claremont, John Byrne and Terry Austin

A long time ago, there were fun comics, the kind that you read on a breeze and later forget about them and there were good comics, the kind that you'd keep coming back to and read again and again and again until the comic would start wearing out and falling apart. This, the debut of the creative team of Claremont/Byrne/Austin, belongs to this later type of comic. I still remember how it felt unlike anything else I had been reading from marvel. I still remember how I wanted and waited for further stories with these same characters and creators... and how that never came to pass. Still, the team would go on to make their mark on another set of characters and forever change the landscape of superhero comics.