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<blockquote data-quote="Holy Bovine" data-source="post: 898734" data-attributes="member: 203"><p>I would strongly second this recommendation. The Dark Phoenix saga is what started my rabid collecting of X-Men so many years ago. I had bought comics here and there for years before that but I got every issue of X-Men from 129 to about 230. My interest has waned over the years as comics prices have soared and the stories seem a little duller and the characters a little smaller. </p><p></p><p>Trade paperbacks are a godsend though as I would never have read the <strong>Dark Knight Returns</strong> (DO NOT get Dark Knight Returns 2 - it is bad, bad, BAD), <strong>Preacher</strong> (Gone to Texas is the first one followed by Until the End of the World there are several more that I can't remember right now. These are very violent and full of mature content), <strong>Sandman</strong> (very goth and angst ridden but there are still some gems there - check out A Game of You, World's End and Seasons of Mists for the cream of the crop IMO).</p><p></p><p>I do still buy (on occasion) Black Panther by Marvel. It is not your typical men-in-tights superhero book but is well drawn and very well written.</p><p></p><p>I am also a long-time Jim Starlin fan and loved his 70's work on Captain Mar-Vell and Adam Warlock. His Dreadstar series (from Epic Illustrated and later First Comics) in the 80's was very good too but did suffer from some 'superheroizing' about halfway through its run. In the 90's he returned to Adam Warlock with the Infinity Gaunlet series of books (this spawned many cross-over titles as well as Adam Warlock's own book Infinity Watch). The development of Adam Warlock and Thanos (the main villian who actually gets a personality outside of mad universe conquerer) are the core of the Infinity Gaunlet series and made them very enjoyable. Few writers can do 'cosmic entities' like Starlin.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Holy Bovine, post: 898734, member: 203"] I would strongly second this recommendation. The Dark Phoenix saga is what started my rabid collecting of X-Men so many years ago. I had bought comics here and there for years before that but I got every issue of X-Men from 129 to about 230. My interest has waned over the years as comics prices have soared and the stories seem a little duller and the characters a little smaller. Trade paperbacks are a godsend though as I would never have read the [b]Dark Knight Returns[/b] (DO NOT get Dark Knight Returns 2 - it is bad, bad, BAD), [b]Preacher[/b] (Gone to Texas is the first one followed by Until the End of the World there are several more that I can't remember right now. These are very violent and full of mature content), [b]Sandman[/b] (very goth and angst ridden but there are still some gems there - check out A Game of You, World's End and Seasons of Mists for the cream of the crop IMO). I do still buy (on occasion) Black Panther by Marvel. It is not your typical men-in-tights superhero book but is well drawn and very well written. I am also a long-time Jim Starlin fan and loved his 70's work on Captain Mar-Vell and Adam Warlock. His Dreadstar series (from Epic Illustrated and later First Comics) in the 80's was very good too but did suffer from some 'superheroizing' about halfway through its run. In the 90's he returned to Adam Warlock with the Infinity Gaunlet series of books (this spawned many cross-over titles as well as Adam Warlock's own book Infinity Watch). The development of Adam Warlock and Thanos (the main villian who actually gets a personality outside of mad universe conquerer) are the core of the Infinity Gaunlet series and made them very enjoyable. Few writers can do 'cosmic entities' like Starlin. [/QUOTE]
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