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I'll never understand modern comic writers and their obsession with food and/or characters eating and talking. The first time I noticed it was during Bendis' New Avengers and he kept having scenes of the team sitting around a table - eating and talking. I don't get it.

Miller's DD is evergreen. I re-read it about a year ago, and it still holds up. That's the one good thing about most modern comics being crap nowadays - I can ignore most new comics and it's given me the time to go back and re-read the classic runs from yesteryear.

Norm Breyfogle was such an awesome artist. There was a lot of energy and motion to his art, and his Batman just looked flat-out badass. I remember taking issues of Detective to school with me in 1989, I was in 7th grade, and me and my friend were flipping out over how cool he drew that sleek Batmobile.

I always felt like David Michelinie was one of the most underrated writers to ever work in comics. His Iron Man with Bob Layton is my favorite Iron Man run, and I remember his Spider-Man and Superman stuff being really solid too. He's kinda like Roger Stern; he wrote some classic runs on major titles, but doesn't get mentioned a lot.

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Three Jokers was one of the last modern DC comics that I genuinely enjoyed. Rebirth was great in the beginning. I remember being really into Tomasi and Jurgens Superman books, Williamson's Flash, and Rucka's Wonder Woman. It seemed like they were fixing the stuff fans didn't like about the New 52, while keeping the things that worked, and it felt like they were maybe trying to veer away from the far-left political stuff. But then, like you said, they basically ignored the stuff Johns was doing to fix things, like the DCU Rebirth one-shot, Doomsday Clock, and Three Jokers. They also went back to pushing the woke stuff in full force, and DiDio kicked Tomasi and Jurgens off the Superman titles in favor of Bendis. And man, did that Bendis run suck - with aged up Jon Kent and the broken up Clark and Lois. I dropped Superman at that point and never looked back. I'd like to know exactly what went on behind the scenes at DC. It felt like there was two different visions for the DC Universe at that point; Johns' and somebody else who didn't necessarily want things fixed. I got the impression it was someone above both Johns and DiDio, but I could be wrong.

Been looking around for info on this issue cuz I got a copy like 15 years ago at some comic store for $20ish. It’s not a great copy; but it’s also not terrible. Its main damage is there’s a tiny puncture on the cover. You can’t really see it without studying the cover. Maybe like a 5-7 grade (it’s my issue so obviously I’m totally biased on the high side, so realistically it’s closer to 5). Which evidently is still quite valuable. So. What does a community think? Do I package it and mail the thing to CGC for a mid-grade? Or do I keep it to display, read and maybe hand off to some young collector who needs a nudge to get into Batman?? I know I’d have been freaking THRILLED as a 12 year old being given something like that. When I was that age, I catalogued some dude’s collection (that he’d kept in trash bags for 20 years) and found a couple copies of Giant Sized X-Men #1 among a bunch of other great stuff. As payment I was gifted a really crappy copy of X-Men #94 and I was absolutely MORE than satisfied. See, despite the issue’s quality, it was still a great high point in my early collection. Just like this Batman 251 is. And I could inspire a younger gen someday the way it was done for me. Then again, I should probably grade and sell it. I guess. Thoughts?

The part I never understood in this issue is when Jean’s in Nathan’s mind, how is Apocalypse there too? Was that mental aspect of him a deliberate sub-program from the virus he infected Nathan with?

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I got Alpha Flight #107.😀👍

I remember this issue. Lobdell's run on Alpha Flight was short, but it was unique because it had an entertaining light-hearted humor that differentiated it from the other writers. If I remember right, all of his issues on this title were done-in-ones. You'd never see that today where everything has to be a 36-issue decompressed epic written for the omnibus. I always thought Lobdell was a solid writer who took a lot of unnecessary criticism simply because he had to follow in the footsteps of Chris Claremont. But I agree with you, I think Lobdell did a great job of keeping the X-Books interesting after Bob Harras kicked Claremont out of the X-Office.

That dead look on everybody's face in this issue -- that's how I feel every time I read Hickman.

I've never been a big Deadpool fan, but at least in the past he was somewhat tolerable. Nowadays, I hate that character so much - he's insufferable. The Joe Mad art here is very nice. I wish that guy was still drawing comics.

X-Men Legends was embarrassing for the current Krakoa writers. The old school writers are in their 60's and 70's, yet they still produced much better X-Men comics than the new crop. Sadly, I believe the Krakoa era will go down in history as the phase of X-Men that officially killed the property.

Another thing that makes this story so seminal is that it came out in 1980. It was before time-travel stories were commonplace and alternate realities were a dime-a-dozen. Not only is it simply a good story, but at the time, its premise was relatively unique.

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Good review 👍 I had the Marvel UK version of this. We really took it for granted that we had quality comic books every month. Looking back makes me appreciate those writers so much more now. I did love the malfunctioning Megatron as a secondary character. That guy was unstoppable with that supergun 😅.

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I think this was after Shockwave defeated Megatron for leadership of the Decepticons, which is why he wasn't quite himself. These early Transformers issues were good times. I remember reading an interview where Jim Shooter was talking about how, when he was a 13 year old kid, and he first started working at DC Comics - that Mort Weisinger taught him a lot about how to properly tell comic book stories. Jim was saying that back in the day, editors used to pass this knowledge on to each upcoming generation of creators, but it's not being done anymore. Which makes sense. Most modern comics are definitely missing something.

You're not wrong. Milligan's whole run was crap. I re-read it about a year ago, and it was even worse than I remembered it. It's not just this story arc, but every one he wrote didn't make any sense. The thing is, I like Peter Milligan's X-Force and X-Statix because they're interesting tongue-in-cheek commentaries on current social trends, but his run on X-Men was garbage.

I got The Transformers #13.😀👍

The classic Snake Eyes origin issue. Hama later retells and expounds on this story in issue #144. (One of those insanely hard to find, end of the series, low print run issues.) I always thought Snake Eyes and Scarlett's relationship was very interesting and unique. He sacrificed his face and voice for her. And, in turn, she never left his side and felt protective of him.

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That bike is badass. Was it made up for the Classified line? I never saw her on it in the original comic or cartoon.

The art is good. You are nit picking and being overly critical! The book looks good

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The @#%! words are entirely distracting. They take you out of the story. Just use the real curse word, or eliminate it. In fact, on the superhero books, I don't think they should be used at all because some kids might be reading it and simply has no place in them. I remember Bendis started using them a lot in his Marvel Universe titles and it drove me crazy. A decent editor would have stopped him.

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Ive been looking for this comic for a long time but couldn't remember what it was called

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Good review 👍 Ahhh.... I love these Silver Age books. I'm going to search for a copy of this. My first encounter with Guy Gardener was Legends #1. Such a great character.

The thing is, you can relate to that art because you know it's simply someone putting pencil to paper. You can see the human hand in it, despite its imperfections. I don't even know how most modern comic art is made. I guess they're making it on a computer nowadays, but I never thought comics needed to be that technological to be appealing.

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I remember when DC let readers vote on this, by calling the 1-900 number. If I remember right, there was also an episode of the A-Team where viewers could call and vote on how it ended. It was an odd way of making money (calling a 1-900 number was expensive) and soliciting audience involvement. But hey, it was the 80's; before the internet. Yeah, looks like sloppy inking to me.

"Alright, lunger, let's do it" 😂 I think old school Xavier looks like Yul Brynner. Great video, thanks man!

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#Batman

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Wasn’t the story written two different ways back then and only did art for the one that won the phone call in?

Is that a variant copy?

Reminds me of the episode where Destro revealed to the Baroness that every male member of his family wears a metallic mask to honor an ancestor back in Medieval Europe who was accused of being a sorcerer and forced to wear an iron mask as punishment.

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Great video keep up the great work and keep doing you man love to see smaller channels like this its inspiring keep it up!

Out of the absolute’s my favorite story goes to Superman and my favorite artwork is in Wonder Woman’s. Batman is cool too but not my fave out of the 3

I have this from when I was a kid and still haven’t read it 😂 I gotta break it out

Funny thing about the Toybiz ML Professor X. Yes, it was an updated version of the 2000 movie figure with a new head and extra articulation. But, the original plan was for the figure to come with a hover chair, as shown in early prototype pictures. I can't remember exactly why they scrapped it and went with the movie figure's chair. I think maybe it was when Toybiz was doing away with bases and switching to BAFs.

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Perfect Photos!!! Excellent job!

That power affect accessory is just odd, they could have done other things for sure. The air affect is a bit too tall. Other than that, He is cool AF. Love the chair.