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Aug 4, 2014 - 4:49 AM
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Jim Phelps
(Member)
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The (Almost) Last Hurrah Dept.
It took me two and a half years to "pull the trigger", but at last I have Uncanny X-Men Masterworks Volume 8. This one went out of print fast even though it was only released in early 2012. There was one precious copy left at my local comic shop that I have been eyeing for months. How it managed to survive the release of an X-Men movie and remain on the shelf is a milagrito. I "had to" get it. Besides, what would summer be without a comic mood?
Volume 8 primarily collects issues #160-167; the "Sleazoid (Brood) Saga" of my youth, specifically sixth grade. I remember discovering these comics in that bitch Mrs. Nitti's reading class when Noel F. brought in his entire collection for all the comic nerds to read. I borrowed the entire story line and of course loved it, though I knew even then that it was a glorified Alien ripoff. However, the story remains powerful because I think being among truly outrageous beings shows just how human our Mutant heroes really are, which was the whole point of the series since the beginning.
The Brood saga was a huge deal back when these books were published. How nice that it led into Paul Smith's brilliant, but woefully short, run as Uncanny X-Men artist.
Speaking of the art, I wasn't crazy about Dave Cockrum's "new" art style upon his return to the book but by the time of the Brood saga, his work was once again superb. Maybe it had to do with Dave doing those outer space stories so well.
To witness the comics I knew upon their original publication getting the Masterworks treatment thirty years after the fact almost brings my X-Men days full circle. I'll have to wait until volume 9 gets published in January for the remainder of my primary X-Men reading days.
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