Funnily enough, I've never minded the production on this album. The first time I heard it was on vinyl, which always sounds like a speaker in a sock to me, so even when I hear it on CD, I think "that's about right."
Also so like you: benefiting from diminished expectations.
Hey, I AM reading all flagship and crossover X-Titles from 1975–2019...
You're my fastball special.
Excellent usage!
I'm just about wrapped up. I just have to read Hunt for Wolverine, Return of Wolverine, and then UXM 11–16 and I'll be done with my main thing. Then I'm going to go back and read a couple clean-up volumes I missed, but it's been a hell of a 2-year ride and I feel like I'm going to have a little grief when I'm done. I suppose tallying up the number of pages and issues I read in total should be pretty fun. It's weird how much of my life these characters have taken up.
Funnily enough, I've never minded the production on this album. The first time I heard it was on vinyl, which always sounds like a speaker in a sock to me, so even when I hear it on CD, I think "that's about right."
Also so like you: benefiting from diminished expectations.
Hey, I AM reading all flagship and crossover X-Titles from 1975–2019...
You're my fastball special.
Excellent usage!
I'm just about wrapped up. I just have to read Hunt for Wolverine, Return of Wolverine, and then UXM 11–16 and I'll be done with my main thing. Then I'm going to go back and read a couple clean-up volumes I missed, but it's been a hell of a 2-year ride and I feel like I'm going to have a little grief when I'm done. I suppose tallying up the number of pages and issues I read in total should be pretty fun. It's weird how much of my life these characters have taken up.
I'm just about wrapped up. I just have to read Hunt for Wolverine, Return of Wolverine, and then UXM 11–16 and I'll be done with my main thing. Then I'm going to go back and read a couple clean-up volumes I missed, but it's been a hell of a 2-year ride and I feel like I'm going to have a little grief when I'm done. I suppose tallying up the number of pages and issues I read in total should be pretty fun. It's weird how much of my life these characters have taken up.
In case you're unaware, John Byrne's exercising his decades-old grievances against Claremont by writing and drawing his own for-funsies X-Men series called X-Men: Elsewhen. The premise is that Phoenix didn't commit suicide on the moon, but her mind was infantilized, and the adventures go from there. He's explicit about wanting to "fix" all the "mischaracterizations" that Claremont et al committed. He had hoped to get Marvel to pick it up but no dice (my guess is that his appalling comments on any number of topics are something Disney wouldn't want to be attached to in any way). So he's putting up a page a day and letting his cult stroke his ego. It's under the well-hidden FanFic sub-forum (http://www.byrnerobotics.com/forum/foru ... .asp?FID=6).
"Ain't no party like an S Club party!'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
I remember reading Strummer mixed the album by seeing how it sounded on cassette in a car radio.
The Cars said they did that for Candy-O. They rejected using prime speakers for average car radio speakers, figuring that's how most people would hear it. Their results were much, much better.
"Ain't no party like an S Club party!'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
I'm just about wrapped up. I just have to read Hunt for Wolverine, Return of Wolverine, and then UXM 11–16 and I'll be done with my main thing. Then I'm going to go back and read a couple clean-up volumes I missed, but it's been a hell of a 2-year ride and I feel like I'm going to have a little grief when I'm done. I suppose tallying up the number of pages and issues I read in total should be pretty fun. It's weird how much of my life these characters have taken up.
In case you're unaware, John Byrne's exercising his decades-old grievances against Claremont by writing and drawing his own for-funsies X-Men series called X-Men: Elsewhen. The premise is that Phoenix didn't commit suicide on the moon, but her mind was infantilized, and the adventures go from there. He's explicit about wanting to "fix" all the "mischaracterizations" that Claremont et al committed. He had hoped to get Marvel to pick it up but no dice (my guess is that his appalling comments on any number of topics are something Disney wouldn't want to be attached to in any way). So he's putting up a page a day and letting his cult stroke his ego. It's under the well-hidden FanFic sub-forum (http://www.byrnerobotics.com/forum/foru ... .asp?FID=6).
Eh, I'm pretty Team Claremont in general, but I believe both Byrne AND Claremont resisted killing Jean, right? I know there's an alternate ending that they created at the time until Shooter got his editorial hooks in.
Also so like you: benefiting from diminished expectations.
Hey, I AM reading all flagship and crossover X-Titles from 1975–2019...
You're my fastball special.
Excellent usage!
I'm just about wrapped up. I just have to read Hunt for Wolverine, Return of Wolverine, and then UXM 11–16 and I'll be done with my main thing. Then I'm going to go back and read a couple clean-up volumes I missed, but it's been a hell of a 2-year ride and I feel like I'm going to have a little grief when I'm done. I suppose tallying up the number of pages and issues I read in total should be pretty fun. It's weird how much of my life these characters have taken up.
Have you enjoyed it?
Very much! Obviously with something that long-running with multiple creators and editors that have very different agendas, you're going to have a lot of peaks and valleys. But I would say I like a lot more things about the franchise than I dislike, and I also had my mind changed on a lot of things after reading in context for so long.
I'm just about wrapped up. I just have to read Hunt for Wolverine, Return of Wolverine, and then UXM 11–16 and I'll be done with my main thing. Then I'm going to go back and read a couple clean-up volumes I missed, but it's been a hell of a 2-year ride and I feel like I'm going to have a little grief when I'm done. I suppose tallying up the number of pages and issues I read in total should be pretty fun. It's weird how much of my life these characters have taken up.
In case you're unaware, John Byrne's exercising his decades-old grievances against Claremont by writing and drawing his own for-funsies X-Men series called X-Men: Elsewhen. The premise is that Phoenix didn't commit suicide on the moon, but her mind was infantilized, and the adventures go from there. He's explicit about wanting to "fix" all the "mischaracterizations" that Claremont et al committed. He had hoped to get Marvel to pick it up but no dice (my guess is that his appalling comments on any number of topics are something Disney wouldn't want to be attached to in any way). So he's putting up a page a day and letting his cult stroke his ego. It's under the well-hidden FanFic sub-forum (http://www.byrnerobotics.com/forum/foru ... .asp?FID=6).
Eh, I'm pretty Team Claremont in general, but I believe both Byrne AND Claremont resisted killing Jean, right? I know there's an alternate ending that they created at the time until Shooter got his editorial hooks in.
Right. There's also some score-settling with Shooter in this project. But Byrne is mainly "correcting" what he sees as mischaracterization of Kitty Pryde and Cyclops, both when he was on the book and after. It's cool that he wants to revisit these characters, but it's pettiness that drives it that is so sad. It also reflects an arrogance that there's only one correct interpretation of the characters (coincidentally, Byrne agrees with it), so everyone else has ruined them. Someone as accomplished and materially comfortable as him, and he treats his twilight years by acting out his bitterness.
"Ain't no party like an S Club party!'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
