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1 hour ago, sh9000 said:

Original and updated X-Men covers.

Huh.  Kinda prefer the old one.  It has more of a penciled look.  The new one looks like too much work was done on computers, and winds up kind of cartoony.

Speaking of cartoons... really looking forward to the X-Men '97 cartoon on Disney+.  As a kid and teenager I loved the X-Men, and I consider the period from the mid '80s to the late '90s to be peak X-Men.  Things started going downhill around Onslaught, but I stuck it out for awhile (and I did enjoy a few stories like House of M), but X-Men and related books became basically unreadable to me since Messiah Complex.

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9 minutes ago, mikeszekely said:

The new one looks like too much work was done on computers, and winds up kind of cartoony.

 

I think that was the point

 

10 minutes ago, mikeszekely said:

  As a kid and teenager I loved the X-Men, and I consider the period from the mid '80s to the late '90s to be peak X-Men.

For me it was up til early 90’s. I personally couldn’t afford all the constant crossovers and pretty much all the talent left to form image. When I thought about getting back into it when I got my first job in the late 90’s the look was totally off putting to me and I never got back into reading them

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15 hours ago, mikeszekely said:

Huh.  Kinda prefer the old one.  It has more of a penciled look.  The new one looks like too much work was done on computers, and winds up kind of cartoony.

Speaking of cartoons... really looking forward to the X-Men '97 cartoon on Disney+.  As a kid and teenager I loved the X-Men, and I consider the period from the mid '80s to the late '90s to be peak X-Men.  Things started going downhill around Onslaught, but I stuck it out for awhile (and I did enjoy a few stories like House of M), but X-Men and related books became basically unreadable to me since Messiah Complex.

Except for the cheek bones on Cyke being kinda goofy the original is FAR superior to the new one.

I think the animation on the new show looks absolutely terrible too.

15 hours ago, Big s said:

For me it was up til early 90’s. I personally couldn’t afford all the constant crossovers and pretty much all the talent left to form image. When I thought about getting back into it when I got my first job in the late 90’s the look was totally off putting to me and I never got back into reading them

The art itself was good too but once they cut Claremont and installed Lee, etc... as the eriters the stories went to garbage and there was no direction.  I blame them for the downslide of the X-Men up to and including today.  X-Men #1 and on there was zero plan and less and less real substance.

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16 hours ago, mikeszekely said:

Huh.  Kinda prefer the old one.  It has more of a penciled look.  The new one looks like too much work was done on computers, and winds up kind of cartoony.

Speaking of cartoons... really looking forward to the X-Men '97 cartoon on Disney+.  As a kid and teenager I loved the X-Men, and I consider the period from the mid '80s to the late '90s to be peak X-Men.  Things started going downhill around Onslaught, but I stuck it out for awhile (and I did enjoy a few stories like House of M), but X-Men and related books became basically unreadable to me since Messiah Complex.

Same.  I'm also looking forward to the new cartoon.  I also loved the X-Men comics that I grew up with in the 80's and 90's.

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I realise I'm a touch biased, but it does sometimes feel like the European "G.I. Joe" comics - branded "Action Force" to start with, as the toyline was initially released under that title for some time here before the branding was unified - gets a little overlooked in discussions of the comics (the UK "Transformers" stories seem to be better known). I know they were released as the "European Missions" or something at least once. It'd probably be a complicated rights issue, but don't you want to see the time G.I. Jo... I mean, Action Force had to deal with Richard Branson dredging up Megatron from the Thames again? 😄

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4 hours ago, F-ZeroOne said:

I realise I'm a touch biased, but it does sometimes feel like the European "G.I. Joe" comics - branded "Action Force" to start with, as the toyline was initially released under that title for some time here before the branding was unified - gets a little overlooked in discussions of the comics (the UK "Transformers" stories seem to be better known). I know they were released as the "European Missions" or something at least once. It'd probably be a complicated rights issue, but don't you want to see the time G.I. Jo... I mean, Action Force had to deal with Richard Branson dredging up Megatron from the Thames again? 😄

Not gonna lie, I barely found out about action force a couple years ago. I don’t know why it never dawned on me that people would change a franchise that was so overly American to fit their own culture. I mean I come from a Macross fandom and changes to fit another part of the world should have been expected. 

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The company that produced "Action Force", Palitoy, had a long history of doing just that. The 12" "G.I. Joe" figures had a longer life in the UK under the "Action Man" brand (and also partly, I suspect, because World War II history here is kind of like of trying to avoid footbal... excuse me, soccer here; no matter how much you may not like it, its inescapable pretty much all year round). "Action Force" was a spin off into the popular "Star Wars" smaller figure format (which Palitoy also adapted for the UK market, the two most famous examples probably being their version of the X-Wing and the Death Star), and then they started more directly bringing over Hasbro figures though with some changes (it seems to be generally regarded that the "Action Force" APC is a better toy than the "G.I. Joe" original). For further coverage of Palitoy , the "Analog Toys" YouTube channel has plenty of videos covering them.

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