Hmm, one of my favoritest ever pages was during Claremont and Byrne's early run of X-Men, where Wolverine has been left for dead in the sewers by the Hellfire Club's face-masked minions, and he's looking up at daylight, so that the light of the grate is on his face, and with his claws bared is vowing revenge.
And then you had to wait
an entire month
to find out what happened next... which led, in fact, directly into the Dark Phoenix storyline, so things went even more to hell than you expected.
I may have been young and innocent in those days ("the golden age of anything is when you're fourteen") but damn that was a good comic book series. SIGH
There's a Wolverine/Power Pack issue of the X-Men, and I'm blanking on the artist, but there were lots of wires, and not much speaking (I think Logan goes feral, and Katie Power helps him snap out of it) and I remember each page being a joy.
Same goes for many of the pages of Ronin, but my memory can't narrow it down much more.
Claremont couldn't write dialogue for shit. Or maybe that was just dialogue in general was shit in those day. I just barely re-read the Dark Phoenix saga, and it was painful. What HAPPENED was awesome, but the talking was horrible.
Ronin was fantastic. Had to rebuy it recently. Now, I seem to remember that Camelot 3000 was really good, too. Am I confused about that? Can't seem to find it anywhere.
I seem to remember that Camelot 3000 was really good, too. Am I confused about that? Can't seem to find it anywhere.
I need to reread it! I remember liking it, but i was kinda easily pleased back then. And delighted by the Tristan/Iseult thing too.
I have the set -- in storage in New Orleans.
Mmmm. 4-colour soup.
Claremont couldn't write dialogue for shit. Or maybe that was just dialogue in general was shit in those day. I just barely re-read the Dark Phoenix saga, and it was painful. What HAPPENED was awesome, but the talking was horrible.
I'm with you there. I was actually reading through all the old X-Mens for the first time last year and I was thinking "This dialogue is awful. I can't believe this was considered the pinnacle of the line." I agree, cool storylines, though.
Claremont couldn't write dialogue for shit.
"I'm the best there is at what I do, and what I do is repeat myself...."
"I'm the best there is at what I do, and what I do is repeat myself...."
That pretty much nails it, Sean.
That line, so iconic of Wolverine back in the day, was also the one most easy and commonly made fun of.
Serial:
Hell, even Claremont made fun of it in Excaliber at one point.
The thing about that Wolverine line is that I can't really imagine a badass thinking like that. Reminds me of the an old criticism of Alan Ladd's screen persona: "A 10 year old's idea of a tough guy."
