skeletal13 wrote:Liege Evilmus wrote:tigertracks 24 wrote:Liege Evilmus wrote:tigertracks 24 wrote:waaaaghlord wrote:Hotrod wrote:The Blob wants to feel some love?
There's so much wrong with that sentence that I don't even know where to begin. Then again 'blob' as a coloquialism is probably just a Brit thing.
The Blob was an M-day victim, rolls of skin, hanging off a skinny body basically.
The mysterious bot kind of looks like Dreadwind to me.

That Blob/M-Day statement is the coolest thing I heard all day!
I read it, saw a pic, in one of the recent recaps in X-Men, Endangered Species maybe..?
X-Men all just runs together for me.

Dam, call me stupid, but I tough M-Day was something from a (real) war.
But on the note of Marvel, growing up, I'd only buy Marvel, now it ALL runs together for me. All their stories have the implication of consiquence, but nothing ever lasts long enough for the meaning to hit.
And once they started letting the movies dictate the art (Spider-Man back in his black suit now, hmm wonder why) I was just out.
I stopped buying Marvel back around the early 90s when Chris Claremont and Jim Lee left X-Men. The books were focusing too much on the art, and less on the story. At least with DC, even if the art was crappy, you were usually getting some decent writing.
Yeah, right about then, maybe a year into the start of IMAGE is when I gave up.
I remember all the die-cut covers and polybaged editions that made you wanna get doubles just killed it for me.
As for DC, I can respect the characters, but outside of some one shots like "The Killing Joke" or "Kingdomcome" I just couldn't get into the continuities. DC characters always seemed to perfect to me.
Marvel at least had character flaws and things like that which made them seem more real.
But yeah, thats when I stopped. I had a brief revival when I worked in a Barnes & Nobels and was able to steal them, but that ended quick.
My friend Jing always kept me in te loop, and to this day I still write and draw my own(any backers out there?). But fanatical collecting is something I now reserve for TF toys.
I am looking to get as many TF TPBs as possible now though as the stories are good. I know they come out in monthly issues, but I'd rather just get the stories in one shot nowadays.