Posts Tagged ‘John Byrne’
Modern Masters: John Byrne
John Byrne is the first comics artist I ever started to follow. I read all of his major works and I've enjoyed most of them. I haven't been following him in the last 2-3 years, there's just too much new stuff to read. The fact that I know much about his work definitely decreased my enjoyment of this volume of Modern Masters. I really knew much [...]
Uncanny X-Men 144-160
Many subplots in the Claremont-Byrne run where resolved at the end of the Dark Phoenix saga. So with Dave Cockrum's return to the title, a new era begins for the X-Men. One mention needs to be done about the Avengers Annual 10, where Rogue is introduced. This is where she steals Ms Marvel's powers, who will tag along with the X-Men for quite a [...]
Uncanny X-Men 138-143
After the Dark Phoenix Saga, John Byrne concludes his run on X-Men with 6 more issues. Issue 138 is the funeral of Jean Grey, where Scott reminisces about the past and summerizes all major events in this title since issue 1. I thought this was a very well done summary, that puts together seemingly separate stories into character development. [...]
X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga
This is considered one of the best superhero stories and it made a huge impact when it was released. I've read it before, but I was never that blown away by it. I do like it, it certainly is at least controversial and important in the X-Men saga. It also introduces the Hellfire Club for the first time, giving us characters that have a big [...]
Uncanny X-Men Omnibus vol.1
X-Men was my favorite superhero series, so I was very interested in getting this uber volume containing the first adventures of the "new" X-Men. These are classic stories written by Chris Claremont and drawn by Dave Cockrum and John Byrne. Ever since the first issue, Claremont's style of long term plotting was evident. One off stories that seem [...]