The Great X-Men Storytime - Vol. 4: Mutant Massacre (Part 23)

What's up, mah muggas?

Claremont! Bogdanove! The Fantastic Four! The X-Men! DOOM!

PREVIOUSLY ON X-MEN:

Ah yes, "Cover does not reflect interior content - the Mini"

This is one of the first X-Men stories I ever read, back when I was an uncultured noob. I was understandably confused.

Well, it does a little.

I've always loved Franklin's "4 1/2" logo.

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I wonder if/where the Claremont/Byrne pissing match will begin.

though I think claremont did it more in good fun

That's one bomb-ass nightmare, kiddo.

How can Claremont be so good on Xmen and so bad on Exiles?

Geez man, I know you're busy, but you could act a bit more concerned.

>framed picture of Jarvis

Awesome

well there is a gap of several years.....

HOLY SHIT I HAVE MISSED A LOT, I DIDNT EVEN READ THE MUTANT MASSACARE OR THE START OF X-FACTOR.

tell me x-user, it is too late to jump straight to this issue ?

Also Apocalypse when ? inhumans working together with mutants when ?

All I remember right now is that one Excalibur issue that really made fun of both of them, not just Byrne.

Which arc did he write again ?

yeah that's what i was thinking of as In Good Fun, vs Byrne's Doombot retcons.

He got old and busted. Sad but true.

>Kitty dies
And nothing of value was lost

Wolverine randomly dropping dead is funny

>tell me x-user, it is too late to jump straight to this issue ?
Eh, kinda? If you're not familiar with the events of Mutant Massacre it might be a bit confusing.

>Also Apocalypse when ?
He's already showed up, senpai.

Hey, at least Betsy had time to get a new 'do.

user by the time he wrote Exiles he was far past his prime.

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wait, i've been reading outback era, doesn't she have long hair there?

Which is kinda funny because he wrote a much better Exiles in his original Excalibur run.

So does the 90s costume just make people overlook how much of an asshole Rogue is most of the time?

Artistic liberties I'm guessing.

i remember when this dude foreshadowed!

i'd guessing once again everyone just takes the 90s cartoon as gospel

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I was guessing that this was gonna end with a reveal/retcon Reed was somehow responsible for Doom's face destroying fuck up in college.

Hey look, it's best F4 member

Kinda fucked up that spoiler. Whatevs!

Ha, when Magneto manipulates a mental thingy it glows? Ha, I totally forgot about that.

Poor She Hulk, that was a nice suit

Who are Magneto's victims again? Reading all these comics and it seems like Magneto is suprisingly nonlethal.

>that delayed reaction
kek

>Jen's clothes are burning off and tearing
Also, Magneto's costume is ballin

The case he was tried for was destroying I think Russian, maybe like UN, subs that were going to attack his island after he threatened the world.

also all the Silver Age shit he did.

>What could go wrong?
Dammit, Johnny.

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Took over an entire country.

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> Wow, Reed saving people like a selfish asshole

God Sue.

well it's a super villain asking them so who knows the truth

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But that was nonviolent as I recall. Deleted my image, sorry for the inconvenience.

Fucking typical Marvel superheroes.

Dammit Magneto this is your problem!

also the super geniuses aren't there, none of you can work that thing

>that cover
kek

Goddammit, did you guys forget to give Wolverine his shots again?

It's no biggie, user. We won't be hitting image limit anyway.

Jesus, it's like a comedy of errors up in here.

it makes sense, he's closest with Kitty after all

>She thought she'd be attacking a toad
>Instead, she's touched the soul of a prince
*sniff*

tell us more about these 'special dreams' you've been having about Logan and your father, Franklin

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I kind of love the purple butterfly thing that represents Psylocke's powers

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It's pretty nifty and unique.

>I hate you so much I'm going to rip my clothes off in front of this window!
Oh, Sue.

>Thing with tits
What a lovely image.

>Who should we hit?!
fucking lol

nips are always hard

Raided a military base
Overthrew a South American government
Plotted to overthrow Namor
Tried to mind control Black Bolt
Kidnapped Avengers and X-Men on several occasions.
That incident with the UN building

But in his defense, his powers did make him a little crazy back then.

Wasn't She Thing introduced during Byrne's run?

also Rogue/Thing is such a better OTP

Here we go, the most overdramatic person in the entire Marvel Universe. This guy could give Magneto a run for his money!

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>hearing of the massacre I wanted to check it out myself

Doom still got that lil crush on storm going huh

I'm trying to forget She-Thing.

Welcome to mid 80's FF where She Thing was a character.

Ben still looks kinda rocky and it's really freaking me out

As we'll see in a later issue... yes

has there been any storm/angel hook ups in like alt realities/futures? they'd literally have the most beautiful children ever

Boy, this sure ain't Reed's day, is it?

>My name is Reed Richards and I love to eat my own snot... hey, this isn't me!
>We don't buy it, Reed!

>I'll meditate mine
Aren't you a super weeb, Wolvie? Don't you have some Bushido to practice?

Keeping Franklin young forever is such a waste. I mean, yeah, it adds potential story threads of his omnipotence allowing himself to will himself into staying a child, but it's weird for him to be the Anti-McConnoughhay from Dazed and Confused.

>What could POSSIBLY go wrong, Dazzler?

>Boy, this sure ain't Reed's day, is it?
Most days aren't, he has some good ones though

Like the one where he pretends to betray his family and seduces the Skrull that has the hots for him in order to save his family

>them Kirby homages
Bogdanove has always been such a camaleonic artist.

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fuck that's real good, like almost the same page.

so did Reed take the flight early cause he was scared of Mutants taking over??

I feel confident that Army Intel crate is absolutely the one from Raiders, without verifying the number at all.

It's a little insulting that the F4 would fall for this desu

He turned into such a deplorable waifufag.

>Yeah, my girlfriend Alicia, who keeps no secrets from me whatsoever! No sir!

complete with weird looking early Thing. I can see why some people assume his skin is rocky like some sort of golem rather than hard plate scales

Havok did nothing to deserve this level of bullying.

It's crazy how many writers are Sup Forums as fuck. I'm actually a bit scared for the future of comics.

it's always been this way. i mean there was a damn Roy Thomas letter in an issue of Metal Men! (and now i wanna know if that effected vision, planted the seed)

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It's always been this way, the only thing that has changed is editorial.

Roy Thomas was always MAXIMUM FANBOY, user.

There's a reason he wrote both the Justice Society/All-Star Squadron and the Invaders. And had the Kree-Skrull War ended by having Rick Jones summon Marvel's Golden Age heroes.

He was born. Havok's life is suffering whether it's because of women, not wanting to be a superhero, or living in his brother's shadow. Honestly Age of Apocalypse Havok feels like 616 should've turned into with how shit his life is

i kinda like the retcon because it does sound like the kind of shit a nerd like reed in college would do.

Did he do all the stupid shit with Vision being Human Torch? it sounds like him but i feel that might've been Englehart

>it's always been this way
>It's always been this way

It feels worse with each generation. I mean Neil Gaiman called American comic writing "incestuous" and he wasn't wrong. Only now we're a few generations deeper

Honestly, part of the problem with his Exiles run was how he awkwardly jammed in the Excalibur terminology into a series that had never used it in 90 issues. Also the awkward revisiting of Psylocke's old Slaymaster storyline.

Hulks can get fat?
I'd assume that their gamma-fueled ideal selves were pretty much static...

It was a joke, but I think it could happen if they stay in that form like Jen usually does.

Magneto looks like he went out in his fancy pajamas, plus gloves, cape and boots.

Sorry about that, had to take a call.

>dat Doom/Ororo