Reliving the 1980s in Comics

[kybearfuzz]

Recently, I cashed in a lot of Amazon points (and some real cash) and bought the "Marvel Universe - Deluxe Edition" omnibus and the "Who's Who in DC" omnibus. Both are collections of character profiles from each comic book company that came out in the 1980's.

While the information is very dated, it assembles the information from the heyday of

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[mrdreamjeans]

[dendren]

I recently re-read the Alpha Flight series. It really floundered after Byrne left. The Byrne issues though... wow, so classic 80s and classic Byrne. I'm finding myself re-reading the older books more and more lately and really yearning for the simple and fun stories of the 80s and prior.

[kybearfuzz]

I have the Alpha Flight trades and they are a lot of fun to re-read. They end with Byrne's run in the 3rd trade and there is a forward that he basically felt he'd ran out of stories to tell with Alpha.

And I am right there with you with revisiting the 80's and before. Before I started re-reading Alpha Flight, I was on an Avengers kick from the late 70's/early 80's and loving it.

[dendren]

At least Byrne's leaving Alpha was planned and somewhat tied up. I thought the crossover/swap with Hulk when he took that over was pretty brilliant. It seems he leaves in a hissy fit of some sort mid-stream on so many of his runs. It's too bad, because I really really enjoy most of his runs and always hated his jarring exits. X-Men wasn't too bad thanks to Claremont, but the books he was writer on, like Fantastic Four, West Coast Avengers, She-Hulk, Superman... all had such bad transition/exits with him.

[livelife7679]