I didn't worry in spite of the potential of Joss Whedon steering the course of an X-book, but because of it. However, at the time I was very pessimistic about comics. Any list of my favorite TV programs will inevitably include Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly. The announcement that Joss Whedon was writing Astonishing X-Men didn't appeal to me at first. days right before "Mutant Massacre." But between the movies, the abundant monthlies and minis, and the cartoons for me the X-men in general - and Wolverine in particular - were by that time the comic book version of that pop song you love the first time you hear it, and the second, and the third, and the five hundredth, but eventually it gets played every hour and you think next time you pass by someone who's humming it you're going to punch him in the throat. Some of my most potent comic book memories involve the Chris Claremont/John Romita, Jr. I felt like all my doorways back into the X-mythology were shut, and honestly I didn't care all that much. Dozens of spin-off solo and team X-titles lived and died in the time it took me to leave comics and return. Since then I stopped reading comics, eventually revived my interest in them, and in the interim there was too much X-stuff to wrap my head around. I tuned out of the X-people a long time ago. By Joss Whedon, John Cassaday, and Laura Martin, et al.Ĭollects Astonishing X-Men #s 1-24 and Giant-Size Astonishing X-Men #1
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