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Petter Myhr Ness Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 02 July 2009 Location: Norway Posts: 3823
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Posted: 22 October 2020 at 4:04am | IP Logged | 1
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40 makes me feel old, but it's a bit of a cheat. Over here it wasn't released until late 1985.
The two-part story was the last regular X-Men monthly comic book here, as it was cancelled due to poor sales. Go figure. They wouldn't appear again until 1990, by which time I'd basically lost interest.
But what a great story it is!
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Neil Lindholm Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 12 January 2005 Location: China Posts: 4940
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Posted: 22 October 2020 at 4:58am | IP Logged | 2
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I picked up #141 around the age of 13-14 from the local drugstore (the one that put comics on a shelf and not in a spinner) and was completely hooked on the story. I was extremely jealous of my friend who bought a jacket like Wolverine and waited impatiently for the conclusion of the story, which I could not find anywhere. For some reason it never arrived at the two drugstores in my town. A week later I was at the Vancouver Greyhound bus station waiting for a bus back to my town and I found a copy in the bus station convenience store. I was so happy.
I still have both issues.
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John Byrne
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Joined: 11 May 2005 Posts: 132229
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Posted: 22 October 2020 at 6:02am | IP Logged | 3
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I bought quite a few comics at the bus station in Edmonton when I was a kid (10 - 14). It was a fairly reliable source for issues that didn’t turn up anywhere else.
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Andrew Davey Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 27 April 2004 Location: United States Posts: 1436
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Posted: 22 October 2020 at 8:41am | IP Logged | 4
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I had just recently discovered the X-Men when the issue(s) came out and certainly Days of Future Past cemented the title as a "must have". I began the hunt for back issues having never done such a thing before. My paper route money was put to good use.
Only as an adult years latter did I collect the missing issues of the runs (Byrne and Cockrum). Some back issues were too expense to justify the investment at the time.
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Daniel Gillotte Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 11 October 2005 Location: United States Posts: 2583
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Posted: 22 October 2020 at 9:48am | IP Logged | 5
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These two issues thoroughly rocked me as a kid, I was 10.I drew and redrew (terribly) the two covers and endlessly thought about Wolverine's metal skeleton (something I had never really imagined before). Even though it was essentially a "dream" story, it still had impact and showed just how serious the X-men's world was. They really did live in a world that feared and hated them and it was only going to get worse.
Seeing who was "dead" or "apprehended" on that first cover was such great fun and the scene with the graves was chilling and made me wonder "how did ____________ die?" Seeing Franklin as a grown man was cool but to have him snatched away was both jarring and powerful. Our Kitty becoming Kate also struck me, so sad.
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John Byrne
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Posted: 22 October 2020 at 9:53am | IP Logged | 6
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Even though it was essentially a "dream" story...••• Since Chris scripted it so that the X-Men failed, I’d say more of a nightmare.
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Eric Sofer Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 31 January 2014 Location: United States Posts: 4789
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Posted: 22 October 2020 at 10:45am | IP Logged | 7
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The X-Men failed. They failed. Who could think this is a good way for a story to be completed, in their own book???
Then again, considering Claremont's methods, it didn't really end. DoFP continued, as did appearances of Phoenix. Could Claremont finish ANY story?
I hoped to see a page of flashbacks from the story, partly whited out and more whited out as the pages continued to a final entirely blank page... except the last panel, with the Watcher clicking off a monitor.
Mr. Byrne - Franklin got killed so fast that it seemed he didn't need to be there. Were his innate powers not enough to destroy Sentinels wholesale? Or was it just not considered? As a mutant, I think he'd count as a legitimate X-Man.
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John Byrne
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Posted: 22 October 2020 at 1:39pm | IP Logged | 8
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The FF office could offer no clue as to what Franklin’s powers were!
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Andrew Bitner Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 01 June 2004 Location: United States Posts: 7480
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Posted: 22 October 2020 at 4:22pm | IP Logged | 9
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I'm a little surprised the FF office didn't insist Franklin be depicted as four years old.
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Jim Burdo Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 19 April 2020 Location: United States Posts: 348
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Posted: 22 October 2020 at 7:33pm | IP Logged | 10
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Interestingly, Franklin wasn't explicitly called a mutant IIRC and wasn't an X-Man, but the last of the Fantastic Four.
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Brian Miller Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 28 July 2004 Location: United States Posts: 30884
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Posted: 22 October 2020 at 9:07pm | IP Logged | 11
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Didn’t he have a big “M” on his jacket?
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John Byrne
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Posted: 23 October 2020 at 6:50am | IP Logged | 12
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Don't get me started. . . . . .
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