Robert ROONOK
Just like Mark P. Above, this series, later called, "...the Brood Saga...", was what drew me into the Xmen title. I was a comic fan/reader since 1974. I would ride my bike to our local newsstand. It had two spinner racks. One was DC, and one was Marvel. In the early 1970's the two companies weren't putting out a hundred titles per month like today, so that was all the space comics needed to open up vast, and fantastic worlds for fans like myself. I was a avid Ironman, Thor and Batman fan in those days, but the Xmen never truly grabbed my interest. Fast forward about a decade and I was at my family's annual reunion. As the rest of the family all sat around under our large old covered porch, my Uncle brought out a huge brown paper bag filled with comics he had just picked up from a trip he'd been on. He was only five years my senior and we shared a love of the pulp medium. Anyway, there were no comic book shops within 200 miles of our little hometown, so when he'd bought this series.
Robert Marney
The Brood Saga is the most underappreciated part of the X-Men franchise. Cockrum is at his best with crazy aliens, and Paul Smith delivers the subtle details and facial expressions needed to quickly introduce a dozen characters in various stages of mind control. Even Bill Sienkiewicz makes an appearance! This is one of the last times Wolverine was truly scary.
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