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In reply to the discussion: Show of hands, how many adults here enjoy comics... [View all]Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)I read all of the John Byrne stuff, but it hasn't aged well. Plus, in "real life," Byrne is beyond curmudgeonly and insensitive (he shared some thoughts on Christopher Reeve's passing that I won't share here).
But Jim Lee, and all of his clones, pretty much killed off my interest in Marvel. I enjoyed Lee's work initially...some pretty amazing stuff...but when everyone adopted that style, it bored the hell out of me.
I was "in" from Fantastic Four #1 onward. My favorite artists were Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, John Buscema, and Gene Colan.
Once those artists started backing off and Marvel became the house of Byrne and Lee, I'd had enough.
But I still love the old books. I have 1731 digital comics on my laptop...pretty much all of the favorites I named above.