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JakeEkiss said:
Paul Smith is the top of my list, especially as I get older. Just pure meat and potatoes good storytelling. Does the work and gets out of the way. He's not as flashy as some, but I think he's pound for pound one of the best.
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Smith is the best cartoonist with the exception of Kirby on these lists. Draftsmen and cartoonists are not necessarily the same thing. Smith clearly absorbed a ton of Bernie Krigstein and Alex Toth.
 
NORM said:
My comic reading doesn’t go as deep as most of you, apparently. I guess I lose nerd credibility? This is exactly why I don’t care to share my tastes.
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Don't feel bad, one of my favorite X artists is Frank Quitely. He gets clowned on a lot but I think his work is the bee's knees. I'm also the guy who loved the X-Men Blue/Gold/Red/Black era pre-Krakoa, couldn't stand the House Of X stuff that everyone else went gaga over, and loved the Bendis All-New X-Men that so many people hated. Not to mention I'm all in on From The Ashes, so I'm used to being the odd man out when it comes to my taste in X books. You get used to it.

My list of favorite X artists is probably

BWS
Quitely
Sienkiewicz
Cockrum
Allred

But I'm sure I'm forgetting a bunch that I love. I've been reading X books since I was a wee lad, so it can be tough to remember everything. I'll say, don't be afraid to share what you love, there's definitely people out there who will delight in seeing someone with the same favorites share that love.
 
Mike Allred is also up there for me. Love his style in general, but only thanks to X-Force/X-Statix.
 
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If they're going to be making New X-Men figures to coincide with X-Men '97 it's a good to slip in some X-Statix figures (a pipe dream, I know). Those two books are side by side in my mind, when they injected some real creativity and new direction into the ongoing X-titles.
 
hmmberto said:
If they're going to be making New X-Men figures to coincide with X-Men '97 it's a good to slip in some X-Statix figures (a pipe dream, I know). Those two books are side by side in my mind, when they injected some real creativity and new direction into the ongoing X-titles.
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God YES. Would love to have a U-Go-Girl figure.

The X-Books have been blessed with a lot of amazing artists (usually at the start of their careers). Some of my favorites are (in no order):

Paul Smith
Marc Silvestri
Frank Quitely
Bill Sienkiewicz
Alan Davis
Jim Lee
Mike Allred
John Byrne
Capullo
Bachalo
Carlos Pacheco
Clay Mann
Larraz
Rod Reis
 
RichardSimmonsRobot said:
Like yourself, I'm not rebuying an entire long-beleaguered team just to have "matching yellows."
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As it stands I feel the yellows match pretty well on the figures we already have.....even Wolfsbane which really surprised me given that she came out years after all the others. They're not perfect, but pretty close.

Uniformity is actually one of the things I try to steer towards when considering all the multiple, multiple versions of all of these figures that we have to choose from.

According to this pic, the two Strong Guy yellows are pretty close......new one might be a bit lighter? I'll have to see an in-hand review.

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Marvel Legends Strong Guy - A Tale Of Two Figures

Keeping in mind I don't actually have the new Marvel Legends Deluxe Strong Guy figure from Hasbro in-hand, I wanted to do my best thanks to the magic of photo
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I'd really love to eventually get Portacio X-Factor designs (except Archangel as the wings would bump it up to $90 figure), as short lived as they were. Particularly for some of Bobby's ice blasts. Heck! It's been a while since we got an ice slide, so I'd take a Portacio styled one in a deluxe version. I always loved the way his hands froze the air moisture around them without making direct contact when he was powered up almost like telekinesis.
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PantherCult said:
Yeah, I always wished Paul Smith did more work... reading about him it sounds like it was mostly by his choice that he didn't. He only did enough work to pay his bills and then stop He is awesome and if he lasted longer or had more lasting impact (in terms of character creation or design) I'd rank him ahead of Byrne.
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Same. Paul Smith is my favorite X-artist. He only did what, maybe 15 issues or so? Loved him anyway.
 
nik said:
one of my favorite X artists is Frank Quitely. He gets clowned on a lot but I think his work is the bee's knees.
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Same. It's easy to see why many wouldn't like him since his characters look like a mix of adults and small children packed into one bizarre-looking body, but I also dug his aesthetic.

I look at his art separately from almost every other X-artist. I really love looking at his work, but it's so uniquely idiosyncratic and completely unrealistic that it's hard to compare to other artists. Comparing him to Byrne or Lee is like comparing apples and orangutans...I wouldn't even know where to start. 🤪

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I open the Nicholas Hammond Spidey before I went to bed last night and while it is certainly nostalgic and was an early, fundamental contributor to me becoming a Spider-Man fan later in life. Having said that, the figure itself is just kind of meh. There’s not a lot here. It genuinely feels like I have an action figure of an actor in a Spider-Man suit, and one that was not exactly known for his stunt work

And also like I said while it’s nostalgic, I don’t think k there is enough here for me to deep dive into the television show like I normally would with any other figure I buy


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