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Brian Miller
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Posted: 22 August 2025 at 10:29pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply
…reprint of Giant Sized X-Men #1 came out, which also contained a new
short story drawn by Mr. Cockrum…

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X-MEN SPECIAL EDITION. The comic that really started it all for me. To this
day, I have no idea how I got it. I already had a stack of 10 or 15 comics of
just odd issues from here and there and somehow this one got added to my
pile. I’m still clueless as to how it ended up there, but that book instigated
my love for the X-Men and especially Kitty and Illyana. It was all downhill
from there.

A couple of years later, someone subscribed me to X-Men. Don’t know who
did that, either.
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Posted: 22 August 2025 at 10:32pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply
I'm sure you must have a suspect!
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Greg McPhee
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Posted: 22 August 2025 at 11:09pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply
Politics have a lot to play in comics on a number of series as I found out years later.

When I was younger and more naïve, I just assumed the guys working on the comics had walked off. The first change you always notice is the art and then as I took the credits in more the writer, inker, etc.

Apart from JB leaving the FF, the real one that got me was X-Men Vs. Avengers where after 3 of the 4 issues, Roger Stern and Marc Silvestri were replaced by Tom DeFalco and Keith Pollard, and the story hard a hard turn left in terms of direction and plot. 

It was a "What the Hell?" moment, and it was only 13 years later I learned the reasons why.
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Brian Miller
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Posted: 23 August 2025 at 12:55am | IP Logged | 4 post reply
I'm sure you must have a suspect!

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I really don’t. The subscription, maybe, but that XMSE, literally no idea.
Can’t envision any instance where it would’ve been either of my parents. I
did have three older cousins that were all three into comics. They certainly
helped foster my love of the medium, but I saw them so rarely and never at
my house so I don’t know how or why it would’ve been any of them.
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Brian Miller
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Posted: 23 August 2025 at 12:57am | IP Logged | 5 post reply
It was a "What the Hell?" moment, and it was only 13 years later I learned
the reasons why.

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I don’t know that I ever saw the reason why. I assumed it was around the
time Stern was fired from THE AVENGERS.
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