remember when collecting X-titles was easy and fun?

[melike]

Originally Posted by joy_division

people go on about Jim Lee's X-men, but when I was recently bagging all my X comics, I was astouded by Whilce Portacio's art. It was much better that Lee's, IMO. He dreww a killer Archangel - the definitive version

I dont know if i liked him better than Lee but i agree on Archangel - definitive in my mind. And same with his Iceman - brought a real energy to X-Factor at the time.

As for the Xbooks - i do see where you're going but theres still only a small number of core books out there. Avoid the peripheral titles if you will..

[GambitX266]

I believe that issue was X-men vol.2 #30

[joy_division]

Originally Posted by aka_iky

One of Jim Lee's strengths was how he drew women. I like Portacio's art but the way he drew his women character, they just didn't have the sex appeal that Lee's female character had.

I still remember my friends and I wishing Portacio would have joined X-Factor a few issues sooner for the Genosha story arc. Lee was doing the X-Men tie in with Liefeld doing the New Mutants tie in.

I reread the x-tinction agenda when I was sorting out the comics, and the art really sucked on the X-factor arc. Shame that whilce didn't draw those 3 issues