Summer is coming to a close, and there's time left for just one more vacation. Unfortunately, the X-Men decided to take it in Mojoworld this year, apparently because Mojo dropped a ton of money into someone at Marvel's lap to be 1992's go-to X-villain.
After covering the '92 annuals, we then look at a couple personally momentous issues as the series draw ever closer to the Image Exodus, while Alan Davis' big Necrom/Phoenix storyline reaches its climax in Excalibur.
September 7th: X-Men (vol. 2) Annual #1
September 14th: Uncanny X-Men Annual #16
September 15th: X-Factor Annual #7
September 16th: X-Force Annual #1
On Sale March 1992
September 21st: X-Men (vol. 2) #8
September 15th: X-Factor Annual #7
September 16th: X-Force Annual #1
On Sale March 1992
September 21st: X-Men (vol. 2) #8
September 22nd: Excalibur #50
September 23rd: Wolverine #54
On Sale April 1992
September 28th: Uncanny X-Men #289
September 29th: X-Force #11
September 30th: X-Factor #79
ReplyDeleteWe know how desperate Marvel was to get its characters on-screen — and how embarrassing the results of that desperation could be. There’s definitely a Mojo analogy in there somewhere.
Ah Shattershot. I had only ever read part 1 in the X-Men Annual because it had "Jim Lee art" and thought the story wasn't too bad. When I bought the rest of the annuals as an adult: O_o
ReplyDeleteIt's perhaps telling that, while modern Marvel has reprinted pretty much all the X-MEN and UNCANNY issues from the early nineties in trades and hardcovers, they've completely skipped "Shattershot" despite a few spaces where it could've fit.
DeletePersonally I've never read the story, but from what I've heard, I have no real desire to ever do so.
Shattershot has some decent individual issues, but taken as a whole, it isn't good. The first 3 chapters just rehash the same plot over and over again, and then the fourth and final part just...goes off in a strange direction.
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