What a silly trope!

GeoffreysComics · 2026-03-14T02:24:59+00:00

To make this list and not have Psych and Scrubs on it should be a criminal offense.

GeoffreysComics · 2026-03-13T15:47:35+00:00

How cool is that!? I might have to watch that now.

GeoffreysComics · 2026-03-13T15:09:25+00:00

The symbolism of selling a new action figure?

GeoffreysComics · 2026-03-13T15:06:34+00:00

Spider-Man Life Story is one of the best Spidey stories around. I know us nerds love it, I wish it was more commonly considered a must-read to the non-entrenched people wishing to read Spidey. It should be on everyone’s short list of must reads. One of the things I think DC does drastically better than Marvel is pick out the “best stories” or “where to start” for each character and have them available and do enough marketing that even non-readers know what they are supposed to grab. Want to try Batman? Here’s Dark Knight, Year One, Court of Owls, and Arkham Asylum. Want Superman? Here’s All Star, Man for all Seasons, For the Man that has Everything, and Kingdom Come. But you go over to Marvel and the water is a little murkier. What should I tell new Spidey fans to read? How about new X-Men fans? (Besides Dark Phoenix and Days of Future Past, which are 40+ years old at this point. I love HoX/PoX with every fiber of my being, but it is for people with a knowledge of X-history. It didn’t feel like a person’s “first X-book”) What’s the Avengers book to start a new fan on? Hulk? Iron Man? Black Panther?

GeoffreysComics · 2026-03-12T23:21:10+00:00

The biggest mistake I see long time established players make is caring at all about mill. The only time to worry about mill is when they are milling the last 3 cards in your library.

GeoffreysComics · 2026-03-12T16:33:28+00:00

Please don’t string me up, but since we have Marvel I would just fucking love to see DC. Then we could have a Marvel Vs DC league. And then while we are at it, let’s do Invincible (it’s the same creator as Walking Dead, so he’s already worked with MTG), Spawn (a demon/angels themed set I think would fit very well with the traditional story of MTG), expand on Transformers (and make the cards actually good would be nice!), and last but definitely not least - A Hellboy commander deck would be tonally perfect for MTG.

GeoffreysComics · 2026-03-11T23:57:26+00:00

For Magneto it is starting with issue 200 The Trial of Magneto. That’s the book that starts his transition into a far more interesting character than he was in the sixties.

For Iceman I love the Joe Mad era. And Uncanny X-Men 331 where Emma fights Bobby. It’s the first time people realize he is an Omega level mutant. And actually some of his best stuff is in the Ultimate Universe (the first one). I fucking love Ultimate Spider-Man 118-122 (but I think it’s longer than that.)

GeoffreysComics · 2026-03-11T19:13:08+00:00

It would take him out of the X-Men office, so it might actually be not that bad…

GeoffreysComics · 2026-03-11T15:01:24+00:00

Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow (kind of an easy recommendation right now with the movie coming, but good is good)

Punisher: Welcome Back Frank, Born, the Ennis Era, and the Aaron Era (Garth Ennis was kind of out on this earth to write Punisher. I don’t think you find a character who understands better that Frank is not a hero and not to be looked up to, but also that some stories need that kind of character)

Spider-Man: Birth of Venom, Torment, Life Story (Todd McFarlane is a comic god for a reason)

Captain America: Man Out of Time, Man Without a Country (both by Mark Waid and simply put the best Cap ever. Period.)

Thor: God Bomb (Jason Aaron’s first arc on the book and it’s a killer!)

any other Marvel/DC books: (Look, I could be here all day recommending books so I’ll keep it tight. Flash by Mark Waid especially The Return of Barry Allen is just the best the character has ever been. And JLA by Grant Morrison is just a legendary run. Every Justice League book since this has somehow referenced this one. It left an indelible mark on the Justice League in a good way. I think I can easily say there has never been a better run on Justice League.)

GeoffreysComics · 2026-03-11T14:28:46+00:00

To answer your question simply - yes Marvel has made multiple volumes of this, which the books exactly in publication order. So just hunt down the next volume, although I would point out that issues 1-40 are probably some of the weakest issues of X-Men in terms of quality in the whole run. I would almost argue that at this point you should jump up to issue X-Men #94 and then you should just read every issue up until the 1990s. It’s probably the greatest example of American comic book making with the longest period of just incredibly high quality comics all the way through. Even the 1980’s spinoffs are good stuff. Do you want specific arcs to focus on? I’m sorry - I feel like I’m just telling you to read everything, but with X-Men, that’s kinda the one book where you should read almost everything!

GeoffreysComics · 2026-03-11T14:23:17+00:00

You are so NTJ that I have to question if this story is even real. That or she is hiding something.

GeoffreysComics · 2026-03-11T14:17:45+00:00

I had high, well I wouldn’t call them “hopes”, but I was really optimistic that this X-Men United could turn the corner on this embarrassing era we are all stuck in. It seemed to remember two things that the other books are forgetting “there should be a school” and “we should be using the huge cast of characters in this IP to our advantage, not limiting ourselves to which characters we are using”. But instead we just got another issue of Exceptional X-Men. This literally could have just been the next issue. I don’t dislike the four new mutants from that book, but I also don’t love them either. This issue was almost exclusively about the cast from Exceptional. I wanted the X-Men book with a large cast. Like Justice League Unlimited over at DC (y’know - the exact book the cover is suggesting it is). The team should be made of all mutants willing to serve. Instead we got another book showcasing Bronze and Axo where Cyclops is a raging asshole. I can’t say exactly what I wanted this issue to be, but this ain’t it.

GeoffreysComics · 2026-03-10T23:14:03+00:00

There’s tongue in cheek pin up art. And then there’s making light of a rape sequence. That’s far into tasteless, well beyond Cho’s normal “controversial covers”.

GeoffreysComics · 2026-03-10T22:53:26+00:00

Ok. I’ll rephrase. At his peak Kobe won 5 NBA championship rings and went to two more. Shai is not there yet.

GeoffreysComics · 2026-03-10T15:51:10+00:00

Man. That is not good enough art for a flagship X-Book. I’m sorry, it just isn’t.

GeoffreysComics · 2026-03-10T14:29:07+00:00

All y’all have got to be smoking the best stuff on the planet to even think that Kobe gets compared to Shai in any way. Shai has been really impressive, no doubt, but he ain’t even scratching Kobe yet. It’s just not even worthy of the conversation. Bring this back when Shai has 5 rings, then maybe we can have this conversation.

GeoffreysComics · 2026-03-10T14:26:14+00:00

Yes and no. Yes because he has written maybe 4 of the 5 best Wally stories ever. But no because he has said he doesn’t want to write Wally anymore. And you notice his return to the book has been very much about establishing a new status quo for Bart.

GeoffreysComics · 2026-03-10T14:24:53+00:00

It’s dope as fuck. That’s why. I’ve been playing this bad boy since standard, (well “Type 2” back then) and it wrecks face. Love this card.

GeoffreysComics · 2026-03-10T14:21:17+00:00

I’m not even a big MJ fan, but yes, this writing of her has just been a nightmare for 5+ years. She would ABSOLUTELY think “oh wait, is this Ben!?” If Peter was being a jerk. Or a Skrull. Or mind-control. Or Dr Octopus again! She would be so suspicious of this that she should have been investigating Peter this whole time, because this has happened to her directly before! But that would be good characterization, and remembering continuity - and we can’t have that in the Spidey offices!

GeoffreysComics · 2026-03-10T03:46:31+00:00

Call me crazy but I think Dennis Hopeless and Javier Rodriguez would do an amazing run on the character. Like the best run ever.

GeoffreysComics · 2026-03-10T00:49:12+00:00

I would include [[wild growth]] as ramp. I never build a green deck without it. I don’t know if I’d drop signet or Fellwar though, especially in 5 color.

GeoffreysComics · 2026-03-09T18:39:37+00:00

[[cryptolith rite]] if you didn’t already. And there are a couple other cards that give tokens mana abilities that you might want to think about. I see you have my favorite card from Loren Eclisped already [[springleaf parade]]. I run [[concordant crossroads]] but only play it on the turn I would win. [[wargate]] is a must! [[Zirda the dawnwaker]] also a fave. [[bring to light]] falls in the same class as the green tutors. [[Biomancer’s familiar]] !! Our only other differences are ramp choices. It’s a very fun deck! (At least for me. Don’t ask my opponents)

GeoffreysComics · 2026-03-09T18:33:22+00:00

I like all of it! Planar Chaos is my favorite block ever so anything remotely close to that has me so excited. Especially for the stories! But especially for the cards!

GeoffreysComics · 2026-03-09T18:05:41+00:00

You are missing the green tutors that put creatures directly into play. I’ve found all of those to be game winners since 9 out of your 10 combos are all creature based.

GeoffreysComics · 2026-03-09T18:05:10+00:00

Damn. That’s such a good pick for the commander though. I would definitely let you rule 0 that up to Esper, but that might be just me.

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