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@KevinWolffart This book was an absolute godsend when it came out for those of us not wealthy enough for Byrne-era back issues (if you could even find them!) back then and remained the only ending to the Phoenix Saga I was able to read until finally completing my collection in the late 90’s.

#JohnByrne inked by #TerryAustin

@PowerCosmic13_ Dude--never seen this! Very cool.

ADVENTURE ILLUSTRATED #1 was put out by New Media Productions and was supposed to be the start of a new line of magazines trying to do for adventure comics what Heavy Metal was doing for sci-fi at the time. Unfortunately, only one issue was published. Great cover by #JimStarlin!

@PowerCosmic13_ Well worth your time. After reading this along with the second issue titled REMIX which reprints the Paradax! material from STRANGE DAYS, it started to become very clear as to where Grant Morrison (ahem) 'gained a lot of his inspiration from' in regards to Zenith and Doom Patrol.

@POPALCHEMY Oh wow I’m gonna have to track this down

A short story starring The Question from #DarwynCooke’s SOLO #5 by DC Comics

@KevinWolffart Yeah…sadly, that wasn’t lost on me, amigo. 😒

@POPALCHEMY I felt the same way. Ironic how it parallels real-world "politics"

#JohnByrne TOMORROW - Zorba's government has run Latveria into the ground. Doom demands that the FF help him take back the throne in "This Land Is Mine!"

@PowerCosmic13_ Mine as well--that dude is just an absolute font of endless creativity. Btw--if you don't already own a copy of PARADAX! #1 from Vortex, do yourself a solid and hunt it down IMMEDIATELY!!! Trust me--you won't regret it. It's like the best 12-inch you've ever heard in visual form.

@POPALCHEMY Yeah it is a great series. I feel they toploaded the talent a bit (although that Brendan McCarthy one is one of my faves

@dreamerbook The true magus of the 20th century.

Opening illustration from A Book of Satyrs (1907), Austin Osman Spare.

@draculllina Quite possibly THE most Metal comic ever published.

Really wish more people would read Requiem Vampire Knight. It follows a former Nazi soldier reborn after death as a vampire in an alternate world called Résurrection, who has to navigate this strange new world and its' ways and politics while searching for his lost love.

@KevinWolffart Love this spread—Byrne serving up the most classically Ditko depiction of Doc Strange not seen in these parts since the halcyon days of Strange Tales! EXCELSIOR, BABY!

#JohnByrne FF243 - Spidey and DD bear witness as the World's Greatest, Earth's mightiest and the Sorcerer Supreme prove that they are a match for the weakened devourer of worlds...

@KevinWolffart This was an odd one and I'm still not fully sure how I feel about it. I generally like Bruce Jones as a writer, but it's really hard to divorce Travis Morgan from Mike Grell and the world that he built.

@83Stormwatcher @KevinWolffart Dude--Ben Franklin was the store where my parents bought me my very first comic book! Sucks that it was Richie Rich, but it still counts!

@KevinWolffart @POPALCHEMY My friends dad owned a Ben Franklin store down from the grocery store where we always bought them. So we were in there daily looking at magazines and playing video games after school. So I stayed on top of this run

#JohnByrne TOMORROW - Both Reed and Frankie Raye make choices that will reverberate throughout the Marvel universe for years to come. Don't miss...."Beginnings and Endings"

@KevinWolffart OMG, dude--when these were coming out I was getting them piecemeal dependent solely on the tender mercies of the spinner at my local grocery store, so it wasn't until the early 90's before I was able to finally find a decent copy that didn't look like it was chewed on by weasels!

@POPALCHEMY I'm surprised any of these are hard to find. They were never sold out back then, there was always an ample print run. I remember these 2 issues specifically because I was hanging out an LCS daily then after school

@KevinWolffart Dude—I absolutely devoured this issue when it came out. Feel like everybody forgets that once upon a time before Wolverine became the focal point of the book due to Byrne’s Canadian bias and Miller’s penchant for western samurai, Nightcrawler was easily everyone’s favorite X-Man.

#RichBuckler inked by #JoeRubinstein

@Marfra390 These three issues along with the story '...And We're All Policemen' from VERTIGO: WINTER'S EDGE remain my favorite go-to's whenever I find myself in the mood for some INVISIBLES--especially in regards to The King!

@KevinWolffart Panther's Rage, baby!

#RichBuckler inked by #FrankGiacoia

@Weird_Friction Discovering Ligotti in the 90's was a major revelation for me, hitting that sweet spot between Poe and Lovecraft yet retaining his own unique voice is no mean feat and he accomplished that and more becoming the standard bearer in weird fiction that IMHO has yet to be surpassed.

"Songs of a Dead Dreamer" by Thomas Ligotti, published by Carroll & Graf in 1990. This is the first hardcover edition of Thomas Ligotti's debut short story collection which first introduced his unique brand of surreal, philosophical weird horror. 1/2

@KevinWolffart I remember it always bein' a big deal whenever he did something X-Men related. But yeah--he always kinda vibed like the meeting point between Golden and Paul Smith. Felt like Marvel was always desperate to recapture that Byrne lightning in a bottle moment.

@POPALCHEMY Yeah, he was the precursor to the late 80s stars that drew differently (Lee, McFarlane, Portacio, etc). Back then all I saw was a Golden ripoff, but have come to appreciate his work