I've recently had an interesting experience in my comic reading. I read all the X-Men comics. From the sales numbers, there seem to be about 35,000 of us out there who will read any additional title that says, "X-Men" on the cover.
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So, of course, I've been reading Uncanny X-Force by Rick Remender and (sometimes) Jerome Opena. The comic is getting a TON of positive press from the blogosphere. "Best comic being published by Marvel right now" is a common refrain. And that puts me in a funny position because I think it's okay, but I hardly think it's the best thing being published by Marvel (that would be Amazing Spider-Man).
However, I've noticed that the guys who LOVE X-Force are all a
little younger than me. They were reading comics when the original Age of Apocalypse when it came out in 1995. I wasn't reading comics at the time. I was mostly into using my new legal drinking status to buy drinks for for attractive young ladies. Since I "returned to comics" a few years back, I've read AoA and I think it's a fine X-story, but reading a old story as a grown-ass man is different because AoA will never be connected to some of those wonderful memories that we all have from our teenage years.
