Ohmygosh, I love this! The X-Men was the first comic title I really fell in love with. I can still remember the first issue I saw—136, with that iconic cover-—on the spinner at the grocery down the street from my house. It’s great to revisit this classic run and see it again with fresh eyes, warts and all.

Your discussion hits all the major points for me: the story as a text, as a product of its time, as the output of a production process, and as a piece of art. This issue is all over the map in every area but there are some moments of real magic here.

Your channel is a great find. I really do appreciate that guys have stuck with this. I’m all in.

This is cool, I had an idea to go through comics one by one on YouTube just as like a story book, this is great. I’ll never get around to it, glad someone is covering that ground

Great job guys

Oh, man, I’m sorry I’m late to this series, but I’m working my way through all of them! My first intro to X-Men was issue 173, which was a great Wolverine v Silver Samurai story.

Age wise, apart from Logan & Banshee, they're all late teens (when Kitty joins, she's 15 & Storm & Colossus are only a few years older than her). I always imagine they're roughly the age the original 5 x-men were at the time of this issue. So all under 21, except Logan & Banshee (Banshee had been a shield field operative & no one knows how old Logan is due to his healing factor). I read Classic X-Men too, it was great to have both old & current story lines.