I hit the comic bug HARD in my early teen years. I got into the swing of collecting the X-Men much faster and easier than I thought I should, pressuring peers to tell me their real tales (as opposed to the ones I saw on that gateway drug of a Fox cartoon show) over lunches and listening with rapt attention as eyes were rolled, the Summers family diagrammed and Psylocke through the Siege Perilous was acted out as a one-man show by a dear friend of mine.
One of my dearest treasures during this age and long after, was a poster I’d found hidden at my local comic shop that they let me have at a discounted price. It was full of color, art and dynamic style and it actually hung above my bed like a flash card to Marvel Merry Mutants. There just seemed so many (oh, what a world we live in now) and I would try and mimic the art style for my own homemade comics. I even used that picture of Rogue to make myself a Halloween costume. It was the Art Adams ‘Children of the Atom’ poster, used for the cover of X-Men Classic #1 so I hear, but to me, it was my favorite work of art. It followed me to college, survived three apartments, tacky stuff, scotch tape and *gasp* thumbtacks to place it in proud positions on my wall and now it sits in my basement, wrapped with care and waiting for a frame to protect it from anymore wear and tear. I am so nostalgic for that poster.
Seeing the cover to the upcoming Avengers Classic made me smile.
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