^Just guessing here but I am going to guess that the "real" Batman would never harm any fish and him kicking the dude is letting the fish escape.

Or Batman is right-handed and would never lead a super-duper kung-fun karate kick with his left leg!

Spoiler...I looked it up and I was wrong on both accounts.

Next Reading Event:

Fall of the Mutants

The general public’s perception of mutants is as dangerous criminals with no regard for the law. A proposal for a “Mutant Registration Act”, in which mutants would be forced to register themselves with the government, as one would register a deadly weapon, is made.

Year Published: 1988
Issue Total: 29

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(^1991)

I always loathed the art on that X-Factor run despite being huge fans of Cyclops and Jean Grey. The redesign of Angel worked, otherwise I hated how the original X-Men looked during their X-Factor days.

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Was the costumes or Walter Simonson's art?

I've never been as huge a fan of Simonson as others.

Sometimes his stuff looks really good; other times it comes off rushed, sloppy, and unfinished. And, even at the best of times, it often felt harsh, angular, and stiff. Not sure if the problem with X-Factor was with the inks -- I think Wiacek did most of it, but the "Inferno" issues with Milgrom were particularly terrible -- though Milgrom seldom did anybody he inked any favors.

Both if I am being honest. I think your "angular" description is appropriate. I did hate the costumes as well. I gritted my way through most of the X-Factor run only because it was an X title which I felt I needed to have for completeness at the time. Those were the days I was picking up a majority of Marvel's mainstream output.

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^(I still have my copy of this. When it was released, I bought it just for the cover alone but loved the art inside as well. It was like nothing I had really seen before and felt cartoony but fresh. Had no idea it was part of this storyline until now, but I never was a big X-Men/Mutant fan.)

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(^I scanned the QR code, so you don't have to! It takes you to YouTube, but the video is now unavailable, so I have no idea what it was.)

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(^pretty wild cover!)


(^What the hell is going on with the cop's gun here?)




(^I love this cover.)


(^A lot going on here. )

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(^Umm...what the fuck?)








Preview for next Covers reading event!

Some of my favorite DC comics of the '70s if you throw in the Superman and Flash Spectaculars as well. All fairly collectible issues. Finding the Wonder Woman Spectacular in NM condition is quite difficult since it sold fewer copies.