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This thread inspired me to pull this comic out of storage. First off, props to me for managing to keep my copy in near mint condition for nearly 30 years. It even smells new!
Claremont, of course, knew how to write the X-Men. What impresses me most is how well he captured the spirit and personalities of Wolfman's Titans. Simonson's work is brilliant. I especially love his take on Robin. The man clearly still trapped in the boy's costume with body language that communicates that he is no longer a child.
I also love the image of Storm creating a small thunderstorm to water her houseplants. It's an image that always comes to mind when I think of the character.
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As someone who read both the Teen Titans and the X-Men at the time, this crossover was geek heaven for me.
I haven't seen my copy for many a year (buried in a box, somewhere), but I remember the scene where Cyclops unleashes the Phoenix Force on Darkseid, and Darkseid has adopted a relaxed pose, with his arms behind his back, as if he has not a care in the world... That was a very strange posture, I thought, for a character that might be about to get atomized, but it made Darkseid seem, to younger me, utterly badass, that he found this potential annhilation merely curious.
It kind of made an interesting parallel between Darkseid and Metron, both of whom, in the face of oblivion, would be more likely to take a closer look, than to run away.
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