Void Angel, on 19 July 2016 - 11:44 AM, said:
Well, I was into anime, too - but I really don't know how much that influence really messed with the X-men storyline. My take is that the internal conflicts that led to people forming Image had more to do with that; new writers trying to put their stamp on a series that had a huge history of epic stories. How do you top the Dark Phoenix Saga? "Well, what if Magneto didn't actually die, but nearly "discorporated" in Earth's magnetosphere, and it made him scary powerful, and then he takes Wolverine and..." Remember, this was after Image.
Yeah..Image... another sign of the flash over substance 90s (along with grunge). There's a reason most Image titles actually reeked worse than week old fish. (and not just the overstylized lets all imitate Jim Lee's art style that it promoted)
And I'm not actually attacking Anime... some, like Macross, VOTOMS, Venus Wars, Akira, wings of honneamise, etc was brilliant stuff. But that seems like a subset of the Anime Crowd that arose in the 90s (same uprising that got us mechs with samurai sword sin frigging battletech)
How Rob Liefeld still gets hired is simply...astounding.