Set Description:
It all starts here with this one. In the early 90’s I had become addicted to comics. I bought anything and everything comic related with special emphasis on Marvel. I would scourer the pages of Wizard magazine, hunt down Series cards especially looking for those hologram insets and play every game no matter how cheesy… remember the Wolverine: Berserker one? Anyways after a while I finally got into some other things. Girls. Learned that at that age most didn’t want anything to do with comics. So sadly I placed them aside and walked away.
As the years went by I still remembered some of my favorites such as Cable, Deadpool, Anyone on the X-Force or X-Men, the Hulk and the list goes on as well as some amazing series such as Fatal Attractions and X-Cutioner’s Song. Two years ago, 2011, I happened to allow curiosity to take over and entered a local comic store (Americas Heroes Comics) in Killeen, Texas and started to ask around about a few. Earl the store owner pointed me towards the TPB section and gave me a few story lines to possibly read up on and I came to find out that my favorite character not only had a kid but at that time was seemingly dead… Damn you Marvelllll. Anyway’s I got hooked on the Hope Story lines. I started to pick-up anything and everything related to her and Cable and became once again addicted. Then later in the year, around October I saw a post card size advertisement in his store of a man with a jacked metal arm and a glowing eye and it stated he would be back for one day to ensure the survival of Hope. Immediately I smiled knowing that this was the return of Cable. As the days got closer to December I became more and more excited and the moment Earl opened his doors I was in and hadn’t even paid for my issue yet when I began to read the Avengers X-Sanction story line.
He’s back….. Yay!!!
So following the X-Sanction was another advertisement listing for the deemed story of stories where everything would be changed type of event in Avengers vs X-Men. Pitting the two largest franchises in Marvel against one another in a winner takes all system.
At this point I realized something. I needed them all. Not just the 1st printings, or the I’m with this side or that, not just the 1:200’s. I needed all of them.
Later as I started to find more and more of them I somehow happened into dumb luck to get a page of original art and from that point on I realized I had the goal of goals for myself. I found what Tnerb and Bagofleas had in there New Mutants runs. I had a series to be passionate about.
First and foremost for this set I have to thank a few individuals for helping me out here. While I’m not done or even close to tapping out these individuals have truly helped make my Set at least worthy of looking at.
Galehaut, while not a board member this individual was an eBay seller that I have come to both respect and befriend. While looking for some things this seller went out of his way to message me and let me get first crack on my first 9.9 ever. Thanks for this one and a few others.
Tquella or Twin Cities Auctions, Has helped me obtain a few signatures for my Set and continues to always help me with all of my AvX needs. He has since helped me get a hold of Scottie Young for a commission and I can’t wait until that Con comes up to see what the outcome is.
Earl, of America’s Heroes Comics Killeen, TX. You are no longer the man who runs my LCS but truly are a friend. Earl has gone out of his way to ensure anytime I needed something for this set he was Johnny….Earl on the Spot… and got everything I could have ever wanted. He was able to assist me in a few signatures by some artists that I would not have been able to gain due to some of my deployments to Iraq and or Afghanistan.
Scot and Claudette Eaton, The artist who’s pencils graced the interior of AVX: Consequences #3. They’re kindness has graced me with the first piece of art for this series. Please check out AVX: Consequences #3’s Gallery for why I make special emphasis on this one. In addition to this art they were charitable to give…not sell me some additional pages of art for some previous back issues.
Surfer99, You pointed me into a direction to which there is no turning back from. You helped in gaining a few additional pieces of original art for this series with pages from Avengers vs X-Men #3 and #12 in addition to setting me on the path for a few additional artists which culminated in my Ultimate piece which when an All New X-Men set is made will be shown for Issue 5…it’s a new “Beast” of a page.
Overall there are so many to thank that this was where I chose to do it. While I could get on here and say how awesome the series is and everything else I figured I could save that for the descriptions.
Enjoy
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