#fuxm1 — Public Fediverse posts
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111 - X-Men: Gold Team (C)
Once again, the "extreme facial closeups" approach is doing the card no favors.
#TradingCardADay #XMen #FUXM1 #TristanSchane #Teams #XMenGold
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110 - X-Men: Gold Team (B)
With Colossus off with the Acolytes, Professor X gets tossed into the Gold Team to round out their six man roster.#TradingCardADay #XMen #FUXM1 #TristanSchane #Teams #XMenGold
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109 - X-Men: Gold Team (A)
New category: Teams!
In lieu of the traditional "one card per team" approach, this set dedicates a triptych for each team, with a few of each team on each 1/3 of the image.
#TradingCardADay #XMen #FUXM1 #TristanSchane #Teams #XMenGold
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108 - Fatal Attractions
Rarely do I complain about MORE Cyclops, but on the list of character's relevant to "Fatal Attractions" whose heads should occupy the third spot on the card, Cyclops would be WAY down that list.
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107 - X-Cutioner's Song
It could use more baby food, but otherwise, this captures the vibe of the story pretty well.
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106 - X-Tinction Agenda
The Wolverine/Jean kiss in this story was never a big deal for me, so I've always wished Larkin had captured a different moment for the card.
Hodge, though, is perfection.
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105 - Inferno
I like the almost Tarot-esque presentation of this card, though I don't love how Mister Sinister has always looked like a vampire with an overbite to me.
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104 - Fall of the Mutants
Probably out of necessity, Phillips focuses on just one of the three stories & while it makes sense to go with the X-Men-specific storyline, it does mean we were robbed of getting Bird-Brain on a card.
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103 - Mutant Massacre
New category: X-Overs!
Not sure I love the "toxic slime" coloring & font on the cardback but I do love Artie making it onto a trading card.
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103 - Mutant Massacre
New category: X-Overs!
Not sure I love the "toxic slime" coloring & font on the cardback but I do love Artie making it onto a trading card.
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Fleer Ultra X-Men Series 1 Mutant Liberation Front!
Which card is your favorite?
#TradingCardADay #XMen #FUXM1 #BillHall #MarkSasso #KentWilliams #ChrisMoeller
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Fleer Ultra X-Men Series 1 Mutant Liberation Front!
Which card is your favorite?
#TradingCardADay #XMen #FUXM1 #BillHall #MarkSasso #KentWilliams #ChrisMoeller
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102 - Professor X
Two things I love about this card:
1. Chuck smoking a pipe.
2. This totally looks like a portrait that would be hanging over the fireplace in the X-Mansion parlor. -
101 - Marvel Girl
Jokes on them, in the Silver Age, Jean could barely lift a log without collapsing, because "woman."🤦
I do appreciate the cardback only mentions her telekinetic powers, as was her only power initially.
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100 - Beast
One of my favorite cards in the set. Love seeing JRsr on a Silver Age character, love how ape-like Beast is, love the shag carpeting that is probably meant to be grass.
10/10, no notes.
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100 - Beast
One of my favorite cards in the set. Love seeing JRsr on a Silver Age character, love how ape-like Beast is, love the shag carpeting that is probably meant to be grass.
10/10, no notes.
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097 - Iceman
Great texture to the ice, falling somewhere between early Snowman Iceman and later Iceman Iceman. Plus a Champions shoutout! In 1994!
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097 - Cyclops
Time now for one of my favorite subsets: Original Team.
Something about the pencil thin optic blast feels very Silver Age.
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096 - Reignfire
Very Hildebrandt-ian front image w/the blue background & another cardback just kind of flinging darts at another mystery character (I don't recall his energy bolts every being called out as a "rain-like barrage")
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Which Fleer Ultra X-Men Series 1 Upstart card is your favorite?
#TradingCardADay #XMen #FUXM1 #MLF #BoHampton #JulieBell #ScottHampton #JohnVanFleet
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095 - Moonstar
It's still hilarious there was a time when we were asked to question whether a character named Moonstar was an existing character named Moonstar, esp. when both Moonstars shared a similar power set & iconography.
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094 - Locus
This is one of those characters I wish we'd gotten more of. She more or less just disappears after Reignfire's short-lived MLF implodes, barring that one later John Francis Moore X-Force story.
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093 - Forearm
I really dig this card. Something about the old school "put up your dukes!" boxing pose. Plus the cardback basically being like, "Power: has four arms."
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092 - Reaper
I always loved the recurring "Reaper keeps getting limbs cutoff by X-people" gag.
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091 - Wildside
"Richard Gill" is just a great real name for this character (which I think this card may be revealing). Like, when he's not ripping out guts as Wildside, he's trimming the bushes of his suburban home as Dick Gill.
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090 - Tempo
I don't know what "manipulating time" looks like, but this is pretty close.
I love that the cardback both cites her as a member of the MLF, and talks about how she quit the group.
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089 - Sinsear
We all remember Sinsear, right?
Right?
Heck, even Slayback has appeared in more stories than this guy.
Also, I still have no idea why his name is a pun on "sincere."
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088 - Slayback
With this card, Slayback enters "the same number of trading cards appearances as story appearances" territory (two), at least as of '94.
Pretty good card, though. Nice depth & I like the tilt of the nonsensical skyline.
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087 - Graydon Creed
We are at a point where Creed has actually appeared in comics, and yet, this card is still using the Jim Lee Upstarts card/Stryfe's Strike Files design.
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086 - Siena Blaze
Continuing the run of Upstarts - which might be the most 1994 thing about this set. Though Siena Blaze is a legit inclusion at this time, and this is a good card (even if it makes her power look like "makes snow").
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085 - Fitzroy
Not sure Julie Bell is the best artist for a character I associate most with the crosshatchy-Portacio style and the chonky JRjr style.
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084 - Shinobi Shaw
Definitely pro showcasing "hedonistic hot tub Shinobi" on his trading card. He should just always be in a hot tub.
I've never really considered how his power is basically just "Kitty Pryde."
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083 - Gamesmaster
Like Gideon, a better card than this character deserves.
I love how you can trace the shifting goals/prize of the Upstarts competition just via trading cards (in the Jim Lee series, it was immortality)
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056 - Mr. Sinister
Another year without any stories offering concrete background info on Sinister, another Sinister trading cardback trying to say something about nothing.😁
Having him holding Wolverine's (old) mask is an odd choice.
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051 - Maverick
Well now, that mutant power is just flat out *wrong*. And I have no idea where it even came from, as that's not really close to anything superhuman we've ever seen from Maverick.
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029 - Havok
Havok usually trading cards well, and I generally dig Palmer's painted work, but this feels like a miss. Havok is channeling the Living Monolith a bit too much, especially w/the white pupil-less eyes.
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027 - Sunspot
Capturing Sunspot's power glow-up era. Something about the domino mask on his "dark solar" face works really well, despite being functionally ridiculous.
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026 - Siryn
There's a way you can read this card as "she's just failing" and while I might like a little bit of a scream effect, I think you can also read it as a more dynamic "dropping in for an attack" picture.
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019 - Shadowcat
With this set apparently laid out in the short 4 issue window when Excalibur was composed of just three members, it also means it's the first set to feature Kitty in her new post-puffy blue sleeves look.
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016 - Professor X
Solid card, which manages to use his hoverchair without making it the dominate element of the image.
I have always been distracted by whatever the pole thing is that looks like it's coming out of the monitor.
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015 - Sabretooth
Fantastic card. Love the "shredding" effect and just "Claws" as a power.
That said, feels like the bio should offer some context as to why he's listed as as an X-Man (esp. since that's not quite true).