Ben Higbiecover of November 1993 issue of Wizard Magazine by Jim Lee
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Hi I'm Sean@BenHigbie holy moly, the is peak Liefeld
@seano comparing jim lee to rob liefeld is like comparing a ratty day-old cheeseless mcdonald's hamburger (liefeld) to a really nice and well-made and presented cheeseburger in a fancy steakhouse (jim lee). There are similarities cause technically theyre the same type of thing but there is a massive difference in quality between the two.
Judeau (EatTheRich)@BenHigbie I still have this issue packed away somewhere! I was all about X-Men at the time but Wildcats with its gorgeous art and character designs really pulled me in.
I even remember the cartoon they aired for a little while. I loved it as a kid. I wonder if it holds up as good as the X-Men cartoon series does?
@Judeau Wasnt Wizard so awesome? I had a subscription to it and when I was like 13 years old, nothing made me more excited than walking home from the bus stop and opening my mailbox and seeing the plastic of the polybagged issue lol And they had mini-comics and trading cards and contests and stuff, it was so great! The X-Men cartoon was much better than the WIldcats cartoon. I enjoyed both of them a lot though. We had such cool stuff back in the 90s lol
@BenHigbie I never had a subscription to it but I would pick up random issues that interested me and yes, sometimes it was specifically for the trading cards. 😂 Back then it was my only source of info for comics. It was such a great magazine.
I eventually moved on from comics and really got into card games like Magic the Gathering. There was a magazine called Inquest (put out by Wizard) that covered various tcgs. It was just like Wizard. It was great.
I miss all those magazines! 😢
@Judeau Yea I remember Inquest! I wasnt into cards much, but comics and cards are like adjacent to each other. I played a Marvel game called Overpower for a while lol I always liked the artwork from Magic. Wizard had posters and all kinds of mail-away offers as well, it was so fun. I was like 11 years old in 1992 so I was like completely obsessed with it all lol
@BenHigbie OMG! Overpower! I remember when that came out. My friend and I were so excited.
We went to the store and both got a starter deck. I spent the night at his house and we had plans to play it all night long. It was going to be incredible!
Fast forward to that evening and it seemed like we just stared at the instructions for hours. LOL. We could not understand how to play the game.
We both ended up selling our cards to another friend of ours. I never got to play the game. 🤣
@Judeau I think you had trouble understanding the rules because it was so much easier than magic lol I never played magic, I tried once and got overwhelmed and all the kids at the table were getting so irritated with me. Im not fun to play cards with lol It was a decent game but there was only so much that could be done with it. My brother and I played it for a few months and ours are somewhere in storage at my mom's house lol The amount of promotion behind Overpower was crazy
@Judeau It was in like every single magazine and comic book. When I went to a comic convention in the mid-90s and I had like so many cards, they were giving them away and pushing them sooooo hard lol lol Overpower and Skeleton Warriors stuff, just bombarded with them both non-stop lol
@BenHigbie Wow! I had no idea they came out with DC Overpower stuff.
I think when it came to my friend and I, the instructions were just very poorly written when the cards first came out. Like you say, It probably was a simple game to play but we just could not figure it out going strictly by the instructions.
@Judeau i totally understand. I tried to assemble a gundam from a model kit and nearly lost my mind once, omg