Byrne/Claremont's Starlord: Classic or Dud?

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I noticed that at least one person who was reading comics in 1985 and could string two sentences together considered this the best of the best at the time, but I've never heard of it.

Is this a lost classic, or is liking it wilful iconoclasm, similar to claiming that Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen never topped the Mission Impossible soundtrack?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 18 August 2005 08:51 (twenty years ago)

It's not a bad little sci-fi romp. Art's quite pretty and the writing is Claremont, but hasn't blossomed yet into Late Claremont, so it's readable but on the wordy side (even for the day.)

I read some of the Starlord stories printed in various Marvel magazines of the time and found them pretty dire, even if the illustration was pretty.

Liked the Claremont/Byrne/Austin Starlord enough to pay a buck for it a few years back, after the original had gone missing. I don't regret it.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Thursday, 18 August 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

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