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oooeeee yeah! glad you're on the eXtreme train, choo choooo

this is a great question, it's probably something i should include in the book, so thanks for that idea.

for recommendations, i'd say broadly anything by rob liefeld from that era (he's who i was channelling the most), but more specifically:

his run on new mutants. he starts on #86 and changes the paradigm of that book very quickly, and it's a pretty good indicator of how other people start making superhero comics in the years following.

x-force #1 follows on from the end of new mutants, and was the real game changer for sales. rob leaves around uhh issue 10 or so but is followed by greg capullo and it's still got the same vibes for quite a while.

youngblood is where rob moved to, having his own creator owned title. i'd say it's good reading for the vibes, but the writing is kind of all over the place, but it's fun to see just how wild and ludicrous it gets. just don't expect any great work of fiction and you'll be fine.

jim lee's run on x-men is more controlled and focussed, eventually he leaves to do wildC.A.T.S. at image. although not as solid a read as x-men, it's got the eXtreme vibes you want.

other eXtreme readings include: mcfarlane's run on spidey and then spawn, wetworks, death & return of superman, heroes reborn, spawn, savage dragon, shadowhawk, gen13, cyberforce, the MAXX, prophet

i could go on haha, i'll save it for when i add it to the book. most of these i've mentioned should be easy to find either in trades or online, hope it helps! i'd love to see what issues you come up with :)

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Thanks a lot! Will put those on my reading list!

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Later on in the 90's Warren Ellis, Garth Ennis and Mark Millar took the EXTREME super concepts to the next level...they added GOOD WRITING! StormWatch by Ellis is top notch superhero storytelling.

i was just talking the other day about how mark millar is a good writer who often self-sabotages his own work by putting shock value slop in it

stormwatch was so good, it really did herald that golden age of comics when the writers became the selling point for comics. 

Yeah of the three he tended to EXTREME! the plot over character moments, Ellis IMO was the best of the three when he put his mind to it, I was sad to see his behavior during this period was typical Rock Star and that came to bite him in the ass.