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Trying to find a specific panel from a 90s X-Men comic took me three days
I was trying to show a friend the exact moment Cyclops gets his visor back after the Phalanx Covenant. I knew it was in an issue of X-Men from around 1994, but I couldn't remember which number. I went through my long boxes, then online databases, and even old forum posts. I must have skimmed through 30 different issues before I finally found it in X-Men #38. Do you guys have a better system for tracking down a single scene, or is it always this much of a hunt?
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harper_carter8119d ago
Yeah, that hunt for one panel is the worst. I once wasted a whole afternoon trying to find the page where Wolverine says "I'm the best there is" to Sabretooth. Turns out it was in a random What If issue. Do you keep any kind of notes or a list for those iconic moments, or is it all just in your head?
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masongreen22d ago
Three days sounds about right for a deep dive like that. My system is basically just accepting that I'll lose an entire weekend whenever I get a specific comic panel stuck in my head. I've spent hours looking for a single frame before, only to find it was in an annual I totally forgot about. The worst is when you finally find it and your friend just goes "oh, cool." Makes you want to use the optic blast yourself, right?
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