tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post1249501138399638122..comments2024-03-28T10:18:00.370-05:00Comments on Gentlemen of Leisure: X-amining Wolverine #38Austin Gortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-9619972308365870242015-12-21T21:33:45.498-06:002015-12-21T21:33:45.498-06:00Ah rats! I usually try to be careful with not spoi...Ah rats! I usually try to be careful with not spoiling 25 years old issues, but me having actually read an 90's X-series with no "X-Men" in the title just got me too excitable.<br /><br />Unless of course I have been deviously fooling you here and you will be really surprised to see their plan to blow up Wolverine into red mist succeed in the next issue.Teemunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-29503703947683521322015-12-21T20:18:26.219-06:002015-12-21T20:18:26.219-06:00(Plus it's not like I've read absolutely n...(Plus it's not like I've read absolutely none of it and I'd have no qualms myself about referring to stuff that I <i>do</i> know ends up happening.)Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-54594114765641179392015-12-21T20:16:36.339-06:002015-12-21T20:16:36.339-06:00Hey! Spoilers! Not everybody's read this stuff...Hey! Spoilers! Not everybody's read this stuff before! 8^)<br />(Okay, I realize that probably everybody commenting but me has read this stuff before or at least knows the broad strokes, and it's fine...)Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-52060367451116706132015-12-21T19:08:19.539-06:002015-12-21T19:08:19.539-06:00We're in luck there then, because technically ...We're in luck there then, because technically Gateway's powers and Pierce's geas on him allows him do exactly that.<br /><br />More difficult question is then though why Pierce bothers in the first place because he should've seen they'll just befriend Wolverine instead of burying him. Really, between Vision and Jocasta and Torgo etc. it looks like <i>every</i> evil robot builder forgets to uncheck Asimov from the programming. Well, maybe not Shaw Industries.Teemunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-29931972868148587172015-12-21T18:03:48.408-06:002015-12-21T18:03:48.408-06:00Back at the height of X-MEN toys in the nineties, ...Back at the height of X-MEN toys in the nineties, Toy Biz made an action figure called "Robot Wolverine (Albert)". Having missed this era of the series, for years I had no idea what that was all about. I think I finally figured it out from a Marvel handbook or maybe an RPG supplement or something.<br /><br />I've still never read these issues. Someday...Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-59355320076331850892015-12-21T07:48:24.968-06:002015-12-21T07:48:24.968-06:00// Is there any sensible reason for Logan and Albe...<br><i>// Is there any sensible reason for Logan and Albert to be having exactly the same shirt? //</i><br /><br />None that I can tell (other than the Comics Law of Cosmic Coincidence, stretched to its limits by the fact that Pierce would have to see into the future to dress his robot duplicate appropriately).<br /><br>Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-16648328317994291052015-12-21T07:44:52.396-06:002015-12-21T07:44:52.396-06:00Hama lays those accents on way too thick for my ta...<br>Hama lays those accents on <i>way</i> too thick for my taste. When it hampers ease of reading, it’s not worth the color. I found Sally and Jocko’s speech most egregious, although Elsie Dee’s was annoying too — not technically a lisp, by the way, since her trouble is with <i>r</i> sounds rather than <i>s</i>.<br /><br>Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-86192084584717523972015-12-19T17:09:18.392-06:002015-12-19T17:09:18.392-06:00I imagine that at the time I wasn't really int...I imagine that at the time I wasn't really into this issue, if for no other reason than I wanted to see more "important" Wolverine stuff happening in this series ... but I'm pretty sure Hama won me over by the time we get to issue 40. His and Silvestri's storytelling is just so fluent, and while this issue is mostly comic, the next two are really breathless in pace and very tightly plotted. <br /><br />Also, if this issue's light-heartedness annoyed me at all back then, my thirteen-year-old self probably took some comfort in Silvestri's depiction of Logan's two girlfriends.Jasonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13298753675007196538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-68386289087603320882015-12-19T13:21:47.642-06:002015-12-19T13:21:47.642-06:00I have a feeling that Albert and Elsie-Dee are mos...<i>I have a feeling that Albert and Elsie-Dee are mostly maligned amongst Wolverine fandom, as they are inherently ridiculous characters (and Elsie-Dee's phonetically-written lisp is annoying, the worst Claremontian accented dialogue dialed up to eleven), but I nevertheless have always found something charming about them.</i><br /><br />Can you back this assumed malignation up by something? I just love them as a supporting cast, especially in and because of this "first act" era of Hama's run before the dissecting of Wolverine's backstory begins in earnest. Elsie-Dee is just awesome and Albert too will soon enough find distinctive look of his own to not be botheringly a mere Wolverine clone.<br /><br />Is there any sensible reason for Logan and Albert to be having exactly the same shirt? Logan deliberately chooses to wear the same shirt as Albert in the picture?, to fool everyone who's looking "him"?Teemunoreply@blogger.com