tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post1785109671210615884..comments2024-03-28T10:18:00.370-05:00Comments on Gentlemen of Leisure: X-amining X-Factor #105Austin Gortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-40896941792253430462018-09-29T17:02:42.928-05:002018-09-29T17:02:42.928-05:00I know this is a serialized publication with an on...<br>I know this is a serialized publication with an ongoing story, whose main action is directly continued from the previous installment, but to have the sequence on the first page of an issue labeled an <i>interlude</i> seems… odd.<br /><br />Also: Guido ain’t talkin’ right. I made the same note last issue — to myself — but felt too lazy to browse previous issues and kept quiet. Now I’ve done a few spot checks, and I find that while he might not have displayed Hank McCoy levels of erudition he’d been quite well spoken over the David and DeMatteis runs with “ya” for “you” sprinkled in as a quirk that furthered the disconnect amongst his name and ridiculously muscled frame on the one hand, per stereotype, and his playfully articulate verbal style on the other. The last couple of issues, Dezago suddenly has Guido throwing out “wuz” and “dis” and “dat” as well, reading not as a sign of any regional dialect or conscious affectation but rather shorthand, again per stereotype, for being sloppy or uncultured. Maybe it’s been inconsistent over a longer period of time without my noticing.<br /><br />That next-issue box is actually better than the previous issue’s, but still definitely in need of discipline. I find it an interesting contrast to the <i>Phalanx Covenant</i> promo in the lettercol, whose text is definitely easier to read at a glance but which could’ve used a <i>little</i> more pizazz and dealt <i>really</i> poorly with all that red negative space. <br /><br>Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-28836243100000492292018-09-28T06:24:54.034-05:002018-09-28T06:24:54.034-05:00That next issue blurb box has, what, six or seven ...That next issue blurb box has, what, six or seven different fonts? I appreciate computer lettering as an instrument, but this era of Marvel kind of went crazy with it. I personally found it at its worst in the later 90s, when there'd be several text blurbs in several different fonts splashed all over the covers; half the time, you couldn't even read them. But that's just me.Melahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05539894845356203447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-25065006275164165872018-09-27T20:55:45.236-05:002018-09-27T20:55:45.236-05:00Definitely Lightle.Definitely Lightle.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-56114322259026893522018-09-27T14:05:44.704-05:002018-09-27T14:05:44.704-05:00I've never read this issue -- I really never r...I've never read this issue -- I really never read X-FACTOR regularly at all -- but I had an X-Men Poster Book which featured the text free cover as one of the pinups inside, so this cover is burned into my brain for all the time it spent on my wall during high school.<br /><br />"<b>This issue has a two page letters page, featuring an ad for the "Life Signs" portion of "Phalanx Covenant", of which X-Factor is a part, though I'm not sure who the artist of the ad is.</b>"<br /><br />It looks like Steve Lightle's signature hidden in there. The style, especially Kitty's face, looks a little weird for him, though.Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.com