tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post2437436787849943285..comments2024-03-28T10:18:00.370-05:00Comments on Gentlemen of Leisure: X-amining Stryfe's Strike File #1Austin Gortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-87558229742135964032023-11-22T10:25:28.556-06:002023-11-22T10:25:28.556-06:00What art did Lee do in this?What art did Lee do in this?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-62645408047961659472017-04-29T04:12:35.779-05:002017-04-29T04:12:35.779-05:00I have an extreme soft spot for these melodramatic...I have an extreme soft spot for these melodramatic 'character files'. This, along with the Apocalypse based X-Factor files from that comic's Endgame arc, were always fun, insightful reads. I think it was because they provided psychological insights to the characters that I felt were lacking since Claremont departed.Notorious J.O.E.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16981069985099562942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-74844516333193204952017-04-28T12:59:40.157-05:002017-04-28T12:59:40.157-05:00Stryfe believes that if Xavier & Magneto had w...<i>Stryfe believes that if Xavier & Magneto had worked together, they could have solved mutantkinds problems.</i><br /><br />Once they did, and Xavier boned his patient and Mags ran away with a hoard of nazi gold.<br /><br />Teemunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-52472954802454167722017-04-28T02:15:18.019-05:002017-04-28T02:15:18.019-05:00Presumably, that idea was already in place, as Str...<i>Presumably, that idea was already in place, as Stryfe teases Magneto's "inevitable" resurrection here.</i><br /><br />At this point, we're only three UNCANNY issues away from developments on that one.<br /><br /><i>Next is Graydon Creed -clip- though his appearance here doesn't match his final look (it does match one of the characters depicted on the Upstarts card from the first set of X-Men cards, so presumably Stroman is working off of Jim Lee's notes/designs here).</i><br /><br />The hair color is off, but this looks a lot like the gentleman who went to see the comatose Stevie Lang in Arlington hospice in UNCANNY #291, with some pointed notions about "Friends, with big F" in the dialogue with the nurse.<br /><br />On general note, they printed these one or two at time in our X-Book issues of the era, and I always felt it was perfectly needless word-wankery and the space should rather have been used for the OHOTMU "presentations", the always much-loved feature. The 80's - 90's divide right there in one simple picture.Teemunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-18921779058716926102017-04-27T17:50:54.471-05:002017-04-27T17:50:54.471-05:001. Your sources are correct -- I recall that I was...1. Your sources are correct -- I recall that I was given a free copy of this book by my local shop.<br /><br />2. I had no idea the real-world version of Holocaust had ever appeared anywhere! Funny it took twenty-ish years for it to happen.<br /><br />I feel like the X-books of the nineties get a <b>ton</b> of criticism for being poorly plotted and/or disorganized. And yes -- that certainly eventually became the case by the time of "Onslaught". But it's pretty evident from stuff like this one-shot that the early to mid-nineties were very well thought out, at least with regards to the two core X-books. As you said, they're teasing stuff a year or more away here! And a year later during "Fatal Attractions" and "Bloodties", there was a booklet narrated by Nick Fury stapled into a ton of Marvel comics which teased GENERATION X and some other stuff, also nearly a year away by that point.<br /><br />(There's also an in-story bit during "Fatal Attractions" where Bishop tells Banshee he was the teacher of the next generation of mutants -- in UNCANNY #304, twelve issues/one year before "Phalanx Covenant" started and fourteen months prior to GENERATION X #1!)<br /><br />I know the story content isn't for everyone, but I find it hard to argue that this stuff wasn't mostly well-coordinated and very deliberately plotted, at least at this point. (And based on that, I have to believe the image of Psylocke's two forms that you pointed out is most definitely meant as a teaser for the coming of Kwannon. It was only four months away at this point, after all.)Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.com