tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post3522986088415770209..comments2024-03-28T10:18:00.370-05:00Comments on Gentlemen of Leisure: X-amining X-Factor #17Austin Gortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-71044113970902542232014-01-15T23:36:57.404-06:002014-01-15T23:36:57.404-06:00Wait... He (or his captors) chose "Rictor&quo...<br>Wait... He (or his captors) chose "Rictor" for a codename because of his seismic powers even though the "Richter" in "Richter Scale" <i>is spelled like his actual last name?!?</i><br /><br /><i>// Thor suggests dropping Iceman at a hospital, but Iceman says that, as a mutant, there's no way he could go to a hospital. //</i><br /><br />It's a shame Thor doesn't know any doctors personally. (Yeah, I realize that this is the Sigurd Jarlson era, but still.)<br /><br /><i>// with enough exclamation points to put Stan Lee to shame //</i><br /><br />Cross my heart, I didn't go back through the issue again to figure out a true ratio, but well before I got to this point in your post I actually went back through the panels you included and verified that nearly every single would-be "declarative" sentence ends in an exclamation point. Weezie appears to have taken more cues from Shooter than from Claremont. <br /><br />Dr. Bitz for the win!<br /><br>Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-38360530353808079892014-01-09T16:16:06.440-06:002014-01-09T16:16:06.440-06:00@wwk5d: And didn't CC use that phrase first, o...@wwk5d: <i>And didn't CC use that phrase first, or something similar to it, by Nightcrawler when we first meet the Morlocks?</i><br /><br />Something similar to it, though not quite in the same context. Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-46595069045587297092014-01-06T18:18:35.531-06:002014-01-06T18:18:35.531-06:00Comment from wwk5d:
"So this is the issue wh...<b>Comment from wwk5d</b>: <br />"So this is the issue where Iceman says "know mutants by their deeds." I've never read that issue, but I've read the half-dozen that follow, and ... man. Weezie seems REALLY proud of that bit."<br /><br />And didn't CC use that phrase first, or something similar to it, by Nightcrawler when we first meet the Morlocks?<br /><br />"but we can't possibly have the two teams interact with one another this soon, now can we?"<br /><br />What for? Why should the X-men learn that Maddie is "dead" and that Jean is back and alive?Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-47231929067145376282013-12-30T12:31:09.232-06:002013-12-30T12:31:09.232-06:00@Dr. Bitz: Not that graffiti hate speech has ever ...@Dr. Bitz: <i>Not that graffiti hate speech has ever been eloquent or well thought out but isn't writing "Die Mutant Scum" at the "mutant scum's" funeral a bit redundant?</i><br /><br />Ha! I never considered that before. Chalk it up to the ignorance of bigots, I suppose. :) <br /><br /><i>I'm surprised they didn't ship in Kitty for that one.</i><br /><br />Ha! If Claremont had been writing it, he probably would have...<br /><br /><i>And while some of them may be overseas the two X-Men who should be there the most (Wolverine and Storm) are still stateside, aren't they?</i><br /><br />Yeah, and depending on how you want to look at the timeline, the other X-Men could be back in New York by now as well (we'll see in issue #219 that they've returned to America between issues). <br /><br />You can certainly make a case, given where the X-Men are heading, that they're too "underground" at the moment to be paying attention to current events, but it's not like Magneto isn't just hanging around the mansion, teaching the New Mutants, and the death of Angel would be headline news, so it would seem odd to suggest that nobody either saw a newspaper, watched the news, or was told of the event by someone who did. <br /><br />@Anonymous:<i>It just means "the, mutant, the" in German. No one who speaks German could be an evil man!</i><br /><br />Ha! Well played. :) <br /><br />@Jason: <i>Tee, can I request that you flag these moments up as you see them?</i><br /><br />Definitely. I don't recall offhand either way whether she beats the phrase to death or not, but I'll keep an eye out for it as we move forward. <br />Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-52341709431400362372013-12-22T12:10:58.886-06:002013-12-22T12:10:58.886-06:00So this is the issue where Iceman says "know ...So this is the issue where Iceman says "know mutants by their deeds." I've never read that issue, but I've read the half-dozen that follow, and ... man. Weezie seems REALLY proud of that bit. I don't think she goes a single issue over the next half-year without someone referencing it, as if it's the most profound bit of dialogue ever delivered in an X-comic. Excruciating. <br /><br />Tee, can I request that you flag these moments up as you see them? :) (I might be misremembering how much she hammered that bit, but I don't think so. These next five or six issues are exemplars of why I think her X-Factor is just the worst, and would much rather read her New Mutants.)Jasonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13298753675007196538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-38466873153865369502013-12-22T09:04:42.161-06:002013-12-22T09:04:42.161-06:00Forget the X-Men not being at Warren's funeral...Forget the X-Men not being at Warren's funeral for a second- shouldn't X-Factor call them (and Alex and Lorna) to let them know that Maddie and the baby have been mysteriously killed and they should watch their loved ones?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-27091815496943018612013-12-21T17:08:31.881-06:002013-12-21T17:08:31.881-06:00It just means "the, mutant, the" in Germ...It just means "the, mutant, the" in German. No one who speaks German could be an evil man!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-29094918905199441352013-12-20T15:45:11.148-06:002013-12-20T15:45:11.148-06:00"Also, we will eventually learn that his real..."Also, we will eventually learn that his real name is Julio Richter."<br /><br />Oh...earthquakes...Richter...now I get it!<br /><br />"X-Factor enters the church to find an anti-mutant epitaph scrawled across the wall."<br /><br />Not that graffiti hate speech has ever been eloquent or well thought out but isn't writing "Die Mutant Scum" at the "mutant scum's" funeral a bit redundant?<br /><br />"Iceman gives an impassioned plea over the radio"<br /><br />I'm surprised they didn't ship in Kitty for that one.<br /><br />"but we can't possibly have the two teams interact with one another this soon, now can we?"<br /><br />Which is ironic because the funeral of a major character is the exact type of event where multiple groups of heroes SHOULD end up interacting. And while some of them may be overseas the two X-Men who should be there the most (Wolverine and Storm) are still stateside, aren't they?Dr. Bitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13568570859981368717noreply@blogger.com