tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post4819092861704422739..comments2024-03-28T10:18:00.370-05:00Comments on Gentlemen of Leisure: X-amining X-Men #43Austin Gortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-48878517263530458892015-03-01T14:01:51.727-06:002015-03-01T14:01:51.727-06:00I know why Jean wanted bigger feet for Cyclops...
...I know why Jean wanted bigger feet for Cyclops...<br /><br />Professor X was - and remains - easily my favorite of the original team. I think it might be the eyebrows.Joe Pacenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-29159128568758526792012-12-09T23:44:03.318-06:002012-12-09T23:44:03.318-06:00@Teebore: Nah, that'd be too close to real emo...@Teebore: <i>Nah, that'd be too close to real emotion. More likely, he jotted down a note: "after revealing my survival to the X-Men, give them all demerits for attending my funeral instead of fighting evil mutants." </i><br /><br />If I ever end up writing X-Men, I am so totally making this canon. You win five internet points for today, good sir.Harry Sewalskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11886168494924203493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-68503092883955070342010-06-21T09:24:45.122-05:002010-06-21T09:24:45.122-05:00@Blam: It's called listening to the news. You ...@Blam: <i>It's called listening to the news. You don't gotta be so bombastic all the time. </i><br /><br />If I've learned anything from comics, its that the sixties were filled with exclamation points. Everyone was shouting back then! <br /><br /><i>Nice one, Dad!</i><br /><br />And of course, the story acts like a bullet grazing is some life-threatening injury that only Magneto can cure, while in the meantime, Scarlet Witch wanders around in an injured fugue state. <br /><br />I mean, she could have recovered from an actual bullet wound by now, let alone a grazing. It's a wonder she survived being an Avenger. <br /><br /><i>Jean: "Thanks, Professor! Maybe next you can give Scott Hank's big feet?" </i><br /><br />Seriously; you'd think Professor X could just telepathically swap everyone's powers the way he goes around. <br /><br /><i>you think maybe post-retcon she's trying not let the others see her laughing? </i><br /><br />Ha! That's exactly how I like to picture it. <br /><br /><i>At least they remembered Fred Duncan, although I guess at this point they'd dredged him up for the backup stories; if I recall right...he was phased out pretty early on.</i><br /><br />Yeah, he first appeared in issue #2, then was promptly forgotten until the Cyclops backup story. I believe he shows up in the main story again before too long, and then feds away into obscurity for good.Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-58489807622832219352010-06-19T00:21:41.707-05:002010-06-19T00:21:41.707-05:00The cover to this issue isn't the first pic I&...<br>The cover to this issue isn't the first pic I've seen showing Magneto with such a monstrous puss -- in contrast to his early Kirby look and later appearances -- but, man, it might be the most severe. <br /><br />I'm glad you, and the story especially, referenced Pietro and Wanda's membership in The Avengers, Teebore, because as I was reading your story recap I thought, gosh, they were definitely part of Cap's Kooky Quartet by now. How could I have doubted that my pal Rascally Roy would have his plot-point ducks in a row?<br /><br /><i>Magneto: "... according to radio reports I have monitored..."</i><br /><br />Uh, Mags? It's called listening to the news. You don't gotta be so bombastic all the time.<br /><br /><i>Teebore: Magneto manipulated events so that Scarlet Witch was grazed by a bullet</i><br /><br />Nice one, Dad!<br /><br /><i>Teebore: Marvel Girl now has telepathic powers. A pre-recorded Xavier (presumably the real one, and not a pre-death Changeling) explains that he "gave her" some measure of his power so the team wouldn't be without telepathy,</i><br /><br />Jean: "Thanks, Professor! Maybe next you can give Scott Hank's big feet?"<br /><br />So in that panel you reprinted where she's probably supposed to be sobbing with grief, you think maybe post-retcon she's trying not let the others see her laughing? "Suckerrrs!"<br /><br /><i>Teebore: Xavier has no friends or family, apparently, as only the X-Men attend his funeral.</i><br /><br />At least they remembered Fred Duncan, although I guess at this point they'd dredged him up for the backup stories; if I recall right (sadly, I haven't been following your reviews from the start or been able to go back and read them all) he was phased out pretty early on.<br /><br />Early installments of long-running series can look so bizarre after decades of added stories and characters. Moira MacTaggart and even Gabrielle Haller would've shown up at Xavier's funeral unless warned it was a sham, which post-recon of it being a sham and post-revelation of their existence we can imagine they were. 8^)<br /><br /><i>Jean: "Why can the Professor have hidden it thus -- even from us?"</i><br /><br />"I mean, otherwise, he's so open about everything!"<br /><br /><i>Magneto: "I force you to wear a magnetic belt so that I may chastize you thus!"</i><br /><br />Ah... It's a chastizey belt.<br /><br /><i>Teebore: Is your home lacking in dramatic beauty?</i><br /><br />Ooh... Paging Alex Rodriguez!<br /><br /><i>Ad: "Health Aids tablets are packed with pounds gaining calories, Vitamins, Iron, Minerals, and other nourishing ingredients."</i><br /><br />"Do not consume before fighting Magneto."<br /><br />What is this power of Heart with which you tease Teebore, Falen? Inside joke? And may I come inside?<br /><br />VW: <i>matin</i> -- The woman who raised the Woodsman of Oz (unless you're French).<br /><br>Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-1694027929272251982010-06-17T15:38:33.077-05:002010-06-17T15:38:33.077-05:00@Falen: But then when he saw how pretty much no on...@Falen: <i>But then when he saw how pretty much no one showed up, a single tear fell down his cheek.</i><br /><br />Nah, that'd be too close to real emotion. More likely, he jotted down a note: "after revealing my survival to the X-Men, give them all demerits for attending my funeral instead of fighting evil mutants." <br /><br /><i>Just like teebore and his power of Heart!</i><br /><br />Shut it.Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-30471041919805328242010-06-17T15:05:11.766-05:002010-06-17T15:05:11.766-05:00we've already discussed the not pooping issues...we've already discussed the not pooping issues.<br /><br />I bet that Xavier, after faking his death, totes watched his funeral from afar (as other literary characters have done in the past)<br /><br />But then when he saw how pretty much no one showed up, a single tear fell down his cheek.<br /><br />HAHA! Eat it chuck!<br /><br /><br />Holy hell - my WV is Matee! Just like teebore and his power of Heart!Sarah Ahiershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02795455714801965956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-19654406108098964732010-06-17T13:58:38.633-05:002010-06-17T13:58:38.633-05:00donuts are always enough. Or just eat tons of red ...donuts are always enough. Or just eat tons of red meat and then not poop.Hannahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16915603693944523761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-3338318332058884152010-06-17T13:22:37.253-05:002010-06-17T13:22:37.253-05:00@Anne: Nowadays, the visor is operated via sci-fi ...@Anne: Nowadays, the visor is operated via sci-fi mumbo-jumbo that responds to his thoughts, so it just opens when he wants it to. <br /><br />@Palindrome: <i>just eat some donuts like the rest of us! </i><br /><br />Maybe the doughnuts aren't enough...Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-56513631321679561942010-06-17T12:52:25.565-05:002010-06-17T12:52:25.565-05:00Why would you need to take weight gaining pills? J...Why would you need to take weight gaining pills? Just eat some donuts like the rest of us! <br /><br />And I am on the lookout for some dramatic beauty in my home.Hannahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16915603693944523761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-31961144990477842422010-06-17T12:40:58.536-05:002010-06-17T12:40:58.536-05:00that's the first i've ever heard of a butt...that's the first i've ever heard of a button in Scott's glove for his visor.<br /><br />i wonder what's in those weight gain pills...<br />if they were weight loss pills, i'd go for tapeworm eggsAnne Ahiershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04695186823472404436noreply@blogger.com