tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post4944492897697196198..comments2024-03-28T10:18:00.370-05:00Comments on Gentlemen of Leisure: X-amining Fantastic Four #28Austin Gortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-10059484742830125282018-08-31T17:38:43.327-05:002018-08-31T17:38:43.327-05:00I read the Journey into Mystery mentioned by Anony...<br>I read the <i>Journey into Mystery</i> mentioned by Anonymous, #109, a few years ago for an aborted article on X-Men/Avengers crossovers. <br /><br />To Matt’s question: Magneto is able to stop the hammer in its tracks as it flies towards him, but we don’t see him repel it. Thor is distracted and reverts to Don Blake when a minute passes, unseen by Magneto, who comes across the walking stick that the hammer becomes. Magneto has no opportunity to try to lift it in its actual Mjölnir form, so nothing conclusive, although we’re so early in the era there’s a lot that counters later established continuity.<br /><br />Some other notes: Magneto doesn’t know where the X-Men are headquartered but he’s “long suspected they were based somewhere in the [NYC] metropolitan area” and is using instruments to home in on them via “mental emanations”. Thor uses Mjölnir’s Uru metal to trace the “flow of magnetic force” bombarding the city to Magneto’s “camouflaged submersible fort” in the harbor. During Magneto and Thor’s battle the rest of the Brotherhood is out looking for the X-Men, who intriguingly only appear off-panel apart from an optic blast, Beast’s hands, Angel’s shadow on a wall, and ice freezing Magneto’s thermonuclear “proton bomb” in place, although we get a couple of word balloons as they close in on Magneto and then see part of an underwater craft branded with their insignia giving chase when he escapes. <br /><br>Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-73445652876128514682018-08-31T17:32:41.393-05:002018-08-31T17:32:41.393-05:00I’d been looking at some early X-Men not long befo...<br>I’d been looking at some early <i>X-Men</i> not long before reading this issue and noticed that, as here, what’s gotten referred to regularly since at least the ’70s as Cyclops’ “optic blast” was back then called his “power beam” or “force beam”. None is more appropriate than the others — although the first specifies where it comes from and the other two, especially the last, make clear that it’s a concussive ray and <i>not heat vision, Corsair</i> — but “optic blast” is so familiar now that I’m taken out of the story even more so than by other stilted elements of the early Silver Age dialogue. <br /><br /><i>// Stan likely meant the Vanisher … Lee seems to lose track of the plot at one point //</i><br /><br />Yeah. Those both jumped out at me, with the latter particularly (if only momentarily) confusing. And later a caption mentions the Thing smashing the Professor X puppet when it was actually the Beast. <br /><br /><i>// the Mad Thinker, based solely on news reports, is able to describe Professor X in enough detail to the Puppet Master that he can craft a good enough likeness //</i><br /><br />He even knew that Xavier was wearing a purple pinstriped suit.<br /><br>Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-37369995929032748912018-08-31T17:27:58.806-05:002018-08-31T17:27:58.806-05:00Anytime.
… Does now work for you? 8^)
— Steve ...<br> Anytime. <br /><br />… Does now work for you? 8^) <br /><br />— Steve Buccellato’s name is still up there, which you probably glossed over because the issue had no colorist credited itself.<br /><br />— Plus, I just took a look at <a href="http://www.therealgentlemenofleisure.com/2018/08/x-aminations-in-july-ish-2018and-beyond.html" rel="nofollow">your list for the back half of the year</a> again to plan upcoming reads and noticed that the issue numbers for the second week of September are wrong. <br /><br>Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-81000846108233548342018-08-24T15:29:43.886-05:002018-08-24T15:29:43.886-05:00the two teams do cross paths in a few significant ...<i>the two teams do cross paths in a few significant ways after this...</i><br /><br />There's also the grandchildren that Reed, Sue, Scott and Jean share in various versions of the future. Although one them seems to be the most despised FF villain going.Tim Roll-Pickeringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12589024696145675963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-16665108204062289032018-08-23T09:05:04.368-05:002018-08-23T09:05:04.368-05:00By a template betrayed!
Thanks Blam. :) By a template betrayed! <br /><br />Thanks Blam. :) Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-25523798116896772742018-08-23T08:54:58.837-05:002018-08-23T08:54:58.837-05:00Pssst… You should check those last few credits, Te...<br><i>Pssst…</i> You should check those last few credits, Teebore. Or as Mighty Marvel might’ve put it back in the day, “If a Template Betray Him!”<br /><br>Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-70772871100577722972018-08-22T17:37:22.043-05:002018-08-22T17:37:22.043-05:00Hmm... my desire to see a proper Avengers vs. Magn...Hmm... my desire to see a proper Avengers vs. Magneto fight is now in direct competition of my dislike of Steve Englehart's writing! Which will win out...??<br /><br />(And thanks for letting me know about that!)Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-87478921434521902792018-08-22T15:20:32.230-05:002018-08-22T15:20:32.230-05:00Magneto did fight Thor in an early Journey into My...Magneto did fight Thor in an early Journey into Mystery issue by Stan Lee.<br />I know he tried to use his powers on Thor's hammer, but I forget if he succeeded or not.<br />I think he might have managed to accomplish the feat.<br /><br />Also, Magneto did fight the Avengers a few times. I'm especially thinking of a story during the Englehart run in the early-1970s.<br />Cap, Iron Man, Thor, and the Vision were on the team at the time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-87196567236099951912018-08-22T14:58:26.874-05:002018-08-22T14:58:26.874-05:00Well, he fought... the Defenders...Well, he fought... the Defenders...Teemunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-68520455453416118462018-08-22T14:58:04.941-05:002018-08-22T14:58:04.941-05:00I mean I know Byrne actually did Magneto vs. the A...I mean I know Byrne actually did Magneto vs. the Avengers during his WEST COAST AVENGERS run, but I'm talking about Magneto taking on the full group that battled Count Nefaria -- Cap, Iron Man, Thor, Wonder Man, etc. Iron Man would be basically useless against him. He could use Cap's shield against his own teammates. Could he levitate Thor's hammer? (Pretty certainly not, but it'd be fun to see him try!)Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-27546247916847309252018-08-22T14:56:05.069-05:002018-08-22T14:56:05.069-05:00"The other interesting thing about this issue..."<b>The other interesting thing about this issue is how it presents the X-Men, in that, for the most part, they acquit themselves well.</b>"<br /><br />Reminds me of the Avengers fighting Magneto in that one NEW MUTANTS issue. They basically win, as I recall.<br /><br />(I have to say, an honest-to-goodness supervillain Magneto vs. Avengers battle is something I would've loved to have seen in the Bronze Age. Could you imagine something like that during the brief period where John Byrne was drawing AVENGERS in the late 70s??)Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-12820966871252867912018-08-22T02:44:16.911-05:002018-08-22T02:44:16.911-05:00The FF are able to track the “vibration frequency”...<i>The FF are able to track the “vibration frequency” of the engine of the X-Men’s vehicle.</i><br /><br />This is legit. A tower legend has it that that our domestic military persons responsible for underwater listening can easily recognize the individual Baltic Sea cruise ships from the propeller sound they make alone. One conscript supposedly earned himself free journeys for the rest of his life after he recognized a deviation in the usual propeller sound and contacted the ship in question, and when the divers were sent to check it up in the next harbor they found out that the propeller had broken loose from the fastenings and was about to come off, which would have been Expensive had it happened.Teemunoreply@blogger.com