tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post5060293087856072895..comments2024-03-28T10:18:00.370-05:00Comments on Gentlemen of Leisure: X-amining Excalibur #34Austin Gortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-6784187871061201342015-11-20T15:53:06.037-06:002015-11-20T15:53:06.037-06:00Fenris also appears in one of Fabian Nicieza's...Fenris also appears in one of Fabian Nicieza's CITIZEN V mini-series, which is where Andrea dies in the first place, thus planting the seed for Andreas's turn in THUNDERBOLTS.<br /><br />I'm hard pressed to think of anything else either. I think when their dad came back from the dead in the early nineties, their reason for being sort of disappeared.Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-11913564028329637382015-11-17T13:24:30.923-06:002015-11-17T13:24:30.923-06:00I hear that. Other than the mildly entertaining Ni...I hear that. Other than the mildly entertaining Nightcrawler vs. Krakoa oneshot/fill-in issue, this story was probably the best thing the series as done since at least the Davis-drawn "Cross-Time" issues, and given what a mishmash that story was, maybe even the best story since before that. <br /><br />And it's not even all that great of a story - it's just consistently written and drawn with a clear beginning, middle and end, and seems to be trying to do something with the characters, but that sadly puts it into the upper echelon of EXCALIBUR stories at this point. Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-83022983310631847732015-11-17T13:21:45.902-06:002015-11-17T13:21:45.902-06:00I honestly can't think of many post-Claremont ...I honestly can't think of many post-Claremont Fenris appearances. There's the Omega Red story in Adjectiveless, but they're mostly background players there (and I don't recall any one being any more ruthless than the other). After that...Andreas turning up in THUNDERBOLTS as Swordsman using a sword with his sister's skin wrapped around the handle so he can use his power. I'm sure they did some stuff between those two appearance, but I can't think of them offhand. Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-73735263258188037662015-11-14T06:20:06.319-06:002015-11-14T06:20:06.319-06:00I’ll just say that based on the last 20 or so issu...I’ll just say that based on the last 20 or so issues I’m glad to have dropped this series when I did.Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-7362282311056712512015-11-14T04:02:31.975-06:002015-11-14T04:02:31.975-06:00I love Fenris as villains, seen here the last time...I love Fenris as villains, seen here the last time (?) in their abominable red&green&black JRjr uniforms with Andrea as the more ruthless one of them as befits Claremont (which they will go and ruin the minute Claremont is out the door). A fitting after-chapter for their appearance in UNCANNY #200 along with 3/5 of Excalibur and yes, Jim Jaspers, who was trying to stone-pound Andrea.<br /><br />Terribly inconvenient power that, which always makes you to desperately scrape for a skin contact with the sibling in the finale of fight.Teemunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-38471552348371136202015-11-13T04:48:26.238-06:002015-11-13T04:48:26.238-06:00Hmh. She was on Muir Island (and her brother wasn&...Hmh. She was on Muir Island (and her brother wasn't) when the Reavers assaulted, but mysteriously disappeared alongside Amanda Sefton in middle of the happenings, before SK made his move. But later on Amanda will be seen as a thrall of SK on #278, and on the same issue where Alysande has returned to her day job at W.H.O. So, it's certainly plausible.<br /><br />But Mesmero's wording here when pondering the mystery (and announcing it to us the readers), "How can one Stuart be immune to my influence when her twin brother isn't?", especially in light of the later info by Claremont about her rather hints towards her older Stuartness I feel. Though, Captain Britain is a some sort of champion of the realm and much help was that to him against the menace of Mesmero.Teemunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-87789199056770308722015-11-12T23:02:28.598-06:002015-11-12T23:02:28.598-06:00Of course, another explanation is that he couldn&#...Of course, another explanation is that he couldn't control her because she was already controlled by the Shadow King.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-46587566505969261612015-11-12T14:49:40.652-06:002015-11-12T14:49:40.652-06:00Brigadier Stuart is shown to be immune to Mesmero&...<i>Brigadier Stuart is shown to be immune to Mesmero's influence, something which doesn't get an explanation in this issue.</i><br /><br />Over at Supermegamonkey.net a commenter (on UNCANNY #268) points out that Claremont , in accord to his obvious general interest towards the royalty, will on later occassion (FF vol3 #9) make the Earth-9809 version of her "Caledonia", the last Scot remaining in the dimension, last of the line of royal Stuarts and "rightful heir not only t' throne of Highland Scotland... but t' mantle o' Captain Britain!"<br /><br />I've let myself be told she's older of the Stuart twins, so (if we are not particular to the male-preference bit in the crown succession, and it's Claremont so maybe we aren't) it's likely a case of the royal Stuart blood acting up here and her not being pushed around on her own turf. Which actually has some pretty awkward implications because the place where it happens is Salisbury Plains in <i>England</i>. Of course we all remember how the Catholic Monarchs of the House of Stuart were usurped from the throne in 1688 in favor of protestant heirs, prompting the Jacobite movement for the restauration of the perceived lawful monarchs, so this sort of thing looks bad for the current reigning Monarch.<br /><br />Later on Claremont will in his X-Men: True Friends, the book he has told he really really wanted to get made, go through some pains to show "Lilibet" as the lawful heir of the British throne, which I can only take as a irrefutable proof that sometime along the line Claremont has had a nocturnal visit from the men in black of the comic book department of MI-5, essentially telling him that "Her Majesty is not amused".Teemunoreply@blogger.com