tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post5248629816579416261..comments2024-03-22T04:20:11.870-05:00Comments on Gentlemen of Leisure: X-amining X-Men #42Austin Gortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-63373633298103812322010-06-10T15:39:46.160-05:002010-06-10T15:39:46.160-05:00@Blam: Superhero comics were changing in 1968, at ...@Blam: <i>Superhero comics were changing in 1968, at both trendsetting Marvel and newly experimental DC, but the whole "Not a Hoax! Not a Dream! Not an Imaginary Tale!" blurb on the cover — while now as much a cliché itself as the cop-outs it was denying — points to how unusual such an event was at the time. </i><br /><br />Good points. One of the things I wish I remembered to do more of in these posts in place in the context of the times, comic-wise. <br /><br />This is definitely a time where the success of Marvel's realistic approach to superheroes (relative to DC) was influencing DC, and then trickling back to Marvel, setting the stage for some of the "socially relevant" stories of the seventies. <br /><br /><i>"Hmm. Yes, lad, I see your point. Perhaps Bloodshot, then, or Red Zapper."</i><br /><br />There's a line where Xavier gives him the codename, where he explains it (something like, "because the visor gives you the appearance of having one red eye, I shall call you Cyclops" that I'm almost positive was inserted simply to address the readers who wrote in questioning the name. <br /><br />It seems like a very Roy Thomas thing to do, after all. Heck, he might have written that line for his own sake, having been bugged by it as a reader. Then again, as we've seen by the sheer number of X-Men stories he's written that don't seem much like X-Men stories, Roy never was much of an X-Men fan before becoming the writer of the book.Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-78041566825328677112010-06-10T14:33:10.814-05:002010-06-10T14:33:10.814-05:00Cover: "This is for real!"
Um...
Teebo...<br><i>Cover: "This is for real!"</i><br /><br />Um...<br /><br /><i>Teebore: Meanwhile, Grotesk arrives at the college where the Nuclear Oscillotron is located ...<br /><br />Teebore: [Scott] and Xavier hide themselves inside the power plant, where the Ultra Sonic Vibration Inducer resides.</i><br /><br />Secret Room Full o' Filing Cabinets just looks more and more ridiculous.<br /><br /><i>Teebore: Retcon or not, this issue sets up the first "the X-Men must get by without Professor X" period in the book's history.</i><br /><br />And that's significant. It's also really something that they meant for Professor X to die, as you addressed. Superhero comics were changing in 1968, at both trendsetting Marvel and newly experimental DC, but the whole "Not a Hoax! Not a Dream! Not an Imaginary Tale!" blurb on the cover — while now as much a <i>cliché</i> itself as the cop-outs it was denying — points to how unusual such an event was at the time. Characters mostly only died in fake-outs back then, and came back before the end of <i>the same issue</i>. Now even when we know a "death" won't be permanent it's marketed for all its worth before and after the supposed demise.<br /><br /><i>Xavier: "For years, I've lived the life of a </i>recluse<i> -- seeing virtually </i>no one!"<br /><br />"But I have been <i>sewing</i>, as you shall soon discover! Also, um, I sometimes read my neighbors' minds for kicks. I get lonely."<br /><br /><i>Teebore: Xavier telepathically picks a lock and "mentally analyzes" a machine to figure out how it works, once again showing that, like "magnetically", anything can be done if its preceded by the word "telepathically".</i><br /><br />Machines! Don't think so hard and maybe he won't be able to defeat you!<br /><br /><i>Teebore: Though believing in Xavier's dream of peaceful co-existence between humans and mutants, the newly-christened Cyclops still hopes to someday find a cure for his optic blast.</i><br /><br />"I'm grateful for the visor, Professor, and the costume is nifty, but... well... <i>Cyclops?</i> Have you <i>read</i> Edith Hamilton? Those dudes were U-G-L-Y they-ain't-got-no-alibi. Also, um, I actually do have <i>two eyes</i>."<br /><br />"Hmm. Yes, lad, I see your point. Perhaps <i>Bloodshot</i>, then, or <i>Red Zapper</i>."<br /><br />"Cyclops it is, Prof!"<br /><br />VW: <i>fesst</i> — A party for snakes.<br /><br>Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-41697676607612275602010-06-07T10:04:08.365-05:002010-06-07T10:04:08.365-05:00@Anne: I haven't watched that one yet. I have ...@Anne: I haven't watched that one yet. I have no idea when it airs, but if they ever put out a season set (instead of those stupid 4 ep single discs) and I found it used/cheap, I'd probably pick it up, just because I'm an X-Men nerd like that.Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-5331664873724292392010-06-06T07:24:39.279-05:002010-06-06T07:24:39.279-05:00@ Teebore- do you watch Wolverine and the Xmen?
S...@ Teebore- do you watch Wolverine and the Xmen?<br /><br />Scott's appropriately whiney in that, and it makes me think of you <br />:-)Anne Ahiershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04695186823472404436noreply@blogger.com