tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post6296709530528371508..comments2024-03-16T14:43:09.430-05:00Comments on Gentlemen of Leisure: X-amining Wolverine #66Austin Gortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-25045575736764126782017-05-21T22:43:26.814-05:002017-05-21T22:43:26.814-05:00That was… pretty dang weird. Not much else to say ...That was… pretty dang weird. Not much else to say but to correct the spellings of “Howdy Doody” and Texeira’s art-assiter Biasi (vs. <i>Birsi</i>, although that’s how I read the hand-lettered credits in this issue too). Quite reminiscent of Sienkiewicz during the period he was just pushing past the Adams influence to more stylized rendering.Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-18710704432845677682017-05-10T07:58:20.412-05:002017-05-10T07:58:20.412-05:00If I remember correctly, the X-Men pick up Wolveri...If I remember correctly, the X-Men pick up Wolverine in #68 on their way to X-Men 17's Russian shenanigans.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-21128966460703222952017-05-07T01:47:39.841-05:002017-05-07T01:47:39.841-05:00Actually... to correct myself, there was no Gagari...Actually... to correct myself, there was no Gagarin in #123. The person whose likeness Arcade used was Colonel Vazhin of KGB, "a national hero, like cosmonaut Gagarin" like Colossus tells us in #124. I went by the memory from our translation where I think it went like "he showed national hero Gagarin", which you could understand to have happened off-panel. I seem to have gotten totes different stories because of our editorializing XD.<br /><br />The WEAPON X is pretty damn confusing in places though. I think it's meant to be read as those 8 pages installments that show glimpses of the Experiment X, rather than free-flowing comic story (at least in the early bits). The prologue in MCP #72 shows plaid-shirted Logan driving when a snowstorm starts, and in a bar, in #73 he steps out of the rural bar to a snowy yard in front of it and gets kidnapped by the three spooks. The Prophecy house is in urban Ottawa (so a different place), and it's altogether a different (also chronologically) scene in #72 where we see Logan there in fearful anticipation of terrible thing to come and seeing very vivid (portentous?) dreams of the Experiment X, thinking of running away to Yukon.<br /><br />Cornelius later on talks of Logan's fear of mutantism (hinted as "morbid preoccupation with current mutant scare" on Logan's file in #72), and the Professor saying it's Logan's "destiny" to become the beast-like Weapon X of his plans, so the "prophecy" seems to be very appropriate place and state of mind for the pre-Experiment Logan, who apparently was already having active problems with the man vs. mindless beast thing courtesy of his natural mutation at the time, and obviously not helped by the Professor intentionally seeking to drive him to the beast end of things.Teemunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-85204208173941580332017-05-06T09:07:33.416-05:002017-05-06T09:07:33.416-05:00I believe that at this point Wolverine comic can n...I believe that at this point Wolverine comic can no longer easily fit in the other X-comics continuity, right? I find hard to believe that Wolverine and the X-Men were helping Excalibur in England, fighting Stryfe in X-Cutioner's Song and going around on Weapon X business.Licínio Mirandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12545823888354348526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-84579532233939014152017-05-06T08:02:05.969-05:002017-05-06T08:02:05.969-05:00And that's a really summer '67 appropriate...And that's a really summer '67 appropriate Beatles in their attire from the Sergeant Pepper Lonely Hearts Club Band that came out right then.<br /><br />I'm sorry guys, I seem to have gotten overtly excited about a 90's WOLVERINE issue. It's just that we got all the rest of the Dreams of Gore stuff back then, but they skipped this final Terry Adams bit for us. There was the damned radiator haunting in most of Logan's hallucinations to which I never got the explicit closure for (except for that Silver Fox was very unfortunately handcuffed to one in #49 in the Windsor scenario), and now I finally learn it's the damn radiator from Logan's room in Prophecy and you actually can see it in WEAPON X too, now there's just no other furniture in the room here, and what a massive anticlimax it really turns out to be. Wasn't about Silver Fox and Sabretooth's doings then, which is good obviously.Teemunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-53672860100865016432017-05-05T20:12:49.155-05:002017-05-05T20:12:49.155-05:00And that's not Neil Armstrong (of 1969 fame), ...And that's not Neil Armstrong (of 1969 fame), but Yuri Gagarin in his trademark orange spacesuit. Armstrong would be wearing his signature white with the prominent American flag. This is his second appearance in an X-book; Arcade used his likeness to brainwash Colossus into the Proletarian in UNCANNY #123.Teemunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-82249545988163590302017-05-05T16:51:13.163-05:002017-05-05T16:51:13.163-05:00And if my Elvis ken doesn't fail me, the iconi...And if my Elvis ken doesn't fail me, the iconic black leather jacket look here specifically came from the popular '68 Comeback Special (in June so too late, but it's close enough and accurate in others way to allow the anachronism a pass).Teemunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-54559063498333293262017-05-05T16:40:53.902-05:002017-05-05T16:40:53.902-05:00Prophecy is not bar I think, but some kind of hous...Prophecy is not bar I think, but some kind of housing for "fallen Christians" as per WEAPON X. "Apocalypse" got name-dropped some back then, and it's surely not an accident that this time around there's a stained glass window behind the clerk desk with some people on horses, and the centermost among them with a scythe. Funny when you consider the stint Logan has as a Horseman.<br /><br />Psalm 23, according to which his old room was numbered, is the classic "valley of the shadow of death" one (which the angel erupts to sing in Auger Inn), cue to the title of the following issue.<br /><br />Technically it's early '68 I guess, if the TET offensive is going on. Timeline gets wonky as zombie Janice claims that Berlin hadn't happened yet.Teemunoreply@blogger.com