tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post1369592807873766607..comments2024-03-22T04:20:11.870-05:00Comments on Gentlemen of Leisure: X-amining Marvel Comics Presents #54-61: On the RoadAustin Gortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-71276099135460371192015-07-23T16:41:21.827-05:002015-07-23T16:41:21.827-05:00@A. Painter: Didn't this story reveal that Mim...@A. Painter: <i>Didn't this story reveal that Mimic actually was a mutant? I swore there was something about how his power kept returning was an indication that it was an innate honest-to-goodness we really mean it mutant power.</i><br /><br />Maybe? Honestly, I skimmed most of the "Mimic recap" stuff, so they might have slipped that in there, but I don't remember that detail leaping out at me. <br /><br />@Blam: <i>So much of this is just awful, though. For me the disappointment set in upon reading the last two captions on the very first page, whose exclamation points are completely wrong for Logan’s internal monologue.</i><br /><br />I feel like that's a pretty good summation of most <i>Marvel Comics Presents</i> stories in a nutshell: well-intentioned, with a few interesting ideas, but sloppily executed, even/especially in little details like that. <br /><br />Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-64621065429207064002015-07-18T15:12:27.619-05:002015-07-18T15:12:27.619-05:00Ha, my feelings were the same as Blam's, excep...Ha, my feelings were the same as Blam's, except my initial reaction was that it is overall the wrong voice for Wolverine. It's not Logan, it's someone who's masquerading as him. Which, of course, turned out to be a chuckleworthy notion as the story opened.<br /><br />I was so totally expecting that the young coroner trainee was going to get a shock from hitting the adamantium bones with his bone saw. I feel cheated it didn't happen.<br /><br />Also, the law enforcement officers in #56... 'Wilford' and 'Smokey' OR, rather, Zed and Maynard? Anyway, I like that they left the whole skewed setup with the extremely questionable cops and the coroners covering for them as a loose end world-building-y side-show, complete with the Comics Code seal there on the cover and all.Teemunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-25085095872948782202015-07-18T14:08:33.849-05:002015-07-18T14:08:33.849-05:00// Wolverine rescues a traveler from a bear attack...<br><i>// Wolverine rescues a traveler from a bear attack //</i><br /><br />And doesn’t recognize him as Bruce Banner. Nor does Hulk mention when he gets into Wolverine’s truck that Wolverine had picked him up as Banner earlier; nor when Hulk later reverts to Banner does Wolverine make any SMH reference to Banner having been that guy.<br /><br />The rapport built between Hulk and Wolverine is enjoyable. I also like where the story leaves Mimic. So much of this is just awful, though. For me the disappointment set in upon reading the last two captions on the very first page, whose exclamation points are completely wrong for Logan’s internal monologue. Which is a particular shame because later, in what’s presumably the writer making fun of a recently established and quite lasting convention, we get an amusing scene where the captions of Wolverine’s first-person in-the-moment narration are juxtaposed with Hulk’s old-fashioned thought bubbles.<br /><br>Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-26309870705614362122015-07-17T13:02:39.567-05:002015-07-17T13:02:39.567-05:00Meanwhile, a hitchhiking Bruce Banner is picked up...<i>Meanwhile, a hitchhiking Bruce Banner is picked up by a group of tens while Wolverine breaks out of the jail at the local sheriff's station.</i><br /><br />I was genuinely perplexed by "group of tens", but I just realized you meant "group of teens".<br /><br />Didn't this story reveal that Mimic actually was a mutant? I swore there was something about how his power kept returning was an indication that it was an innate honest-to-goodness we really mean it mutant power.A Painterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12435594154795329209noreply@blogger.com