tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post2390709285105051302..comments2024-03-28T10:18:00.370-05:00Comments on Gentlemen of Leisure: X-amining Sabretooth: Death Hunt #1-4Austin Gortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-42516472529413189032017-12-23T17:50:45.386-06:002017-12-23T17:50:45.386-06:00So I went and checked out Sabretooth's first a...So I went and checked out Sabretooth's first appearance in IRON FIST #14 at Marvel Unlimited, and carried onward to #15 where Iron Fist meets the X-Men, and, sure enough, the Fang-costumed Wolverine and his ferocity reminds Danny of Sabretooth and he thinks if there could be a connection. Both call people 'bub'. Apparently there would have been a CC/JB storyline in works where Sabretooth kills Mariko had JB stayed on the UNCANNY.<br /><br />So that's where it came from, and suddenly it feels a bit sacrilegious that Hama did away with the daddy-o thing. Apparently the plot element got used in W #10 by Claremont with Silver Fox.Teemunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-43433213854403286352017-12-22T05:32:56.948-06:002017-12-22T05:32:56.948-06:00Pretty much the whole X-MEN #4-#7 feels like the n...Pretty much the whole X-MEN #4-#7 feels like the new kids were throwing stuff at the wall to see what might stick, and Hama's run, esp. with Texeira has looked like he took up the challenge. Birdy is pretty much the only unaddressed piece left over from the Omega Red story at this point.<br /><br />Heck, Hama also took it for himself to follow up the Claremont plot elements of Landau-Luckman-Lake and what the Reavers did re: Wolverine after he escaped from them. Hama is cool like that.Teemunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-48481652984602922682017-12-22T05:22:16.030-06:002017-12-22T05:22:16.030-06:00Birdy’s introduction as Sabretooth’s psychically i...<i>Birdy’s introduction as Sabretooth’s psychically intimate “gal Friday” is followed a bit too closely by her betrayal; I’d have preferred some more build-up and better explanation. </i><br /><br />Hama/Texeira Sabretooth has been established as someone who takes no 'no' from uppity squaws. Her lurking out barely dressed to betray him should be enough to tell the reader everything about their "relationship". He's even taunting her about not having what it takes to kill him by her telepathic powers a little before.Teemunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-31543947029166380592017-12-21T19:57:10.076-06:002017-12-21T19:57:10.076-06:00A friend was raving about a local Thai restaurant ...<br>A friend was raving about a local Thai restaurant called Pho Street just the other night, which led to the obligatory discussion of the pronunciation of <i>pho</i>, and now I can’t look at Birdy’s “Phooooooo” sound effects without reading them as “Fuuuhhhhh?”.<br /><br />Ellie says “these filthy mutants” are “either teenyboppers, old codgers, or from the future.” Which sounds like a good line, but… makes no sense. The remark about “hardly a boomer in the crowd” is particularly funny since that’s exactly what the original five were when they were introduced — ditto the All-New team, really, save Wolverine, at the other end of that generational span (born <i>c.</i> 1945 through 1961) — but even with Marvel Time compression, Storm and Cyclops and Psylocke and Havok and Polaris and Nightcrawler and Gambit and Colossus <i>et al.</i> still have five-ten years on Jubilee easy. So does Ellie count them, never mind the mass of twentysomething and thirtysomething non-marquee mutants from Manhattan to Genosha and back, as “teenyboppers” or as “old codgers”?<br /><br />Like a fair number of Hama’s <i>Wolverine</i> arcs, including Texiera’s run, the ending here feels very abrupt: head-trip revelation of Tribune’s parentage and identity as Graydon Creed, Sabretooth’s acknowledgment of it, Tribune’s murder of Birdy, and Sabretooth’s literal tossing aside of Graydon with parting words on the last few pages of a 4-issue, 88-page miniseries that really didn’t have much going on. Similarly, Birdy’s introduction as Sabretooth’s psychically intimate “gal Friday” is followed a bit too closely by her betrayal; I’d have preferred some more build-up and better explanation. All that said, however, I mostly enjoyed this as a quick, good-looking read with an international spy-flick espionage/hit/whatever <i>but this time it’s personal</i> feel.<br /><br>Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-9139676848706374142017-12-19T06:51:11.643-06:002017-12-19T06:51:11.643-06:00Graydon Creed is unique in the sense that he's...Graydon Creed is unique in the sense that he's a regular human with no x-gene despite being the illegitimate son of two mutants.sylar10https://www.blogger.com/profile/00241121879041149860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-20191987258408759342017-12-19T05:37:22.387-06:002017-12-19T05:37:22.387-06:00Um. Exactly when did Sabretooth serve an ignominio...Um. Exactly when did Sabretooth serve an ignominious death to a Hand clan leader which the ninjas wish to avenge in #1? They are wolverining up the Sabretooth way too much.<br /><br />A blink-and-you-miss: the double-headed axe held by the severed hands in the trophy on Sabre's stairway in #1 looks a lot like the one his daddy-o wields in #2.<br /><br />I chuckle at Mystique having told little Graydon that his secret agent dad would have been a "bond" trader.<br /><br />A kid wearing Hannibal Lecteresque facemask in 1993 for a very good reason isn't sympathy-generating, but rather serves to underline how bad apple he was from the get-go.Teemunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-48819154568724633552017-12-18T14:15:11.890-06:002017-12-18T14:15:11.890-06:00"he will seek out a new source of that glow i..."he will seek out a new source of that glow in X-Men Unlimited #3, to which readers are directed at the end of issue #4"<br />Hilariously, the last issue was so late, it came out AFTER X-Men Unlimited 3.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-76195655089227887862017-12-18T12:08:01.304-06:002017-12-18T12:08:01.304-06:00I've never read this; never so much as looked ...I've never read this; never so much as looked at it, because I just don't have much interest in Sabretooth as a solo character. However, I love Mark Teixeira and all those screencaps above look beautiful, so I may need to flip through it someday just for the artwork!Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.com