tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post2608433058247459140..comments2024-03-28T10:18:00.370-05:00Comments on Gentlemen of Leisure: X-amining X-Men #63Austin Gortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-29030563074081956292010-12-02T15:02:05.612-06:002010-12-02T15:02:05.612-06:00@Jason: A few months earlier, actually. Comics bac...@Jason: <i>A few months earlier, actually. Comics back then were dated a few months ahead, so this probably hit news stands around September of 1969.</i><br /><br />Thanks Jason! I knew it was one or the other, then forgot to look it up before posting. <br /><br /><i>The original X-Men truly were of the 60s, and not a second later!</i><br /><br />Boy, ain't that the truth?!?Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-36164714080767709602010-12-02T14:08:50.694-06:002010-12-02T14:08:50.694-06:00"(this issue is dated December 1969, though i..."(this issue is dated December 1969, though it more likely saw print a few months later) "<br /><br />A few months earlier, actually. Comics back then were dated a few months ahead, so this probably hit news stands around September of 1969.<br /><br />(That would put the final issue, 66, at around December of 1969. The original X-Men truly were of the 60s, and not a second later!)Jasonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13298753675007196538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-73365245907849063042010-12-01T14:48:47.771-06:002010-12-01T14:48:47.771-06:00@JD: I remember when Paul O'Brien went through...@JD: <i>I remember when Paul O'Brien went through every issue of The Hidden Years for his indexes. The poor man...</i><br /><br />Yeah, Paul O'Brien has had to read some awful comics through the years...<br /><br /><i>Don't forget the Secret Empire saga !</i><br /><br />Ah, yes, good call! I even have a nice trade collection of that story from which I could probably get some good scans. <br /><br />@Dr. Bitz: <i>I mean, why the ruse? It's just Angel. What's Angel going to do to the X-Men anyway? Taunt them from above? </i><br /><br />Uh...magnetically? <br /><br />Seriously though, I have no idea. <br /><br />Maybe he thought having Angel fight the X-Men would delay them longer than having to fight some random dude because they're teammates? Which is a pretty stupid assumption on his part regardless, but then the joke's on Magneto because the whole "Angel unknowingly fights the X-Men for Magneto" business gets resolved in, like, two panels. <br /><br />Ka-Zar basically says, "I don't care who he is," whacks Angel with a branch and then Magneto's followers start attacking everyone and Angel realizes he's been duped.Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-63315551358214194282010-12-01T13:42:57.101-06:002010-12-01T13:42:57.101-06:00You know, it just occurred to me that Magneto is u...You know, it just occurred to me that Magneto is using Angel to "buy him some time." You know what else would buy him some time? Slapping his jet pack on one of his cronies and having them fly to the X-Men. They'd be just as effective.<br /><br />I mean, why the ruse? It's just Angel. What's Angel going to do to the X-Men anyway? Taunt them from above?Dr. Bitzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13568570859981368717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-960254333443926852010-12-01T13:28:00.962-06:002010-12-01T13:28:00.962-06:00I remember when Paul O'Brien went through ever...I remember when Paul O'Brien went through every issue of <i>The Hidden Years</i> for his indexes. The poor man...<br /><br />Yeah, an omnibus entry should be enough.<br /><br />Don't forget the Secret Empire saga ! A totally unrelated <i>Captain America</i> storyline serves as the climax for half a dozen appearances in as many random series by various X-Men members (most of which involve them getting beaten and captured off-screen).JDnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-30377279900238132182010-12-01T12:57:57.254-06:002010-12-01T12:57:57.254-06:00@JD: I'm always astonished by how short the Th...@JD: <i>I'm always astonished by how short the Thomas/Adams run was - it's been what, 8 issues ?</i><br /><br />Yeah, eight pure Thomas/Adams issues, though Adams was contributing plots to the issue before he started drawing, and I believe Roy gets a plotting credit on issue #65 even though Denny O'Neil scripts it. <br /><br />Considering how (more or less rightfully) revered it is, it is surprising how brief it is, and really, how much ground they cover (wrap-up the Living Pharoah, Sentinels, Sauron, Magneto in the Savage Land). And of course, it's a huge influence on Claremont and Byrne. <br /><br /><i>#66 is yet again filler, one of the most underwhelming "last issue" I've ever read.</i><br /><br />Absolutely, though from what I've read, no one knew when creating it that it would be the last issue. It sounds like it was bascially a case of "well, Neal is leaving, let's crank out a fill-in while we figure out what to do next, oh, we're canceled?" <br /><br /><i>The first few months of 2011, when you're going to examine the "canceled" period, are going to be interesting...</i><br /><br />Indeed. I'm still debating how I'm going to approach that. I definitely know I don't want to do an issue-by-issue examination of the Hidden Years, but I might do an all-in-one post (then again, very little of any significance or relevance happened in that series). <br /><br />And I want to cover some of the other major X-Men guest appearances, like the random Hulk issues, Marvel Team-Up, and the Defenders two-parter with Magneto as well as some of Beast's solo adventures in Amazing Adventures, but I still haven't decided if I'll do those en masse or one by one.Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-15401178195092346222010-12-01T11:06:31.024-06:002010-12-01T11:06:31.024-06:00I'm always astonished by how short the Thomas/...I'm always astonished by how <i>short</i> the Thomas/Adams run was - it's been what, 8 issues ?<br /><br />From now on, it's basically over : #64 is obviously a fill-in, #65 is a bizarrely awful plot wrap-up that they had to call a fill-in writer for, and #66 is yet again filler, one of the most underwhelming "last issue" I've ever read.<br /><br />The first few months of 2011, when you're going to examine the "canceled" period, are going to be interesting...JDnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-82791457281525814882010-12-01T10:50:51.840-06:002010-12-01T10:50:51.840-06:00@Anne: Eh, not so much. It basically takes Profess...@Anne: Eh, not so much. It basically takes Professor X slapping them upside the head and calling them idiots for leaving without confirming Magneto was dead to get them back there...Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-26079144169959848532010-12-01T10:49:30.090-06:002010-12-01T10:49:30.090-06:00well then...
you win this round xmen...well then...<br />you win this round xmen...Anne Ahiershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04695186823472404436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-52180976655431062682010-12-01T10:39:47.738-06:002010-12-01T10:39:47.738-06:00@Anne: Maybe someone should be double checking tha...@Anne: <i>Maybe someone should be double checking that shit before they leave</i><br /><br />Point. And actually, that's the impetus behind the first story in X-Men: The Hidden Years, an early 00s series designed to fill in the gap between the end of the Silver Age run and Giant-Size X-Men #1; the X-Men go back to the Savage Land to make sure Magneto is dead (he's not).Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-65386940250818154332010-12-01T10:10:01.659-06:002010-12-01T10:10:01.659-06:00when the hell are they going to learn their lesson...when the hell are they going to learn their lesson and quit 'assuming' Magneto is dead. Maybe someone should be double checking that shit before they leave<br /><br />also, i like how the gold ad is saying how you can own 'REAL GOLD'<br />yeah- it's called jewelry<br /><br />wv: litibin<br />i don't know what it means, but it makes me smile with all those 'i's in thereAnne Ahiershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04695186823472404436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-75682491466823812442010-12-01T08:35:28.947-06:002010-12-01T08:35:28.947-06:00@Falen: how does magneto even have the skills to c...@Falen: <i>how does magneto even have the skills to create such a machine?</i><br /><br />Magnetically? <br /><br />To be fair, he's whipped out far more ridiculous machines in the past. Remember that one he created that somehow used Angel's parents' DNA to create a mutant slave army, but Iceman smashed it before it did anything, back in issue #18?Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-78543949942512069312010-12-01T08:06:42.763-06:002010-12-01T08:06:42.763-06:00how does magneto even have the skills to create su...how does magneto even have the skills to create such a machine?<br />no, no, no. none of this makes any sort of senseSarah Ahiershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02795455714801965956noreply@blogger.com