tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post3159490080407005402..comments2024-03-16T14:43:09.430-05:00Comments on Gentlemen of Leisure: X-amining Spider-Man/X-Factor: Shadowgames #1-3Austin Gortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-18556912019179526602018-10-28T09:43:38.749-05:002018-10-28T09:43:38.749-05:00You express yourself in English far better than I ...<br>You express yourself in English far better than I can in any other language, Teemu, and I don’t mean to knock that facility in the slightest by pointing out that your inadvertent coinage of “superfluoridity” means, I think, not “degree of superfluousness” but “extreme levels of fluoride”. Which is one of the few gimmicks we <i>didn’t</i> get in the ’90s. To my knowledge, anyway.<br /><br>Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-74494537375566463432018-10-28T09:41:04.278-05:002018-10-28T09:41:04.278-05:00I liked Broderick’s art on Marvel’s Captain Marvel...<br>I liked Broderick’s art on Marvel’s <i>Captain Marvel</i> as a kid, and some later stuff too, but overall less as time went on. That’s due as much or more to my own tastes evolving as/than it is to any change in his work. And he’s obviously trying to lean into a McFarlane or Larsen sort of style here, which makes this even less appealing, despite Patterson being an eminently capable inker. <br /><br />One interesting note: Broderick draws the heads of the Fantastic Four when Spidey references their origins the way they appeared back in <i>FF</i> #1, then on the next page the way they are “now” — possibly if not probably at Busiek’s suggestion.<br /><br />Another interesting note, if only to me: The <i>Spider-Man</i> part of the original, distinct <i>Web of Spider-Man</i> logo, which I don’t recall seeing much outside of that series, is used for the covers here despite the classic, most familiar <i>Spider-Man</i> rendering from <i>Amazing</i> having migrated to the <i>Spectacular</i> and <i>Web</i> logos by this point.<br /><br>Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-57388431941647953992018-09-04T13:53:23.553-05:002018-09-04T13:53:23.553-05:00I remember that I picked up the first issue of thi...I remember that I picked up the first issue of this series and didn't come back for more. I'd actually forgotten entirely what it was about until reading the above!<br /><br />Funny to see Busiek, who would, in a few years, be at the forefront of a Silver/Bronze Age resurgence at Marvel, going "Full 90s" with this story.<br /><br />And I agree with you on Jameson. He has this irrational blind spot for Spider-Man (and to an extent, other vigilantes as well), but outside of that, he's got integrity by the boatload (when written correctly, at least). I love when that trait shows up now and then.Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-22587410740997803962018-09-01T21:08:48.294-05:002018-09-01T21:08:48.294-05:00For a few initiates it may have been the 80's,...For a few initiates it may have been the 80's, but the stripmiming of the cyberpunk genre for the mainstream audiences took place in the 90's as can be witnessed from the heydays of Marvel 2099 line, culminating into the quinessential cyberpunk film starring Keanu Reeves... Johnny Mnemonic.Teemunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-85550674979073809632018-09-01T20:35:41.274-05:002018-09-01T20:35:41.274-05:00I'd have to say that "Mirrorshades" ...I'd have to say that "Mirrorshades" is much more part of the'80s zeitgeist than the 1990s.<br />We had Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology, plus Bruce Sterling's "Mozart in Mirrorshades" short story.<br />It's too bad that Marvel didn't introduce Mirrorshades as a character in their 2099 Universe.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-32815648156747695312018-09-01T08:01:07.809-05:002018-09-01T08:01:07.809-05:00I'm sorry but Marvel has no leg to stand on to...I'm sorry but Marvel has no leg to stand on to pose against Image or anyone over a never-to-be-seen-again by-the-numbers supergroup being featured in a 90's comic book.<br /><br />I like it though for the potential of the idea which obviously is at the same time clicheic as hell what with renegade general and all, and pretty much what they did to Power Man Luke Cage back in the day. <br /><br />"Mirrorshade" is so horrible 90's name that it goes all the way to max bad with it also describing his powers to a t so that it starts coming back by the back route towards being good again. Gotta love Spider-Man's one unfortunate badly-timed idle thought causing drama. <br /><br />Jamie certainly paved his own way with all these semi-accidental deaths caused by his powers.<br /><br />About the superfluoridity, it pretty much says it in the story that X-Factor is there only because Flash had them as his third option and he had to lie to get them in. (i'llallowit.gif)Teemunoreply@blogger.com