tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post4916186554035712049..comments2024-03-22T04:20:11.870-05:00Comments on Gentlemen of Leisure: X-amining Generation X #6Austin Gortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-5585747827563929612020-07-21T19:18:27.731-05:002020-07-21T19:18:27.731-05:00I got a laugh out of Jubilee saying “Venus DiMaggi...<br>I got a laugh out of Jubilee saying “Venus DiMaggio” — I’m not convinced that it’s a mistake she’d actually make, but luckily it’s within her character to <i>pretend</i> to, especially when talking to someone like M.<br /><br />Seeing “Gene Nation” in close proximity to “Generation” led me to break down the latter in my mind to “Gene Ration” and wonder if anyone has played with that. Warren Ellis feels a likely suspect, as does Grant Morrison. <br /><br />Finally, Artie’s name jumped out to me for the first time that I can recall as a potential play on words itself, given his power of rendering thoughts as images — he’s psychically artistic, or “arty” — but it may have been purely unintentional.<br /><br>Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-27085214978146563742019-11-12T11:35:37.283-06:002019-11-12T11:35:37.283-06:00Another excellent issue, and a good note for Bacha...Another excellent issue, and a good note for Bachalo to leave for his hiatus. I look forward to the upcoming Tom Grummett installments. I loved Roger Cruz's fill-ins at the time, so I'm curious to see what they'll look like today.<br /><br />I note here that Dark Beast says he's been "out of circulation" for around 20 years... I can't recall if it's ever explained where he's been, but I'm curious to find out.<br /><br />When I was an immature teen, Emma's titillating line about "soft and squishy" being two of her best attributes (according to some people) cracked me up. Nowadays I'm a mature father and husband with 25 more years of emotional growth and development under my belt... and I still find it hilarious.Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-12937505906574479432019-11-08T16:04:51.437-06:002019-11-08T16:04:51.437-06:00Deathcry! (I love me some Harras/Epting AVENGERS)....Deathcry! (I love me some Harras/Epting AVENGERS). Though her "crimes" were significantly less extreme than Marrow's. She mostly just went from "cliche early 90s toughie" to "angsty alien teen". It was honestly more jarring than Marrow's "shift", as she basically went from "Deathbird" to "Jubilee" over a span of far fewer issues than Marrow's transformation. Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-58478316529828675622019-11-08T15:17:41.774-06:002019-11-08T15:17:41.774-06:00I dont remember her name, but the same sort of per...I dont remember her name, but the same sort of personality "softening" that happened with Marrow in the X-pages happened with some Shi'ar girl of around the same age in the pages of AvengersAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-59625764599960106132019-11-07T11:44:40.556-06:002019-11-07T11:44:40.556-06:00Makes sense, Austin. Thanks. I’ll wait for your re...Makes sense, Austin. Thanks. I’ll wait for your review of UXM 325.Licínio Mirandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12545823888354348526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-48958719782628752592019-11-07T11:03:59.335-06:002019-11-07T11:03:59.335-06:001. I don't recall that character - I'll ke...1. I don't recall that character - I'll keep an eye out when I get to UNCANNY #325.<br /><br />2. When Marrow joins the X-Men, she isn't immediately depicted as naive & kind, or redrawn (she looks a little different than she does here, but that can mostly be chalked up to different artists/intrepretations. Heck, Joe Mad draws her different - less grotesque - in UNCANNY #325, relative to this issue). She is very much still the angry, bitter character she is here, forced to work alongside Iceman in the interest of survival during "Operation: Zero Tolerance". She softens, in demeanor & look, over time, but that's just character development (and the change in her look is the result of events in a story, not just something that happens without an in-universe explanation). Her involvement in the nightclub massacre isn't really brought up much, but it's not retconned out or anything. It more or less exists on the same spectrum as Rogue's villainous past: it happened, the extremes are attributed to the influence of someone more evil on a young person, and it doesn't get brought up much going forward, now that the character is one of the X-Men.<br /><br />3. Yes? I mean, I don't think Bachalo is lying in that interview. The idea, I think, is that Gaiman was sending over pages at a snails pace, so Bachalo could only draw a few at time, so it took months to get just an issue and a half of content. But there was also presumably time between when he finished his last DEATH page, where he wasn't getting new script pages, made the decision to leave the project, coordinated his return to GEN X with Marvel, and started drawing GEN X issues again, ahead of them being published. All of that presumably fills the four months between when he "stopped" working on DEATH and the publication of his next GEN X issue (keep in mind, Marvel probably already had artists lined up for future issues whenever Bachalo said he was coming back, so while, say, he may have finished drawing the art that appeared in issue #17 when #14 was published, Marvel already had issues #15 and #16 done or under contract, so his return was slotted in for #17. Or something like that).Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-19666390818027089932019-11-07T10:48:51.295-06:002019-11-07T10:48:51.295-06:00Yeah. I wouldn't say that Wolveirne is "o...Yeah. I wouldn't say that Wolveirne is "on model" but it's a striking depiction nevertheless. Works really well in the context. Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-55820345264922601712019-11-07T10:31:47.182-06:002019-11-07T10:31:47.182-06:00A few questions:
1) On Uncanny X-Men #325, the X-...A few questions:<br /><br />1) On Uncanny X-Men #325, the X-Men see a hologram depiction of Gene Nation, and I recall quite well that there was one of them who had an orange color who seemed to be the leader. At least, he was in the center and even Marrow was shown as subordinate to him. Did he ever show up? <br />2) When Marrow later joins the X-Men, re-drawn and depicted as naive and kind girl, did they ignore the massacre at the nightclub? Or was it retconned to be an illusion or something?<br />3) Chris Bachalo left after issue 6 and returned with issue 17. That is around 10 months later, but he claims in the interview that he only drew a issue and a half of Death, which took six months. Is this correct?Licínio Mirandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12545823888354348526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-50061911833660613742019-11-06T21:05:44.350-06:002019-11-06T21:05:44.350-06:00I love how Bachalo drew Wolverine. Exaggerated? Ma...I love how Bachalo drew Wolverine. Exaggerated? Maybe. It works, it's so perfect, like a caricature. This series will miss Chris Bachalo. But I still like it, then and now.Michael Posthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02541582566112899911noreply@blogger.com