tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post5660608529694347641..comments2024-03-28T10:18:00.370-05:00Comments on Gentlemen of Leisure: X-amining Generation X '95Austin Gortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-30186593829360782452020-11-11T21:34:36.814-06:002020-11-11T21:34:36.814-06:00@Matt — Don’t forget “Marvel Edge”! Actually, I be...@Matt — Don’t forget “Marvel Edge”! Actually, I believe that's what Bobbie Chase oversaw, and Mark Gruenwald had more of the mainstream heroes than just the Avengers group… “Marvel Heroes” and “Cosmic Powers”?Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-17832631491764584292020-11-11T21:31:48.584-06:002020-11-11T21:31:48.584-06:00New band name: Black Tom Barrington and the Plant ...New band name: Black Tom Barrington and the Plant Duplicates.Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-90339596249286785432020-03-19T02:15:11.384-05:002020-03-19T02:15:11.384-05:00"The wraparound cover is drawn by Michael Gol..."The wraparound cover is drawn by Michael Golden, and is probably the best thing about this issue."<br /><br />Most of it is, yes. His depiction of Mondo, though, is as painful as anything else in the issue.wwk5dnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-8340123209742903532020-03-18T13:40:31.326-05:002020-03-18T13:40:31.326-05:00McManus drew a Spider-Man annual a couple years af...McManus drew a Spider-Man annual a couple years after this issue and I really liked his work there at the time. This... looks nothing like that annual.Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-46679254848368630112020-03-18T07:24:55.409-05:002020-03-18T07:24:55.409-05:00Sean McManus had a terrific reputation in the late...Sean McManus had a terrific reputation in the late-80s/early-90s, thanks to some notable work on Dr Fate and Sandman. Though I'm not a fan of his style, his fundamentals (layouts, pacing, facial expressions) are all generally pretty strong. Here, however, he seems to have been either supremely rushed or completely steamrolled by his collaborators. Bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-59934884869330153592020-03-18T00:54:56.998-05:002020-03-18T00:54:56.998-05:00I need to bleach my eyes after seeing that art - w...I need to bleach my eyes after seeing that art - woof!Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03302434296164953767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-22980447327662748022020-03-17T23:43:00.884-05:002020-03-17T23:43:00.884-05:00Moira says “long before we were lovers, we were be...Moira says “long before we were lovers, we were best friends,” which really isn’t true... she met Banshee in UNCANNY #96, and they were a couple two issues later, in #98!<br /><br />I recall reading that scene with the two of them and wondering if I’d missed something. It read like they had broken up at some point, though in truth I think they just sort of drifted apart. In retrospect, I’m not sure I recall many (or any) instances of them being shown as a couple after Banshee returned to the mansion in X-MEN 24.<br /><br />Weirdly, I have, like, no memory whatsoever of Mondo’s time with Gen X. In my head, it just goes from his debut here immediately to his betrayal in issue 25. I’m interested to see what I’ve forgotten over the upcoming sixteen issues!<br /><br />And I’m sure we can talk about it more when we get to #25, but this whole thing with Mondo being a bad guy can’t have been Lodbell’s original intention, right? He was hyped too much to be a red herring. Plus, I can’t imagine Lobdell planned for Barrington to be Black Tom. “Barrington” is too distinctive a name; Lobdell must have intended that he be the same character as in those early X-MEN issues at this point. Lurking in shadowy control rooms and giving orders to armored soldiers with teleporters has never really been Black Tom’s thing, after all!<br /><br />In short, I feel like something got really screwy behind the scenes with regards to Mondo, Barrington, etc., and Lobdell was forced to make up a solution in a hurry.<br /><br />Lastly, I failed to notice this in the past few issues you’ve looked at, but the credits lately indicate we’ve entered that weird era where Marvel split into five separate “imprints”, each with its own editor-in-chief. My recollection is that Bob Harras had the X-Books, Bob Budiansky had the Spider-books, Mark Gruenwald had the Avengers books, Bobbie Chase had all the other Marvel Universe stuff like Hulk, Daredevil, etc., and Carl Potts had the licensed books.<br /><br />I’ve always found it interesting that even though Harras was the editor-in-chief of the X-line, he remained editor of the two core X-books as well. I think he finally gave them up to Mark Powers when he was promoted to EiC of the reunified Marvel line a year or so later.Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.com