tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post7168186585977028057..comments2024-03-16T14:43:09.430-05:00Comments on Gentlemen of Leisure: X-amining X-Force #32Austin Gortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-71295083840295478572018-06-11T19:41:07.513-05:002018-06-11T19:41:07.513-05:00Sam’s dialogue on Pg. 10 has the formation of the ...Sam’s dialogue on Pg. 10 has the formation of the New Mutants happening “a couple of years ago,” which feels just a mite too recent, although obviously the phrase is somewhat vague to begin with and he could be speaking imprecisely on top of that.Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-27301084990252766332018-05-02T12:11:07.173-05:002018-05-02T12:11:07.173-05:00Yeah, the whole "Life Signs" thread that...Yeah, the whole "Life Signs" thread that featured the non-solo, non-X-Men books (X-Force, X-Factor & Excalibur) is almost entirely filler & superfluous relative to the rest of the crossover. Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-27947372522727425672018-05-02T12:09:34.727-05:002018-05-02T12:09:34.727-05:00So he did (and that's not even his first appea...So he did (and that's not even his first appearance; ROM Annual #3 is). I even referenced that awful Chuck Austen story in that review as well. This ol' mind ain't what it used to be. I probably remembered that Paige didn't appear in NEW MUTANTS #42, and then extended that to include Josh as well. Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-64262950443453370012018-05-02T12:06:59.000-05:002018-05-02T12:06:59.000-05:00Whoops, you're correct. Old template carried o...Whoops, you're correct. Old template carried over. I've fixed it, thanks! Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-43948765535097257962018-05-02T11:36:38.854-05:002018-05-02T11:36:38.854-05:00Yup, this is exactly where I dropped X-force as we...Yup, this is exactly where I dropped X-force as well. Probably because it was Greg Capullo's last issue Mike-ELhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02840254150021796923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-63408681321069603562018-04-30T06:43:49.637-05:002018-04-30T06:43:49.637-05:00Dani, Peter Parker has been ripping his place apar...Dani, Peter Parker has been ripping his place apart looking for that extra mask - you give that back this instant!<br /><br />This is a story I should really hunt down in back issues, since I've heard people suggest that it would have made a better lead-in to Generation X than Phalanx Covenant did (I like the "core" of that one, but it didn't need to affect the whole X-line).Melahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05539894845356203447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-69065752846014017052018-04-29T00:20:23.396-05:002018-04-29T00:20:23.396-05:00And this is where I tapped out on X-Force, effecti...And this is where I tapped out on X-Force, effectively ending the madness of buying All The Things in 1994. Why I stopped in the first issue of a big cross over story line is not clear to me, so much later, but I'd had it with buying everything. My comics buying declined to Uncanny, X-Men, and Sandman at this point-there were probably a few Image books left, but given their erratic scheduling who knows? Spawn and Wild CATS certainly was there for a bit longer, but by mid-1994 the Image books had fallen to the wayside too. <br /><br />Looking back on it, it was basically three years where the comics industry went absolutely MAD, and we went along with it. I can't emphasize what going to the local comic shops in 1993 was like as the big events rained down from the skies and new comics companies showed up and everything was exciting and new and THINGS WERE HAPPENING. Sure, they weren't GOOD things, and the industry has never recovered from what happened in that period, but 1993 in particular, comics stores BUZZED with excitement. <br /><br />It's somehow fitting that I ended my speculator bubble period of comics reading at the start of a storyline designed to wrap up dangling threads from creators that left to form Image. Something of an appropriate anti-climax there. Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00605826105741513741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-82004652079084589272018-04-28T21:36:15.582-05:002018-04-28T21:36:15.582-05:00Thus issue was my introduction to Karma and Magma...Thus issue was my introduction to Karma and Magma. I'd only start collecting New Mutants right near the end and it was exciting to see characters I knew little about but knew they had a history. John Cookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12600335496622438290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-41747434084412845452018-04-28T21:27:19.084-05:002018-04-28T21:27:19.084-05:00Josh appeared all the way back in New Mutants #42....Josh appeared all the way back in New Mutants #42. John Cookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12600335496622438290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-79072507644143772562018-04-28T18:47:05.875-05:002018-04-28T18:47:05.875-05:00I guess the penciler is Tony Daniel, not Greg Capu...I guess the penciler is Tony Daniel, not Greg Capullo.<br /><br />Cesar R. Pontualhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06375109987794647615noreply@blogger.com