tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post913067481929479810..comments2024-03-16T14:43:09.430-05:00Comments on Gentlemen of Leisure: X-amining Excalibur #96Austin Gortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-56387661656267174962020-10-23T22:54:22.704-05:002020-10-23T22:54:22.704-05:00I love comics and I usually search books from Amaz...I love comics and I usually search books from <a href="https://couponforless.com/store/amazon.com" rel="nofollow">Amazon</a> store. Ellis had it in mind - it is ok. <br />Mai Nguyenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06789100411863447332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-68212187452003327752020-10-20T10:45:28.841-05:002020-10-20T10:45:28.841-05:00I remember the "No! Not again! Not another pl...I remember the "No! Not again! Not another plane destroyed!" as a recurring gag in the Claremont years. In Uncanny X-Men #135, for example, just after Dark Phoenix destroys the X-Men plane, while everybody is shouting "Jean, no!", Nightcrawler is saying "Ach, nein... Not another aircraft destroyed!".Agrivarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01733066579117350220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-69564056517434291232020-10-20T10:34:26.981-05:002020-10-20T10:34:26.981-05:00At last, my first issue of EXCALIBUR! I think I me...At last, my first issue of EXCALIBUR! I think I mentioned a while back that, while I eventually read the Ellis run in full years later in trade paperbacks, for the longest time, this was where it started in my head, simply because this was where I began reading it. I think it was a combination of Carlos Pacheco, the London Hellfire Club, and Colossus reunited with Kitty and Nightcrawler that got me to finally start reading it. I stuck around through the end of Ellis's run and for a while into Ben Raab's, before ultimately dropping it somewhere around issue 112 or so. (Though had I known it was going to be cancelled about a year later, I probably would've just stuck it out to the end.)<br /><br />Marvel never did much more with the London Inner Circle, but I'll admit that I got some mileage out of them in the MARVEL SUPER HEROES ROLEPLAYING GAME campaign that I ran through high school and college. My brother's character, an amnesiac immortal aristocrat, found out at some point that he held the title of Black Rook or Bishop or somesuch.<br /><br />"<b>Both Nightcrawler and Meggan get new looks this issue</b>..."<br /><br />I <b>hate</b> Nightcrawler's new look. I see what Pacheco is trying to do with it; making him look more like a swashbuckler, but it's way too ugly and busy for me. I think I could've lived with either the shaved head/goatee with his original costume (as we get in this issue and the next) or with the new costume and his old hair/no goatee. But all of it together is way too much.<br /><br />"<b>Meggan's new costume apparently also came with breast implants.</b>"<br /><br />I mean, she is a shapeshifter... (Also, I was fascinated by that image as a teen. I don't think I'd ever seen an "up-boob" shot quite like it before, but I seem to recall it was something Pacheco did somewhat regularly for a while.<br /><br />"<b>Mountjoy, the body-hopping villain from the Bishop limited series, returns in this issue</b>..."<br /><br />I've always been curious whether this was Ellis's idea alone, a suggestion from editorial, or even a suggestion from new penciler Pacheco since he designed the character in the first place.<br /><br />"<b>As the Midnight Flit starts to crash, Nightcrawler laments "not again", a reference to the original Midnight Runner's crash at the end of issue #86.</b>"<br /><br />I've also always taken this as a little reference to Nightcrawler's complaints early in the "All-New, All-Different" era that every vehicle the X-Men boarded tended to crash somehow. I may be overthinking it, but considering I worship those issues, I like to imagine Ellis had it in mind.Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.com