tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post963130797249415756..comments2024-03-28T10:18:00.370-05:00Comments on Gentlemen of Leisure: X-amining "Inferno" Tie-Ins Part 3Austin Gortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-27370595968426621452021-09-09T09:06:48.616-05:002021-09-09T09:06:48.616-05:00(Years later but...)
Power Pack #44 has a very unf...(Years later but...)<br />Power Pack #44 has a very unfortunate error on the credits. The credits for #45 were accidentally run instead. According to a later letter column Jon Bogdanove wrote & pencilled the issue with Russ Heath inking (they even sign the opening splash page).<br /><br />Of all the issues to have such a screw-up it would have to be the one with the massive reset switch giving the impressing a guest writer was deployed to impose a U-turn on the regular writer.Tim Roll-Pickeringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12589024696145675963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-26842184066901775932014-08-14T15:39:30.691-05:002014-08-14T15:39:30.691-05:00Rats. I was of course meaning UXM 132. Should just...Rats. I was of course meaning UXM 132. Should just have gone for the 'butte'...Teemunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-81511956609515758862014-08-14T15:28:03.548-05:002014-08-14T15:28:03.548-05:00Matt's upcoming look into Stern's Hobgobli...Matt's upcoming look into Stern's Hobgoblin stories just became doubly awesome, because we are never ever ever going to forget the terminological connection. A quick look into Internet seems to suggest that this is exactly the term usually used for this particular Hobgoblin weapon. Gentlemen, we may just have stumbled upon the 'boner' of our comics generation.<br /><br />I was already so waiting for this day because of the panel of Rachel blasting from the Excalibur light tower for her participation in Inferno like Phoenix Force was holding back that particular blast since UXM 133 but little did I know what else the day would bring along.Teemunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-18959196488617291452014-08-14T13:47:03.062-05:002014-08-14T13:47:03.062-05:00"Kingpin straight up cold cocks a demon in We..."<b>Kingpin straight up cold cocks a demon in Web of Spider-Man #48; I just thought that was pretty cool.</b>"<br /><br />Oops, I mentioned this in the last set of "Inferno" crossovers, thinking it was one of those issues. Sorry for the 26 year-old spoiler, everyone!<br /><br />Nonetheless, my opinion remains -- this is the single greatest moment to come out of "Inferno". Though that Flash/Betty story is pretty darn good too, as you note. If I recall correctly, the real Spider-Man doesn't even put in an appearance, which is kind of unusual for the time.<br /><br />Now, let me continue to sing the praises of Gerry Conway's work on SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN and WEB OF SPIDER-MAN in the late eighties. I love this run, and it's pretty much entirely self-contained away from the contemporaneous AMAZING stuff. Conway basically treated the two books like one bi-weekly title, threading sub-plots in and out of both. For my money, he wrote the best married Peter and Mary Jane, and his sub-plots were always compelling. The long Tombstone arc and Robbie Robertson in jail was fantastic stuff. In COMICS CREATORS ON SPIDER-MAN, Conway says that he came up with his sub-plots first, then wrote the main storylines around them, and if this run is the result of such an approach, I wish more writers would do it that way.<br /><br />If only the siren call of Tom Bosley hadn't lured him away from Spider-Man, never to return again.<br /><br />Blam -- "<b>Meanwhile, Spidey has a line in Web of Spider-Man #48 that begs a new category: "Even with my spider-sense, I barely avoided that finger blast!"</b>"<br /><br />Wow, I may need to blow that panel up and frame it. That's fantastic.Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-44942346729209232862014-08-14T12:47:25.244-05:002014-08-14T12:47:25.244-05:00"Did all of "Inferno" really take p..."Did all of "Inferno" really take place in just one night, as stated in Power Pack #44? I haven't gone back to see if anything contradicts that, although I'm pretty sure the Spider-Man tie-ins explicitly spilled over from one day to the next. Even if we're strictly talking about the Limbo portal wreaking havoc in New York it sure felt like it carried on for a few days at least."<br />N'astirh in X-Men 242 makes it clear that everything from Magik's portal opening onward took place in one night, and the spell had to be completed by the end of the night or all would be undone. That causes problems with Excalibur 6, as we'll see today, since it takes place a few nights after Excalibur 4, and Excalibur 4 features Rachel seemingly receiving a message from Baby Cable about the demons after him.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-70048574048976094072014-08-14T12:25:59.474-05:002014-08-14T12:25:59.474-05:00Did all of "Inferno" really take place i...<br>Did all of "Inferno" really take place in just one night, as stated in <i>Power Pack</i> #44? I haven't gone back to see if anything contradicts that, although I'm pretty sure the Spider-Man tie-ins explicitly spilled over from one day to the next. Even if we're strictly talking about the Limbo portal wreaking havoc in New York it sure felt like it carried on for a few days at least.<br /><br /><i>// we get possibly the best use of Gosamyr //</i><br /><br />That "special guest script" was largely terrible, but I agree with this. Dani's powers are used well, too; while the size/breadth of the manifestation at the hospital feels like the biggest and most complicated use of her ability to date by far, I'm not sure I could say it outright contradicts anything we know.<br /><br /><i>Amazing Spider-Man</i> #313 confirmed that I still hate McFarlane's art. Sal Buscema's art in <i>Spectacular Spider-Man</i> #148 still isn't quite to my tastes, although there's one gorgeous shot of Spidey atop a chimney.<br /><br />Torch has an <i>I Love the '80s</i> line in <i>Fantastic Four</i> #324 where he mentions Greg Louganis. Which isn't nearly as funny as Kang bemusedly flying over an infant sacrifice.<br /><br />Meanwhile, Spidey has a line in <i>Web of Spider-Man</i> #48 that begs a new category: "Even with my spider-sense, I barely avoided that finger blast!" <br /><br>Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-82758879950160248742014-08-13T20:59:27.980-05:002014-08-13T20:59:27.980-05:00Anonymous, they could explain away some of it as d...Anonymous, they could explain away some of it as due to the consequences of mass hysteria (fear causing people to injure themselves & other people), OR- as in the case of the Sunnydalians of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER- explain away things they aren't comfortably capable of accepting.<br /><br />Speaking of which, the Power parents distress also had another cause. I read the Whitemane family put some telepathic mojo on Mr. and Mrs. Power. This whammy caused them to deny any suspicion of their children having super-powers. When irrefutable right-before-their-eyes proof came, the conditioning accidentally caused massive mental-emotional pain to Pa and Ma, no longer in denial but still feeling the painful effects that results in breaking the denial.<br /><br />This is also a crossroads for Betty Brant. Spidey's 1st girl has had some emotional problems. Losing family members, a knack for being needy and searching for happiness through others. Her marriage to Ned Leeds was problematic (Ned acting nutty via being Hobgoblin's brainwashed stand-in didn't help), causing Betty to find emotional comfort from others (or, in the case of Peter Parker and Flash Thompson, morally lapsing physical comfort as well). She had just recently joined and was rescued from the Cult of Love. Here, it takes the ghost of Ned to force Betty that she has to stop being needy and look to herself for happiness. Betty grows as a person and ends up a major reporter of the Daily Bugle (as well as clearing Ned as the Hobgoblin).angmc43@hotmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15379700547226493861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-21045577117785856932014-08-13T18:45:30.546-05:002014-08-13T18:45:30.546-05:00One major problem here- Inferno is eventually writ...One major problem here- Inferno is eventually written off as hallucinations but with all the injured people in Power Pack 44, you'd think that some of them would have suffered injuries that couldn't be explained by hallucinations.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com