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Post by Cheswick on Jun 24, 2018 22:59:49 GMT -5
She's still a vampire, but they've downplayed it. She also has an adopted son. She was pretty prominent in the all-women Brian Wood X-Men series a couple years back. As of about six months ago, she is no longer a vampire and has her powers back.
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Post by Cheswick on Jun 23, 2018 0:45:55 GMT -5
Negasonic Teenage Warhead gets her name from a Monster Magnet song. Kitty gets in a good quip about her at Grant Morrison's expense in the next issue. If Negasonic Teenage Warhead doesn't prove they have run out of names then, surely, Blindfold does .
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Post by Cheswick on Jun 17, 2018 10:10:35 GMT -5
If memory serves, the “Xorn is Magneto” plot was retconned away almost immediately, with the familiar and reformed Mags appearing in the new Excalibur mag written by Chris Claremont. Magneto protested his innocence and was even shocked that people could still think him able to perform acts of wanton destruction. I don’t think there was any explanation for the Xorn-Magneto thing yet, though. (“Let someone else handle that mess”, Chris might have said). Since all of that happened around the time of Avengers Disassembled, give or take a few years, I was happy to see the Xorneto plot as an effect of the Scarlet Witch tempering with reality. Marvel didn’t go that way, though. 1. You are correct. They literally retconned it two months after Morrison's run ended but, in modern Marvel fashion, didn't bother giving an explanation. 2. Even if Xorn wasn't Magneto, his shock seemed odd to me considering, directly before Morrison's run, Magneto was in full villain-mode (He Kidnapped Professor X, was actively preparing for war against humanity, and nearly killed a few of Jean Grey's temporary X-Men). The continuity post-Morrison really did become a mess.
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Post by Cheswick on Jun 17, 2018 0:45:45 GMT -5
I got this B&W pocket size reprint at a convenience store in 1982; I'd never read either of the two stories in it before. I also felt it needed some color, though I only got about ten pages in with my "improvements." I remember being so excited when that book came out because, before its release, the only other way to read that story was if you could find and afford to buy the original. Shortly after they released this version (about a year?), they released a full-color, cardstock Special Edition, whish I also happily purchased.
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Post by Cheswick on Jun 15, 2018 0:55:27 GMT -5
They were solid books and they were enhanced by top tier artists. The "Classic" Avengers had been gone for many years before Bendis came along unless you liked the Chuck Austin run... You're certainly right about that.. the Classic Avengers were gone with the Bomber Jackets, really (or at least on life support). I like Bendis' Spidey, but he can't really do multiple voices, so when he does a team book they're ALL Spidey. That could be forgiven if the plots were great, but they really weren't. In that regard he was ahead of his time, considering that's the approach the Marvel movies often seem to take with many of their characters.
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Post by Cheswick on Jun 9, 2018 2:01:18 GMT -5
Just finished the New Mutants from from 2003, that was only around for 13 issues. That series continues in New X-Men: Academy X, by the same writers. I think they figured it would sell better with X-Men in the title. Those writers (Defilippis & Wier) wrote it for 20 issues, then Craig Kyle and Chris Yost wrote it from #21-46. If you liked New Mutants, it's worth checking out.
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Post by Cheswick on Jun 8, 2018 4:32:52 GMT -5
rberman, I noticed you posted over on CBR, asking about Morrison & Whedon X-men-related blogs and podcasts. I don't like posting over there, so I decided respond over here. I don't know of any podcasts or blogs but, over at Comics Cube, Travis Hedge Coke has posted a few articles about Morrison's run that are interesting and worth checking out. www.comicscube.com/search?q=pop+medicine+new+x-men www.comicscube.com/search?q=xorn
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Post by Cheswick on Jun 7, 2018 8:53:27 GMT -5
As Wildfire mentioned, the gold student is Elixer. He was a cast member, at the time, of the New X-Men series by married writing team Nunzio DeFilippis & Christina Wier. I like that Whedon chose to use a pre-existing character with healing powers, rather than just creating one to suit his needs. Little continuity bits like that are always appreciated.
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Post by Cheswick on Jun 5, 2018 23:23:08 GMT -5
I voted for 1.Alan Scott 2.Jade 3.John Stewart
I'm also a big fan of Katma Tui and, regarding newer GLs, I really like Jessica Cruz.
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Post by Cheswick on May 20, 2018 0:31:02 GMT -5
An interesting thing about this arc is that it led to the creation of We3, the series Morrison and Quitely did for Vertigo about weaponized animals. He initially conceived of it as an X-Men spinoff-of-sorts about Weapon II.
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Post by Cheswick on May 12, 2018 3:03:51 GMT -5
Also, Morrison always seems to design his superhero stuff to have franchise potential, and to plant seeds for other writers. And then other writers basically never use his set-ups. He's incredibly influential on mainstream comic writers in terms of style of storytelling and tone but nobody seems to want to borrow his ideas. This might be because he doesn't seem to have much use for continuity, and rarely seems to use other current comic writer's work as a springboard. When he took over the X-men he basically said "Listen, I'm not reading this crap that came before me. If the editors really need me to tie up some plot points I'll do it, but it might take me a while." Shockingly, his run was really, really unpopular among quite a few established X-men fans. I can see that. A segment of X-Fans seem to like the same stories/ideas recycled. I guess there is some sense of comfort in that? But, as a recently-returned reader, it was exactly what I was looking for: Familiar characters and concepts balanced with new and creative approaches and ideas. This was one of the books that made it an exciting time to get back into comics.
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Post by Cheswick on May 11, 2018 11:25:19 GMT -5
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Post by Cheswick on May 11, 2018 9:43:40 GMT -5
One of the things I find notable about Morrison's run is the number of characters he created for it. His 42 issue stint featured more than 60 new characters. Quentin and the Cuckoos being my favorites among them. It's too bad many later writers didn't seem to get Quentin IMO. My chief regret with Quentin is that we didn't meet him earlier as we did Beak. He would have been more human and tragic if we had seen him as a normal student, Xavier's prize pupil. Instead, we don't meet him until the day that he goes off the rails. Perhaps Morrison had not conceived him early enough to introduce him back during the Cassandra Nova arc, and then during the Fantomex story it was too late to work him in since there was no B-plot. In fact, I'd have to say that my biggest complaint with Morrison is his lack of B-plots, which results in some pretty decompressed, story-lite issues, especially in the upcoming issues. That's not to say that I don't enjoy his work, though. As for new characters, yes, there have been a lot, some of whom are yet to come. By my recollection we have: Cassandra Nova Negasonic Teenage Warhead Xorn Jun Ao Beak Angel Half a dozen Shi'ar Superguardians Martha Johannson John Sublime Fantomex Private Animal E.V.A. The Huntsman (Weapon XII) Dust Officer Foster (I think he's new?) 5 Stepford Cuckoos Quentin Quire Jumbo Carnation Basilisk Ernst Dummy Herman Redneck Radian Tattoo Slick Ultimaton (Weapon XV) Skylark Rover Tito The 'crawler hybrids The Superguardians he created are Mammoth, Stuff, Squorm, Monstra, Cosmo, Arc, G-Type, Neosaurus. Plutona, Blimp, Schism and Fader. The students he created--other than the ones you listed--are Eosimias*, Pako*, Crater*, Stalwart*, Choir*, Imp*, Polymer*, Mentat*, Keratin*, Contact*, Spike, Butterfly, Skywalker, Cephlopod*, Longneck*and Forearm*. The future characters--other than Skylark and Rover--are Corona, Maker, Mer-Max, Bumbleboy, Brian, Koo-Koo, Beak II and Apollyon. There was also "Toad-In-Waiting" on Genosha and Ugly John.
*-These students were not named in story, but their names were later provided by Morrison to the Official Handbook editors for the Xavier Institute entry.
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Post by Cheswick on May 11, 2018 8:20:00 GMT -5
I didn't realize it was Morrison who did the early Quentin Quire stuff.. I have to read that at some point. One of the things I find notable about Morrison's run is the number of characters he created for it. His 42 issue stint featured more than 60 new characters. Quentin and the Cuckoos being my favorites among them. It's too bad many later writers didn't seem to get Quentin IMO.
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Post by Cheswick on May 6, 2018 23:24:56 GMT -5
Was the Jean envy something that Morrison came up with? I’m really ignorant of what happened between 1993 and 2000 in the X-titles... In any case, it’s a good idea (as was the whole development of Emma as a character). When I stopped collecting and reading back in the 80s, Emma was trying to keep the Hellions in line at the Massachusetts Academy. I never even read the Firestar series until recently. So I am even more ignorant than you! Speaking of my ignorance... does anyone know why this book seemed to come out 14 times a year? It is a weird number. Was there some master plan to have a different X-book hit the shelves every week? I don't remember Emma and Jean having much, if any, interaction before Morrison's run.
At the time, Marvel was shipping the main X-Men books up to 15 or 16 times a year. It probably had something to do with the fact that they sold very well and Marvel was literally in desperate need of funds back then.
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