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Post by Prince Hal on Mar 8, 2016 15:21:55 GMT -5
Why...yes! It was Post-Hijack Boy! Or maybe it was Troll Lad. Or H8r Girl. Or Sass Lass. Or Weird Alien Real Name Kid. Or Shade Throwing Guy. Or... The Syber Six! Of course! I feel much better. And so do John Forte and Ed Hamilton.  |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Mar 8, 2016 15:39:29 GMT -5
Charles Xavier and Mystique having been married. *sigh* What?!? When did that happen? Toward the end of Bendis's X-Men run. Charles married Mystique in secret and they had a baby who would grow up to be a psychotic bald telepath, returning to his own past (our present) to punish the X-Men for... er... something or other. Maybe for killing his dad, although that wasn't the X-Men, that was a Phoenix-possessed Cyclops. Maybe for taking over his school and changing its name, although that was done with Xavier's blessing. Maybe for making him bald. (Wait... That was Lex Luthor, right?) That storyline was a continuity disaster!!! |
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Post by DE Sinclair on Mar 8, 2016 15:56:13 GMT -5
What?!? When did that happen? Toward the end of Bendis's X-Men run. Charles married Mystique in secret and they had a baby who would grow up to be a psychotic bald telepath, returning to his own past (our present) to punish the X-Men for... er... something or other. Maybe for killing his dad, although that wasn't the X-Men, that was a Phoenix-possessed Cyclops. Maybe for taking over his school and changing its name, although that was done with Xavier's blessing. Maybe for making him bald. (Wait... That was Lex Luthor, right?) That storyline was a continuity disaster!!! Well that's relief. At first it sounded bad. Lately I've been thinking that the one thing the X-Men didn't have enough of was time-traveling shenanigans. Having characters come back to the present from the future (or from the past even) can't help but be good comics, right? Good to see they've fixed that. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Mar 8, 2016 16:10:08 GMT -5
Toward the end of Bendis's X-Men run. Charles married Mystique in secret and they had a baby who would grow up to be a psychotic bald telepath, returning to his own past (our present) to punish the X-Men for... er... something or other. Maybe for killing his dad, although that wasn't the X-Men, that was a Phoenix-possessed Cyclops. Maybe for taking over his school and changing its name, although that was done with Xavier's blessing. Maybe for making him bald. (Wait... That was Lex Luthor, right?) That storyline was a continuity disaster!!! Well that's relief. At first it sounded bad. Lately I've been thinking that the one thing the X-Men didn't have enough of was time-traveling shenanigans. Having characters come back to the present from the future (or from the past even) can't help but be good comics, right? Good to see they've fixed that. They went one step further: these time-traveling mutants from the future, when their plans fail, just send themselves a letter (held by a lawyer's office for twenty years, I'd imagine) to explain to themselves what went wrong the first time and how to fix their plan. That way they can travel back to the past again and again and again, in a never-ending spiral of rehashed plotting!!! |
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Post by DE Sinclair on Mar 8, 2016 16:17:43 GMT -5
Well that's relief. At first it sounded bad. Lately I've been thinking that the one thing the X-Men didn't have enough of was time-traveling shenanigans. Having characters come back to the present from the future (or from the past even) can't help but be good comics, right? Good to see they've fixed that. They went one step further: these time-traveling mutants from the future, when their plans fail, just send themselves a letter (held by a lawyer's office for twenty years, I'd imagine) to explain to themselves what went wrong the first time and how to fix their plan. That way they can travel back to the past again and again and again, in a never-ending spiral of rehashed plotting!!! A letter? Was there no other way that was even less reliable to send themselves a crucially important message? Couldn't they have used one of those pink "While you were out" notes and pinned it to the bulletin board? |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Mar 8, 2016 16:22:36 GMT -5
They went one step further: these time-traveling mutants from the future, when their plans fail, just send themselves a letter (held by a lawyer's office for twenty years, I'd imagine) to explain to themselves what went wrong the first time and how to fix their plan. That way they can travel back to the past again and again and again, in a never-ending spiral of rehashed plotting!!! A letter? Was there no other way that was even less reliable to send themselves a crucially important message? Couldn't they have used one of those pink "While you were out" notes and pinned it to the bulletin board? As I recall it wasn't even a proper letter, it was more of a folded piece of paper. Oh, and to make things worse (yes, yes, it's possible!!!), Psycho Xavier Kid has a slightly older brother, whose parents are Mystique and... Wolverine. |
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Post by DE Sinclair on Mar 8, 2016 16:39:53 GMT -5
A letter? Was there no other way that was even less reliable to send themselves a crucially important message? Couldn't they have used one of those pink "While you were out" notes and pinned it to the bulletin board? As I recall it wasn't even a proper letter, it was more of a folded piece of paper. Oh, and to make things worse (yes, yes, it's possible!!!), Psycho Xavier Kid has a slightly older brother, whose parents are Mystique and... Wolverine. Well, Mystique apparently gets around and has no regard for contraceptives. Wasn't she also Nightcrawler's mother? With some demon or other?
No wonder I haven't read the X-Men in years.
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Post by Rob Allen on Mar 8, 2016 20:17:48 GMT -5
I don't know if it was actually published, but I read a story told by an artist who worked in the 1950s at one of the lower-tier publishers. He was given a script for a short filler jungle story in which a rhinoceros hunts, kills and eats a zebra. He protested to the writer that rhinos are plant-eaters, and the reply was something like, "who cares? it's just a comic book".
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Post by Prince Hal on Mar 8, 2016 22:08:38 GMT -5
I don't know if it was actually published, but I read a story told by an artist who worked in the 1950s at one of the lower-tier publishers. He was given a script for a short filler jungle story in which a rhinoceros hunts, kills and eats a zebra. He protested to the writer that rhinos are plant-eaters, and the reply was something like, "who cares? it's just a comic book". Maybe it was a RINO... Rhino in Name Only. |
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Post by Farrar on Mar 8, 2016 22:43:25 GMT -5
Luckily, the Sentinels decided to go beat up what they perceived as the source of life on Earth : the sun! The sun won.  I...who wrote that? I believe it was Roy Thomas, during his collaboration with Neal Adams on the book. The Sentinels couldn't really help themselves, as they were not very bright machines... they just obeyed their programming. Furthermore, it was later revealed (in an Avengers story) that some of them, instead of flying into the sun, remained on Earth to build a sun-destroying device. That's the story in which Quicksilver was wounded, leading to his ending up in Crystal's care and to their eventual marriage. The ending to the Sentinels story in X-Men #59 seems to have been suggested by a college student who was interning at Marvel at the time. The intern's name? Chris Claremont. In the book Comics Creators on X-Men, Claremont recounts the following: "...when Roy was trying to find a way to get rid of the Sentinels at the end of X-Men #59, I popped up with the idea that the ultimate source of all mutation was probably the sun . I tossed up the idea and Roy grabbed it and ran with it. And Neal drew that spectacular last page of the Sentinels flying into the sun."
A few years later, in Avengers #102 (the first part of the other Sentinels story mentioned in RR's post), CC is actually named in the credits: "From an idea suggested by Chris Claremont." |
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