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X-Marathon: March 2014
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Reading the X-Men from #1 to last week. Usually posts Thursdays. Thursday, 27 March 2014. Uncanny X-Men #281: Telepath Fight. 281 is the first "core" post-Claremont book we're looking at. In X-Force. The element that wasn't. Present there, of course, is Jean Grey, what with her dying in 1980, before Emma was anything more than a cardboard cutout. That Jean/Emma dynamic starts to come alive here, for a moment. Until Jean Grey gets killed off in the last few pages. Well, that didn't last long, ...Special s...
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X-Marathon: Uncanny X-Men #282-#283: Bishop
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Reading the X-Men from #1 to last week. Usually posts Thursdays. Friday, 10 October 2014. Uncanny X-Men #282-#283: Bishop. The best bit of Uncanny X-Men. 282 is, without a doubt, the editorial note on Storm's explanation of #281. It says "Not quite what you saw last issue, but take our word for it! The sheer cheek in contradicting in a footnote. Something that happened last issue. Which had the same creative team. In other inconsistent mortality news, it turns out that Jean Grey is not really dead. Aroun...
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X-Marathon: the plan
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Reading the X-Men from #1 to last week. Usually posts Thursdays. I am now planning the post-Claremont 1990s! There is no way that I can read all of it and blog it to the level I want and still be done in my lifetime. I am definitely going to cover the major events. This is my list so far:. Basically everything until the X-Cutioner's Song. X-Cutioner's Song (Uncanny #294-#297, etc). Fatal Attractions (Uncanny #304, etc). Phalanx Covenant (Uncanny #316-#317, etc). Generation X initial arc at least.
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X-Marathon: February 2014
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Reading the X-Men from #1 to last week. Usually posts Thursdays. Thursday, 27 February 2014. New Mutants #98-#100: No New Mutants. For all that I waffle about comics, I don’t talk about comic art much, which is a habit I am trying to break. So, let's talk about the art of this final arc of New Mutants. As I have been reading more of this era I am starting to appreciate what artists like Jim Lee and Rob Liefeld (who is the guilty party for New Mutants. 98-#100) were trying to do. What else do we have here?
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X-Marathon: December 2013
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Reading the X-Men from #1 to last week. Usually posts Thursdays. Tuesday, 31 December 2013. Uncanny X-Men #264: Alphabet Hunt. 264 starts with a couple of New York cops witnessing a Genoshan state kidnap squad attacking Forge. The elder partner is killed, natch, leaving the more junior partner, Officer Jones, alive. Jones had previously appeared in X-Factor. I wouldn't want to be a mutant in America in 1990. And Peter David's X-Factor. Glazed with mutant fire or just gas power? Uncanny x-men vol 1.
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X-Marathon: Uncanny X-Men #284-#286: There Lived a Certain Man in Russia Long Ago
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Reading the X-Men from #1 to last week. Usually posts Thursdays. Thursday, 26 February 2015. Uncanny X-Men #284-#286: There Lived a Certain Man in Russia Long Ago. 284 is more literate than I was expecting. It opens with a potted summary of the dispute between Japan and Russia over Sakhalin. And in which Colossus is heralded as a Messiah (shades of Whedon's Unstoppable. Again, here it brings us Time Trax. A couple of years early. Oh well. Uncanny x-men vol 1. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I am a *c...
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X-Marathon: April 2014
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Reading the X-Men from #1 to last week. Usually posts Thursdays. Thursday, 10 April 2014. Wolverine #48-#50: Shiva Scenario. I'm not even really kidding about it being a movie. In a warehouse in Detroit he finds the sets. For the buddy cop movie, for the incident with Silver Fox in #10. And for a variety of other locations. Logan's memories are contradictory. He remembers Sabretooth killing Silver Fox, he remembers the cabin they had; but he also remembers fighting her many decades later. Which is well w...
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X-Marathon: Hulk #391/X-Factor #76/Hulk #392: What's Green and Clever?
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Reading the X-Men from #1 to last week. Usually posts Thursdays. Thursday, 5 March 2015. Hulk #391/X-Factor #76/Hulk #392: What's Green and Clever? There are several types of comics crossovers, and. Here is a Type C: books written by same person. Peter David isn't much one for Type A or B crossovers, it appears, but he'll do a Type C every so often. In. Well, when was the last time we checked in on that? A lot has changed in. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I am a *coughty-mumble* year old peripheral...
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X-Marathon: shag chart rationale
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Reading the X-Men from #1 to last week. Usually posts Thursdays. Angel-Candy: They are in a serious relationship by the time of X-Factor. We can take this as read. Iceman-Zelda, Vera-Beast: They were dating for a considerable period of the 1960s. Vera-Mimic: They appear to be lovers by the time of Amazing Adventures. 1 has them be dating by the time of Uncanny. Professor X-Moira MacTaggert: Former fiancees. Moira MacTaggert-Joe MacTaggert: They have a son. Scott-Maddy: They married in Uncanny. Havok-Pola...