Not to disparage the writers or letterers, but the preview for this issue, without word balloons, was more fun; because it really made it look like Kurt was mmmmmaybe pretending to be more hurt than he was, so Psylocke wouid hold him. Oh, the pain! From 2006,
Uncanny X-Men #473, "Family Lies! The First Foursaken, part 2 of 3" Plot by Chris Claremont, script by Tony Bedard, pencils by Roger Cruz, inks by Victor Olazaba.
This was nearing the end of Claremont's third, and final, run on
Uncanny; which I had mostly enjoyed but had maybe been spinning its wheels for a bit. Kurt's squad, with Psylocke, Rachel, Bishop and...ugh...Cannonball; up against the very, very hyped-up Jamie Braddock. The Watcher appears--and allows himself to be seen, before dropping a bunch of exposition, which feels like they're really trying to sell Jamie as a dangerous, unstoppable force of nature, and nah. Jamie also has a posse, his old crew of bad kids and hangers-on, that have powers too; and they all have very Claremont British names like "Godfrey Calthrop," and I'm kind of hoping Chris named them after brats he knew in school. There's a big sky beam, which I guess would've been novel back then and hadn't appeared in like 90 movies yet? (Watch a bunch of
Honest Trailers and drink every time there's a sky beam!) There's ghostly salamanders that can pull someone's spirit out of their body; and there's another Claremont standard, as Kurt realizes Jamie has made Psylocke invisible to his old crew, so she can stop them? But everyone gets sucked into a vortex in the end...There's a blurb for "Loose Ends!" next issue, but the letters page is already hyping up
#475 and new writer Ed Brubaker. (Enh...)
Also, this was back when Nightcrawler had pretty strict limitations to his powers, that seem to have completely fallen by the wayside in the years since? There's an episode of X-MEN '97, where Cyclops says "Kurt can teleport us (from the mansion) to Muir Island," and I blurted out "HE'S NOT A ####ING BUS, SCOTT."
They gave Claremont a 3rd stint on Uncanny!? Wow, I do not know how I missed that. Of course it doesn't necessarily look like I missed out on anything either though as it doesn't really seem like Claremont had much of anything new or relevant to say that by that point. *Shrugs*
ReplyDeleteOh Kurt DEFINITELY looks like he's milking it for all he's worth & brother, I don't blame him one damn bit.
Well, Claremont's 3rd run followed on the heels of the Chuck Austen run, so it is entirely understandable that you might have grown used to averting your eyes from Uncanny X-Men as a survival instinct.
ReplyDelete(Me, I'm the dope who started buying Uncanny when Joe Casey took over and kept going thru the first year of Claremont's run. I think I bailed when X-23 showed up, but I should have jumped ship long before then.)
And yes, Kurt is definitely allowing himself to enjoy the moment there.
I didn’t he jumped on after Austen. *Shivers*
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