Ah, I'm feeling a million times better than I did last week, so getting into it: I had to try and consult an X-Men reading order, to try and make sense of when Longshot joins. Because, just following Nightcrawler, it doesn't make sense: Kurt was MIA after disappearing in Uncanny #209. During the fight with Nimrod, he was going to try to teleport part of the robot; but Rogue had used that trick on him before, and Nimrod was ready for it. Only Kurt's costume remained; but Kitty, Illyana, and Piotr would find him next month in #210; where they save him from an angry mob: he had caught a nasty beating, and was seemingly unable to teleport. The reading order puts X-Men Annual #10 next, where Longshot joins, and Kurt is seemingly fine there; then still injured again in Uncanny #211, where he would be put into a coma and written out of the book. Longshot wouldn't appear again until Uncanny #215.
Still, we do get to see Kurt take a stab at Mojo in X-Men Annual #10, so okay? Kurt (and Kitty) both really believed the X-Men were dead, and felt like they had let down their friends by not being there, either to help or die with them; but Longshot was there for them? A spacey alien they'd known for figuratively, about five minutes? I feel like that would sting for them.
Didn’t Longshot date the arms lady- Spindle or Spiral or something like that- at some point? I’m not much of a Marvel guy in general but X-Men and X-Men related stuff is an especially weak point for me outside of the arcade game and the Pryde of the X-Men special it was based on.
On a related note, they bit it in Dallas? How did that go- JFK style, JR style? Some sort of lone gunman thing- maybe that weapons guy (I know you’ve used him, but the name escapes me) did it?
Ha! Good one. I remember that one issue drawn by Liefield, #245, where a Jean Bomb is about to be dropped on Australia. The whole issue is Claremont riffing on INVASION!
Uh-oh, when Bishop shows up with dire warnings, can Cable (with contradictory dire warnings) be far behind? Or maybe I just watched the '90s X-Men cartoon too much.
The thing about Spiral being Ricochet that Mojo captured and modified in the future, then sent back to his past self (which is apparently the explanation Nicieza came up with), always struck me as weird. Mostly because Mojo is so vain there's no way I can picture him sending Spiral back to help his past self out. After all, what has Past Mojo ever done for Present (and obviously Best) Mojo? Screw that guy!
I generally enjoy the Australia era. Really, the post Uncanny 201 era up until the Muir Island thing. In part because Cyclops isn't around to lame things up. (which makes it really sad that Havok is somehow even lamer).
You definitely have watched too much, but I like your style.
Huh.:.definitely sounds like a weird & unnecessarily complicated explanation & process all the way around. But that’s vintage X-Men all over, especially during the latter part of Claremont’s run.
The Australia era was certainly a nice little detour for the team, to get them out of their normal setting & comfort zone and present new story possibilities and interactions. It definitely ended as wildly as it started, with the Seige Perilous never having had come into play for the team since. I wonder why it was never used as a way of officially ending the Krakoan era.
If only Mark Gruenwald were still alive he’d have tried super-hard to made it work…somehow….
ReplyDeleteYeah it definitely doesn’t add up, but then that wasn’t always unusual for Claremont to get his own stuff mixed up from time to time.
Can’t call Dazzler eh? Oh this should be good….
Didn’t Longshot date the arms lady- Spindle or Spiral or something like that- at some point? I’m not much of a Marvel guy in general but X-Men and X-Men related stuff is an especially weak point for me outside of the arcade game and the Pryde of the X-Men special it was based on.
ReplyDeleteOn a related note, they bit it in Dallas? How did that go- JFK style, JR style? Some sort of lone gunman thing- maybe that weapons guy (I know you’ve used him, but the name escapes me) did it?
Spiral yeah, who used to be a woman named Rita.
DeleteNo, nothing that conspiratorial. It was an ancient evil Native American spirit named the Adversary.
Fall of the Mutants wasn't my favorite, but it did set up a ton of jokes in What The--?! "Where do muties go when they die?" "Australia!"
ReplyDeleteI don't think Longshot remembers Rita, or he'd put maybe some effort into saving her from being Spiral.
Ha! Good one. I remember that one issue drawn by Liefield, #245, where a Jean Bomb is about to be dropped on Australia. The whole issue is Claremont riffing on INVASION!
DeleteUh-oh, when Bishop shows up with dire warnings, can Cable (with contradictory dire warnings) be far behind? Or maybe I just watched the '90s X-Men cartoon too much.
ReplyDeleteThe thing about Spiral being Ricochet that Mojo captured and modified in the future, then sent back to his past self (which is apparently the explanation Nicieza came up with), always struck me as weird. Mostly because Mojo is so vain there's no way I can picture him sending Spiral back to help his past self out. After all, what has Past Mojo ever done for Present (and obviously Best) Mojo? Screw that guy!
I generally enjoy the Australia era. Really, the post Uncanny 201 era up until the Muir Island thing. In part because Cyclops isn't around to lame things up. (which makes it really sad that Havok is somehow even lamer).
You definitely have watched too much, but I like your style.
DeleteHuh.:.definitely sounds like a weird & unnecessarily complicated explanation & process all the way around. But that’s vintage X-Men all over, especially during the latter part of Claremont’s run.
The Australia era was certainly a nice little detour for the team, to get them out of their normal setting & comfort zone and present new story possibilities and interactions. It definitely ended as wildly as it started, with the Seige Perilous never having had come into play for the team since. I wonder why it was never used as a way of officially ending the Krakoan era.