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How Wonderful! posted:I'm never sure if those yellow and blue costumes are supposed to be student uniforms specifically or just generic X-Men uniforms (like what the Muir Island X-Men briefly wore). It's really weird if the former, like all these people in their mid-20s (maybe later for Kate Pryde?) just condemned to wander around in their school uniforms for the rest of their days. Certainly makes it easier to program giant robots to hunt them if they all look the same!
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Beerdeer posted:They did that twice. There was a set where only Magik had a decent suit talk about two very distinct art styles
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Have they actually been shrunken in size or changed into children in that second image? I take back what I said about the top one: Cannonball is 75% legs and his boots are taller than his torso. I think maybe Art Adams starts at the bottom of the page and works up, and there he realized that he was running out of space when he got to their belts.
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# ? Apr 23, 2020 19:59 |
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I don’t remember Jay and Miles talking about Cyclops briefly dating Colleen Wing. Jean is presumed dead by the X-Men after the incident at Magneto’s volcano base. Misty Knight knows that Jean is alive, but it never comes up when she’s with the X-Men in Japan.
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Bret Blevins was the artist in the second pic. His style is decidedly cartoony but it was a nice juxtaposition with the stories being told around then.
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# ? Apr 23, 2020 20:11 |
Warlock lookin' like the Crimson Chin
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# ? Apr 23, 2020 20:13 |
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I don't remember Cypher raiding Cyclops' closet but those boots and that visor say differently RE: Sam's helmet, he didn't have total control then like he does now, right? I seem to remember him blasting well but landing was something he was working on. It may also have been for anonymity.
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# ? Apr 23, 2020 20:44 |
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:Have they actually been shrunken in size or changed into children in that second image? I take back what I said about the top one: Cannonball is 75% legs and his boots are taller than his torso. I think maybe Art Adams starts at the bottom of the page and works up, and there he realized that he was running out of space when he got to their belts. Bret Blevins was a lot better than some New Mutants artists at making the kids look like kids although he had a bad habit of sexualizing them in weird ways.
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Beerdeer posted:Bret Blevins was the artist in the second pic. His style is decidedly cartoony but it was a nice juxtaposition with the stories being told around then. Yeah, and while Blevins had his habits he was absolutely the right artist to have on during Inferno which was right around the corner.
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the bird boy arc that blevins started on looks kinda rough but after that i love him, especially the inferno stuff. lot of great inanimate objects brought to life by demonic forces in those issues
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How Wonderful! posted:Bret Blevins was a lot better than some New Mutants artists at making the kids look like kids although he had a bad habit of sexualizing them in weird ways. Gosamyr.
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Speaking of sexualizing things, I’m up to the Illyana miniseries in the New Mutants epic volume and boy, this is unsettling in a way I can’t quite describe, like either Claremont isn’t quite aware of his paraphilias or he’s very aware of them and trying to figure out what he can slip into his story without getting weird looks: Honestly, this whole series is weird for superhero comics. It’s like Conan or something. But the narrative of a young kid thinking about how much she desires to serve a bdsm devil guy even though she knows she shouldn’t is not great.
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Welcome to reading the X-books, Antifa Turkeesian! Hope you survive the experience!
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I wonder if all that horny poo poo was part of why I liked X-Men when I was 14. I sure don’t remember any of this pronounced and endlessly varied horny.
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:I wonder if all that horny poo poo was part of why I liked X-Men when I was 14. I sure don’t remember any of this pronounced and endlessly varied horny.
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:I wonder if all that horny poo poo was part of why I liked X-Men when I was 14. I sure don’t remember any of this pronounced and endlessly varied horny. Probably.
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# ? Apr 24, 2020 00:40 |
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When I finally got around to reading the Dark Phoenix Saga in trade, like about the first thing we see from Jean is telekinetically turning her costume into a bikini and making out with Scott on a mesa. And that's even before we get to Chris' bottomless thirst for Storm.
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# ? Apr 24, 2020 00:44 |
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I’m starting his run from the beginning with the forthcoming X-Men omnibuses. I can’t wait to see his thirst from the beginning. New Mutants definitely has a lot of bikinis and people in underwear so far. When Selene kidnaps Moonstar to throw her into a volcano, she dresses her in a bikini first.
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Dawgstar posted:When I finally got around to reading the Dark Phoenix Saga in trade, like about the first thing we see from Jean is telekinetically turning her costume into a bikini and making out with Scott on a mesa. And that's even before we get to Chris' bottomless thirst for Storm. Like you wouldn't fly around naked in a rainstorm of your own making instead of taking a normal shower if you could.
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:When Selene kidnaps Moonstar to throw her into a volcano, she dresses her in a bikini first. As per the recommended practice.
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Skwirl posted:Like you wouldn't fly around naked in a rainstorm of your own making instead of taking a normal shower if you could. DID YOU KNOW HER NAME MEANS BEAUTY
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And here I thought I had seen peak Claremont already.
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Saoshyant posted:And here I thought I had seen peak Claremont already. You're in for a shock if you think that's anywhere close to the peak.
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# ? Apr 24, 2020 01:23 |
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am I mistaken or was that also the thing where Illyana came back from Limbo and told Kitty about meeting the alternate version of her called Shadowcat as pictured, and Kitty was like "i like that name, I'm gonna use that instead of Sprite now"
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Alaois posted:am I mistaken or was that also the thing where Illyana came back from Limbo and told Kitty about meeting the alternate version of her called Shadowcat as pictured, and Kitty was like "i like that name, I'm gonna use that instead of Sprite now" I think so, it's how Illyana got aged up. And it's Kate now.
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# ? Apr 24, 2020 03:19 |
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Skwirl posted:And it's Kate now. Aged up. (After 40 years)
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danbanana posted:Aged up. No, Ilyana fell into a portal to Limbo as a six year old and emerged as a twelveish year old seconds later in an issue of Uncanny X-Men, the Magik mini series explained what happened to her while she was in Limbo. Or did you mean Kate? She aged over the course of Claremont's run, not in anything close to real time, but she was at least college aged by the time he left Excalibur. Air Skwirl fucked around with this message at 03:29 on Apr 24, 2020 |
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Skwirl posted:
Kate's age was pretty ambiguous at that time, to the point where Warren Ellis thought she was significantly older when he had her hook up with Pete Wisdom. If you asked me, I'd say that Kitty was maybe 16? at most when Claremont left.
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Rochallor posted:Kate's age was pretty ambiguous at that time, to the point where Warren Ellis thought she was significantly older when he had her hook up with Pete Wisdom. If you asked me, I'd say that Kitty was maybe 16? at most when Claremont left. Wasn't she about to enroll in college?
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Yvonmukluk posted:God dang, that first Magik suit is awesome. Somebody @ Leah Williams, she's one of the go-to Magik writers right now. I spent way too much to hang out with her for a night, I'll bring it up.
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# ? Apr 24, 2020 05:01 |
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I feel like it's implied she was 18 once Excalibur started but I could be misremembering.
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Rick posted:I feel like it's implied she was 18 once Excalibur started but I could be misremembering.
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# ? Apr 24, 2020 05:55 |
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Kitty explicitly turned 15 in Excalibur #24 (and 14 in a backup story in a reprint I believe)
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Skwirl posted:
I guess that joke didn't go over as well as I thought... I meant that a character who has been treated as an adult for 40 years finally transitioned into having an adult name.
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https://twitter.com/AngstyX/status/1253677809823879169
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# ? Apr 24, 2020 14:35 |
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Who's that wearing jeans with a tie and blazer? Jean invited the cool science teacher from 9th grade?
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:Jean invited the cool science teacher from 9th grade? Isn't Beast "the cool 9th grade science teacher" at the school?
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I think that might be Forge, so... yeah, science teacher. Well, more like shop class.
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# ? Apr 24, 2020 15:40 |
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He looks like Tony Stark from the Fantastic Four/Iron Man show that was on around the same time--probably animated by the same studio with that trademark stiff, jerky animation style.
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:Speaking of sexualizing things, I’m up to the Illyana miniseries in the New Mutants epic volume and boy, this is unsettling in a way I can’t quite describe, like either Claremont isn’t quite aware of his paraphilias or he’s very aware of them and trying to figure out what he can slip into his story without getting weird looks: I was about 10 years old when I went to the zoo one year for trick or treat someone stuffed this comic into my bag. My friends got random issues of Batman and Iron man so I was confused. Dawgstar posted:And that's even before we get to Chris' bottomless thirst for Storm. Speaking of Bottomless Storm, that series features her skinny dipping and they show her bare rear end so I promptly hid that from mom and dad.
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