http://www.continuityerror.com/2006/09/26/x-men-sucked-in-the-1960s/ Because Comics Matter Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:01:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.continuityerror.com/2006/09/26/x-men-sucked-in-the-1960s/#comment-17 Anonymous Mon, 06 Nov 2006 11:05:46 +0000 http://www.continuityerror.com/?p=7#comment-17 Great comments, had me in stitches! I'm trying to make my way through these issues as well but I think that they are at least bearable. To be honest I'm just trying to work up to the Neal Adams issues because I read some of the reprints in X-men Classics and they were quite impressive. However there are some more points that need to be made about these original issues; 1) Magneto is plain nuts and as you point out for some reason he is the second most powerful telepaph in the world! I suppose they explained his craziness by the whole 'he became an infant and therefore his actions before this are not really his own' rubbish (as in Uncanny X-men 200 and issue 3 of X-men) and you could extend this to the removal of his telepaphic powers. 2) Xavier smokes a pipe ALL the time, the cocky old fool. But he never does later on in the series and gets all sanctimonious when Wolverine smokes in his mansion. 3) Xavier keeps pretenting to lose his powers or to die to test his students, putting these rookie heroes in serious danger each time. The guy is a first class w****r! 4) In issue 2 his thought bubble reveals the fact that he's in love with Jean! The dirty old man, she's supposed to be what 15-18 in these comics? 5) If Magneto and Xavier were such close friends and Uncanny X-men -1 shows that they were aware that they would be opposing each other why does Magneto and his goons waste so much time looking for the X-men when they could simply knock on Xaviers' door? Xavier's a wolrd renowed genetics expert, yet his old bud Maggie can't even find out where he lives when everyone else in the world knows this information. 6) Maybe its an American thing but why is Cyclops 'Slim' Summers in issue 1 and then Scott for the rest of it? If Slim is his nickname why does no-one ever call him by it ever again?<br />And at the start of these issues the X-men are heroes in the public eye, and they have a crazy superiority complex about being homo sapiens superior. I can stand most of these problems but its the dirty old man Xavier who's doing my nut in, honestly forget Patrick Stewart, Jimmy Saville would have been perfect to play this wierd old fool! Great comments, had me in stitches! I’m trying to make my way through these issues as well but I think that they are at least bearable. To be honest I’m just trying to work up to the Neal Adams issues because I read some of the reprints in X-men Classics and they were quite impressive. However there are some more points that need to be made about these original issues; 1) Magneto is plain nuts and as you point out for some reason he is the second most powerful telepaph in the world! I suppose they explained his craziness by the whole ‘he became an infant and therefore his actions before this are not really his own’ rubbish (as in Uncanny X-men 200 and issue 3 of X-men) and you could extend this to the removal of his telepaphic powers. 2) Xavier smokes a pipe ALL the time, the cocky old fool. But he never does later on in the series and gets all sanctimonious when Wolverine smokes in his mansion. 3) Xavier keeps pretenting to lose his powers or to die to test his students, putting these rookie heroes in serious danger each time. The guy is a first class w****r! 4) In issue 2 his thought bubble reveals the fact that he’s in love with Jean! The dirty old man, she’s supposed to be what 15-18 in these comics? 5) If Magneto and Xavier were such close friends and Uncanny X-men -1 shows that they were aware that they would be opposing each other why does Magneto and his goons waste so much time looking for the X-men when they could simply knock on Xaviers’ door? Xavier’s a wolrd renowed genetics expert, yet his old bud Maggie can’t even find out where he lives when everyone else in the world knows this information. 6) Maybe its an American thing but why is Cyclops ‘Slim’ Summers in issue 1 and then Scott for the rest of it? If Slim is his nickname why does no-one ever call him by it ever again?
And at the start of these issues the X-men are heroes in the public eye, and they have a crazy superiority complex about being homo sapiens superior. I can stand most of these problems but its the dirty old man Xavier who’s doing my nut in, honestly forget Patrick Stewart, Jimmy Saville would have been perfect to play this wierd old fool!

]]> http://www.continuityerror.com/2006/09/26/x-men-sucked-in-the-1960s/#comment-2 Chip Chief Fri, 29 Sep 2006 18:24:26 +0000 http://www.continuityerror.com/?p=7#comment-2 nice. thats some funny stuff. especially reason 1. i guess they wanted you to get the most reading time for your money. nice. thats some funny stuff. especially reason 1. i guess they wanted you to get the most reading time for your money.

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