Great interview, but I don't agree about Kitty's use of the N-word (and Stevie being written to be chastened by it) being anything but gratuitous and not thought through with any sensitivity. It might be understandable from an actual 14-year old girl in her situation, but if put into a narrative about prejudice and genocide it needs to be framed as to be problematized.
Hey off topic, but are you the same "WizarDru" who hung out regularly at ENWorld message boards?
Oh and yeah, this seems off. As someone said before, the whole thing seems off. I've been dealing with this by avoiding the main series and sticking with tie-ins that have their own take on what's at stake (like Power Man and Iron Fist, Ms. Marvel, and All-New Wolverine).
One of my cats was acting like an asshole while I was trying to watch the Death of X review, and I am convinced it was because she could somehow sense I was watching another cat get attentive affection.
More coming next week!
Yeah, the blue made me think X-Men uniform, but the suit wasn't plaid. So thus the covert cosplay.
I want to [heart] this a million times.
I have been mulling over a blog post about Native erasure in superhero comics (from my perspective as a reader) and this info is very helpful. Thanks!
I listen to a lot of other podcasts with my wife (Serial, This American Life, etc. . ) it can be fun to talk about them - pause during, discuss after, but obvious they have to share topics we're both interested in.
BTW, if that one issue is anything to go by that series is pretty terrible. Maybe Terry Austin (who wrote it) should have stuck to inking.
Wow. I don''t even recognize the majority of the characters people are suggesting!
I listened to the Meltdown episode today (finally, not commuting over the summer means less time for podcasts) and hunted down this thread when I noted a few weeks ago.
Anyway, the thing that sticks out to me about Meltdown is how Havok and Wolverine are something of an odd couple. Sure the series tries to play up their friendship, but from a reader point of view, they are not usually thought of as "related characters" in the way that Wolvie is paired with Kitty or Jubilee, Beast with Iceman and/or Angel, Havok and Polaris, Jean and Scott, etc. . .
So to me a pairing has to be unusual. In that case, I'd go with Cannonball and Storm. His Appalachian upbringing and Storm's African origins are different enough, obviously, but I also think the history of places being exploited for resources and widespread poverty and narratives of "backwardness" would make for interesting overlaps. Maybe "Storm and Cannonball: Strip Mine" would be a good name. :)
I think Storm and Sunspot might also be a good team-up.
Great underrated series!
I've never even heard of it, so I am living your dream! ;)
An update:
I recently decided to also collect issue of Classic X-Men/X-Men Classic. I found an issue that covers the X-Men story where Storm goes to Harlem for the first time (in continuity) and since I had never read that issue and it was only $1 I picked it up.
A month later I was at the Half-Price Books clearance sale in Monroeville, PA and found a stack of Classic X-Men in pretty good condition for 50 cents each (some were 25 cents)! So I decided to get those, too - so now my plan is to get the first 44 issues in order to have all the back-up stories (they stopped with #45) and b/c I am curious the degree to which new stuff was inserted into the original stories themselves (something Wikipedia told me happened, even though the artists didn't match). I was able to get such a big stack that I am just 14 issues short of having those 44 issues.
Anyone else get/has gotten these?
I'll check it out!
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No podcast this week is sad, but Jay being sicky is sadder. Feel better soon!
I automatically skip all issues that are part of a crossover that expects me to buy issues of another title I don't already buy. So, at least for me, this marketing ploy is unproductive. I used to be a little wishy-washy about this policy only skipping about half the time depending on my level of annoyance, but in the last four years I've stood firm (OK, I did give in and got issues of Darth Vader to have the full "Vader Down" storyline, when I usually only get Star Wars).
Thanks for sharing this! I saw the one about the Chinese food and the dudes harassing that woman being shared a while back, but I didn't know there was more. I think actual Spider-Man (and X-Men, and others) comics should take a cue from stuff like this.
This is great and I am a little jealous of your colleagues. Do you know how large the full collection is?
I love searching through and cataloging comics archives. I did for my own collection (as dissertation distraction), did it for a big box of comics a friend bequeathed to me (that had not been opening since 1991), and I am frequently trying to convince my friend with a collection about four times the size of mine to let me help him do it.
But mostly I want to know what the heck is that soft core "Search for Cyclops" comic pictured at the link you shared? I have never heard of that before. Was he missing? Who was searching? Where is his shirt? What's with his eyes?
For those who are interested, I ended up getting two new short boxes. I labeled one "Brand X" and it is for ancillary X-related stuff like Excalibur and Dazzler and Fallen Angels and Team America (really).
The other one is for my on-going Image books (Bitch Planet, Monstress, No Mercy, The Fix, Paper Girls, etc) since my "Indies" box was overfull.
[Hmmm. I guess to include an image here it needs to hosted somewhere else? That kinda stinks]
I was an average 70s kid (didn't start watching Star Trek until the 1980s AFTER Wrath of Khan came out - if not being a Trekkie is the measure) and there was no one in my fam who was a space nerd (unless Star Wars counts), but I was aware of the shuttle. They gave news reports on Enterprise regularly on the national news.
As I have said elsewhere, I am just not down with homeboy's name being "Goldballs." Maybe if there were more visible Latinx characters with decent names, a stupid name like Goldballs would be okay. But on its own I give it the side-eye.
Otherwise, I know nothing about the character aside from his appearance in the recent Spider-Man series.
There was enough consciousness about it pre-first space flight that the Enterprise (the first one) was NAMED Enterprise b/c Star Trek fans started a campaign to make it have that name.
I re-read whole series less frequently than I am pulling out particular issues/arcs in order to write about them and/or scan images from them. So, I guess thematic makes most sense. My brain knows to look for any mutant-related series in the X-related box, just like I'd look for Silver Surfer in the FF box b/c I associate the character with Galactus, who shall forever be a FF villain in my mind. Does that help?
I also keep an up to date spreadsheet with all my comics, so if I can't remember when a book would be found I can search for it. If there was an obvious way to attach a file I'd add it here.
As for library science, once after watching Party Girl for like the 10th time I tried to create a catalog system for the ordering of my comics, but failed. :/
This makes sense. So Dazzler would not be in the main X-box (hehe), but something like Wolverine mini or Storm would be. (see my other reply below as well).



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