Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ucbvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (Jerry Boyajian) Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: Some comments Message-ID: <3850@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Sat, 6-Oct-84 14:06:01 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.3850 Posted: Sat Oct 6 14:06:01 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 7-Oct-84 21:59:20 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 48 From: dartvax!mwm (Mark Modrall) > Just a quick note about x-men 137.... i agree with the way that it was > handled. Jean had just killed a star system, but more than that, what would > they have done with her if she had lived...? a star-system, she may have been > able to cope with, but her very existence would have made the rest of the > x-men superfluous.... and if they had just taken away her powers, what good > would that do? you would have one normal person who used to be god that would > have to fade into the wood-work... no, the way they did it, they got rid of a > too powerful character, and made a hell of a good tear-jerker out of it.... Apparently, you're not aware of Claremont's plans for her if she had lived. She naturally would have gone into a deep depression after getting the "psychic lobotomy", and she and Scott would've both left the X-Men to get married. They go on a Caribbean cruise and get shipwrecked, landing on --- you guessed it --- Magneto's island. Magneto finds out about Jean's "lobotomy", and convinces her that he can restore her powers to her if she'll betray the X-Men and help him. It doesn't really matter whether or not he *can* do it, just as long as she believes that he *might* be able to do it. Her inner struggle to decide whether or not to go along with him would've formed the basis for #150 (if you had lost all of *your* senses, wouldn't you really consider doing *anything* to get them back?). I'm sorry that this storyline wasn't able to be pursued. > From: CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:Pucc-I:Pucc-K:afo (Laurie Sefton) > > did I miss something, or was [KITTY AND WOLVERINE] always intended to be a > six-parter? Actually, no. It started out to be a four-parter, but pretty soon after it was announced as such, Marvel/Claremont/whoever changed it into a six-parter. > From: milo!eric > > Can someone please tell me how many issues of "Elementals" by > Comico there have been. I have only seen one, but seem to remember references > to there having been others. My local comic shop, while generally pretty > good about carrying non-mainstream companies does not seem to be carrying > these. Funny, I kind of liked the first issue. Unless another one is sitting at the comic shop when I go there today, there has only been one issue, so don't worry, you haven't missed any. --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA