Are annotations for 1602.4 up yet? (Just got it at lunch. Very confuzzled.)
Sir? I think you have a problem with your brain being missing.
Zoe ,'The Train Job'
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Steph L. - Nov 19, 2003 10:43:56 am PST #1209 of 10000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
CaBil - Nov 19, 2003 5:25:11 pm PST #1210 of 10000
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.
Trying to explain the X-verse is like trying to catch an otter with an oiled up pair of barbarecue tongs. The best you can hope for is that one series when written by a single author is consistent, that's about it.
Uncanny and X are written by two different authors, usually, and usually try to focus on different team members. Uncanny usually tries to focuse on the old-school members and the X-men tries to focus on the X-men in general...
§ ita § - Nov 19, 2003 5:29:11 pm PST #1211 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
There's also at least one other x-verse, where some of the characters are younger, and one where Prof X is a captive of Magneto's.
CaBil - Nov 19, 2003 11:18:37 pm PST #1212 of 10000
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.
Ultimate X-men, I think. The Ultimate series of titles are reconceptualizations of core Marvel characters in the modern day. For instance, Ultimate Spider-Man has Peter Parker still in High School, and so on...
§ ita § - Nov 20, 2003 4:02:30 am PST #1213 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What's the one where Spidey's young, and meeting Wolverine for the first time? Too many adjectives.
amych - Nov 20, 2003 4:04:54 am PST #1214 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
What's the one where Spidey's young, and meeting Wolverine for the first time?
I believe that's in Marvel Needs to Clear Out the Contradictory Canon Cruft a la Crisis on Infinite Earths
Jeff Mejia - Nov 20, 2003 4:16:21 am PST #1215 of 10000
"Don't think of yourself as an organic pain collector racing towards oblivion." Dogbert to Dilbert
What's the one where Spidey's young, and meeting Wolverine for the first time? Too many adjectives.
I think that was an Ultimate Spider Man issue, but it may have been an Ultimate X-Men. I'm only following in trades (slowly), so I haven't caught that yet.
I believe that's in Marvel Needs to Clear Out the Contradictory Canon Cruft a la Crisis on Infinite Earths
Actually, the Ultimate line of books is establishing its own separate canon, away from regular Marvel U continuity. Rather than clearing out it's own universe with a Crisis, as DC did, Marvel just added a whole new line of books.
The regular Marvel Universe continuity is a shambles. It's best to think (IMHO) that each title has its own continuity, with just the barest reflections of events happening in other titles.
§ ita § - Nov 20, 2003 4:26:00 am PST #1216 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think that was an Ultimate Spider Man issue, but it may have been an Ultimate X-Men.
Aha! New X-Men is the one where Magneto has Prof X. So it could be Ultimate where Spidey and Wolverine meet. What's the hap on "New"?
Jeff Mejia - Nov 20, 2003 4:34:42 am PST #1217 of 10000
"Don't think of yourself as an organic pain collector racing towards oblivion." Dogbert to Dilbert
Aha! New X-Men is the one where Magneto has Prof X. So it could be Ultimate where Spidey and Wolverine meet. What's the hap on "New"?
New X-Men is set in the Marvel U., but Grant Morrison has decided to run things his own way, continuity be damned. He started the run with the E is for Extinction arc that wiped out Genoshe and "killed off" Magneto (haha). After the current storyline (which I've been collecting, but haven't read, since I'm a trade or two behind), there will be a four-issue run set in the future that will serve as Morrison's finale at Marvel for the time being, as he has signed an exclusive deal with DC.
§ ita § - Nov 20, 2003 4:37:36 am PST #1218 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
New sucks. I like Grant, a lot, but his Magneto's a caricature on drugs.