After being introduced to General Fury by the „Avengers: Earths Mightiest Heroes“ Cartoon and seeing him in the MCU and in the Ultimate Universe, seeing Nick in his original white form feels weird.
@10:30 At the part where Gambit kissed the Jean Grey robot, I was anticipating a Bugs Bunny clip to follow. You know the one, from 'Hair-Raising Hare': "That's the trouble with some dames; kiss 'em and they fly apart. Oh well."
Gotta love how this comic probably sold 1. copy to read, 1 copy to save. 4 copies for the variant covers to save, 4 copies to create the poster, and 4 more copies in order to create and polybag the poster. So yeah one speculator probably bought no less then 14 copies of this
As for how Xavier pays for all that stuff, his and Angel's families had been independently wealthy for several generations, plus in the 70s-early 2000s he Xavier was married to Lilandra, who is Queen of the Shi'ar, one of the three largest and most powerful intergalactic empires. Plus so much of the X-Men's tech from the 90s and 2000s such s the Holodeck version of the danger room and Xavier's hover chair comes from the Shi'ar.
Omar Harris On top of that X-Men and their related teams have had multiple billionaire members like Sunspot, M, Emma Frost & Karma, etc. Plus Forge, Beast, Dr. Nemesis, Box and other mutant geniuses have also built them all kinds of cool tech
This was a huge moment in the X-canon, as well. This is the first issue of the final arc written by Chris Claremont after a 17 (I think) year run that included Proteus, Days of the Future Past, Dark Phoenix, introducing Kitty Pryde, developing Wolverine and Magneto both into 2 iconic comic book characters. His run is fantastic and his farewell to the XMen was pretty good closure for HIS Magneto, if not kinda bloated due to the sheer number of characters. The submarine he raises was sunk by him in issue 150, a Giant-Sized issue that is worth a read, if you haven't. I always loved how verbose Claremont's XMen were...perfectly over-the-top and theatrical. It sold millions because of Jim Lee, but it was a great arc for the longtime fans.
Lobdell's run was what drove me away. I now view X-Men as a nostalgic book. They owned the shelves from 1980-1991. They Scott Lobdell jumped onboard and had everyone date one another. And quip, poorly.
+Eamonn Deane I've never read the Grant Morrison run. I enjoyed Whedon's run. Coincidentally, Marvel.com is running a free trial month right now. I signed up yesterday...should I check out Morrison's run?
I hate how writers always over power Magneto like he's the most powerful Marvel villain. Yes controlling magnetics is a huge power it doesn't make him invincible as all hell
Hell, Apocalypse is more powerful, yet he BARELY gets any attention when he's compared to Magneto. Yeah, he's popular, but it's been WAY to long before he's finally getting a movie! But I'm getting off track, point is, yeah, you're right. Magneto should not be overhyped power wise. There are plenty of other powerful X-Men villains, yet, Magneto gets all the powers
+the Comic Nation 108 Because Apocalypse is ridiculously powerful, he could destroy the X-Men easily if they didn't have the resources or numbers needed to take him on. Magneto is simply the most active and influential villain the X-Men fight, and the easiest to write.
Read the most recent Cullen Bunn run on Magneto, he's depowered in it (not without his powers, just severely limited). It's a really great read, so naturally Marvel cancelled with the Secret Wars event.
Home4infiniteLosers Oh thanks I'll check it out. Just tired of Magneto going God mode and taking on every hero like the power of magnetism is that strong.
Wolverine's brown suit is my favorite. partly because of the classic Wolverine story from Chris Claremont and your favorite artist/writer Frank Miller. I think they used the suit here because they wanted a different color palette for Wolverine than the similar blue and yellow that Cyclops shares.
About the costumes: my favourite X-Men uniforms are the ones where they had matching colour schemes of blue/gold or black/gold and X motifs, but the designs were individualized. It made sense from an in-universe standpoint, at a time when the X-Men were an active team that showed up to a lot of disasters and battles and needed to be able to distinguish each other from enemies and civilians quickly, and it still made every character look unique.
One reason I love this book is that it feels so triumphant! Remember, the X-Men went through a LOT in the 80s! The death of Jean Grey, Secret Wars I and II, the mutant massacre, the fall of the mutants and their exile in Australia, the problems in Genosha, etc. But this comic features all of the big guys back, especially in the cover, which while being a gimmick, is a great homage to the original X-Men comic featuring the fab five and their new editions. Heck later, Kitty and Nightcrawler would come back to the US after finding the X-Men alive. This comic just feels like the X-Men finally coming back in full and ready to save the day…and then Chris Claremont got axed. Another thing that contributes to the triumphant feel is that at the end of it, it features posters commemorating the original X-Men and a group shot of EVERYBODY!!!! Also, my copy of the issue actually has the full cover in foldout mode.
I like to think that one of the reasons why this comic doesn't suck that much is because it was written by Chris Claremont, the man who basically made the X Men into what they are today by helping write little known stories like The Dark Phoenix Saga and Days of Future Past. It would also explain why the story is a bit wordy since that's basically Claremont's M.O. So the takeaway from this is that it's great when you have an amazing artist but you need a good writer in order to make it a great comic.
@5:51-6:00 Continuity Alarm: Ahhn Ahhn Ahhn Ahhn! Linkara: Reference to a Previous Episode of my show plus an Alternate Universe Continuity Alarm(You win This Round): Ahhn Ahhn Ahhn Ahhn!
ACTUALLY (he he he thumbs up if you get that Cinema Snob reference) magnetic fields are really good at protecting people from radiation. The Earth's magnetic field protects everyone from the more harmful radiation given off by the Sun. It deflects or absorbs much of the harmful radiation. You can even see this happen with the Aurora Borealis or "Northern Lights". Yes, the atmosphere does play a significant role as well, but the Earth would be a much more hostile place without the magnetic field. And since this video is seven years old, I'm sure that someone has already told you this and you may have even mentioned it in one of your mistake videos. I just wanted to be the Mr. Actually for this vid. :-)
@5:08 CONTINUITY ALARM!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT'S MY F-A-V-O-R-I-T-E RUNNING GAG, ALONG WITH "IT'S A CRACK BABY, FOOL" AND "I AM A MAN" *PUNCH* AND COMBINE HARVESTER, AND PATTON SAYING I READ YOUR BOOK!, AND GREAT CONTINUITY, AND THE MR.T SUPERPOWER COUNT.
Oh man I remember reading this comic for the first time and reading that page where Jean tries to make Cyclops jealous. To this day I felt that sting of jealousy. Alexa play In My Feeling by Drake
TheAwesomeHyperon Ummmm.... What? Where did you get that information? Yes, ASM V3 #1 sold really well for a modern comic but it still "only" sold about half a million copies. X-Men V2 #1 sold about eight and a half a million. Correct me if I'm wrong but 8.5 M is still waaaayyy more than 0.5 M
Gambit has a point, especially when you consider Genosha was eventually given to Magneto by the United Nations & turned into a mutant only nation with him & his acolytes being able to restore peace after a civil war broke out!
...this episode was done BEFORE History of Power Rangers, wasn't it? I mean I thought the line of "pink energy coming out of her head" was funny on it's own back then, but rewatching it now in retrospect...yeah. You were definitely rewatching the show by this point.
I should point out that X-Men was not ORIGINALLY meant to be Social Commentary. The earliest issues, like this one, were just supposed to be straight-up adventure stories.
Stan Lee has said he had been thinking about the Civil Rights movement during the creation of X-Men, but you're right in saying it focused more on adventure than commentary. However, by 1991, over 15 years of it being very explicitly allegorical and focused on interpersonal relationships under Claremont had passed.
PennyPlunderer Stan Lee is a flip flopping liar. or that interview does t exist. for one they were about teen outsiders which Stan Lee wrote of his characters about. but he also explained that he just wanted a way to exain powers that wasn't new or radiation each time. on top of that mutants in comics.had previously existed. as had spider themed characters. and a character with cyclops' glasses. one who worked for a newspaper.whose boss was j.j. a character who seemed blind. and even character that was a lawyer. Stan Lee is just s bit of liar sometimes and doesn't tell people his inspiration from comics history
Interesting episode. The continuity alarm seems to have been well-into phaseout by the time I started watching. I hadn't seen this one before, and I usually click on these uploads and give them a watch for the reflections in the description. When the credits rolled, I was surprised to hear the AT4W theme song instrumental as the ending theme, thinking to myself "Has he EVER used that as the ending theme?". It was then that I spotted the note, and my enthusiasm at the use ceased
As someone who has a female body, with hips, i've gotta say, I hate standing up straight. It might be because I have high arches in my feet. to be honest, though, i've gotta say that as large as mine are, they do stay within the shoulder box, at least I think... I hope. Do I have some disease?
As for the comic itself, I think it's primary sins are the somewhat Liefeldian art and the fact that it was marketed as a #1 issue when it really wasn't. As the start of an X-Men arc, it was perfectly serviceable. It introduced the major players and the plot, as well as several subplots that may only have gotten single-page mentions, but would get expanded upon in later issues, which in my opinion is acceptable for a serial medium. But because it was a #1 issue that failed to do what #1 issues are supposed to do, that is, introduce the setting and characters to a new audience without bogging them down with continuity or unexplained elements, things like Moira McTaggart's one-panel appearance at the end or Genosha getting all of one panel's worth of introduction are judged much more harshly than they otherwise would be.
CONUNDRUM: I actually do like having you go into backstories on the comics you review, but I also miss the "Continuity Alarm" bit. And, of course, nowadays Nimue would be the "Continuity Alarm" anyway, wouldn't she?
I'll get some shit for this, but, I think Jim Lee is one of the most overrated comic artists of all time. Not that I myself never ever enjoyed his art, it's that I don't know how he doesn't get hardly any flack when it comes to every character looking Clint Eastwood squinty, big impossible arms, weird feet, disproportionate characters, action figure-like torsos etc etc. I do think his character design is fantastic and has interesting detail when he doesn't OD on lines. Jim Lee was the original predecessors of bad 90s art. Rob Liefeld gets 90% of the blame because he was such a derivative of Lee, he got a shitload of money from Marvel, and his horrendously bad Image Comics. Three very big strikes, but, Lee has made several big mistakes himself.
+Statuatory Grape (KTF0) When paired with a writer that made him stretch himself artistically (like Claremont) Lee was pretty incredible. When he was writing his own stuff (WildC.A.T.S./any of his Image garbage) everything was a Clint Eastwood dynamic, squinty splash page...got old quickly. His run on Uncanny X-Men was impressive, to me. Specifically 256-258 and 274-277.
+Eamonn Deane Stellar. I'm re-reading Byrne's run right now. It is stellar. Marvel has always had their premiere artists on XMen, Kirby, Neal Adams, Cockrum, Byrne, John Romita Jr (his early XMen tells a story really well), Art Adams, Windsor-Smith, Silvestri, Lee, Bachalo, Immonen, Coipel...but, Byrne's run secured it's place as an industry colossus/juggernaut...his run propelled them. Claremont/Byrne '16!!
There was a Star Trek/X-men crossover once. Maybe the holodeck/danger room's the connection? Didnt Beast/HulkShe Hulk/Collosus threw Wolverine in the past? I think it was called "Fastball Special."
It is due to the stiff pelvis necessary for bipedal activity that the process of giving birth is do painful, despite the slightly more elastic part at the bottom of a female’s pelvis to help facilitate childbirth. This has been my attempt at speaking like a damn encyclopedia.
I know i am answering to a 7 years old video, but yeah, magnetic fields actually do protect us from radiation, at this very moment the earths magnetic field is protecting us from a massive amount of solar and outerspace radiation.
Okay, I’m pretty sure, that Xavier’s school for Gifted Youngsters is funded by the Good Marvel billionaires, (like Tony Stark, Reed Richards) and possibly SHIELD.
Yes the same thing happened to the trading cards we all were convinced that if we got the one card we were ot going to need a retirement plan because that was going to be worth millions but if we had 50 of them we could own the county. I'm still waiting for them to go over a .05 . Yep and I payed .10 for them.
ccghidorah1 i wasn't even thinking that. i was going more along the lines of "convincing" them. however, i like the story options of where your idea could go. thanks.
***** na he probably just took his large inheritance from his father and just played the stock market and was able use his power to kind to do a form of insider trading and also Angel is incredibly rich and has donated a shit ton of money to the institute.
Actually, magnetic fields CAN alter the path of radiation effectively shielding whats inside. How any of that helps against the extreme HEAT and pressure generated by a nuke is anyones guess :P
Yep... I just proved I'm too Geek to live... I heard "Lazer Eyes" and felt a moment of irritation and I said aloud "They're concussive blasts". ROFL
Pythia Sibyls Watch Linkara's Pryde of the X-Men. That was lapse for Linkara.
After being introduced to General Fury by the „Avengers: Earths Mightiest Heroes“ Cartoon and seeing him in the MCU and in the Ultimate Universe, seeing Nick in his original white form feels weird.
@10:30
At the part where Gambit kissed the Jean Grey robot, I was anticipating a Bugs Bunny clip to follow. You know the one, from 'Hair-Raising Hare':
"That's the trouble with some dames; kiss 'em and they fly apart. Oh well."
I miss the old Xmen cartoon. That was a saturday morning show worth getting up for. :)
Well Good news, it's on Disney+
Well BETTER news, it's being revitalized on Disney+
Not to one up ya, but yeah.
Not to one up everyone the new season, X men 97 is amazing
"How dare you participate in good natured ribbing! You're supposed to be an ASSHOLE!"
This is just so f'in accurate of this period in X-Men comics.
I think the "Xavier gets audited" bits is one of the funnier running gags I've seen.
Wish he'd brought it up again past this year.
Gotta love how this comic probably sold
1. copy to read, 1 copy to save. 4 copies for the variant covers to save, 4 copies to create the poster, and 4 more copies in order to create and polybag the poster. So yeah one speculator probably bought no less then 14 copies of this
As for how Xavier pays for all that stuff, his and Angel's families had been independently wealthy for several generations, plus in the 70s-early 2000s he Xavier was married to Lilandra, who is Queen of the Shi'ar, one of the three largest and most powerful intergalactic empires. Plus so much of the X-Men's tech from the 90s and 2000s such s the Holodeck version of the danger room and Xavier's hover chair comes from the Shi'ar.
Omar Harris On top of that X-Men and their related teams have had multiple billionaire members like Sunspot, M, Emma Frost & Karma, etc.
Plus Forge, Beast, Dr. Nemesis, Box and other mutant geniuses have also built them all kinds of cool tech
Omar Harris thank you I was going to mention Xavier came from some kind of aristocratic family and was wealthy.
He also gets grants for his gene and brain based research.
Uh oh, continuity alarm!
14:10 "Too much pink energy is dangerous!"
I was looking for this exact comment.
Was that a Power rangers reference?
This was a huge moment in the X-canon, as well. This is the first issue of the final arc written by Chris Claremont after a 17 (I think) year run that included Proteus, Days of the Future Past, Dark Phoenix, introducing Kitty Pryde, developing Wolverine and Magneto both into 2 iconic comic book characters. His run is fantastic and his farewell to the XMen was pretty good closure for HIS Magneto, if not kinda bloated due to the sheer number of characters. The submarine he raises was sunk by him in issue 150, a Giant-Sized issue that is worth a read, if you haven't. I always loved how verbose Claremont's XMen were...perfectly over-the-top and theatrical. It sold millions because of Jim Lee, but it was a great arc for the longtime fans.
Lobdell's run was what drove me away. I now view X-Men as a nostalgic book. They owned the shelves from 1980-1991. They Scott Lobdell jumped onboard and had everyone date one another. And quip, poorly.
+Eamonn Deane I've never read the Grant Morrison run. I enjoyed Whedon's run. Coincidentally, Marvel.com is running a free trial month right now. I signed up yesterday...should I check out Morrison's run?
+Eamonn Deane I have not watched it. I watched XMen Evolution...I liked that a lot.
This arc was actually the basis of the X-Men Children of the Atom fighting game.
My reaction to Archangel throwing Colossus:
You got it backwards, HE’S supposed to throw YOU.
Beast throwing Wolverine is an example of the classic Fastball Special team attack where someone (such as Beast or Colossus) throws Wolverine!
You forgot the mighty 90's shading, demonstrating that all costumes, were in fact, made of pure satin.
I'll give the comic this: my favorite X-Man, Cyclops, isn't just an asshole in this.
+Tom Preece Jean grey's resting BitchFace
11:47 I never realized that this panel is implying that Gambit had pinched Rogue's butt.
I hate how writers always over power Magneto like he's the most powerful Marvel villain. Yes controlling magnetics is a huge power it doesn't make him invincible as all hell
Hell, Apocalypse is more powerful, yet he BARELY gets any attention when he's compared to Magneto. Yeah, he's popular, but it's been WAY to long before he's finally getting a movie! But I'm getting off track, point is, yeah, you're right. Magneto should not be overhyped power wise. There are plenty of other powerful X-Men villains, yet, Magneto gets all the powers
+the Comic Nation 108 Because Apocalypse is ridiculously powerful, he could destroy the X-Men easily if they didn't have the resources or numbers needed to take him on.
Magneto is simply the most active and influential villain the X-Men fight, and the easiest to write.
Read the most recent Cullen Bunn run on Magneto, he's depowered in it (not without his powers, just severely limited). It's a really great read, so naturally Marvel cancelled with the Secret Wars event.
Home4infiniteLosers Oh thanks I'll check it out. Just tired of Magneto going God mode and taking on every hero like the power of magnetism is that strong.
Ken Clouds At his peak he was able to alter earths magnetic poles, so yeah, it's pretty powerful
Wolverine's brown suit is my favorite. partly because of the classic Wolverine story from Chris Claremont and your favorite artist/writer Frank Miller. I think they used the suit here because they wanted a different color palette for Wolverine than the similar blue and yellow that Cyclops shares.
Funny to think Comics used to basically be NFT, just people buying them to sell off later for an artificial marked up price.
Ten years since his first positive review. It was a novelty back then to see linkara review a good book.
About the costumes: my favourite X-Men uniforms are the ones where they had matching colour schemes of blue/gold or black/gold and X motifs, but the designs were individualized. It made sense from an in-universe standpoint, at a time when the X-Men were an active team that showed up to a lot of disasters and battles and needed to be able to distinguish each other from enemies and civilians quickly, and it still made every character look unique.
One reason I love this book is that it feels so triumphant! Remember, the X-Men went through a LOT in the 80s! The death of Jean Grey, Secret Wars I and II, the mutant massacre, the fall of the mutants and their exile in Australia, the problems in Genosha, etc. But this comic features all of the big guys back, especially in the cover, which while being a gimmick, is a great homage to the original X-Men comic featuring the fab five and their new editions. Heck later, Kitty and Nightcrawler would come back to the US after finding the X-Men alive. This comic just feels like the X-Men finally coming back in full and ready to save the day…and then Chris Claremont got axed. Another thing that contributes to the triumphant feel is that at the end of it, it features posters commemorating the original X-Men and a group shot of EVERYBODY!!!!
Also, my copy of the issue actually has the full cover in foldout mode.
Of course it's wordy, Chris Claremont wrote it.
Um, actually, the Earth's magnetic fields DO protect us from the sun's radiation.
I like to think that one of the reasons why this comic doesn't suck that much is because it was written by Chris Claremont, the man who basically made the X Men into what they are today by helping write little known stories like The Dark Phoenix Saga and Days of Future Past. It would also explain why the story is a bit wordy since that's basically Claremont's M.O. So the takeaway from this is that it's great when you have an amazing artist but you need a good writer in order to make it a great comic.
Eamonn Deane No, but I"m getting the feeling I should be.
B-but… I like the brown Wolverine suit…
the Comic Nation 108 me too
the Comic Nation 108 Impossible.
The earth tones were by far his best look.
Definitely says wolverine better than yellow and blue. Wolverines are only yellow and blue at the University of Michigan.
@5:51-6:00
Continuity Alarm: Ahhn Ahhn Ahhn Ahhn!
Linkara: Reference to a Previous Episode of my show plus an Alternate Universe
Continuity Alarm(You win This Round): Ahhn Ahhn Ahhn Ahhn!
Huh
I’m rewatching AT4W. I do not miss the Continuity Alarm. I’m trying to listen to 90sLinkFinevoice!
Ah, yes, big guns, the most common mutant power of the 90s, usually paired with access to hammerspace.
Lets not forget the girls of Hanna-Barbera, whose stock images always had their hips out diagonally.
I remember Velma always standing up straight, at least in the original cartoon.
How often that continuity alarm goes off is killing me this has got to be one of my favorite episodes
The Ol’ Continuity Alarm, AT4W’s King of Snark and bad jokes
ACTUALLY (he he he thumbs up if you get that Cinema Snob reference) magnetic fields are really good at protecting people from radiation. The Earth's magnetic field protects everyone from the more harmful radiation given off by the Sun. It deflects or absorbs much of the harmful radiation. You can even see this happen with the Aurora Borealis or "Northern Lights". Yes, the atmosphere does play a significant role as well, but the Earth would be a much more hostile place without the magnetic field. And since this video is seven years old, I'm sure that someone has already told you this and you may have even mentioned it in one of your mistake videos. I just wanted to be the Mr. Actually for this vid. :-)
one of the acolytes is using the Mutant Power of Big Guns.
Isn't that Cable's mutant power?
Sort of. It's the strength to hold such guns. That and psychic powers. And speed. And cybernetic implants. And... time travel.
And he has a techno-organic virus and is the mutant jesus
I'm a fan of wolverines brown costume.
smashmaster521 The brown costume is better than the blue and yellow costume, although astonishing wolverine costume beats both.
@5:08
CONTINUITY ALARM!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT'S MY F-A-V-O-R-I-T-E RUNNING GAG, ALONG WITH "IT'S A CRACK BABY, FOOL" AND "I AM A MAN" *PUNCH* AND COMBINE HARVESTER, AND PATTON SAYING I READ YOUR BOOK!, AND GREAT CONTINUITY, AND THE MR.T SUPERPOWER COUNT.
New3DSLUIGI364 how about "to much pink energy is dangerous."
Not really; Because I Don't understand WHY Too Much Pink energy is Dangerous; why Pink, Specifically?!!
New3DSLUIGI364 . watch history of power rangers.
14:06 And we know it's serious because as we all know, too much pink energy is dangerous.
Ladies and gentlemen and others, the comic book equivalent of Tetris, James Cameron’s Avatar and Superman Doomsday
equivalent*
Jonathan Szuhai fixed
I love it when Linkara does a Russian accent...
Oh man I remember reading this comic for the first time and reading that page where Jean tries to make Cyclops jealous. To this day I felt that sting of jealousy.
Alexa play In My Feeling by Drake
my fave wolverine costume is the brown costume
Bad taste
9:01 "For protection against grizzlies"
X-men #1 is now the second best comic of all time. 2014's ASM Vol. 3 #1 took its place
TheAwesomeHyperon Ummmm.... What? Where did you get that information? Yes, ASM V3 #1 sold really well for a modern comic but it still "only" sold about half a million copies. X-Men V2 #1 sold about eight and a half a million. Correct me if I'm wrong but 8.5 M is still waaaayyy more than 0.5 M
Claremont word bubbles are an endurance, I'm amazed I could read this when I was a child
Gambit has a point, especially when you consider Genosha was eventually given to Magneto by the United Nations & turned into a mutant only nation with him & his acolytes being able to restore peace after a civil war broke out!
The brown costume suits Wolverine much better. He's not a bright colors type of guy.
Carl Rood there’s a reason he wears bright colors
And what is that reason?
BTW, Jim Lee is an amazing artist.
Yeah but what why did all the comics in the nineties look so jagged?
Who else paused at the title card and went looking for the X-Men theme?
...this episode was done BEFORE History of Power Rangers, wasn't it?
I mean I thought the line of "pink energy coming out of her head" was funny on it's own back then, but rewatching it now in retrospect...yeah. You were definitely rewatching the show by this point.
What?
you got cut off at "the".
I should point out that X-Men was not ORIGINALLY meant to be Social Commentary. The earliest issues, like this one, were just supposed to be straight-up adventure stories.
BUt this is from 1991. The social commentary was already in full swing.
Jack Gray My mistake, I thought this was the Secret Origins Month "X-Men #1". My bad.
Stan Lee has said he had been thinking about the Civil Rights movement during the creation of X-Men, but you're right in saying it focused more on adventure than commentary. However, by 1991, over 15 years of it being very explicitly allegorical and focused on interpersonal relationships under Claremont had passed.
PennyPlunderer Stan Lee is a flip flopping liar. or that interview does t exist. for one they were about teen outsiders which Stan Lee wrote of his characters about. but he also explained that he just wanted a way to exain powers that wasn't new or radiation each time.
on top of that mutants in comics.had previously existed. as had spider themed characters. and a character with cyclops' glasses. one who worked for a newspaper.whose boss was j.j. a character who seemed blind. and even character that was a lawyer.
Stan Lee is just s bit of liar sometimes and doesn't tell people his inspiration from comics history
11:38 I'd say no, Cyclops is NOT on jackass mode. That was dangerous of Wolverine.
God I used to hate the continuity alarm. Atleast you got hid of it... yay!
Interesting episode. The continuity alarm seems to have been well-into phaseout by the time I started watching. I hadn't seen this one before, and I usually click on these uploads and give them a watch for the reflections in the description. When the credits rolled, I was surprised to hear the AT4W theme song instrumental as the ending theme, thinking to myself "Has he EVER used that as the ending theme?". It was then that I spotted the note, and my enthusiasm at the use ceased
honestly linkara taking a break from the sucky comics isnt so bad of an idea. besides, good comics need some attention too.
It took me a moment to realize I just read this comic 😂
I saw one woman on on the news buying 50 issues of the death of superman who believed that they would pay for her daughter to go to med school!
20:00 -- actually, she was seen earlier... I recognized her custom cream-colored-with pink-piping jumpsuit.
As someone who has a female body, with hips, i've gotta say, I hate standing up straight. It might be because I have high arches in my feet. to be honest, though, i've gotta say that as large as mine are, they do stay within the shoulder box, at least I think... I hope. Do I have some disease?
That depends. Are your eyes a solid white color and/or in a permanent squint?
The second one, but I just think that's because my eyesight is poor
1:33 does that record still stand?
What is the difference between the book “X-men” and “Uncanny X-men” the both went on at the same time yet there both the same
I love your Rouge southern accent :)
You can tell it was influenced by Lenore Zann.
Growing up 10 years ago, Batman Superman and Spider-Man were the only heroes anyone I knew would recognize. And then came the superhero bubble
3:52 - And apparently it worked like a charm XD
Will you ever talk about new 52
Nah
s103792 He has.
Teen Titans: The Culling and Red Hood & The Outlaws.
Intro song what is it
DeathBringer962 LR Pryde of the X-Men cartoon's intro theme
I have this book! got it for 50 cents at a book nook
As for the comic itself, I think it's primary sins are the somewhat Liefeldian art and the fact that it was marketed as a #1 issue when it really wasn't. As the start of an X-Men arc, it was perfectly serviceable. It introduced the major players and the plot, as well as several subplots that may only have gotten single-page mentions, but would get expanded upon in later issues, which in my opinion is acceptable for a serial medium.
But because it was a #1 issue that failed to do what #1 issues are supposed to do, that is, introduce the setting and characters to a new audience without bogging them down with continuity or unexplained elements, things like Moira McTaggart's one-panel appearance at the end or Genosha getting all of one panel's worth of introduction are judged much more harshly than they otherwise would be.
Prof X is rich so he can afford the missiles
CONUNDRUM: I actually do like having you go into backstories on the comics you review, but I also miss the "Continuity Alarm" bit.
And, of course, nowadays Nimue would be the "Continuity Alarm" anyway, wouldn't she?
Classic Magneto: gets pissed off by one communist, and decides everyone else should pay.
@5:08-5:12
Continuity Alarm: Ahhn Ahhn Ahhn Ahhn!
Linkara: Oh yeah, By the way; I finally fixed it.
I'll get some shit for this, but, I think Jim Lee is one of the most overrated comic artists of all time. Not that I myself never ever enjoyed his art, it's that I don't know how he doesn't get hardly any flack when it comes to every character looking Clint Eastwood squinty, big impossible arms, weird feet, disproportionate characters, action figure-like torsos etc etc. I do think his character design is fantastic and has interesting detail when he doesn't OD on lines.
Jim Lee was the original predecessors of bad 90s art. Rob Liefeld gets 90% of the blame because he was such a derivative of Lee, he got a shitload of money from Marvel, and his horrendously bad Image Comics. Three very big strikes, but, Lee has made several big mistakes himself.
Statuatory Grape formally KTF0 I agree, 100%
+Statuatory Grape (KTF0) When paired with a writer that made him stretch himself artistically (like Claremont) Lee was pretty incredible. When he was writing his own stuff (WildC.A.T.S./any of his Image garbage) everything was a Clint Eastwood dynamic, squinty splash page...got old quickly. His run on Uncanny X-Men was impressive, to me. Specifically 256-258 and 274-277.
But, he still can't hold a candle to Marc Silvestri's run on Uncanny.
+Eamonn Deane Stellar. I'm re-reading Byrne's run right now. It is stellar. Marvel has always had their premiere artists on XMen, Kirby, Neal Adams, Cockrum, Byrne, John Romita Jr (his early XMen tells a story really well), Art Adams, Windsor-Smith, Silvestri, Lee, Bachalo, Immonen, Coipel...but, Byrne's run secured it's place as an industry colossus/juggernaut...his run propelled them. Claremont/Byrne '16!!
Phil is a poor man's George Perez.
Ah! nice I like what you did for the end credits.
Was this the first appearance of the characters. They reference a lot of stuff even though this is the first issue
No it's not the first appearance these characters have had it's just that comics reset the issue number back to #1 because more sale's.
HEY! You do NOT diss the brown and tan Wolverine costume!
In the live action movies Magneto is different. It's Lehnsherr, not Magnus. If i'm wrong let me know.
+xherethrus Erik Magnus Lehnsherr is his full name.
Jonathan Szuhai Max Eisenhardt is actually his real birth name. Erik Magnus Lehnsherr is an alias
There was a Star Trek/X-men crossover once. Maybe the holodeck/danger room's the connection?
Didnt Beast/HulkShe Hulk/Collosus threw Wolverine in the past? I think it was called "Fastball Special."
Good idea for the credits music, instead of just leaving it quiet.
I never understood what Gambits power is? Can he just turn anything into a bomb?
He can control peoples minds dude
Yaga
Don't you know that all girls have their hips permanently swayed? :p our pelvis' are basically made like bobble heads.
Ah, good old memories from art classes: "That person looks too stiff! They can't stand straight like that! Here, do that S-curve!"
It is due to the stiff pelvis necessary for bipedal activity that the process of giving birth is do painful, despite the slightly more elastic part at the bottom of a female’s pelvis to help facilitate childbirth.
This has been my attempt at speaking like a damn encyclopedia.
You got it all wrong Beast, it’s supposed to be COLOSSUS who throws Wolverine.
when...when did quicksilver and scarlet witch start doing each other wtf
So what about Bendis' All New X-Men? They (the 60's X-Men) wore colorful suits later on, especially Guardians of the Galaxy team-up.
the only one I read was black vortex it was good
I know i am answering to a 7 years old video, but yeah, magnetic fields actually do protect us from radiation, at this very moment the earths magnetic field is protecting us from a massive amount of solar and outerspace radiation.
You know...I didn't know there's Russians named Harry and Nance.
the audio was much better on these uploads. seems you've fixed the problem you were having.
Gratzie
Shouldn't Gambit have married Rogue instead of Jean?
Me: Wait didn't Xavier get his high tech gear from the Shi'ar empire back in the 70s?
Continuity alarm: Beep! Beep!
Me: Oh put a sock in it!
Emerald Twilight, not Blackest Night
Technically YES .. Magnetic shields work well on radiation . .
Okay, I’m pretty sure, that Xavier’s school for Gifted Youngsters is funded by the Good Marvel billionaires, (like Tony Stark, Reed Richards) and possibly SHIELD.
Yes the same thing happened to the trading cards we all were convinced that if we got the one card we were ot going to need a retirement plan because that was going to be worth millions but if we had 50 of them we could own the county. I'm still waiting for them to go over a .05 . Yep and I payed .10 for them.
anostalgia glasses...too...strong... 90's x-men...greatest comic series ever....made....also best animated series.... can't resist....flipping off...linkara...f, forgive me!
OH. MY. GOD. I have a copy of that comic somewhere!
13:09
Such a terrible Russian accent...
Matches the context perfectly!
:D
he's a telepath. Professor X gets what Professor X wants. i really don't think that funding is an issue.
So professor x blackmails people for funding via telepathic means. That is going to my head canon
ccghidorah1
i wasn't even thinking that. i was going more along the lines of "convincing" them. however, i like the story options of where your idea could go. thanks.
So... he mindf**ked them for money?
***** na he probably just took his large inheritance from his father and just played the stock market and was able use his power to kind to do a form of insider trading and also Angel is incredibly rich and has donated a shit ton of money to the institute.
Actually, magnetic fields CAN alter the path of radiation effectively shielding whats inside. How any of that helps against the extreme HEAT and pressure generated by a nuke is anyones guess :P
Jean and Cyclops are already married?
Gambit power is to transfer explosive energy to objects which is why the kiss exploded the robot
Is this really the 1st X-Men comic made?