That obviously came out after Ellis took over Excalibur but before the infamous scene. I’m guessing everyone remembers Kitty saying “When I was a minor” to Xavier in Excalibur #71 followed by her marriage to Collosus in Generation Next. What’s curious to me was that the groundwork was laid by Lobdell before Ellis took over. She went to barely legal over night and suddenly she was a minor again. I get why Claremont wanted to de-age her but that kind of made things worse. The gist was that he told his editor, “Kitty is going to f-.” The editor’s response was “…keep it tasteful.” Someone must have realized that that aged her up too quickly because, allegedly, editorial changed their minds but the issue had already gone to press. I remember an interview in either Wizard or Hero where he discussed making her eighteen. Warren Ellis had no illusions about Kitty’s age when he took over Excalibur.
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I’ve had the second and third issue of this series for the longest time and just finally tracked down the first issue this week. That may be sleaziest background music on of Mile’s “Sexy…” characters has had yet. Yeah, since 616 Storm isn’t a magic user, not sure Illyana would feel the same bond for her. Speaking as someone who has tried to change tube lines in Kings Cross at rush hour, I can assure you a habitrail is EXACTLY what it’s like. Is a skeleton ever expressionless, given the big smile it always has? ? Like an assembly line really”)ĭrones Club – Probably a PG Wodehouse reference, it’s the name of the club of upper class twits that Bertie Wooster is a member of.Īs for the hotel room, they’ve been nearly bombed and already attacked, so the room is probably considered “pre-disastered”. You learn the basics, have a hideous experience in a graveyard, they give you a trenchcoat and steal your razor. Pretty much every subsequent “modern” comedian, especially the likes of Monty Python, owes a LOT to the Goons.Ĭonstance Johanssen is perhaps my third favourite John Constantine riff, behind the Doom Patrol’s Willoughby Kipling (Who only exists because Morrison wasn’t allowed to John and so became his own, MUCH weirder character) and Ambrose Bierce in Phil Foglio’s wonderful “Stanley and his Monster” miniseries from 1993 (Ambrose is sick and tired of being confused with John, and has the terrific line when a passing master of “Jellomancy” (it is exactly what you’re thinking of) makes that mistake “S’not your fault. Eccles is a recurring character, described by one character as “He was the nearest thing I had seen to a human being… without actually being one” so make of that what you will. The first petrifying Marvel characters I can think of are Basilisk and Grey Gargoyle, and neither of them are mutants, so that might be a leap on their part.Įccles – Most likely a reference to The Goon Show, a groundbreakingly surreal radio show that Peter Sellars, Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine were stars of in the 1950’s. If you want to help support the podcast–and unlock more cool stuff–you can do that right here! Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men is 100% ad-free and listener supported.
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