Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Foot notes, dire wraiths and mutants

Now I was talking in another posting recently about the Wraith War spill over in X-Men issues 185, 186, 187 and 188. So to find this footnote (thanks Gary) in a future issue (#225) with Rogue's reflections on the X-Men having saved Forge from a Dire Wraith assassination attempt was not at all surprising.

But I was having some trouble with this X-Men foot note in Iron Man 190. I've been sitting on this clip art for a while now but I recently did a double take on it . . . .

X-Men #181? Well I checked out some online reviews on that X-Men issue and as far as I can tell it's got nothing to do with anything that Wanda is talking about in the clip art. In fact it's pretty much just a Godzilla tribute story that takes place right after the events of the first Secret Wars mini-series. But I later found out by commentator RT who does have the issue that there's some mention of the mutant registration act or something like that. But it still seems to me X-Men 184 or even 185 would have been a more appropriate for that foot note.

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But just in case you didn't know, or forgot Forge's first ever appearance in the Marvel Universe was in X-Men 184. Thanks to an online review I discovered recently along with some clip art from the issue provided by Rom curator Gary Martin Jr. I now see that this X-Men issue is an important tie-in to the Wraith War story line in the Rom series. Not only do we see the hand held neo-neutralizer prototype for the first time Forge also makes a direct Rom and Dire Wraith reference.
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On a side note here it's too bad we never got to see Forge's neutralizer used on Hybrid that would have been interesting. We've seen it's effects on dire wraiths and homo-superior alike and even though the X-Men's computer Cerebro identifies Hybrid as a mutant he's still in a class all his own.
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14 comments:

  1. exhumanDecember 4, 2013 at 7:37 AM

    Wow, excellent posting! I actually have some of those issues of x-men! I guess I never thought about the fact that the "Government" knew a lot about ROM, and wanted to duplicate HIS weaponry. It figures though. I love the panel of Tony Stark remarking that he'd never seen anything like the neutralizer before. Thats pretty impressive. Just great stuff man!

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  2. rtDecember 4, 2013 at 8:00 AM

    This is .great stuff schlomo! I was unaware of the Iron Man reference! Now that's another issue I have to go out and get.Tony Stark comments are great. Big compliment To forge

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  3. AnonymousDecember 4, 2013 at 8:27 AM

    Another issue to scrounge up to be a completist! :P

    Good work!

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  4. RandomnerdDecember 4, 2013 at 12:21 PM

    Those are some of my favorite X-Men issues. Ever since I've been rooting for Forge and Storm to get back together. I don't care if she does get to be queen, I still say she belongs with the mustachioed mischief maker.
    But then, writers so rarely take my feelings into consideration. If they did ROM and Brandy would still be hobnobbing about.
    You know, Shlomo, if they ever do bring back ROM and such, using that piece of technology on Hybrid would be an excellent plotline.

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    1. Shlomo Ben HungstienDecember 4, 2013 at 2:41 PM

      today's writers at DC and marvel seem to be taking into consideration just about everything but the reader's feelings. so accordingly i make sure they won't be able to take my money into consideration when it comes to their bottom line.

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    2. RandomnerdDecember 4, 2013 at 3:12 PM

      Found ROM #45 at my local pawn shop. :)

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    3. Shlomo Ben HungstienDecember 4, 2013 at 4:09 PM

      at a pawn shop? at any rate that's a great issue the art was awesome thanks to Sal Buscema's pencils and that rich inking style of Akin & Garvey. moving story too with some good action.

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    4. RandomnerdDecember 4, 2013 at 6:58 PM

      We have no LCS here in Lincoln, but I've found the pawn shop does get shipments in of old stuff every now and then.

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  5. JosephDecember 4, 2013 at 1:09 PM

    Yet another issue to look for at the LCS. Great post

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  6. Shlomo Ben HungstienDecember 4, 2013 at 2:47 PM

    hey everybody, for what it's worth you can practically read the entire issue of Iron Man 190 at these two sites . . .
    http://jthenrcomicsvault.blogspot.com/2012/05/iron-man-190.html
    and . . .
    http://www.supermegamonkey.net/chronocomic/entries/iron_man_189-190.shtml

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  7. zhaanmanDecember 4, 2013 at 7:08 PM

    Very interesting info brother some I knew from the issues I had as well since at that time I was pretty much getting all the related issues.

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    1. Shlomo Ben HungstienDecember 5, 2013 at 4:00 PM

      glad you enjoyed the posting brother i assure you the next one won't disappoint you. and speaking of related issues my copy of X-Men 184 from ebay just showed up today.

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  8. The Graphics WizDecember 7, 2013 at 12:52 PM

    Wow, I haven't seen such a detailed description of the Wraith War before. Usually its just a short footnote. Nice find.

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  9. Victor NunezDecember 22, 2013 at 7:23 PM

    I remember that Forge weapon! I also remember how Storm was powerless due to it!

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