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Post by Dizzy D on Sept 11, 2020 14:17:27 GMT -5
Save me using Wikipedia (I prefer personalised answers, anyway), how did X-Factor come about? What was the rationale? As a kid, I picked up a Spidey comic (the one where he fought X-Factor) - and X-Factor consisted of the original X-Men. Quite simply, is anyone able to please sum up, perhaps in a paragraph or two, how X-Factor came about - and what the rationale was behind them being distinct from the X-Men?
I don't have the official story, though I'm sure I've read it somewhere, but the basic idea was that both the X-Men and it's first spin-off the New Mutants were selling really well. Meanwhile New Defenders was not selling so well, so they decided to end that series to free up Beast, Angel and Iceman for the new title.
At that time, i don't think it was common to have multiple titles for the same team (even Avengers gave their B-team a "West Coast" to not confuse the reader exactly which Avengers team they were reading) so they decided upon a new title and hoped that using previously established characters would give them a bit of a push with the new readers. Also I guess Claremont was not interested in writing this title (both he and editor Louis Simonson were originally opposed to doing the New Mutants as well), so with a different writer on it, it was easier to keep the team seperated from the X-Men title.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2020 14:51:36 GMT -5
Thank you! :-)
Incidentally, I hate it that X-Factor is now associated more with Simon Cowell.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2020 8:24:35 GMT -5
Thank you! :-) Incidentally, I hate it that X-Factor is now associated more with Simon Cowell. Simon Cowl? Was that the special cowl worn by Batman in the 50s against the villainous Simon Says?😜
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2020 8:26:11 GMT -5
If this wasn’t a comic thread, I would go into great detail about how much I hate what these musical talent shows have meant for the music industry.
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 13, 2020 12:19:12 GMT -5
If this wasn’t a comic thread, I would go into great detail about how much I hate what these musical talent shows have meant for the music industry. Eh, the industry went into the toilet well before they became popular. With the corporate mergers and consolidation of radio, you just lost competition and outlets for more unique voices and end up with this bland, homgenized junk, autotuned for your annoyance. It was pretty bad, by the end of the 90s, if you ask me, and just kept getting worse. You could find interesting music acts out there, thanks to the internet; but, you had to hunt for them.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Sept 13, 2020 20:10:00 GMT -5
It wasn't quite clear in the Hawkeye series... Is Harold H. Harold a LMD, now? What happened to his vampire self, destroyed in Dr. Strange and presumably brought back at the same time as Marvel's other vampires?
(The answer might be "fudgefudgefudge nobody cares. He's what today's writers want to make of him).
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Post by jason on Sept 17, 2020 19:39:22 GMT -5
I know there were comics based off of the Three Stooges and Laurel and Hardy, but were there ever any Marx Brothers comics?
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Post by Rob Allen on Sept 17, 2020 20:54:31 GMT -5
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 17, 2020 21:33:27 GMT -5
Cerebus being the most notable, with Lord Julius (not to mention Duke Leonardi, based on Chico) Also, Rufus T Hackstabber, in Master of Kung Fu...
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Post by brutalis on Sept 17, 2020 21:36:35 GMT -5
Rufus T. Hackstabber needs to meet Lord Julius!
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Post by Dizzy D on Sept 18, 2020 2:50:45 GMT -5
They occassionally show up in European comics as well, don't think there are any where they are the main characters though: imgur.com/a/1EhyFiEDon't know why embedding of images no longer works. Too long ago that I tried it.
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Post by Ozymandias on Sept 18, 2020 5:14:56 GMT -5
Let's see:
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Post by Dizzy D on Sept 18, 2020 6:58:28 GMT -5
Let's see: A thanks, I tried it with the given tags on the site and with the button to insert images here but neither produced a visible result for me, so I just added the URL itself. I'll save the tags you're using in case I'll ever need to upload another image here.
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Post by Ozymandias on Sept 18, 2020 7:17:57 GMT -5
I simply used the "Insert Image" button. The key is what address you're writing there (check the one I used, it must have a jpg ending).
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Post by MDG on Sept 18, 2020 8:32:14 GMT -5
Middle Class Fantasies had a Marx Bros. story called "A Night at Motel 6"
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