From: CXMP@MUSICA.MCGILL.CA (CXMP)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.xbooks
Subject: About Uncanny X-Men #296
Date: 6 Nov 92 19:52:56 GMT
Organization: McGill University

I feel like a real jerk posting so many times a week but the fact is
I enjoyed Uncanny X-Men #296 and I figure there's stuff here that we
can talk about.  There's also a number of mistakes in this issue; so
what's new?  As someone who is generally forgiving, I think I'll take
up the task of pointing out the mistakes that Lobdell and Harras make
in the future.  This is, of course, assuming they continue to make
mistakes.  What do you think.  Similarly, I'm going to try to post some
of the best X-Factor quotes from future issues and summarize the plots
from X-Men and X-Force.  I'll try to limit myself to this in general
because I know this isn't my own personal newsgroup (even though I've
posted often enough lately that you might have wondered what I thought.
:) )  Always, I will avoid spoiling people by saying

*SPOILERS*
























Mistakes in Uncanny X-Men #296:

page 1 - Scott and Jean made their escape in X-Force #17 not X-Factor
         #84
page 2 - Jean has never before demonstrated the ability to hold back
         Scott's eye-blasts.  It was the clone of Jean Grey that was
         the host of the Phoenix that was able to do so in Uncanny
         X-Men #133 not Jean.  Of course, Jean is more powerful now than
         she was when she was Marvel Girl so we'll forgive this and just
         put it down to all their years of training together.
page 3 - Scott and Jean were attacked by Caliban in
         Uncanny X-Men #294 so the appearance of the Dark Riders here
         should not surprise Scott.  Of course, one may argue that
         Scott thought Caliban was working alone until now.
page 7 - (not including ads)
         How does Polaris know that Wolverine and Bishop are with Cable?
         The best I can figure is that they.ve had a complaint from the
         government up here. :)
page 11- How do Scott and Jean know how old Stryfe is?

Actually, from here on there aren't any glaring errors.  Cable's
Professor always seems to know more than it possibly could.  One thing
that troubled me though was how come Cable didn't have more to say in
this issue, seeing as how he's the expert on Stryfe.  Upon closer
reading I found Cable saying "You've been at that for hours" so it would
seem that some time has passed since X-Force #17.

BTW, someone's bound to point out that Bishop encountered Nimrod type
Sentenels when he was young and use that to try to establish that
Bishop's timeline is also Rachel's.  Warning: if you insist this is
true then Bishop's past is not our present.  Of course, with the
Professor back in a wheelchair, with Jean Grey alive and with Storm
looking like her old self, Bishop (not an Einstein) may not realize
this.

I'll take a moment here to say something about Lobdell's writing: he
*can* write scripts but he has trouble writing plots.  A good example
of this is Excalibur #59-60 in which we are introduced to villians that
appear quite ominous at first and then we're supposed to feel sorry for
them (huh?).  Also, there's the glaring plot holes: what was Icon's
motivation, how does a resident of an old age home learn about where a
terrorist would hide a bomb, how did Brian get back into the cage
without someone realizing he was "Jungle Man", why was the cage used on
Brian and not on Iron Man and how come Captain America is acting as the
American diplomat to Wakanda.

You just have to laugh at these things.

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