From: dhenry@plains.NoDak.edu (David R. Henry)
Subject: There are no dumb posts, just dumb followups (Was Re: Dumb post)
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 22:19:32 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

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>>2) Is the cartoon intended to be an up-to-date representation of the
>>X-MEN with respect to the comic books? That is, should say an X-Man "go bad"
>>would this be reflected in the cartoon? (I'm still trying to explain to my
>>kids why Wolverine has an Ausie accent in some stupid spiderman video we
>>picked up but now talks like a yank by the way...)
>
>	The cartoon is nothing like the comic, and the two are pretty much
>seperate in terms of plot and characters. 

Furthermore, the X-Men Adventures comic book has placed the cartoon series
as happening in an alternate dimension, with the Watcher giving us another
"What If..." look into the world.

>>4) Can Rougue really be built like that? (OK OK that's my question and not
>>their's...)
>
>	But is her hair auburn with a white streak, or white with a lot of
>red?

Rogue, y'all. Sorry, it's just a reflex action on my part. The look of most
of the current mutant women owes a lot to the inflationary art of recently
departed Image-meister Jim Lee. There have been other versions of Rogue,
not all of them so gravity-prone. I, for instance, still prefer her old
green hooded outfit and Paul Smith's version of her from the early 170s
in Uncanny X-Men.

And, for the record, her hair is auburn with optional white streak(s) or
a spot, and her eyes are green (except for alternate Thursdays, when they're
blue). I'm still wondering just how vicious a bleach she has to use
considering that she's invulnerable to most forms of damamge... must wipe
out the plumbing in the mansion...

>>6) Is there any sort of source book or history of the X-men available that
>>I could pick up to help me look like I know what I am talking about? IF not,
>>why not? Seems to me that such a book is ripe for the market now...
>
>	No. I don't think there's anyone who really understands what's going
>on. And once people do understand things, the writers go back and retcon
>(retroactivally change) past events. People like Wolverine, Mr. Sinister, Jean
>Grey and Rachel Summers have had their pasts and/or powers changed so many
>times that not even a book could keep up.

Well, heck, Mr. Sinister hasn't even been *given* a past, or a reason for
motivating his attacks, except for some cheap "he's interested in Cyclops"
ploy. For a good overview of the X-Men, at least up to the Death of Phoenix,
try George Olshevski's X-Men Index, put out by Marvel a few years back, and
probably moldering in a 25 cent bin near you. Numerous other publications,
fan-based and other, have come out with X-Men histories and books.
Comics Interview and Amazing Heroes (sniff, we miss ya, kid) also have
done X-type stories. Heroes featured at least Rogue, and probably some
other X-Men, in their "hero history" column which they ran for awhile.

Otherwise, go get back issues. The further back, the better, IMO. :-)
Don't be fooled into buying multiple copies of different color stock
books (like (new) X-Men #1). If all you want is the stories, go find
someone willing to sell you a reading copy at a decent price.

And good luck.

"Do you ever shut up?" --Rogue to Richard Darwin
"Sorry."

-- 
David R. Henry - Rogue Fan Club - "I have a pullchain in my head." -- RIII
My mind is a jackal.--Richard Darwin // What was the question? --Kate Bush
"All you of Earth are IDIOTS!"-P9fOS // Thanks... for the memories.--Rogue
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