From: c60b-3fe@e260-3f.berkeley.edu (Coffee)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.xbooks
Subject: Re: About Uncanny X-Men #296
Date: 8 Nov 1992 09:15:20 GMT
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In article <06NOV92.16072835.0098@VM1.MCGILL.CA> CXMP@MUSICA.MCGILL.CA (CXMP) writes:

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>:) )  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.

  Scott is surprised because they are working for Stryfe.  When they were
attacked by Caliban, they were working for Apocalypse (Mr. Sinister in
disguise) as usual.  Not an error.

>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?

maybe his voice sounds old.  They haven't seen his face yet have they?

>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,

his daughter Mikina died from toxic waste poisoning while she was outside
of Wakanda.  Therefore Icon was trying to prevent Wakanda from having any
alliance with all the evil countries outside of Wakanda and go back to the
old ways.  Reread the last page.

>how does a resident of an old age home learn about where a
>terrorist would hide a bomb,

What do you want, a limited series of his origin? :)
Why not ask where he got the horse, armor, and the lance, too.

>how did Brian get back into the cage
>without someone realizing he was "Jungle Man",

Same way he got out?

>why was the cage used on Brian and not on Iron Man 

Because the Black Panther didn't know that Brian was a superhero.  If you
are in a battle situation, you want people who are prepared to battle.
Locking up Mr. War Machine wouldn't have been a good idea.
What I want to know, is why the Panther didn't use the cage on Icon.
Could have been a one issue filler.  But then we wouldn't have seen...
JUNGLE MAN!!!

>and how come Captain America is acting as the
>American diplomat to Wakanda.
>
>You just have to laugh at these things.

Well, some of them.

Coffee
Icon: "Today the place is crawling with super heroes!  It's exactly this type
       of rampant expansionism that i'm protesting!"
J Man: "JUNGLE MAN no interest in political infrastructure."


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