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This guyyyyyyyyy! (Wolverine #48)
JUBILEE, NO. God, she’s not even wearing any safety gear. (Wolverine #48)
That, Jubilee, is a Lotus 7. Your mentor’s car. Not as clumsy or overwrought as a DeLorean. An elegant media reference… for a more civilized age. (Wolverine #48)
THAT IS A TERRIBLE WAY TO SHOW SOMEONE THE GUN YOU FOUND. (Wolverine #48)
Actually, Jubilee, Wolverine is 100% in the right here. (Wolverine #48)
No one should ever make this show under any circumstances. (Wolverine #48)
Spoiler: No funky butts are in fact dispensated. (Wolverine #48)
Toldja! It’s Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby! (Wolverine #49)
WHY DIDN’T YOU JUST WRITE HER NAME FIRST? IT WOULD HAVE FIT! (Wolverine #49)
The calendar is a little silly, but it’s also an incredibly eerie, cool detail. (Wolverine #49)
“I am not a number! I am a free man!” (Wolverine #49)
Sure, it’s a gimmick; but it’s a cool gimmick! (Wolverine #50)
LOOK AT THIS BEAUTIFUL, RIDICULOUS BASTARD AND HIS BEAUTIFUL, RIDICULOUS MOTORCYCLE. (Wolverine #50)
In Hines’s defense, Canada-616 is absolutely terrible. (Wolverine #50)
…and you, in turn, watch the Hydra operatives; as the NSA watches you; and… (Wolverine #50)
I take this to mean that somewhere there’s a splinter universe where Wolverine had an idyllic but ultimately tragic dalliance with a giant artichoke. (Wolverine #50)
HOW MANY YEARS HAS THAT PIECE OF CAKE BEEN SITTING THERE? (Wolverine #50)
I like the idea that the BIG SECRET isn’t that they faked his memories but that they had to reuse sets because of budget constraints. (Wolverine #50)
Sure you are, buddy. (Wolverine #50)
TWIST! (Wolverine #50)
I appreciate the implication that the ultimate horror is a high school prom. (Wolverine #50)
Aw, Logan. Never change. (Wolverine #50)
NEXT EPISODE: Centaur fight at the State Fair (and other educational adventures)!
LINKS & FURTHER LISTENING
- We were on Oregon Public Broadcasting’s State of Wonder! Listen to the episode–and discover a bunch of cool Oregon-based podcasts–here!
- Hear all about Wolverine’s terrible birthdays in Episode 113 – Play It Again, Patch.
- Brush up on Weapon X in Episode 162 – Naked in Canada.
Um, actually the girl in refrigerator trope was coined when referring to the murder of Kyle Rayners girlfriend not Hal Jordans
Jay noted that error in the text at the foot of the episode post.
I am excited to hear the State Fair comic reviewed, because as a kid who grew up a hundred miles out of Dallas in the 80s and 90s, I saw it at every comic, swap meet, con, etc I went to and I always lumped it in with the Teen Titans “say no to drugs” promo, the Supergirl comic about wearing a seatbelt, etc. By the time I was old enough to maybe want to read it for a laugh, it was a lot harder to find.
Oh man, I had that Texas State Fair comic when I was a kid too, and read it cover to cover a lot of times (enough to recognize it just from the centaur panel). I think it may have been given out for free in the newspaper? It was actually the only X-Men comic that I owned for a long time, until I decided to subscribe to X-Factor.
Just noticed that Marvel Unlimited now has “Rahne of Terra” available for digital view.
You two planning on reviewing?
Gotta love the Warlock and Doug cameos, as short as they were.
And Mage/Cable doing his best Murtaugh impression.
You might want to check out Giant Size Special #5. 😉
https://xplainthexmen.com/2017/01/144-giant-size-special-5-feat-kid-apocalypse/
Man, there’s something about seeing Wolverine drawn very 90s in his classic blue-and-yellow that just screams “childhood” to me.
Yes, the brighter, more garish costume, even though it’s a revival, feels very right for the ‘90s.
The comics ‘90s, that is. One of the things that I’ve never quite gotten a grip on is how out-of-step the superhero*-comics of the ‘90s feel with the rest of the ‘90s. The brightness, the over-the-topness, the militaristic elements like straps and pouches, the heavy-metal touches like “Bloodwynd” and “Blüdhaven” — that all feels more ‘80s to me.
I’m not sure how much of this is simply because I dropped out of reading superhero comics during the decade, so this wasn’t part of my personal ‘90s — but when you compare the way ‘90s superhero comics look and feel to quintessential genre products of the era like the X-Files and Buffy the Vampire Slayer – even space operas like Babylon 5 and Deep Space 9, I think my feeling isn’t completely ungrounded.
*Definitely superheroes, specifically, not American comics in general. Vertigo brown? That feels very ‘90s to me.