Listen to the episode here!
Art by David Wynne. Wanna buy the original? Drop him a line!
Sauron has hella abs… (X-Men Unlimited #6)
…and apparently a come-hither gaze? (X-Men Unlimited #6)
Sauron’s backstory is a wild ride even by Silver Age standards. (X-Men Unlimited #6)
“Also, I get three mana of any color.” (X-Men Unlimited #6)
That’s our Sauron! (X-Men Unlimited #6)
Karl Lykos is a cheerful guy. (X-Men Unlimited #6)
They say it’s the smell, but I bet the other pterosaurs are actually judging him for his jorts. (X-Men Unlimited #6)
Meanwhile in Cairo… (X-Men Unlimited #7)
It really doesn’t seem like Candra should be able to bend her arms and legs. (X-Men Unlimited #7)
Truly, a fancy beard. (X-Men Unlimited #7)
Urchins: 1, Gambit: 0. (X-Men Unlimited #7)
Later, this kid will be retconned to have been imaginary. Don’t think too hard about it. (X-Men Unlimited #7)
STEALTH! (X-Men Unlimited #7)
X-Men vs. Urchins. (X-Men Unlimited #7)
Seriously, Candra, Storm will stab you in a sewer and not even care. (X-Men Unlimited #7)
NEXT EPISODE: Sex?
LINKS & FURTHER DINOSAURS
- Jay co-wrote a serial Thor novel! You can subscribe to it–and hear and read the first chapter–here, if you are so inclined.
- (If Jay got to pick a theme song for said novel, it would be the extremely kickass Faster, Pussycat cover of “You’re So Vain.”)
I haven’t listened to the podcast yet, but retconning Jamil as imaginary does a lot to explain why he’s dressed like that, despite it being 1994.
So, while not in canonical 616, Ultimate X-men #48 specifically addresses Jay’s comments about Wolverine getting tattoos. While Storm and Wolverine are hitting the streets looking for Sinister, Wolverine wants to stop by a tattoo parlor to ask a question about Sinister’s ink, and Storm says, “what would you know about tattoos, [Wolverine] I’ve never seen you with any.” And Wolverine replies, “Tats are basically scars, Ro, only last a few hours before my healing factor rubs ’em out. Great way to impress new girlfriends, though.” Jay, i don’t know if you subconsciously remembered this, but I wanted you to know there is at least one mention of specifically what you were hoping for.
I always had a bit of affection for X-Men Unlimited #6 because it’s one of the few (maybe the only?) stories in X-history to suggest any sort of close friendship between Jean and Lorna. Logically, those two should be best buds – they were the first two female X-Men and for a while were the only women on the team. They were for all intents and purposes sisters-in-law for years. They were never written as having clashing personalities of any kind, so realistically, Lorna should be one of Jean’s best friends, but they rarely seem to ever be written that way. A lot of it probably comes down to Claremont – he wrote Lorna out of the series pretty soon after taking over and never viewed her as anything much more than a convenient vessel for mind control. He was much more interested in making Jean friends with “his” characters like Storm and Misty Knight. Then Jean died, and when she came back in X-Factor, Lorna was mostly indisposed being possessed by Malice. Once Lorna started being written by writers that actually seemed to like her, like Peter David and JM DeMattias, she and Jean were on different teams in different locations. Then Chuck Austen came along and somehow managed to treat Lorna even worse than Claremont did, then Jean died again, Lorna went off to space, blah blah blah. So X-Men Unlimited 6 is maybe unique in X-history in depicting two characters who ought to have been as close as sisters ireally nteracting at all. So I like it for that reason, although the story itself is pretty rubbish.