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X-PLAINED:
- Apocalypse’s influence
- The Big House (about which we are confused)
- Generation X #58
- Cartier and/or Louis St. Croix
- Our college’s Dean, naked jogger
- Things that are sharp in the woods
- HUMP
- Penance (Hollow)
- Emplate, spoiled teenager
- Generation X Annual 1999
- Epistolary fonts
- Jubilee’s pre-X past
- Round Wolverine
- Hunter Brawn (again, sigh)
- Recognizing random dudes from pictures
- Dad Things and Dad Pipes
- Juggernaut and Black Tom as a relationship model
- Jubilee, competent veteran
- A murder mystery
- Legault, cosplaying bodyguard
- Taking notes on comics
- Magneto’s telepathy-blocking (or not) helmet
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So the deal with Sasquatch and Alpha Flight was a tie-in to the series by Steven Seagle and various pencilers that was wrapping up around the time. As that story began, Sasquatch joins the new version of the team basically on a leash; he appears to have lost most of his ability to reason and is kept in check by a teammate. Fans HATED this at the time. And then, late in the series, we got the reveal that this had never been Walter Langkowski at all; the shadowy figure running Dept H told his goons “bring me Sasquatch” and they did.
I always love this show, thanks for all your hard work.
A couple of things:
1. Yes; The Big House is a Marvel thing. That said… I don’t ever remember READING it. It was, however, in an episode of Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes (along with The Raft and The Cube). So I know it from there.
2. Loved the Hot Fuzz reference! It’s the best (only?!) good cop movie out there… and my favorite of the Cornetto trilogy.
If they had to give Hollow Penance a backstory, they could have made her Yvette, the (then) Yugoslavian girl who Penance was originally intended to be. Just to add that extra heaping pile of confusion this character has clearly been alcking all this time.
Have her be a person who had their form co-opted by Monet and the twins, and this was her finally getting released, though the St Croix’s kept templates to work from as they found they liked the forms.
Ooof recording on election night. Sorry buds that must have been awful.
Big House I think was from Dan Slotts She-Hulk.
I kind of wonder if shoving the Jubliee story in annual was Faerber trying to wrap up plots before the Warren Ellis revamp happens. It’s not impossible to think they were starting to prepare for that and wind down the current runs. Maybe not given Monet leaves only to come back abruptly a few months later.
Speaking of Faerber since he’s almost off the book I wanted to mention something about him that hasn’t really come up. The big thing I think he’s really know for is a creator owned Image series called Noble Causes that he’ll write after Gen X which was specifically focused on the soap opera aspect of superheroes.
I liked the Faerber Gen X ok (certainly more than Hama who got me to drop the book for a bit). The fundamentals are there but I think it’s missing the grungy/quirky youth culture vibe of the early run and what comes after this. It’s got the edges sanded off in a way that reminds of why I bounce off of YA stuff in general. It’s unfortunate that the next run which I like (even with what happens to Synch) is co-written by two now disgraced sex creeps. And it’s weird to think we’re in the tail end of Gen X which has really only had short revival in the 20+ years since this series ended.
You asked for a song for Monet’s backstory…
(tune: “Jolene” by Dolly Parton)
Chorus:
Monet, Monet, Monet, Monet…
Her backstory is real hard to X-plain.
Monet, Monet, Monet, Monet…
Enough to drive a normal mind insane.
Monet is super strong and tough
And as if that were not enough
A telepathic genius who can fly
Her brother Emplate is her foe
Her life is quite confusing though
But in this song I will give it a try…
(chorus)
Because her older brother sucked,
Monet’s life got extremely f****d
He trapped her in a body pointy red
Her little sisters’ bodies merged
A copy of Monet emerged
And everybody thought the sisters dead
(chorus)
“Monet” joined Generation X
And no one ever could suspect
That this “Monet” was sisters unified
The red girl came into their care
They called her Penance, unaware
Till an explosion caused them to divide
(chorus)
Monet returned to her own shell
The twins got locked in Penance hell
Then yet another BOOM freed them at last
Now Penance is a Hollow soul
The twins and Monet all are whole
And all of that backstory’s in the past…