Why, I do believe it's time for some Silver Age!
But enough about me, how was your day?
Why, I do believe it's time for some Silver Age!
Lincoln Barnes
William Thompson
It's a Marvel day, so let's have plenty of Ditko and Kirby
Joseph Reed
Camden Hill
Oliver Mitchell
Kayden Davis
Jaxson Hall
Bentley Ortiz
Austin Morris
Evan Rodriguez
Lincoln Torres
Jackson Myers
Justin Johnson
Isaac Perez
>Quicksilver soloing Ben and Johnny
Nah
Chase Richardson
Oliver Stewart
Isaac Cox
Hunter Garcia
Ian Wilson
Christopher Nelson
Brody Roberts
Kayden Hill
Carson Baker
Joshua Cox
Cooper Morgan
Carson Lewis
Daniel Allen
John Hall
Hunter Sanders
Elijah Nguyen
Blake Stewart
Juan Cooper
Julian Wilson
Cameron Brown
Sebastian Miller
Blake Howard
Xavier Gonzalez
Austin Adams
Sebastian James
Andrew Jackson
Lincoln Martin
Christopher Howard
David Lewis
Blake Martin
Gavin Collins
Cooper Roberts
Chase Brooks
Elijah Ross
Joshua Wright
Thomas Young
William Moore
Adam Flores
Nolan Stewart
Blake Jenkins
Evan Scott
Jose Cox
Jack Nguyen
Jaxon Baker
Jayden Richardson
Henry Williams
Bentley Sanchez
Jose Phillips
Leo Nguyen
Gavin Bell
Christian Miller
Christopher Peterson
Anthony Miller
Nathan Garcia
Charles Gonzalez
Jeremiah Evans
Dominic Powell
Sebastian Lee
Joshua Taylor
Angel Roberts
Connor Sanders
Benjamin Turner
Dominic Reyes
Adam Allen
Julian Sanchez
Jackson Butler
Luis Wright
Eli Sullivan
James Gutierrez
Michael Howard
Jose Reed
Carson Robinson
William Adams
Andrew Miller
Joshua Green
Adam Watson
As always, I will add commentary from now-defunct review blog The X-Axis.
Gabriel Myers
>The Avengers become the first really major guest stars in the title. (Namor didn't have his own book at the time, so he doesn't really count. He was more of an anti-hero attached to the Fantastic Four supporting cast.) In traditional fashion, there is a misunderstanding and an inconclusive fight.
Austin Lewis
>Needing to travel from New York to the Balkans, the X-Men have sized up their options and decided that cruise liner would be a suitable and efficient way of getting there.
Levi Gray
>Scott and Jean are still pining for one another.
Wyatt Walker
>We get the first information on Professor X's origin - he lost the use of his legs in battle with Lucifer. Xavier promises to tell the whole story "someday." In fact, he duly does so in issue #20.
Connor Rogers
Angel Ross
Cameron Ortiz
>Stan Lee can't make up his mind which country he's setting he story in. The story claims to be set in both the Balkans (matching the previous issue) and Bavaria (in West Germany).
Parker Gonzalez
Ryder Murphy
>Lucifer makes his debut, and doesn't exactly give much away. He's "waited for years to begin [his] attack on humanity." And that's about it. His big plan is that he's got a bomb which will cause a major disaster if his heart stops. Nice defensive plan. It's rather unclear, however, what he was trying to achieve beyond that.
Charles Price
Henry Lewis
>In a memorably awful sequence, Scott points out to Marvel Girl that she's running towards a hole. Indeed she is. It's about one foot square. Nonetheless, "there's not enough time to side step", and Jean bravely resorts to covering it with a nearby log. Rather than, say, just jumping over it.
Dominic Moore
Easton Morgan
Brayden Roberts
Aiden Russell
Michael Allen
>Iceman accuses Thor of being "square."
Dominic Morris
Carson Foster
Parker Baker
>The X-Men have just released the first official photos of the infamous band of evil mutants
That is just so weird to me, that the X-Men can just send stuff to the TV station.
William Cooper
Justin King
Ayden Johnson
>If my many enemies ever knew who Iron Man really is, the factories of Tony Stark would be under constant attack!
Um, your factories are ALREADY under constant attack, and everybody thinks that Iron Man works for you so if somebody wanted to kill Iron Man they'd attack your factory anyway.
Ryan Diaz
>Having defeated Lucifer, the X-Men simply let him go. Why? Because "we X-Men are pledged never to cause injury to a human being." Er... come again? And if he was planning to blow up the world, wouldn't that at least justify handing him over to the police?
Jace Price
Carter Murphy
Hudson Moore
Jaxson Murphy
>Even taking a charitable approach to the different standards of the Silver Age, let's be blunt - this one's rubbish. Lucifer doesn't have a plan, merely a defence device. (And he says he spent ten years building it, too.) He gets captured... and then they just let him go. And worst of all, he's just a generic villain.
>Lucifer ought to be a major figure in X-Men mythology, because he's the villain who originally put Professor X in a wheelchair. In reality, he's hardly ever mentioned. Partly that's because Xavier has now been in and out of his wheelchair like a paraplegic yoyo, and it no longer really matters how he lost the use of his legs the first time around. But mainly, it reflects the fact that Lucifer's an uninspired creation. Even when he gets some sort of origin story (vangaurd force for an alien invasion) in issue #20, it's still pretty generic.
>And he has nothing whatsoever to do with the X-Men. He's just a villain that Xavier happened to stumble upon. It could have been anyone, really. He's a desperately weak link in the mythos, as his marginalisation suggests.
Welp, see you guys tomorrow.
Blake Scott
They just let him go? Seriously? What the fuck is wrong with them?
Julian Johnson
Would have made more sense if Cain Marko had been the one that put Xavier in a wheelchair in that car crash.
Colton Fisher
Hey, they're pledged never to cause injury to a human being!
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