Post by wildfire2099 on Mar 7, 2019 9:30:58 GMT -5
X-Men #47
'The Warlock has Three Faces'
Friedrich/Drake/Heck/Roth/Tartaglione
Plot: Bobby and Hank are sad about the team being 'forced' to break up, and are wandering their usual haunts. They grab Vera and Zelda to see the latest show, a hypontist named the Maha Yogi, but they didn't plan ahead and the show is sold out.
After a brawl with some hippy thugs (in costume, in the dark) at Cafe a-go-go... turns out there's a cancellation, and they get into the show.
Turns out the entertainer is really Merlin/Warlock, using a stage act to create brainwashed minions for reasons unknown... the boys recognize him and escape the brainwashing the rest of the crowd gets and go back stage for a big fight.
They actually defeat him, the get back to the girls just in time for a night cap!
Notes:
-This is at least a more entertaining story than the last few, but it screams 'silver age DC' to me. I felt like Vera and Zelda could have been Iris Allen and Lois Lane for all their incitefulness
- They got way carried away with the 'Beast-ism' language.. to the point where other characters talked like him, too (even the arresting officer). At one point, he calls his girlfriend 'wonderous wench'. Yeah... doesn't get more sixties than that!
-There is some good character bits at the beginning, with the two reflecting and discussing the breakup of the team. Hank actually thinks that perhaps the team would be more effective as a unit, and hopes they don't have to die to prove it. Of course, they actually won a fight with a supervillain, so maybe there's something to it.
-OTOH, 'breaking up' the team, but not leaving town, seems to defeat the purpose (unless we find the other 3 did so)..also, Hank and Bobby are clearly hanging together, so that's not really spreading out to meet more threats, but there's a reason this plotline doesn't last long.
-The artm sadly takes a decided turn..it's more cartoony, and there are a TON of random shots of Bobby's face, I guess one of the artists liked drawing him with slicked back hair? I do like the cover though.. is that Adams yet? (it's not noted, but it looks like it could be)
I'd call it an improvement over last issue, but just.
Plot: C
Art: C
History C (bad guy does come back)
'I Iceman'
Drake/Roth/Verpooten
Not a story, but rather Iceman 4th wall breaking and telling us about his powers. Super cartoony art, which is a bit jarring, and nothing to write home about.
The only panels of note... he talks about wanting to challenge the Torch, and Johnny flies by and says 'about as likely as the Mets winning the pennant'.. which is some nice baseball irony (since the Mets do so the very next season, 1969).
He also opines about how he'd do in space... foreshadowing maybe?
'The Warlock has Three Faces'
Friedrich/Drake/Heck/Roth/Tartaglione
Plot: Bobby and Hank are sad about the team being 'forced' to break up, and are wandering their usual haunts. They grab Vera and Zelda to see the latest show, a hypontist named the Maha Yogi, but they didn't plan ahead and the show is sold out.
After a brawl with some hippy thugs (in costume, in the dark) at Cafe a-go-go... turns out there's a cancellation, and they get into the show.
Turns out the entertainer is really Merlin/Warlock, using a stage act to create brainwashed minions for reasons unknown... the boys recognize him and escape the brainwashing the rest of the crowd gets and go back stage for a big fight.
They actually defeat him, the get back to the girls just in time for a night cap!
Notes:
-This is at least a more entertaining story than the last few, but it screams 'silver age DC' to me. I felt like Vera and Zelda could have been Iris Allen and Lois Lane for all their incitefulness
- They got way carried away with the 'Beast-ism' language.. to the point where other characters talked like him, too (even the arresting officer). At one point, he calls his girlfriend 'wonderous wench'. Yeah... doesn't get more sixties than that!
-There is some good character bits at the beginning, with the two reflecting and discussing the breakup of the team. Hank actually thinks that perhaps the team would be more effective as a unit, and hopes they don't have to die to prove it. Of course, they actually won a fight with a supervillain, so maybe there's something to it.
-OTOH, 'breaking up' the team, but not leaving town, seems to defeat the purpose (unless we find the other 3 did so)..also, Hank and Bobby are clearly hanging together, so that's not really spreading out to meet more threats, but there's a reason this plotline doesn't last long.
-The artm sadly takes a decided turn..it's more cartoony, and there are a TON of random shots of Bobby's face, I guess one of the artists liked drawing him with slicked back hair? I do like the cover though.. is that Adams yet? (it's not noted, but it looks like it could be)
I'd call it an improvement over last issue, but just.
Plot: C
Art: C
History C (bad guy does come back)
'I Iceman'
Drake/Roth/Verpooten
Not a story, but rather Iceman 4th wall breaking and telling us about his powers. Super cartoony art, which is a bit jarring, and nothing to write home about.
The only panels of note... he talks about wanting to challenge the Torch, and Johnny flies by and says 'about as likely as the Mets winning the pennant'.. which is some nice baseball irony (since the Mets do so the very next season, 1969).
He also opines about how he'd do in space... foreshadowing maybe?