From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!rlgvax!guy
Newsgroups: net.comics
Title: Re: Everything you wanted to know about mutants
Article-I.D.: rlgvax.234
Posted: Sun Apr 10 18:21:24 1983
Received: Mon Apr 11 02:55:50 1983

Phoenix is going to resurrect herself?  You don't mean that that's what CC
has in mind with Ms. Madelyne Prior?  (Do you realize that this is the
*second* character CC had whose name is Maddy Prior?  (The first was a little
girl in the Impossible Man Spider-Woman story))  His necrophilia is beginning
to get on my nerves...

Marvel's attitude towards mutants is a little extreme.  I suspect Claremont
is beginning to stress the Evil Mutants side of the Hellfire Club a little
too much.  One of the things I *liked* about the Hellfire Club is that they
were a bunch of rich and powerful bastards who just conveniently *happened*
to have super-powers.  Sebastian Shaw doesn't strike me as the type who finds
being a mutant more than an extra convenience.  I suspect if he couldn't go
beat up some super-hero he'd get his jollies planning an unfriendly corporate
takeover (sort of like Mr. Slackmeyer).  Unlike Magneto, who CC has been trying
to portray as being not a nice guy but at least somewhat justified in his
nastiness (he was put in Auschwitz as a boy - I suspect because he was Jewish
or Gypsy, not because of being a mutant), Shaw, Frost, etc. are just greedy
SOBs who want to rule the world because they think they deserve it.  Now, with
the Graphic Novel's bit about Pierce going anti-mutant crazy, he seems to be
trying to make them into yet another band of Evil Mutants.  Mumble, mumble...
Oh well, there's always Teen Titans.  "Golden Globes award", indeed.

					Guy Harris
					{seismo,mcnc,we13}!rlgvax!guy
----- News saved at Sun Apr 10 14:19:32 1983

Phoenix is going to resurrect herself?  You don't mean that that's what CC
has in mind with Ms. Madelyne Prior?  (Do you realize that this is the
*second* character CC had whose name is Maddy Prior?  (The first was a little
girl in the Impossible Man Spider-Woman story))  His necrophilia is beginning
to get on my nerves...

Marvel's attitude towards mutants is a little extreme.  I suspect Claremont
is beginning to stress the Evil Mutants side of the Hellfire Club a little
too much.  One of the things I *liked* about the Hellfire Club is that they
were a bunch of rich and powerful bastards who just conveniently *happened*
to have super-powers.  Sebastian Shaw doesn't strike me as the type who finds
being a mutant more than an extra convenience.  I suspect if he couldn't go
beat up some super-hero he'd get his jollies planning an unfriendly corporate
takeover (sort of like Mark Slackmeyer's dad).  Unlike Magneto, who CC has been
trying to portray as being not a nice guy but at least somewhat justified in
his nastiness (he was put in Auschwitz as a boy - I suspect because he was
Jewish or Gypsy, not because of being a mutant), Shaw, Frost, etc. are just
greedy SOBs who want to rule the world because they think they deserve it.
Now, with the Graphic Novel's bit about Pierce going anti-mutant crazy, he
seems to be trying to make them into yet another band of Evil Mutants.
Mumble, mumble... Oh well, there's always Teen Titans.  "Golden Globes award",
indeed.

					Guy Harris
					{seismo,mcnc,we13}!rlgvax!guy