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From: rick@uwmacc.UUCP (the absurdist)
Newsgroups: net.comics
Subject: Re: This weeks Bag O' Goodies...(spoilers!)
Message-ID: <456@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 11-Nov-84 23:40:33 EST
Article-I.D.: uwmacc.456
Posted: Sun Nov 11 23:40:33 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 13-Nov-84 01:28:04 EST
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Reply-To: rick@maccunix.UUCP (Rick Keir)
Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center
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Summary: 

In article <551@pucc-k> afo@pucc-k (Flidais) writes:
>Kitty Pride & Wolverine #4: { omitted }	Kitty books to the US, leaving 
>	a semi-healed Wolvie to take on the Yakuza.  


Ahem.  The panel captions & Kitty's internal monologue say she's gonna
chicken out and go home.  The pictures say something else.  
In the background, the speakers are announcing flights to the US (what
she's thinking she'll get on) and to Tokyo (where Ogun is).  She tells
herself that giving up is ok -- but we see her walking past the gate 
to the US and towards the flight to Tokyo.

I just LOVE stories where they put worthwhile information into the
pictures;  if I wanted a story told in words, I'd read a novel.

By the by, I'm glad to see Kitty & her father in the story;  
Wolverine ripping his way through adversity is too old a story
to stand by itself.  What is important here for me are elements like
	(1)	Wolverine taking on Ogun for Kitty's sake, when he believes
		that it means his own destruction;
	(2)	Wolverine's mixed harshness/gentleness in training Kitty;
		I've always liked his view that children can't be protected
		from reality forever;
	(3) Kitty's father's complete inability to deal with a world of
		sudden death and mystic/mutant/techie powers that he knows
		nothing of :  gives me a viewpoint I can identify with;
	(4) Kitty's being forced (throughout the last 2 years) to deal
		with becoming an adult;  not in some simplistic "Rite of Passage"
		where she has the "adult" bit set in her brain, but in a 
		mixture of stories where she does the right or the wrong
		thing, and doesn't always remember what she learned the 
		last time.   

Kitty is my favorite member of the X-Men.
-- 
"I feel like some dummy from a TV show asking this, but...
 who ARE you, Masked Man?"
Rick Keir -- MicroComputer Information Center, MACC
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