Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Out-of-Context X-Men Panel o' the Day

Cyclops and Mr. Sinister exchange brutal bon mots in X-Factor #39.

15 comments:

  1. Anonymous1:37 PM

    Those were the days, when supervillains called superheroes "sissies". They also called them "poopy-pants" and "booger-brain".

    Sweet costume on Cyclops, though.

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  2. Anonymous1:48 PM

    That is a great costume on Cyclops, a guy who rarely ever has a good costume. He should have stuck with that rather than the belt-bandelero.

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  3. Anonymous3:25 PM

    The only thing I remember about X-Factor was that it sucked ass.

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  4. Anonymous4:48 PM

    I love taking panels out of context. I'm making a little collection of them to go alongside the "Your Mom" Chronicles.

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  5. Would Mr. Sinister, someone who is supposed to be a Victorian englishman, really call someone a sissy?

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  6. Anonymous3:54 AM

    Well, you see, John, that was Sinister forcing Slim to have a flashback to his orphanage days, when he was, in fact, a sissy. This horrific retrogression actually was reflected on several levels in X-Factor, later in X-Men, primarily insofar as his psychosexual relationship with his wife, girlfriend, and son, not to mention his interaction on a physiomental level with the rest of the team. This only served to heighten the drama when
    oh, screw that. Surely I've worked off some academic karma, though.
    Anyway, it does have something to do with Sinister making Scott flashback to his orphanage days, where apparently Sinister's malevolent mind games bore rich, ripe fruit many years later in the midst of pitched battle.
    Dammit, I can't stop!

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  7. Anonymous12:33 PM

    Oh yeah--that was at the end of "Inferno", right before Scott totally lost it and blasted Sinister into Kibbles 'n Bits--you could see his spine and everything. And the X-Mansion got blow'd up, and nobody gave a crap and waited a couple years to rebuild it.

    For some reason that panel--maybe because Sinister looks to be about 20 feet tall compared to Scott--reminds me of Cartman's first encounter with the Underpants Gnome. But at least Cartman didn't have to worry about the Comics Code, so he could call the gnome a pussy.

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  8. Gokitalo10:55 AM

    Well, seeing as Mister Sinister was originally meant to be a psychic projection created by an ageless young boy (a.k.a. Nathan from Scott's orphanage), it makes sense he'd call Cyclops a sissy. Of course, it became hilariously anachronistic when the 90s writers made Sinister a Victorian era scientist.

    Flint's right, too.

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