a special x-mas gift for ozma914

[bitterfig]

To ozma914

Merry Christmas.

From The Uncanny X-Men #179-- art by John Romita Jr. and Dan Green. Say, isn't it illegal to show a 15 year old character in this state? Apparently not in 1984.

Comments

[ozma914]

I might be wrong (as it's been a long time since I read that issue) but I don't recall that there was any sexual violence in this issue, or even the threat of it. Granted that the Morlocks were trying to get Kitty to keep her promise to marry one of their own, but from what I can remember of that character he was something of a big innocent with kind of a kid's crush on her. Certainly the dilemma Kitty ended up in wasn't an easy one for her to deal with. I thought both their plots and characters were nice and three dimensional at the time, although I'll grant you I was pretty young myself.

[vovat]

Don't Morlocks live in the future?

[bitterfig]

In H.G. Well's The Time Machine Morlocks lived in the very distant future but in X-Men there was a sort of tribe of mutant outcasts (many of whom where non-human in apperance) who lived underground in the NYC who called themselves Morlocks (as an homage to H.G. Wells and his universe).

[ozma914]

Illegal, no -- after all, she's showing way less skin than most people on the beach ... or for that matter anywhere else, at least during the summertime these days. You do have to question a mid-teener in lingerie, though. Thanks for tracking this down for me; it doesn't quite match my memory of it, which is par for the course these days, and it would have driven me crazy wondering until I saw it again.

[bitterfig]

After you mentioned the image I started going trying to remember it myself. Back in the heyday of my X-Men obsession (1989ish when I was a senior in high school) I worked in a comic store and if someone described something that happened in a Claremont issue I could immediately tell them the issues number, the artists, and assorted plot details. 20 years has taken the edge off my recall but if I do a bit of research I can still track things down.

[ozma914]

I would have been reading from 1984 until around 1988, when I got married and ran out of money to continue collecting comics. Now I wander into a local comic shop once a month or so to collect the Buffy S8 comic, although it's often a rather pale imitation of the great comics we used to read.

[bitterfig]

I'm really behind on Buffy S8. I got spoiled when I was in Chicago where the libraries stocked the trade paperbacks. I read through the crossover with Fray (maybe issue 16). After I watched it I looked up Fray, a mini-series Joss wrote for Dark Horse. It's pretty cool, have you ever read it?