Posted: 15 February 2018 at 12:09am | IP Logged | 1
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Matthew, re: Vance Astro, check out Defenders #26 as Eric mentioned above. I haven't read it, but it might contain the meeting you're thinking of. The MTIO issue is basically a book-length meeting of the two, but the older Vance does not take off his mask until the very end.
I find time travel in the X-Men to be similar to time travel in Star Trek. Initially, the series had little to do with the subject, but once one of the best stories used it as a central storytelling device (City; DOFP) the perception grew that time travel was intrinsically part of the franchise to the point where DOFP-style stories often dominate Marvel publishing and four of the thirteen Star Trek movies involve time travel of some sort, while two others still involve a character from a previous timeline and the ramifications of that.
While you're right that both Truth or Death and Bendis's story deal with the teams at "actual" points in their history, making them similar, I still don't find a causal connection leading from one to the other. I don't think Bendis needed the one to come up with the other, and I believe that what he was doing is substantially different in intent, altering the direction and POV of both era's X-Men as they interacted with one another.
And yes, whatever that earlier, more innocent, era was from which the younger team emerged, I agree that it belies current Marvel time compression, however that's described these days. I did think they'd passed the ten year mark at some point.
Eric, the "jackboots" thing was a humorously-intended hyperbolic description of the vigilance and overreactions other posters hereabouts have whenever the rules and limitations they've imposed upon their threads are flouted. I was telling Rebecca that I didn't care if the "Marvel and DC" portion of my thread title was ignored by her response.
The only reason it's there at all was to focus the discussion upon stories we remember fondly and avoid the possible tangents into Egyptian hieroglyphs and Outcault's "Yellow Kid" that could be created by a "Comic characters throughout history" thread title.
Also, I don't think the Salakk issue above shows a lack of imagination swapping out one GL for another as Solar Director. I think it was a genuinely light-hearted attempt to revisit that plot thread and put a close to Iona's story and that of the 5711 A.D. era in general.
That Avengers Annual #2 storyline involving the Scarlet Centurion's intrusion into the earliest days of the Marvel Age was an all-time classic. I read it as a reprint back in my childhood days and enjoyed the stuffings out of it. The follow-up in What If #29 is a fun issue as well with a nifty Michael Golden cover.
Edited by Brian Hague on 15 February 2018 at 12:09am
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