No, that was earlier – Uncanny X-Men #143 to be precise. The New Mutants weren’t formed until the X-Men were abducted by the Brood circa the mid-160’s. I own but haven’t yet read the issues of X-Men in which Kitty is demoted, but I do recall an issue or two of New Mutants during which Kitty was grumbling about being a part of that team.
BTW, Kitty is currently starring in a Claremont-penned miniseries titled “Mekanix.” I don’t know anything much about it other than she’s the main character. And, if the covers are any indication, she’s sure filled out recently.
Lockheed the dragon is appearing in a story in this month’s X-Men unlimited.
Story Title: “Professor Xavier is a Jerk!”
Brief Description:
Kitty is furious since Professor Xavier has demoted her - unfairly, she feels - from the X-Men to the junior team, the New Mutants. Eventually though, she listens to Stevie Hunter’s advice and tries to convince Xavier of her worth, instead of just throwing tantrums. That strategy doesn’t seem to work either, until Kitty notices an anomaly in the maintenance tunnels. Checking it out by herself, she first finds the little dragon that saved her life on Broodworld. Unfortunately, she also finds three alien Sidri, one of whom neutralizes Kitty’s phasing power with a blast. Staying in mental contact with Xavier, Kitty - with the help of her dragon - manages to neutralize two Sidri and is saved from the third one by Colossus. Afterwards, Xavier admits that he is considerably impressed by her skills and readmits her to the X-Men on probationary status. Wolverine, in the meantime, has taken off for a vacation in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Xavier is still not able to properly use his newly cloned body’s legs and he also has to deal with the revelation that Lilandra will be leaving soon to take up arms against her mad sister, Deathbird. Storm has trouble of her own as, for some reason, her weather powers slip out of control, when she tries to re-establish the link between her and the Earth. Elsewhere, Nightcrawler has a date with his lady love Amanda Sefton and Cyclops heads to Florida for some downtime to meet his sometime lover, Lee Forrester, before joining his father and his brother to meet his grandparents in Alaska. In Anchorage, the Summers men are expected by an employee of their relatives’ airline: a pilot named Madelyne Pryor who is a dead ringer for Scott’s dead love, Jean Grey.
Not to change the subject too much, but I’m curious about what happens to artists when they leave the comics biz.
Some greats, of course, keep drawing comics until they keel over at their easels. But there are some who seem to make a splash, work in the business for a few years, and then disappear.
Back in the '70s, Marshall Rogers had a great run on the Batman, giving the book/s (did he just do “Detective” or all Batman books?) a great noir feel but with clean, flowing lines. Love his stuff. Then he disappeared. Did he go into advertising? Die? Join a cult?
Joe Staton was another hero of mine. God, I loved his Justice Society. But I’ve only seen him pop up a few times in the past 10 years.
I believe Neal Adams went into advertising. Is that typical? Does it pay a lot more than comics? Did comics legends like Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko and Curt Swan do ad work or stick to the funny books?
Thanks, one and all. X-Men #143 was, oddly enough, the first issue of that book I ever picked up. I must have managed to miss #168; I’d always had the idea in my head that Lockheed just travelled back to earth with the team, when they left the Brood-world.
Bad News for Girl Genius fans. Issue 9 appears to be about 4 months behind schedule, due to sickness and a missed deadline. I hope this is a one time event because I really like the book and I’d hate to have to wait too long for a subsequent issue like with Buck Godot (or, yes Fenris, D’arc Tangent.)
I read anything Sam Kieth does, from any publisher. The Maxx was Image, right now it’s Zero Girl: Full Circle, it’s DC/Homage. I guess that counts as DC. I read the Transformers: generation 1 limited series recently by dreamwave. Over the years I’ve read stuff from Malibu, Dark Horse, and a few others.
Transformers: The War Within is much better than the Generation One series was… I won’t get into why, just pick up the first few issues and see if you enjoy it. It starts with Prime getting the Matrix…
Girl Genius, Knights of the Dinner Table… About it at the moment.
GI Joe (Image)
Powers TPBs (Image)
Top 10 TPBs (ABC…Hey when are they going to come out with the scond TPB???)
Rising Stars TPBs (Top Cow)
Star Wars Tales TPBs (Dark Horse)
Hmmm…I see a pattern. I buy monthly fom Marvel, but complete story arcs in TPB form from other companies (including DC…i.e. Fables)
GI Joe (Image)
Powers TPBs (Image)
Top 10 TPBs (ABC…Hey when are they going to come out with the scond TPB???)
Rising Stars TPBs (Top Cow)
Star Wars Tales TPBs (Dark Horse)
Hmmm…I see a pattern. I buy monthly fom Marvel, but complete story arcs in TPB form from other companies (including DC…i.e. Fables)
Herobear and the Kid
Astro City
Boneyard (HIGHLY recommended!!!)
Girl Genius
PS 432 (or some other number)
Tom Strong
Top Ten (if it starts up again)
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Promethea (but I’m getting bored)
etc
Fenris
Neal Adams wrot and illustrated a book explaining his theory on tectonic shifts and the reasons behind the break up of Pangea. Really bizarre stuff, but with some great art.
Steve Ditko is a recluse who doesn’t like to interact with the fan base too much, and holds a grudge with Stan Lee over the “Spider-man created by” tag. In the movie, the tag was given to both of them, but before that, the recognition was usually given to Stan alone.
as for books outside the big two that I’m reading, I read Powers, GI Joe, and the compendia put out by Crossgen, Forge and** Edge**.
(I’ve lost track of whether I posted this or not, but I’m not about to page back through 15 pages to see!! )
And the original reason for the grudge was that Ditko was a huge Ayn Rand fan (and still is) and hated the idea that Stan wanted the Green Goblin’s secret ID to be a successful businessman (Norman Osborn). IStR that Ditko wanted him to be just some guy.
And factoid: Ditko has never drawn Spider-Man since. Even when Ditko was doing Rom and Spider-Man appeared, someone else (Al Milgrom?) had to draw Spidey into the panels where he appeared!
Finally, on the who created what business, with Lee and Kirby it’s hard to tell, but with Lee and Ditko, it’s not. During Ditko’s run we got: Electro, Sandman, Doc Ock, The Lizard, The Green Goblin, The Molten Man, The Vulture, The Tinkerer, etc. All classic villians.
After Ditko, we got…the Kingpin.
Oh and losers like The Kangaroo, The Rhino, The Shocker, The Prowler, Man-Mountain Marko!, etc.
So, I’d give Ditko faaaar more credit than Lee for Spidey.
I’m inclined to agree with you, Fenris, about Ditko not getting enough credit. However, I think the Green Goblin was a more effective villian because he was capable and organized.
Think about how Gobbie learned Spidey’s true identity. He deduced the existence of the spider-sense, invented a gas to neutralize it, hired a gang of thugs to stage a fight during which a gas bomb could be thrown at Spider-Man, and then he could trail Peter Parker around town. !@#$ brilliant and one of the reasons why I think the original Green Goblin was one of the best comic villains ever. He could THINK as well as kill. I didn’t see the Spider-Man movie, the main reason being that the trailer made the Goblin appear to be more like a terrorist or kill-for-the-sake-of-killing psycho than a master plotter. I think the shrewd, cold, manipulative businessman is a far more sinister and effective character than a crazed rat bastard.
BTW, I thought the Rhino and the Shocker were fairly effective villians. I also think the Prowler could have been a good character had he been handled better by the writers.
Wizard magazine recently had an article on who they thought hade the best Rogue’s Gallery of villains. I was just wondering (after reading that Spidey post by Fenris) who you guys thought the winner should be.
Spidey, Batman, the FF, the JLA, Savage Dragon…uh, Green Lantern…whoever.
Spider-Man. Batman has some neat villians, but there’s something a little too “Dick Tracy” about them. Spider-Man has the Goblins, Doctor Octopus, Lizard, Scorpion, Shocker, Vulture, Chameleon, Rhino, Venom, Mysterio…
The prevalence of animal-themed bad guys was actually explained recently in a recent issue - you’d almost think Stan and Steve were planning it.
Now, who has the worst rouges gallery? I’d say Superman, myself. There’s a signifigant drop off after Lex Luthor - I mean, come on, Toyman? The Prankster?
Mr. Myxospitlhowevertheheckyouspellit? Looo-sers.
Was the reason that Wolverine never used his claws untill his bones were laced with adamantium because they couldn’t punch out through his skin when they were just bone?
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