Thoughts

Thoughts

The Savage Land adventure continues, with Spider-man and Angel now transformed into monstrous versions of themselves and taking on Ka Zar. Golden’s art, while still feeling scrappy to me, works a lot better with such fantastical concepts in a over-the-top setting.

I do find Ka Zar a less interesting character than his pet Sabre-
Toothed Tiger, so he’s got a hard job carrying a comic in my book. There’s enough fun distractions in this book – especially the Man-Spider – but compared to the previous X-man Savage Land adventure its all feeling a bit underwhelming.

Fun Panel

It feels mean, but when the hot blonde damsel in distress of this issue – Tanya Anderssen, gets turned into a neanderthal by EVIL DON’T ASK HOW IT WORKS SCIENCE, that this is how it looks just seems laughable.

I knew it reminded me of something…

None More Claremont

These issues of Marvel Fanfare come with a single page “Editori-Al” comic strip, where editor Al Milgrom explains the nature of the title to readers, and then delivers some behind-the-scenes in-jokes. It’s cute but I imagine would get pretty wearing very quickly. This Claremont speechbubble seems telling. Already Claremont has a reputation for longtunning plots (and if they think he’s writing long running plots now, they ain’t seen nothing yet!).

That he’s already being comically quoted as asking “The main character — is there any reason he can’t be a woman?” though is interesting. It’s a perfectly great question for any writer to ask and, I think, we’re just beginning to see its impact on the main X-title.