…or a token Spidey-Friend public service spokesperson… Thankfully, Parker gave Iceman, one of my favorite X-men, and his humor, more than his share of the spotlight here. Not all the way back where the Beast talks like he just moved out of Yancey Street and has the IQ of a Moloid or Marvel Girl has a girlish faint after doing nothing more than bending a spoon – these are throwback tales with the modern trappings (computers, email, indoor plumbing at the X-Mansion). This one harks back to the original five X-Kids. So they contrived some tales from Charles Xavier’s long lost notes – a cockamamie Untold Tales of the X-Men, if you will. Marvel who doesn’t own the film rights to the X-Men wanted to somehow cash in with a same-titled yet unique-from-the-film volume. It’s a movie tie-in without being a movie tie-in. A bargain find at the local thrift shop found right between the store’s hundredth stocked copy of Twilight and a book about Carrot Top…
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