Heroic Effort – Bonus Content – Danger Room #337

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1. Howdy A & J, good solid coverage and I think the very little time you touched on Avengers #332 was all you need to do with cameos of this ilk. I agree with you guys that X-Factor #66 is starting to close the chapter on characters and storylines in order to make way for the changes to the mutant teams that we will see in the future. Just like any TV show that has gone on too long and changed original locations, added children and characters, sometimes you have to clean house or completely re-boot to get back to the status quo of the original premise. In some ways I think this was also what Excalibur #37 was trying to do for Night Crawler. As for Mark Badger, he is an acquired taste. I agree with your comment that he works better in a non-super hero comic like the work he did for the Gargoyle Limited Series. He is not my cup of tea but he has a style all his own.

   I too found the New Warriors storyline to be a nice surprise, I quit collecting New Warriors before this came out and going back to it was entertaining. I do not agree that it belongs with a “Days of Future Past” collection only because it does not take place in that timeline like the 4 part Annual series did. I really enjoy alternate history ideas like the one presented here. When done correctly I think there are several interesting ideas you can explore with a premise like this one.

   Wolverine #39 was, in my opinion, a perfect bookend to your X-Factor #66 coverage. In Portico & Thibert’s art you do get a lot of kinetic energy and there is some excitement to the art. Comparing their art to many artists of the 60’s and 70’s you may say they are much better, at least more dynamic. However, Portacio still has much to learn about story telling. I found his layouts as confusing as you did, and I share your thoughts of sympathy to Claremont for having to be the person who has to make it all make sense in the end. Portacio and Lee and Liefeld where also notorious for turning in their pages late, so that certainly did not help Claremont. Then you look at Silvestri and Green’s work in Wolverine, it is night and day. If you go back and just look at the panels, study the facial expressions on the characters, the different postures of the characters, you almost don’t need words at all to get an idea of what is happening. Silvestri is as good at drawing figures that look realistic as he is looking cartoony and exaggerated in the “right ways” that tell you the emotions of the characters. This run of Wolverine that Hamma/Silvestri/Green did still holds up in my opinion.

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