tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396083279099612355.post3355672425038128558..comments2023-04-05T10:58:51.196+01:00Comments on X-Marathon: New Mutants #71-#73: InfernoAbigail Bradyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13778135648601234140noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396083279099612355.post-60602067829656966582013-03-08T16:01:26.245+00:002013-03-08T16:01:26.245+00:00Artistically it would be an abomination, of course...<i>Artistically it would be an abomination, of course, but it'd have made my life easier, and that's really what counts, isn't it? </i><br /><br />FWIW, I'm pretty sure the Marvel Index has attempted to piece together the chronology of "Inferno" and found a way to intersperse the various pages of <i>New Mutants</i> and <i>X-Terminators</i> in a way that makes some sense. But I've never read it that way, so I have no idea how well it works. <br /><br />I'm pretty sure the various "Inferno" collections don't bother, which is kind of a shame, because that would be the place to put the story together in a way that makes the most sense, instead of worrying about keeping whole issues together. Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396083279099612355.post-30118319288166936122013-03-08T13:35:54.995+00:002013-03-08T13:35:54.995+00:00Sorry, I wrote this well in advance and failed to ...Sorry, I wrote this well in advance and failed to revise it! (or formulate my argument particularly well, it seems)<br /><br />I'll agree it's trying to be more than a magic procedural: there is another layer there. But it's not about the ethics. I see it as about psychological damage, the danger of growing up too fast, PTSD, and abuse. Whether or not it's actually any <i>good</i> is another thing entirely, almost.Abigail Bradyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13176919191948017238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396083279099612355.post-57747860699710464392013-03-08T09:31:55.653+00:002013-03-08T09:31:55.653+00:00Ooh! Time for a little point - counterpoint :)
I&...Ooh! Time for a little point - counterpoint :)<br /><br />I'm not sure what you mean by "he hasn't done the thing for #4"; issue 4 itself is up, but did I skip something inside it? Or are you talking about not referencing various bits of dead X-Men? I'm also not sure I quite follow the last sentence in your first paragraph, so if I misinterpret your argument, I apologise.<br /><br />I take the point that in reading MSI as a morality study I'm working through what I see as the underlying theme, and possibly giving short shrift to the actual events of the comic. Obviously the Soulsword isn't the nuclear bomb, as you say; there'd be little point in trying to construct an analogy which uses the exact same working parts as the original. The problem as I see it is that whilst "dark magic automatically corrupts" is all you need for the rest of the story to unfold, it also makes the story entirely uninteresting except on the character level.<br /><br />Which, as I read your post, is the point at which we differ. You seem to be saying that by focusing on the analogy I see, I'm missing some very interesting particulars of how the story works with regard to Illyana. Which, yes, that's likely true. My defence on this is that Claremont at the time <i>MSI</i> came out (this is not going to be true by the time I reach "Inferno") hadn't put nearly enough work into Illyana to make her story affecting. I tend to focus on what I see as a story's metaphors in any case, but <i>MSI</i> made that particularly easy because the character-driven stuff didn't do anything for me.<br /><br />In short, "tool X is inevitably corrupting no matter what you do with it" doesn't strike me as an interesting concept unless you care about the character in danger of being corrupted. Magik in 1983 was absolutely not that character.SpaceSquidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09760939592584995876noreply@blogger.com