tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396083279099612355.post4443020050665168572..comments2023-04-05T10:58:51.196+01:00Comments on X-Marathon: Uncanny X-Men #207-#209: Party in the ParkAbigail Bradyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13778135648601234140noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396083279099612355.post-17503697665020611232012-12-23T15:50:11.330+00:002012-12-23T15:50:11.330+00:00"Longshot mini is kinda batshit crazy)."..."Longshot mini is kinda batshit crazy)."<br /><br />Yeah, but it's GREAT batshit crazy. If anything I wish Claremont never got a hand on the Mojo/Longshot mythology since he devolved what was at first genuinely menacing into a joke concept.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13427931743951605789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396083279099612355.post-53660398253733719212012-12-19T17:46:07.739+00:002012-12-19T17:46:07.739+00:00I picked up that Excalibur one-shot today, as it h...I picked up that <i>Excalibur</i> one-shot today, as it happens. It's good to know that, as from what you say I might have tried fruitlessly looking for the material between the two. TBH it looks like Claremont just got bored with Rachel - especially since he wasn't allowed to use Scott any more - and decided to have Psylocke as team telepath instead.Abigail Bradyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13176919191948017238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396083279099612355.post-26969521200257971422012-12-19T17:16:26.600+00:002012-12-19T17:16:26.600+00:00I think I needed to have read the Longshot miniser...<i>I think I needed to have read the Longshot miniseries for this to have made any sense. </i><br /><br />Eh, I've read it, and it only adds a marginal amount of sense to things (the Longshot mini is kinda batshit crazy). <br /><br />What you really need to read for Rachel's visit to the Body Shoppe to make sense is the Phoenix limited series Claremont was going to write that would detail what happened to her after disappearing into the Body Shoppe in these issues. <br /><br />Unfortunately, that series slipped through the cracks and was never written/published, so this sequence of events makes sense to no one (except maybe Claremont), and Rachel goes from entering the Body Shoppe here to popping out of it in the one shot that sets up <i>Excalibur</i>. Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.com