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petrefax (I love your nick: Sandman rules!), I'm a bit sad that Longshot is the smallest figure in the cover, but in the other hand it's a full-length one, so well...
It seems like Longshot is taking part in X-Tinction Agenda...
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Thread: Longshot Appreciation 2018
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10-02-2015, 08:20 AM #61That's what makes it fun!
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10-02-2015, 08:32 AM #62That's what makes it fun!
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...and in Inferno.
I've got to admit I'm not reading either of them. Di Giandomenico (pics 1-3) is a great dynamical artist, although I find a bit odd that Longshot's showing such a serious expression. I like the swords, but the new sky-blue! clothes are pretty awful. And that haircut --for Mojo's sake, his old mullet might be ridiculous, but at least it was funny. Oh, by the way...OUT with that designer stubble. NOW.
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10-02-2015, 11:26 AM #63BANNED
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The use of swords are to me more Spiral aka Ricochet Rita's style.
Originally Posted by Ricochet Rita
I lean more to Longshot being a ninja with throwing stars.
Agreed about the sky-blue clothes.
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10-03-2015, 03:55 AM #64That's what makes it fun!
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Agree. The more unarmed Longshot is, the more IC he's, IMHO. I think he's more the defensive type that the offensive type --that is, he get rid of attacks or get his goals causing minor damage (except for his usual slip-ups, LOL). Originally Posted by 616MarvelYear is LeapYear
That being said, he was always bound to bladed weapons (in his former suit he wore a long knife on his thigh, a dagger on his boot and little razors on his cartridge belt), so swords or katana might be OK to me as well as ninja throwing stars. In fact, through the original LS -if it was needed- Longshot proved to be more aggresive and according to his warrior background than he was later: he tried to stab Gog in #5...
...and Mojo in #6. Although it's true he finally wasn't able to kill in cold blood neither of them: at last, pushed by Doc Strange, he made Gog explode with one of his razor blades, but that was an extreme situation and he said he felt 'empty' after doing it.
Anyway, what I would find unacceptable would be seeing a firearm on his hands. He did it in UXM #12, and once is enough for me.
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10-05-2015, 04:59 AM #65Incredible Member
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Ha thanks Rita. Not many people recognize the reference but truth be told I took the name because it's a handle nobody uses. Originally Posted by Ricochet Rita
As far as Inferno concerned there is a reason why Longshot is wearing the blue and gray uniform in the Limbo domain on Battleworld. In this region the Xmen failed in the original Inferno event and Illyana Rasputin takes over Manhattan while the Xmen protect their territory by holding what little they have at bay from Illyana Rasputin and Madelyne Pryor. Scott Summers as the Baron of limbo has the Xmen patrol their territory to keep demons out and keep the peace among their side so his Xmen are a security force and so they are essentially the police of Limbo and all the xmen wear blue police uniforms.
Yeah as much I liked Javier Garron's stylized cartoonish art mostly because of his wonderfully expressive faces but he did put some rather odd artistic choices like Goblin Prince Havok looking like 90's Aquaman.
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10-05-2015, 06:26 AM #66That's what makes it fun!
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Why, thanks for the explanation, petrefax --truth is, I'm quite away from Marvel breaking. If this ugly uniform is just a temporary thing, it's OK (I'm trembling at the thought of what's next, though).
But regarding the beardy, no way! Longshot is smooth, period. I allowed the hair in his chest in "Longshot saves the MU" as a joke, just because I found terrifically funny all the gay-friendly touch of the mini.
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10-05-2015, 08:03 AM #67Extraordinary Member
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That's the best look I've ever seen Longshot have. I also like the sticks on his back. Makes sense he'd use something like that... Originally Posted by Ricochet Rita
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10-05-2015, 07:08 PM #68Incredible Member
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I don't imagine anything much sticking from Inferno in the Main marvel universe or much of the secret wars battleworld books. Originally Posted by Ricochet Rita
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10-07-2015, 03:52 AM #69That's what makes it fun!
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OK, the black gloves are fine. And probably the whole outfit would've got a better look in a darker colour (olive green, for example). But I'm not much into chest armour, baggy trousers nor big boots. Actually, although I like Longshot's classic costume (Adams' one), I think it's quite heavy and stifling for such a light body as his. It always makes me feel heated, LOL. Originally Posted by Bl00dwerK
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10-13-2015, 02:29 AM #70Spectacular Member
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Ricochet Rita thought you might enjoy my blog post on the origin of Longshot's family.
If you're a Claremont fan feel free to check out the rest of the site
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10-13-2015, 05:48 AM #71That's what makes it fun!
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Great spec work, nadler! I've already post my impression at your blog, hope it wasn't too large --when I get carried away I'm terrible ;P .
And in the end, Longshot's existence could be summarized this way:
Pretty tragic. (Did somebody said "lucky"?).
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10-20-2015, 05:27 AM #72That's what makes it fun!
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Two months have passed, but better late than never ;P . Originally Posted by a0040pc
You're right. But Nocenti was very busy with her editorial work, and Adams had become a star and he was required everywhere, so they decided to wait. They seemed to be available again in September 1989, and this is the reason why Longshot left the X-men so brusquely in UXM #248, but their plans were thwarted one more time. In fact, Nocenti wrote a ton draft and Adams sketched a lot, too, but this stuff has never come out. I recently e-mailed Annie and I tried to make her talk, but it's all worthless :-/ . Originally Posted by a0040pc
You have already realized that there was Originally Posted by a0040pc
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10-20-2015, 06:16 AM #73That's what makes it fun!
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I shall start the review by reminding, as I already explained, what an atrocious character Mojo is. Most of readers recall him as a bizarre ridiculous blob (which he is), because later writers emphasized his "cathodic" side.
But Mojo is a monster. I mean, not because of his appearance neither his alien nature. His wickedness is so pure that he's not even aware he's wicked. Living beings (animals, plants, humans) get rotten at his sole presence or at his touch. And if he wanted something from someone, he would do as harm as necessary and even more to get it.
The scenes in Rita's home are simply hideous, thanks in large part to Adams' suggestive work. Just the sick idea of unnaturally twisting poor Saxophone's head is aberrant (Ann, what did you smoke?), and I'm sincerely surprised that Marvel published such a panel, worthy of an issue of Moore, Totleben & Bissette 'The Swamp Thing' (narrowly contemporary, BTW).
This distressing page reminds me a lot of another famous one...
...which was published in 1988!
The mad villain brutally tortures a hero's loved one and then he exhibits her in order to shake this hero, all narrated through curiously similar scenes. Accept it, comic critics: 'Longshot' beat 'The Killing Joke' two years before.
(P.S.: I find lovely the way Longshot often calls Rita just "Ricochet". Clearly, there's no difference between both names for him).
TO BE CONTINUED...Last edited by Ricochet Rita; 10-22-2015 at 03:17 AM.
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10-24-2015, 10:21 AM #74BANNED
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'Longshot' beat 'The Killing Joke' two years before
Wow! I had no idea! Thank you very much for making me aware of that fact
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10-25-2015, 04:23 AM #75That's what makes it fun!
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Well, I'm not stating at all that Alan Moore plagiarized Nocenti --neither that he even read her work. But the truth is: this explicit and insane torture scene and plot in a superhero comic-book (not in another kind of comic, that's a different story) were seen for the first time in Longshot, not in Batman.
