tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2734283773701136760.post7017854366462268849..comments2024-03-26T20:11:01.933-04:00Comments on NOT BLOG X: X-FACTOR #70 - September 1991G. Kendallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12279461069684403792noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2734283773701136760.post-18350146100586779362014-02-24T13:34:41.614-05:002014-02-24T13:34:41.614-05:00As a reader at the time, I did enjoy seeing one er...<i>As a reader at the time, I did enjoy seeing one era of the books end and another begin, all happening in real time. ... The problems I have with the transition to the "merged teams" era were only visible in retrospect. </i><br /><br />Right there with you on both counts. This felt very momentous to me as a kid, the end of one era and the beginning of another, and the relative backslide of the characters to a classic status quo without a good in-story examination of it that occurred as part of that transition didn't become apparent to me until I re-read this stuff when I was older. <br /><br /><i> The implication this issue is that Jubilee has been thrown out of the X-Men. That seemed to be the idea, as she didn’t appear again until X-Men #4 in early 1992, but I don’t know of any story that officially explained her absence during this period</i><br /><br />Nor do I. That always bugged me, even as a kid. <br /><br />The only thing I can think of is that Claremont intended to write her out and explain where she went in a later issue, then obviously never got around to it so she just got brought back once he left, but I'm not sure if that would fit with the timing of everything. Austin Gortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.com