Comic Shop Conversations - Earth X and Madelyne Pryor
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So I'm at the comic shop awhile back (the Earth/Universe/Paradise X books were still coming out, so whenever that was), browsing about, when this gentlemen enters.
So he, too, is browsing around the store, and he comes across one of the X books (Paradise, I presume...as this wasn't THAT long ago), and he is flipping through it.
He then asks, "Is this Madelyne Pryor married to Wolverine?" And I, being the agreeable sort that I am, say, "Yeah."
His response, "What the fuck!?!? He can't be married to Madelyne Pryor! She's fucking evil!!"
And I respond, "She apparently has reformed."
His retort? "That is BULLSHIT! He can't trust her! She's going to fuck him over! You cannot trust the Goblin Queen!!!"
To this, I offered no reply, figuring it better to let him continue to fume about his anger at that bitch, Madelyne Pryor, quietly.
Note that his second response (the "This is BULLSHIT!" one) was notable, to me, more for HOW it was delivered than what he said. If you ever watched There's Something About Mary, there is a scene there where Harlan Williams plays a hitchhiker who is proposing a series of exercise videos called "Seven Minute Abs" to best the "Eight Minute Abs" videos. When Ben Stiller's character suggests what would happen if someone did "SIX Minute Abs," Harlan Williams' character freaks out, as if he cannot comprehend the question, "No! No! Not six, SEVEN!" THAT is what the guy sounded like, as if he could not comprehend that Wolverine would be so foolish as to trust Madelyne Pryor.
Pretty darn creepy, no?
So I'm at the comic shop awhile back (the Earth/Universe/Paradise X books were still coming out, so whenever that was), browsing about, when this gentlemen enters.
So he, too, is browsing around the store, and he comes across one of the X books (Paradise, I presume...as this wasn't THAT long ago), and he is flipping through it.
He then asks, "Is this Madelyne Pryor married to Wolverine?" And I, being the agreeable sort that I am, say, "Yeah."
His response, "What the fuck!?!? He can't be married to Madelyne Pryor! She's fucking evil!!"
And I respond, "She apparently has reformed."
His retort? "That is BULLSHIT! He can't trust her! She's going to fuck him over! You cannot trust the Goblin Queen!!!"
To this, I offered no reply, figuring it better to let him continue to fume about his anger at that bitch, Madelyne Pryor, quietly.
Note that his second response (the "This is BULLSHIT!" one) was notable, to me, more for HOW it was delivered than what he said. If you ever watched There's Something About Mary, there is a scene there where Harlan Williams plays a hitchhiker who is proposing a series of exercise videos called "Seven Minute Abs" to best the "Eight Minute Abs" videos. When Ben Stiller's character suggests what would happen if someone did "SIX Minute Abs," Harlan Williams' character freaks out, as if he cannot comprehend the question, "No! No! Not six, SEVEN!" THAT is what the guy sounded like, as if he could not comprehend that Wolverine would be so foolish as to trust Madelyne Pryor.
Pretty darn creepy, no?
posted by Brian Cronin at 12/08/2005 05:04:00 PM
6 Comments:
What's creepier was that in that series Wolverine thought he was married to Jean the whole time. Maddy let him believe it and only told him who she really was near the end of the series.
So, the creepy guy in the store was somewhat right, sadly.
I didn't really get the point of that subplot, to be honest. It was funny to see Fat Bald Wolverine, I guess, but not THAT funny. "Hey, not much of a bad-ass when you're fat and bald, are ya! Ba-ZING!"
I actually picked up an issue of one of the Earth-X minis when I was starting to get back in to comics. It was the last issue of one of them. You can imagine how coherent that was. I seem to remember it involving Captain Marvel killing Death. There were a bunch of superhero ghosts. And the Fantastic Four were old.
I thought the exchange between the characters was funny, and it's about the only thing I remember about Earth X besides the art and being bored out of my skull.
You know you're a hardcore super-hero comic book fan when you fly into a rage over an alternate universe version of a fictional character marries an evil clone.
That is funny. I reread the whole Earth/Universe/Paradise X thing a month or two ago. It really goes out of it's way to be inaccessible: there's plot points based on old issues of Marvel Two-in-One and Captain America, for one thing. So, yeah, it's for the hardcore, who could get kind of invested in it. Still, it is interesting if you ever get a chance.
"I'd delight in your story if I had ANY idea who Madelyne Prior WAS."
But that, to me, is what makes the reaction so great, Mo.
Madelyne Pryor is a very obscure X-Men character. She died in the comics over fifteen years ago, and was only around for about six years.
Granted, in those six years, she married Scott Summers, gave birth to his son (who became Cable), was dumped by Summers when Jean Grey returned, turned evil (using the name the Goblin Queen), was revealed to be a clone of Jean Grey, and then died.
So that IS fairly notable.
But basically, she's a nobody, so to see this gentleman be so clearly obsessed with her - it made the reaction that much funnier to me.
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