After reading as many Silver Age comics as I have lately, I could probably make this a weekly series in and of itself, but this one I read just a few hours ago, and it's the sort of thing that sticks in your head. (An appropriate phrase, as you'll soon see.)
In the original 'X-Men' #1, by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, we open with a sequence of Professor X running the team through their training regimen. Beast has to do a difficult acrobatic routine, Angel must fly an obstacle course...then the young sixteen-year old Iceman gets a turn, but Professor X is "going easy" on him by merely requiring him to display his powers. Iceman frosts himself over with snow...and Professor X telepathically tells the Beast to chuck a bowling ball at his head while he's distracted, to "test his reflexes".
Three thoughts on that:
1) Best argument against vouchers EVER.
2) Anyone who doubts Xavier could ever become Onslaught, this is Exhibit A for the prosecution.
3) I think we know why the students all wanted a Danger Room. It was that, or Xavier just had them whip heavy objects at each other.
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Hilarious! Great point.
"Beast, wait until Angel's asleep, then drop a cinderblock on him. His reflexes have to be tip-top to avoid evil!"
The early X-Men issues have a lot of this sort of thing. It seems Xavier's philosophy can be summed up as: "If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge an evil mutant."
Yet another great post, Mr. Seavey. I just have one question: Why is there not an RSS or Atom feed for your blog? If there is, I'm missing it.
Eric -
The RSS for this blog is here.
Oh, and I just thought I'd add: It happened again a few issues later. Only this time, it wasn't a bowling ball. It was a 75-pound weight.
At some point, you just have to assume he's secretly trying to kill Iceman, and the whole "training exercise" thing is just an alibi.
"If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge an evil mutant."
Truer words have nary been spoken.
Amen.
Benticore
Out
Xavier = Dick
;-)
I wonder if he secretly enjoys "X-ing" out the names of students he's killed.
"heh heh... another EX-X-man!"
~P~
P-TOR
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