#supertalk

listening to the scott summers episode of Connor’s podcast “Cerebro”, with Jay Edidin, ... two years late, but I’m doing it, it’s fine.

Connor: “... as someone who cares deeply about Madelyne Pryor, and I said ‘Oh my god, he took it literally’.” Jay: “Yeah,...”

wait.

WAIT A SECOND. Madelyne’s “you walk out that door, don’t think about coming back” wasn’t supposed to be taken literally? 

THIS

isn’t SUPPOSED TO BE TAKEN LITERALLY?

WAT.

(edit march 2022: i started drafting this heckin post like, a few months ago and only now remembered i had it. since i’m still without my own computer and can’t put up anything right now, i’ll finish this up quick and post it) i’m still at 0% capacity for... anything,  so here’s some comics arts of scott summers that don’t send my eyeballs rolling off into space i actually really like (and may have used as refs/inspiration for my own interpretations), yay!

usually xmen comic art is... not great, and i don’t have to outline the annoying and nonsensical samey cishet male powerfantasy western comic-art is drenched in, do i?

But every once in a while you get some good stuff...

[image description: a comic panel closeup of scott summers looking down at jean grey, whose hair is barely visible in the bottom left corner of the panel as she stands closer in the shot, the rest of her body out of frame. Scott’s red glasses reflect the top of jean’s face in each lens.  His eyebrows are furrowed but visible above the rim of his glasses, causing a singular slight crease in his forehead as he awkwardly smiles in a questioning expression towards jean.  In a small speech-bubble, scott asks “What about-” only to be cutt off by Jean’s speech-bubbles, which say “-- The X-Men?! This is our home, Scott... We belong here”. End description]

uncanny x-men 308 (page 17), pencilled by John Romita Jr, inked by Dan Green and Al Vey, coloured by Steve Buccellato.

This is during a conversation scott and jean are having, reflecting on their life and love and where to go from here (she’s gonna propose to him in a lil bit, like the wonderful gremlin she is). I love this panel in particular because of scott’s wry uncertain smile: i feel like that sort of expression is so very him, and the way his face and head and everything looks at this angle aligns with my own internal view of him and what I try to accomplish with my own art. It all clicks together nicely.

so naturally i have to rant to my sister about it (spoilers under the readmore for issue 15. but like some information might have been retconned later, so... not really spoiling much i guess)

i joke, but the dismissal and outright ignoring of the horror surrounding the “resurrection” of characters drives me up the wall like you wouldn’t believe.

because i do.