Comments on: 10/29 – Declarative Rabbit Says…

By: James

James — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:33:57 +0000

Um, I meant left the team, obviously. Holy mixed terminology!

By: James

James — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:33:06 +0000

In the next to last issue of the original New Mutants (#99), Sunspot mentions Magnum P.I. to Cannonball just before he leaves the show (in fact, Roberto mentions that Magnum is in reruns – poetic). Being a serious New Mutants fan, I was moved when I read it, at least in part because it was the end of an era, to use a cliche (and I hated what NM had become by then). What made it funny as well as sad, though, was that Sunspot’s Magnum fandom hadn’t been mentioned in the pages of The New Mutants for years by that point – pretty much not since Claremont stopped writing it. So the era I thought I was seeing the end of had really punched the clock a few years earlier. The Magnum name-drop in #99 was pratically a dollop of nostalgia for older fans.

By: Matt D

Matt D — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:35:13 +0000

I’m nostalgic over that.

I think I watched Magnum, PI as a kid in the 80s solely because my favorite superheroes did as well.

By: Bully

Bully — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 11:59:44 +0000

Well, to be fair, the New Mutants watching Magnum was a Claremont recurring subplot. Claremont made it so important that we can't forget it.

By: FunkyGreenJerusalem

FunkyGreenJerusalem — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 08:00:46 +0000

That Rita’s discussion really stayed with the rabbit didn’t it?

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 05:15:41 +0000

I know the rabbit, he’s a good pal of mine, and he would never ever bash the ‘stache!!!

He might take issue with writers being nostalgic over what TV show characters used to watch in the 80s, but not the TV show itself!!

By: Greg Burgas

Greg Burgas — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 03:22:08 +0000

It sounds like he’s dissing Magnum, P.I., but he wouldn’t do that, would he? If he does, he knows it’s GO TIME, because nobody disses Magnum!!!!!

By: Andrew Collins

Andrew Collins — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 02:56:29 +0000

He’s saying that Pop Culture is circular…I think…

By: The Dane

The Dane — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 23:48:23 +0000

Don’t expect Shakespeare. He’s just a rabbit.

By: Apodaca

Apodaca — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 23:37:32 +0000

I don’t quite get what you’re saying.