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Saturday, 8 June 2019
MIGHTY MARVEL MISTAKES...
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| Copyright MARVEL COMICS |
Look at the above panel from X-MEN #11, in which SCOTT SUMMERS (alias CYCLOPS) gets his ruby quartz glasses pulled off and his power beam seems to be beyond his control - even with his eyes tightly shut. Yet a few pages later (panel below), there he is apparently able to control his beam to a hairsbreadth without his glasses or visor on.
And as we can see in issue #14 (below), he can actually keep his beam under control with his eyes closed (and not that tightly either). Hey, MARVEL - pick one and stick with it, willya?!
WERNER ROTH (under the pen name of JAY GAVIN) was pencilling over JACK KIRBY layouts in the above tier, but who was responsible for Cyclops extra-long nose - was it Roth or Kirby? Whad'ya think, frantic ones?



