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Neil James
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Those claws look like the real McCoy to me ;-)
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Joe Smith
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Every day of this strip is a blessing.
Can you imagine if we were kids, and this was in the newspaper every
day right under PEANUTS? And then you get the big colored Sunday
strip? Oh the joy that would have erupted from my little brain!!!
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Peter Martin
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Some interesting developments on this current page. Gladiator just buggering off was not what I expected! Always fun to have a curve ball or two thrown over the plate. This beastly new character threatening Professor X is both a surprise and satisfyingly in line with the way things have been set up.
Love those panels flying asunder as Gladiator comes through the floor.
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Brian Miller
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Thanks for showing us all how clever you are, Neil.
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John Byrne
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Gladiator just buggering off...••• That hardly seems a fair description.
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Peter Martin
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That hardly seems a fair description.--------------------------- You wrote it, so you know more than me and I'm happy to be corrected.
But I read a page with Gladiator departing immediately, Professor X telling Storm to give chase and Storm doing do, but failing owing to the constraints of her powers. I'd sum that up as Gladiator buggering off. He didn't leave?
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Eric Sofer
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It occurs to me that the M-Men lack one power en masse that the X-Men have TWICE; - mentatics, including mind control. I'm not so sure that the Professor is in any danger from the invader in the mansion.
But the M-Men have three of the most dangerous mutants on Earth. Magneto is the LEAST of the truly deadly threats; Pietro and Wanda are the REAL threats. It's an interesting scenario, I think, between Charles and Pietro as to which would act first (and of course, the circumstances would apply.)
It continues to look like fun!
P.S. Hey Brian M. - thanks for welcoming a new poster with biting sarcasm. I'm sure that's appreciated.
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John Byrne
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...I read a page with Gladiator departing immediately, Professor X telling Storm to give chase and Storm doing do, but failing owing to the constraints of her powers. I'd sum that up as Gladiator buggering off. He didn't leave?••• For all my life I have understood “bugger off” to mean a departure that abandons all connections to what is happening around the exiting individual. To bugger off is to say “I don’t care, I’m outta here!” Does that really look like what’s going on here?
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Peter Martin
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I would characterise it as a vernacular way of saying leaving abruptly. No more, no less.
The most common usage would be along the lines of "Bugger off!" as in a command to "Leave!".
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Peter Martin
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I'll rephrase if it makes you feel better: Gladiator upping and leaving without explanation was not what I expected...
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Rebecca Jansen
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Bugger off is a bit like to bug out to me... a fleeing from. It's rude, but it can be funny as in the title of Stack Waddy's classic rock album 'Bugger Off!' :^)
Today's page: And now we know how Earth got two moons! :^O
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James Johnson
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I see Gladiator addressing the immediate threat to his teammate, Astra.
She and Kitty Pryde are "joined" and maybe Shi'ar technology can solve the problem.
So it was, "Up! Up! And Away!!!!"
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