On this episode, we discuss the Longshot series from 1985/86
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Published in 1985 thru 1986
written by Ann Nocenti
Art by Arthur Adams
Editor Louise Simonson Editor in Chief Jim Shooter
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Channeling my inner Sofia… Picture it Sicily 1985/86
Ronald Reagan was president, the Magic Johnson and the LA Lakers beat Larry Bird and the Boston Celtics
We paid a ticket price of $3.77 to go see The Goonies, Weird Science, Rocky 4, Back to the Future, and Rambo First Blood Part 2.
On the boob tube, we watched Family Ties, Growing Pains, Who’s the Boss and Night court.
If you were a kid in 1985, on Saturday Morning Cartoons, we watched Muppet Babies, The Smurfs, Star Wars Droids and Ewoks, Snorks Mister T., and Dungeons and Dragons
Gas cost about $1.12 a gallon, the world sang with Live Aid, and for some reason we were excited to try New Coke!
From the Mojoverse he comes…to star in his own limited series! Longshot’s got it all — leather, looks, and so much luck it’s actually he’s mutant power. But with his recent arrival to Earth leaving his identity in question, Longshot discovers he’s got a long road ahead in uncovering his truest, non-engineered self. Ann Nocenti and Arthur Adams present Longshot!
he first issue of a six-issue miniseries that represents the first major work of both Nocenti and Adams.[1] The Longshot series established Longshot as an amnesiac fugitive from another dimension who discovers that he has favorable probability outcomes, or “good luck,” that protect him when his motives are pure, and that he was a paradoxical genetically engineered clone of his future son, raised to be a slave who led a rebellion on his dystopian world against his former master and enemy, Mojo.
The character subsequently becomes a recurring fixture in the various X-Men related books, which see him as a member of the X-Men from 1986 to 1989, a member of Tony Bedard and Chris Claremont’s Exiles teams, and a member of the third incarnation of X-Factor from 2008 – 2013, as well as in his own solo adventures. Versions of the character have also appeared in the Ultimate Marvel line of books, and television and video games.
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