#X FORCE COMICS MOVIE#
Like movie stars they're pampered and spoiled. Like rockstars they're bought and sold by a multi-million dollar conglomerate. They have their own franchise souvenir store. In a lot of ways I still feel it's too cutting edge and subversive for people to get, but maybe that's just me thinking I'm smarter than everybody else.more No wonder it didn't last too long, and no wonder nobody ever talks about it. There's also a definite late 90's vibe to the comic, with characters named Phat and U-Go-Girl and the fact that X-Statix parodies more of the boy band/real world/survivor generation of Media Lord bullshit than their more recent vacuous holes of cunning mindless bullshit currently bombarding the internet airwaves.īut this is still a perfect comic book for me, one that incorporates all the fun elements of the medium without making you feel like a dumbass for reading it. Sensitive/The Orphan fly?) The art is great but Allred ain't the best at portraying fight scenes, so most of them look like a bunch of characters with puzzling face drifting in the air. Some of their powers are confusing (why can Mr. Most of the characters are jerks or will be dead before you can even care about them. It can be ruthlessly cynical one minute and the next almost sickingly sentimental and sincere. Nonetheless, there are certain qualities to the comic that may be off putting to some people. It starts out shocking (this is a comic book where characters actually die) and keeps on going strong.
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It hits all the right notes in ways I can't even remember now. It brilliantly merges satire with stellar character development, offering over the top characters that are nonetheless easily identifiable as real people with real feelings, secrets, and motivations. It's really a comic book about Media Lords, greed, and consumerism, with plenty of doses of criticism on gender, race, sexuality and other fun stuff thrown in for good measure.
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So this isn't your usual trite "poor muties fightin' bad guys" stuff: there's nary a supervillain in the whole thing. Money runs everything in the X-statix world: the bottom line is money and power and money, with the Media Lords controlling it all at every turn. Right off the bat you know you're in a whole different universe when it comes to an elevation of satire and parody, a saturated post-post-modern ultra-ironic world where mutants act as people, selish and in it for their own interest, and more or less complete dicks to each other in their elusive quest for money.
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You don't have to be a X-men fan (I'm certainly not) to like X-statix.
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X-Statix began in X-Force, which began as another off-shoot X-men comic book, one involving Cable and his motley crew of testosterone junkies, if I remember correctly. I immediately got a subscription to show my support to this innovative, intelligent comic (sidenote: can you even subscribe to comic books anymore? Too bad if you can't, it was fun) and I received every issue until its untimely demise, at which point Marvel sent me a substitution comic book that only showed how every other stupid comic book they were publishing paled in comparison to X-Statix. I couldn't believe Marvel was publishing a mag like this, and I couldn't believe Milligan and Allred were getting away with it. I don't know if you can say I was blown away, but I was certainly caught off guard: Marvel was publishing a comic book with pop-art illustrations and a story involving money-grubbing, selfish mutants? It seemed like a righteous middle-finger to the fanboy culture of consumerism I so despise in comic books, a culture devoid of any innovation or intelligence, but a Borg-like entity of anal archivers of useless trivia and history and the same tired, stupid, lowest common denominator self-serious smirkfest stories over and over. Then in 2004, I was in a comic book store in Boston and I caught sight of an issue of X-statix.
#X FORCE COMICS SERIES#
I don't know if you can say I was blown aw In 1993 I had a subscription to the Amazing Spider-Man, right before it got really really stupid and spawned a series of stupidities involving Clones, Spider-Girls, and who the hell knows what else, not me, that's for sure, I quit new comics altogether shortly after and only would peer at them every once in a while at comic book stores with sheepish interest. In 1993 I had a subscription to the Amazing Spider-Man, right before it got really really stupid and spawned a series of stupidities involving Clones, Spider-Girls, and who the hell knows what else, not me, that's for sure, I quit new comics altogether shortly after and only would peer at them every once in a while at comic book stores with sheepish interest.