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New X-Men #141

The Falcon

13:16 / 19.02.03

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NEW X-MEN #141
Cover by Phil Jimenez
Grant Morrison (w)/Phil Jimenez (p)/Andy Lanning (i)
"Murder at the Mansion" Concludes!
Bishop and Sage find the murderer! But what will his or her identity mean to the Xavier Institute?
32 pgs. with ads (each)/FC/Marvel PG......2.25 (each)

It's Terminator-Bishop.

The Falcon

13:19 / 19.02.03

No cover for #140 that I can find, as it's released the same month as #139 - April.

Matthew Fluxington

13:35 / 19.02.03

Wow. I have the worst feeling about this.

Aertho

13:39 / 19.02.03

Worse feeling about what? All I see is a little red circle with an x in it. I've tired googling up a cover image, but it's no good. Where can I see it?

Try this.

I have the worst feeling about this.

In what way? I really don't, and am quite enthused at the prospect of GM writing Bishop.

Matthew Fluxington

13:58 / 19.02.03

I don't know, it just seems so......superheroic. I might be totally wrong, but I get this bad feeling about this storyline - "Murder At The Mansion!" Bishop and Sage! Blantantly mainstream art! I just get worried about the direction this comic is headed in. It seems like they're trying to win back the Quitely-loathing fanboys after the Riot.

Of course, I'm basing this all on very little, so don't take me too seriously.

Matthew Fluxington

14:05 / 19.02.03

If you check out the rest of the preview images, you'll notice that with the exception of that one Uncanny X-Men cover, it looks like Marvel's dropped that idiotic goatee on Wolverine in favor of a more Hugh Jackman-y look again. Good move, but I do resent that they had to muck with Quitely's drawings all of that time, making Frank look bad.

Aertho

14:10 / 19.02.03

Si, no me gusto el Bishop

This looks bad to me for the same reasons. The Phoenix crotchshot and White Queen from cover 139 looked bad, but this seems like marketing at its most desperate.

The Falcon

14:12 / 19.02.03

The Philip Tan cover for Uncanny... has the goatee still. The chops appear to have grown back.

It might be superhero-ey, I suppose, but I'm not too fussed. I liked JLA, and there's none more superhero-ey than that. I want the fanboys to like it, anyway.

I want everyone to like it.

Matthew Fluxington

14:23 / 19.02.03

I already mentioned the Uncanny cover.

See, I don't mind trying to sell the comic to the fanboy element, but I do have a problem with making the covers unappealing to the demographic that NXM is intended for - the people who want X-Men without the cheesecake and gun nuts of the 90s. NXM is meant to be the 'alternative' grown-up juice drinkin' version of the X-Men, and these Jiminez covers are betraying that.

The Falcon

14:33 / 19.02.03

So you did. My apologies. I don't think the Wolverine titles ever involved the goatee of controversy.

I thought NXM was for 'intelligent 14-year olds'. And Emma Frost, new costume 'n' all, has always served as (smart, bitchy) cheesecake here.

Now if Bishop would just cut that mullet...

deja_vroom

16:22 / 19.02.03

Mullets. Are. Untouchable. You scum.

The Falcon

20:28 / 19.02.03

Well, that's just not very nice.

They are kind of fashionable now, though. Perhaps he oughtn't cut it.

Quimper

23:08 / 19.02.03

I know who the murderer is...Sarah Connor.

"I'll be back." --Lucas Bishop

Simplist

23:25 / 19.02.03

Jeez, what's with that overly busy mid-90s style outfit they've got Wolverine in on the cover of Ultimate X-Men #33? Please tell me that's not the new standardized Logan gear...

perceval

04:29 / 21.02.03

I wouldn't be too worried over the cover. It's just a movie homage. Nothing more.

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Regrettable Juvenilia

07:43 / 21.02.03

Quite an appropriate one, too - Bishop *is* a gun nut from the future, after all.

glassonion

12:32 / 23.02.03

come on that cover's hilarious. who's sage?

Ganesh

13:00 / 23.02.03

*ejaculates over cover*

Hah! Yes, that is hilarious!

Ken Kneisel

17:15 / 23.02.03

"who's sage?"

The former Tessa, Sebastian Shaw's old secretary from the Hellfire Club, and a living computer with the remarkable ability to seemingly do whatever the plot requires.

Now she's Storm's secretary over in X-Treme X-Men. She also doesn't trust Xavier for some reason, but has yet to provide any convincing evidence as to why that's so.

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