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X-Statix #6

 
 
Matthew Fluxington
19:12 / 26.11.02
Marvel.com has put up a "dot.comic" preview of X-Statix #6 here. It's the beginning of a new three-part story called The Moons Of Venus, which apparently will be a mostly about the love triangle of Guy/Tike/Venus. Editor Axel Alonso discusses the next storyline here.

So, yeah. Charles Xavier is in it! With his handgun, last seen in NXM #116. And so's Lacuna! But be warned: there's a MAJOR SPOILER on the page with Lacuna. HUGE SPOILER. The kind of spoiler I really wish I had a warning about before I read that page.
 
 
The Falcon
22:52 / 26.11.02
I ignored you, Flux, and read the dotcomic anyway. I can't stand knowing these things are there, and not reading them.

And... yes, I see what you mean. I rather wish I hadn't done that.

Nevermind.
 
 
The Natural Way
07:53 / 27.11.02
Annoying. I read it, too. Just got all excited "WhooHoo! XStatics!" and jumped right in. Fucking Marvel bastards.
 
 
Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!
10:33 / 27.11.02
But, to be fair, if you're reading part of an issue before it's out - preview or not - then there's always a rather strong liklihood of spoiler-age.
 
 
sleazenation
10:54 / 27.11.02
I think the thing to remember is that there is a WHOLE ISSUE to come before the one previewed here so its highly likely to refer to things in that issue we haven't seen yet.
 
 
kid coagulant
13:40 / 27.11.02
Ha. Maybe it was intentional on Marvel's part, a way to fuck w/ the fans that get all worked up about insufficient 'SPOILER WARNINGS' and such.

The art looks good, as always. Nice to see Milligan and Allred venturing into 'Fantastic 4' territory, to some extent. Did that one scientist guy look like that tall weird looking guy on 'Just Shoot Me'? Not that I watch 'Just Shoot Me' or anything.

More Lacuna is always good. And Bad Guy, definitely Bad Guy.
 
 
The Natural Way
14:11 / 27.11.02
Yeah guys, but that was one HUGE spoiler.
 
 
Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!
14:26 / 27.11.02
Yeah guys, but reading part of an issue that's not out ( and won't be for a good while) should really be spoiler warnings enough... didn't your spider sense start tingling?
 
 
The Natural Way
14:55 / 27.11.02
Yeah, but I didn't really expect the conclusion of the previous story arc to be revealed. Howeve, yr probably right and we're all stinking, fetid cocks.
 
 
Murray Hamhandler
16:50 / 27.11.02
Didn't go any further than the first page (thank god). Yes, the scientist certainly appeared to be the wonderful...

 
 
kid coagulant
17:57 / 27.11.02
I knew it! That guy really freaks me out for some reason.
 
 
RadJose
18:14 / 27.11.02
come on now Brian is great! although i'll admit in just shoot me he is creapy, but in mr. show and his stand up, he's a guy you'll love... and thanks for the spoiler warning... as much as i wanna look i also won't cuz you lot seem rather broke up about it... must find someting to bide time...
 
 
sleazenation
12:07 / 29.12.02
two posts for the price of one here

Duncan sez

Mrrm.

'S okay, not one of the better ones. The colouring returns to being flat and 2D like it was in X-Force, which some might say is kind of the point, but I like it better the other way.

Xavier gun-wielding! is good. I like the way Allred draws him - a man to be respected, and perhaps a little feared...

ooo

Havok prototype suit. You either know it or you don't.

Venus is a really annoying good girl-type isn't she? She's being set-up to be Edie's replacement, innit? But we're all going to be like - 'Fuck. Off.' Nextgen-fanboys W000T?

Some good archetypes still running about, but this'n's gone slightly to pop excess, as far as I'm concerned.



Then i said


Isn't pop excess kind of the point of xstatix?

I really enjoyed this issue. Myles disillusionment with the team is growing. Venus remains an outsider within the so-called team, unable to see that the team is riven with inter politics and back biting like, well any media involved group. Xavier's more sinister side is also interesting. What is often forgotten in the x-universe is he is an eccentric millionaire, and its interesting to see him security guards to protect the Mansiion... do we think they were mutants or humans?
 
 
yawn - thing's buddy
13:37 / 29.12.02
and that last panel.

more please!
 
 
The Falcon
13:48 / 29.12.02
Can we merge da threads?

Not pop then, but Kirby excess. Just didn't sit with my nice 'cool' vision of the X-Men, as is.

And the guards are guarding a complex, not the mansion.

The bar is very high with this title, y'know?
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
15:59 / 31.12.02
I love how creepy Xavier seems when he's discussing Venus' "special" suit (which has clearly been designed for the same single purpose as the "special ointment" he made for Guy - henceforth the word will always carry the extra connotation "for the purpose of enabling sex" in my mind). It's in the way he's sort of pawing at the thigh of the suit, and fact that the thing itself comes complete with perverty costume (thought it was interesting that this 'skin' seems to be designed to resemble her original skin colour, too), and the way he keeps going on about Venus being an attractive young woman whilst holding her hands just a little too long... I've always thought that Xavier had something of a dirty old uncle about him - he spends all his time and money helping out young, often pretty mutants, and the idea that he'd take a possibly somewhat unhealthy interest in their sex lives suits (arf) the way I see the guy, frankly.
 
 
The Natural Way
11:26 / 02.01.03
Bad Guy. Just fantastic.

The bit where Tike reaches out to his "friend" and gets his hand spiked had me weeing over myself.
 
 
kid coagulant
22:23 / 02.01.03
Looks like Bob Odenkirk and David Cross are guests on Lacuna's show (the 'Are Men Aliens' episode) when 'Bad Guy' trashes it.

So yeah, maybe Xavier has a thing for Venus, just like Guy and Tike are supposed to in his storyline, and Solomon O'Sullivan (though O'Sullivan does seem to be somewhat preoccupied w/ a certain lawyer mutant).
 
 
sleazenation
22:51 / 02.01.03
Its not that Xavier has a thing for venus per se, more that he seems to have a rather unhealthy interest in the sex lives of his mutant proteges...
 
  
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