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Four arms–and a conscience. (X-Force #27)
Does he just live in Gyrich’s garage? Or, like, under the lawn? (X-Force #27)
Too many muscles for one panel: The X-Force Story. (X-Force #27)
Who’s that? SURELY not Danielle Moonstar! (X-Force #27)
‘Kay. (X-Force #28)
And that’s the last we’ll see of Sunspot for a while. (X-Force #28)
Sometimes it’s like that. (X-Force #28)
Confirmed canonical: Shatterstar’s hair is independently mobile. (X-Force #29)
What happened to Sam, and who is this alarmingly beefy stranger? (X-Force #29)
Cable is leaning full into the Dad thing these days; and I, for one, am here for it. (X-Force #29)
I’m fairly sure that I saw this movie in an 8th-grade assembly. (X-Force #29)
Kids these days, amirite? (X-Force #29)
Based on her facial expression, I imagine her delivering this line in roughly the style of Aubrey Plaza as April Ludgate. (X-Force #29)
Sure thing, buddy. (X-Force #29)
Look at these angry, pointy boys. (X-Force #30)
So angry. So pointy. (X-Force #30)
Angry but not pointy. (X-Force #30)
“You’ll probably do okay; you’re not a major character.” (X-Force #30)
How much better would this issue have been if they’d done a skate-off? (X-Force #30)
Don’t worry, he’ll be fine. (X-Force #30)
Aw, look at him learning to person! (X-Force #30)
NEXT EPISODE: More spiky people yelling!
LINKS & FURTHER CONSUMABLES:
- Mandy may be the quintessential Nic Cage movie.
- We first washed up on the shores of Octopusheim in Episode 19 – Acorns & Swords!
OK: one reads superhero comics, especially in this era, and over time one unfortunately becomes inured to Those Aspects of the depiction of women. One sees something, sighs, feels lucky not to be reading it in public, and moves on. It takes a lot to make me go “Wow, that’s just awful,” is what I’m saying. Because something really needs to stand out from the background level of bad.
But Tony Daniel in #28 proves able to reach deep inside himself and come up with that level of awful. It’s the top left panel on excerpt 7 here, with Moonstar hanging upside down from a chandelier but somehow managing also to strike a beyond cringeworthy version of That Pose.
I mean, you’re about to draw someone swinging on a chandelier and shooting an arrow while hanging upside-down from that chandelier by her legs, upside down. And your response to that is, “I need to make sure that viewer can see both her rear and her breast at the same time. That’s what this image is all about, man.”