When X-Force #116 kicked off Marvel’s new era, finally divorced from the Comics Code Authority, it did so with gusto. The new X-Force, then led by the vomiting Zeitgeist, was decimated in a tragedy (?) known as the Boyz R Us Massacre. From that point on, Peter Milligan and Mike Allred’s ecstatic mutants made a…
Writer Peter Milligan and artist Mike Allred returned to their early 2000s X-team, the celebrity mutant X-Statix, last year in āGiant-Size X-Statix,ā a one-shot that pitted a new version of the team, with a new U-Go-Girl, against a rogue splinter group led by famously dead former member Zeitgeist (Yāknow, the one who died again on…
Peter Milligan & Mike Allredās X-Force #116 from 2001, their first issues on the book, spends itsā first 18 pages introducing readers to a new team of superheroes. They were well-branded reality stars that the world loved to watch. They were nothing like the X-Force team of the last hundred-odd issues, they were the new…
Art by Mike and Laura Allred Name: Doop Code Names: Doop First Appearance: X-Force #116 (July ā01) Powers: Is there anything he can’t do? Teams Affiliation: X-Force, X-Statix, X-Men About Comics are weird. No, weird isnāt a descriptive enough word. Some comics are gritty, straightforward, planted firmly in reality. Some are epic tales of gods, monsters, swords and…