So, more X-Club is out then...

[Phil]

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=40999
2649

[rplass]

Or, X-Club is disbanded now that Dr. Nemesis is on X-Force and we'll be seeing little or no Jeffries or Dr. Kavita Rao... but I hope it's more X-Club of course.

[-K-M-]

Such terrible designs.

[Le Messor]

Such terrible designs.

Give 'em a break... there's only so much you can do in a world that has only one colour left. :-\"

[EccentricSage]

Those designs... When will the X-tream 90's end?!

I'd just like to see Jeffries in a book where he's not treated like a tool or a joke. Come on people, this is your chance to have a ****ing Gundam pilot in a team book, essentially. One who can alter his robot with his mind, with nothing more than contact with a genius who has design ideas. There are SO MANY STORY POSSIBILITIES, hero or villain, and all would be epic, because HE'D BE A FREEKING GUNDAM PILOT!

I'm confident that if Madison had the will and a reason, he could be a threat to the likes of Tony Stark! But they treat him like a plot device. The guy who just speeds up the production process for whatever the main characters in a story needs to further their agenda. Why?!

[Phil]

Or, X-Club is disbanded now that Dr. Nemesis is on X-Force and we'll be seeing little or no Jeffries or Dr. Kavita Rao... but I hope it's more X-Club of course.
I meant out as in out the window, gone, not gonna happen...

[Phil]

Give 'em a break... there's only so much you can do in a world that has only one colour left. :-\"

I'd imagine the colours are a riff on Trainspotting and The Usual Suspects; the two posters the image is homage to.

[Flightpath07]

I meant out as in out the window, gone, not gonna happen...

Ohhhhh. I thought you meant "of the closet"...

[Le Messor]

I meant out as in out the window, gone, not gonna happen...

*I* knew what you meant.


I'd imagine the colours are a riff on Trainspotting and The Usual Suspects; the two posters the image is homage to.

Ah. Homaging film posters has taken off as a recent trend in comics (not that it's new, just more common now - see the 2010 X-Men and their vampire movie posters). I kinda like it.

I hadn't recognised this one, though. I know the Usual Suspects poster you mean, now that you point it out, but the only Trainspotting one I can remember is some guy screaming.

Usual Suspects is especially appropriate, considering what the director went on to do.

- Le Messor
"In the universe, great acts are made up of small deeds."
~ Lao Tzu

[Phil]

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[Flightpath07]

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Hey, that looks a lot like...oh. #-o Ne'ermind.

[-K-M-]

I can see the Usual Suspect homage, but I don't see the comparison between Trainspotting

http://neuroanthropology.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/usual_suspects_0.jpg

[Le Messor]

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Oh, that poster. I have seen it, after all.

(But, K-M, the Usual Suspects one has a ton more colours than the X-Force cover. It's got almost three, even in the age of orange and teal!)

~ Le Messor
"Incompetence knows no barriers of time or place."

[Phil]

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=42737


Hi Dennis, I just wondered what made you choose Forge for Cable & X-Force rather than Madison Jeffries who's been filling a similar sort of position with the X-Verse lately, has ties to Dr. Nemesis, and is also a combat veteran (and slightly mentally unhinged too)?


Dennis Hopeless: Phil! The boring answer is that I like Forge and wanted to write him.
Beyond that, I guess Forge and Cable seemed like a sci-fi Butch and Sundance. They both have these nutso checkered pasts and understand one another even when they can't agree. That pairing just made sense to me.

[Flightpath07]

That was a nice question by that Phil guy.

[Le Messor]

Yeah, he should ask more questions to Marvel guys!

~ Le Messor
"It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose."
~ The Little Prince

[Phil]

Give it 3 weeks and you'll see some more...

[Flightpath07]

Give it 3 weeks and you'll see some more...

You're not going "full monty" on us, are ya?

[Le Messor]

We can handle the Phil full monty.*

(*Buffy quote! Buffy quote!)

[Mokole]

Monty Python?

[Flightpath07]

Monty Python?

I refuse to answer any questions about Phil's secret sex tape.

Besides, i think the word Cobra fits better, don't you?