X-MEN 245: MENTOS

ROB LIEFELD IS GONNA DRAW SOME TINY FEET UP IN THIS BITCH

 

Holy shit it's been a while. But thats because I'm lazy and have been working on my Fuggin Shagsbere Magnum Opus in progress. You know fuggin shagsbere right? Wait, who am I talking to?

Anyway, here's some shit I learned in this issue:

• Havok has experince with cybernetics!
• Wolverine mixes up geese and gander!
• Dazzler makes an inside joke about Revlon's parent comapny buying Marvel Comics!
• The See Cubed Cosmic Cutie Commandos are raveness flying hell babes!
• Jimmy Olsen and the douche bags form the Daily Planet make a cameo!
• Wolverine is a regular card shark!
• Looks like Havok has played Knifey Spooney Blaster before!

The artist on this is Rob Liefeld. You really need to look up this guy on the internet but the short version is as a teenager he showed up in the comic book industry and revolutionized it with his EXTREME but technically deficient penciling. He is the embodiment of all the excess and glory of the early 90's comic glut. His work inspired legions of impressionable fanboys (ie ME). His style is frenetic and inimitable but when held up to scrutiny also utterly crap. But whatever, it was fun as hell to look at, often in the so-bad-it's-good variety.

I tried to do a few recaptions but then I got lazy and figured it would be better to let the art speak for itself. And by speak I mean put its hand in its armpit and make fart noises. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is my favorite panel every to end an X-Men comic. Actually theres a one page epiloge about the Hellfire Club after this but that doesn't matter. Look how 80's sitcomy it is! I'm going to assume Claremont meant to do that tongue in cheeck because that's how the rest of the comic readd and also because it is MASTERFUL.

 

Ah hah hah haha.... Men! Am I right, ladies?

 

Anyway, if you couldn't tell, and I'd be shocked if you could, this issue involved an alien invasion that the X-Men repeal. Well, just the MEN anyway. The ladies had their fun shopping trip last issue. THIS TIME, it's a DUDES NIGHT OUT in Australia, with lots of beers and aliens and guns and fights and POKER. Hey, poker in the front, liqour in the back, am I right bros?

 

Anyway, I'm too fucking lazy to do any more and I have a busy schedule to maintain so GO BUY THIS ISSUE and read it because it is pretty rad. It's full of jokes and quips and goofs and japes. So much so that I might even go so far as to say it's a playful romp. A fun respite from the typical mutant melodrama.

 

OK, maybe I'll try harder next time. OR MAYBE THERE WON'T BE A NEXT TIME.