FOR THE FIRT TIME EVER - A COVER SO SHOCKING, SO SCANDALOUS, SO SOPHOMORIC, WE HAD TO PUT IT AFTER THE JUMP.
SO CLICK AHEAD IF YOU DARE!!!!!!!!!!!
YEP, JUST A FEW PALS, HANGING OUT TOGETHER. LITERALLY HANGING OUT. LITERALLY.
DONGER, FLAPPING IN THE BREEZE.
BY THE WAY MY 32ND BIRTHDAY IS JUST A COUPLE WEEKS AWAY. I AM CHAMPION!
SO KA-ZAR, ROGUE AND MAGNETO (WHO IS A GOOD GUY AGAIN, OR IS HE?) ARE CHILLIN IN THE SAVAGE LAND WHEN THEY ARE ATTACKED BY FUCKING DINOSAURS.
THEN THINGS GET RAPEY
LUCKILY MAGNETO IS THERE TO SAVE THE DAY. HE EXILES A BUNCH OF THESE BAD GUYS (MUTATES? NICE NAME. NOT.) DEEP WITHIN THE CENTER OF THE EARTH. BOSS MOVE MAGSY. YOU DONT MURDER THEM, BUT YOU DO FUCK THEM UP PRETTY BAD.
THEN MAGNEATO HAS A NIGHTMARE OF HIS FAMILY GETTING KILLED BY NAZIS. I JUST SAW SCHINDLER'S LIST FOR THE FIRST TIME A COUPLE DAYS AGO. FUCK NAZIS MAN.
THE MUTATES ARE PART OF SUPER VILLAIN ZALADANE'S EVIL ARMY AND ARE BENT ON TAKING OVER THE SAVAGE LAND.
ZALADANE IS A FUCKING DICK.
BY THE WAY, NICE WORD PANEL PLACEMENT LETTERER. RIGHT OVER WORM'S FACE. GLAD YOU LEFT HIS SHOULDER UNCOVERED. REALLY GREAT JOB THERE.
AFTER SOME BULLSHIT THE BAD GUYS ATTACK AGAIN.
LUCKILY FOR OUR HEROES, NICK FURY (WHOSE CRASHED HELICOPTOR WRECKAGE WE SAW EARLIER) AND SOME ARMY DUDES ARE THERE TO SAVE THE DAY.
ROGUE AND MAGSIE SHARE A TENDER MOMENT.
BUT SERIOUSLY, WHATS UP WITH THE CAPE MAGO? YOU THINK YOURE A FUCKING VAMPIRE OR SOMETHING? ACTUALLY I'M GUESSING JIM LEE SWIPED THIS SCENE FROM SOME DRACULA MANGA OR SOME SHIT.
PRETTY FUCKING COOL THO.
AND EVERYONE'S OFF FOR THE FINAL BATTLE, GOOD VS BAD. BUT ALSO SOME RUSSIAN SOLDIERS ARE WITH THEM (WHY? I DUNNO) AND THEY HATE MAGNETO BECAUSE HE KILLED A BUNCH OF RUSSIAN SOLDIERS A WHILE AGO. PLUS NO ONE IS SURE MAGNETO IS A GOOD GUY. SO WHAT WILL HAPPEN? WE FIND OUT NEXT ISSUE!
OH YEAH, JUGGS MCGEE TELEPORTED THE OTHER X-MEN INTO OUTTER SPACE AT THE END OF LAST ISSUE.
NICE TIDEY. REAL STRONG CLEV.
DON'T YOU JUST LOVE SLANG WORDS FOR BREASTS?
SPACE IS GROSS. ALSO THE BAD GUY THE SPACE X-MEN ARE FIGHTING IS DEATHBIRD, THE EVIL BITCH OF THE SHIAR BIRD PEOPLE EMPIRE.
Man, next issue is shaping up to be pretty fucking tits. And it's a DOUBLE SIZED 275th anniversary issue! I used to get so fucking amped up for these arbitrary round number issues. I was hella pumped for 275, and I remember thinking, holy shit, if 275 is this rad, just think of how out of fucking control tremendous issue 300 is going to be! Then issue 300 was a turd and I started losing interest in comic books. Such is life.
Back to issue 274 tho, it is good. Very good. Jim Lee and Chris Claremont firing on all cylinders could produce nothing less. Magneto is fleshed out some more. He stands as one of Claremont's towering achievements, taking a very basic, "evil" silver age super villain (why is he attacking the good guys? because he is evil and that's what super villains do, duh!) and made him a legit character. Motivations and everything!
So everything you see in the current movies with Xavier as MLK and Magneto as Malcolm X, that was all Claremont. So recognize god damn it!
Anyway, you can tell the plotting is all Jim Lee here. Previously, Claremont was pushing the boundaries (some would say spinning his wheels), separating the X-Men into individual storylines and having them face never before scene challenges in new places. Jim Lee (and probably editor Bob Harras) got the team back together and are now retracing the footsteps of Claremont's first run back in the late 70's and early 80's. The original Shiar storyline with then penciler Dave Cockrum and the old Savage Land story with John Byrne are all getting an updated treatment. And really this is no different then what Claremont did by reimagining some old Silver Age stories, especially the ones done during Neal Adams short but critically acclaimed stint on the book.
OK whatever, enough with the fucking history lesson already. It's Saturday and I've got to enjoy the weekend. Because fuck a lifestyle that doesn't take advantage of weekends and instead just sits indoors and blogs like a total loser!
WELL I WARNED YOU, DIDN'T I?
DONGER, FLAPPING IN THE BREEZE.
BY THE WAY MY 32ND BIRTHDAY IS JUST A COUPLE WEEKS AWAY. I AM CHAMPION!
SO KA-ZAR, ROGUE AND MAGNETO (WHO IS A GOOD GUY AGAIN, OR IS HE?) ARE CHILLIN IN THE SAVAGE LAND WHEN THEY ARE ATTACKED BY FUCKING DINOSAURS.
THEN THINGS GET RAPEY
THEN MAGNEATO HAS A NIGHTMARE OF HIS FAMILY GETTING KILLED BY NAZIS. I JUST SAW SCHINDLER'S LIST FOR THE FIRST TIME A COUPLE DAYS AGO. FUCK NAZIS MAN.
THE MUTATES ARE PART OF SUPER VILLAIN ZALADANE'S EVIL ARMY AND ARE BENT ON TAKING OVER THE SAVAGE LAND.
ZALADANE IS A FUCKING DICK.
BUT SERIOUSLY, WHATS UP WITH THE CAPE MAGO? YOU THINK YOURE A FUCKING VAMPIRE OR SOMETHING? ACTUALLY I'M GUESSING JIM LEE SWIPED THIS SCENE FROM SOME DRACULA MANGA OR SOME SHIT.
PRETTY FUCKING COOL THO.
NICE TIDEY. REAL STRONG CLEV.
DON'T YOU JUST LOVE SLANG WORDS FOR BREASTS?
Man, next issue is shaping up to be pretty fucking tits. And it's a DOUBLE SIZED 275th anniversary issue! I used to get so fucking amped up for these arbitrary round number issues. I was hella pumped for 275, and I remember thinking, holy shit, if 275 is this rad, just think of how out of fucking control tremendous issue 300 is going to be! Then issue 300 was a turd and I started losing interest in comic books. Such is life.
Back to issue 274 tho, it is good. Very good. Jim Lee and Chris Claremont firing on all cylinders could produce nothing less. Magneto is fleshed out some more. He stands as one of Claremont's towering achievements, taking a very basic, "evil" silver age super villain (why is he attacking the good guys? because he is evil and that's what super villains do, duh!) and made him a legit character. Motivations and everything!
So everything you see in the current movies with Xavier as MLK and Magneto as Malcolm X, that was all Claremont. So recognize god damn it!
Anyway, you can tell the plotting is all Jim Lee here. Previously, Claremont was pushing the boundaries (some would say spinning his wheels), separating the X-Men into individual storylines and having them face never before scene challenges in new places. Jim Lee (and probably editor Bob Harras) got the team back together and are now retracing the footsteps of Claremont's first run back in the late 70's and early 80's. The original Shiar storyline with then penciler Dave Cockrum and the old Savage Land story with John Byrne are all getting an updated treatment. And really this is no different then what Claremont did by reimagining some old Silver Age stories, especially the ones done during Neal Adams short but critically acclaimed stint on the book.
OK whatever, enough with the fucking history lesson already. It's Saturday and I've got to enjoy the weekend. Because fuck a lifestyle that doesn't take advantage of weekends and instead just sits indoors and blogs like a total loser!
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