I mean Mike Allred is a genius to me, and to a lot of other people.

His work is supposed to be kind of retro and campy. Very "pop" and definitely not in line with the current trends in contemporary american comics.

If you recognize the campy, zany, "socially conscious" vibe of the earlier X-Men books, I think you can appreciate what they were trying to do with X-Statix. It was very fun and very smart in a time where superhero comics were generally neither.

I can understand why a Cable and Shatterstar lovin' 14 year old would have railed against this book when it was coming out, but if you look at it and still think it's lame then there's probably no hope for you liking this book.