>I mean Mike Allred is a genius to me, and to a lot of other >people.
That's cool. I guess his style is just not my thing.
>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.
I definitely see what you mean. I didn't know that, I just thought it was poorly done and kinda boring.
But I just picked up X-Statix at the library because it was an X title and I had no idea what the hell it was, so I had no frame of reference. I just didn't dig the tone or story at all.
>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.
Yeah, the early X-Men stuff wasn't my favorite either.
My favorite time period (for all comics, not just X-Men) was like '88 to '94 (not coincidentally, when I was 11-17 - not to suggest that comics are an adolescent art form, it's just that's when I really got into them).
>It was very fun and very >smart in a time where superhero comics were generally >neither.
True. That much is cool.
>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.
Guess not. Maybe if I had the right mindset I would have enjoyed it more, but I still don't think it's my cup of tea.