Vivisector is the only character we learn something new about. As much as he plays this role he doesn’t want to be a wigga and is genuinely scared of being found out. I think we all know by now that Phat isn’t really a gangsta and it’s all an act but it’s nice to see how scared Phat is of the ghetto really. Phat is in a ghetto, being chased by thugs and Doop has to save him. Vivisector and Phat get the best sequences.
Spike doesn’t really have a personality anyway, he’s a plot device to discuss Tike’s character and they accomplished that in the previous issue. I don’t know if this is because Spike secretly wants to be a woman, or to wear womens’ clothes, or fears it. Instead there’s a magazine of him wearing women’s clothes. The Spike probably get the worst treatment since he doesn’t really appear, he’s not even on the cover.
Tike is in a dessert and sweats a lot and then his acid sweat becomes the sea because…Tike is scared of sweating? Honestly I got nothing. Edie gets her tongue ripped out which tells us that, Edie likes to talk? That she fears losing her voice? That her tongue is her identity? I think we all know that Edie puts on a sarcastic front so this doesn’t really reveal much about her. Firstly it lets us see Mike Allred draw some really inventive and strange things and secondly we might get a little bit of character insight.Įdie, Guy and Tike don’t really get much character work done here. So it’s crap fluff but hey it can do two things at least. When they escape nobody remembers a thing except Doop.
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Doop climbs in afterword and rescues them from a series of symbolic nightmares. Milligan decided to go the symbolic dream sequence route and offers us a story where the plot is this.ĭoop has a pimple, he pops it, and this causes the members of X-Force to be sucked into the hole in his head. It showed how necessary dialogue is to comics because without it you limit the stories you can tell to things that can be inferred symbolically and nothing else. N=W X-M=N did a psychedelic, psychic rescue mission into Professor Xavier’s head which was basically a showcase for Frank Quietly to show off with some trippy imagery.īasically the event proved the exact opposite of what it was supposed to. Exiles, for example, did an issue of the character’s dreaming that worked to symbolically tell us about each character’s desire and dreams. Many writers instead avoiding trying to tell any real narrative and just did a series of surreal imagery intended to work as a character piece. So it was boring but it was comprehensible. Michael Stracszynski who basically did a day in the life of Spider-Man. The only person who tried to tell a normal story and succeed was J. And many pages featured scenes of conversations between character we were not privy to, so you’re just looking at two guys looking at each other and trying to guess what on earth they’re doing.Ĭhris Claremont in X-Treme X-Men introduced an entirely new character which is a horrible idea because when you introduce a new character you need to know their name, powers, motivation, personality etc and you can’t do that without any words.
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Uncanny X-Men for example, started a storyline where long time X-Men member Banshee became a pseudo-villain but whilst we could tell he was doing villainous things it was incredibly frustrating to realise we didn’t know why. Without exposition you can tell what a character is doing and sometimes how but not why. Most writers just submitted the same script they would have anyway and reading it without words left the entire thing a jumbled mess. The challenge was simple, you’re the best creators in comics, prove it by telling a story using only comic images, no words. To prove this, and also to test the Marvel creators mettle, he came up with Nuff’ Said, an entire month of comics featuring no words at all, only pictures. The idea was this Jemas had been having an argument with a television producer about the power of comic book storytelling and specifically how comics can tell a story without using any words since the reader can pace the action at their own desire. In 2002 Bill Jemas, Marvel’s Publisher at the time, launched an initiative called ‘Nuff Said, a common phrase from Stan Lee’s old soapbox column.
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