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I remember when people seeing a camel toe on the X-men cover made long long debates over the internet…

Sheesh! Who cared about the camel toe?? I’ve always wanted to know how the middle bit stayed together…

Brian, please tell me you were just teasing about the Former JLI members??? We’ve already lost Max, Ted, J’onn, Ralph and Sue… How many more??? Technically we may be losing Batman (Bruce anyway) soon too! How much more of the innocence can be corrupted?? Mary Marvel? Fire? Surely not…

Yes, Tim, I was just kidding, based on the fact that half of the cast WAS killed off (there were 8 cast members and 4 of them have been killed off).

Brubaker isn’t listed anywhere in the credits on Selina’s Big Score, unless you count Cooke thanking him for his work on the Catwoman ongoing. It’s all Cooke and Matt Hollingsworth.

Yes, Tim, I was just kidding, based on the fact that half of the cast WAS killed off (there were 8 cast members and 4 of them have been killed off).

Wait, only 4? Isn’t Captain Atom also dead (after becoming Monarch), or are we pretending Countdown doesn’t exist?

Yeah, no I gathered as much half way through my own post…

Hence changing halfway through to the irony about Fire (see Checkmate) and Mary…

Been meaning to check out some of these others though… namely Phonogram and Selina’s big Score…

Um, the above post is me. (Although you could probably guess that by reading it.)

Selina’s Big Score is an awesome read, with typically great Darwyn Cooke art. I believe it’s reprinted in the recent Batman: Ego and Other Tales collection.

Emma Frost…the best parts of man and woman all in one package…*shudder*

I look at that Jack Staff cover and all I can think of is:

“No, the Craw, not the CRAW!!”

Actually, with the obvious thickness of the fabric that Quitely establishes everywhere else on the costume, too, that’s a natural bunching of cloth, for the position in which she’s standing. She needs some slack down there for when she’s running.

As opposed to Ross’ bulge, which didn’t match the physics of the material at all.

“This was a really funny comic book, but I think it would be better if DC were to kill…hmmm…let’s say half the cast.

That’d be a big improvement.”

Kill… OR make them Eeeeeeeevil.

“This was a really funny comic book, but I think it would be better if DC were to kill…hmmm…let’s say half the cast.

That’d be a big improvement.”

The only way it could be better is if they do a high profile storyline at the same time where one of the main characters is raped, set on fire, and murdered.

New X-Men was 8 years ago? Damn.

Where are Emma’s nipples? She needs to sue the doctor who did her implants…

If there was ever a list of criminally underrated artists, Macguire would definitely be at the top.

“I remember when people seeing a camel toe on the X-men cover made long long debates over the internet…”

Ah yes, I recall all the stupid little comments made about the infamous “bulge”. But it’s important to keep in mind that X-Men fans up to that point had been exposed mostly to characters wearing costumes that looked like they were little more than body paint, so an artist trying to make fabrics look halfway realistic was a shocking new development.

Dude, fabrics is one thing. Bulges in places where they shouldn’t be are another. I like to think we X-fans, up to that point, were smart and sophisticated enough to know the difference

No, you definitely weren’t. I remember the X-Boards in those days. People needed everything explained to them.

Especially when it came to female anatomy, and the way materials hang on their bodies.

The nipple-placement is a totally valid anatomical flaw, though.

And I can’t say I’ve ever heard anything but praise for Maguire, so I wouldn’t use the term “underrated”.

Excuse me, but who are you to tell me what I thought or knew back then or now? And just because you remember the “X-boards” in those days, don’t presume to speak for all X-fans, based on what some people may have said on the board.

Excuse me, but you said “we”. If you’re qualified to speak on behalf of all X-fans, then I’m just as qualified to speak in reference to them.

I’m not claiming to represent anyone other than myself. That’s what YOU’RE doing.

Ok, fine: Dude, fabrics is one thing. Bulges in places where they shouldn’t be are another. I like to think SOME of us X-fans, up to that point, were smart and sophisticated enough to know the difference

You don’t need to be a pretenious snot with your views.

Ok, fine: Dude, fabrics is one thing. Bulges in places where they shouldn’t be are another. I like to think SOME of us X-fans, up to that point, were smart and sophisticated enough to know the difference

Ahh, this reminds me of those days on the X-board, where half the fans were there for Morrison and Milligan going bug-fuck crazy with the franchise, and the other half were there for Claremont and Austen.

Good times.

Lots of peace and harmony.

You don’t need to be a pretenious snot with your views.

Wow, it’s almost like we’re back there!

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