Jul 1st 2010 By: Laura Hudson
There are an awful lot of characters in superhero comics, and in today's fast-paced world of retcons and alternate universes, sometimes it can be difficult to keep track of who everyone is, if that's still who they are, whether they're alive, or if perhaps it turns out they never existed at all.
In today's original comic, writer
Curt Franklin and artist
Chris Haley of the illustrious "
Let's Be Friends Again" webcomic are here to help, as they sit down to do their best Wikipedia impression and explain the history of a notable comics character through a comic (meta!) in a new segment called "Comics, Everybody!" For our first test subject, we've chosen one of the most confusing characters in X-Men history (which is really saying something):
Xorn.


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Thursday 01 July
By urban bohemian
Loved it.
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Thursday 01 July
By fr33manjack
Which is why I avoid Marvel like it has scabies and a cleft palate.
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Thursday 01 July
By casinogrande
I'd really say it's a much better reason to avoid the X books than the entirety of Marvel. The X-men books require you to know continuity much more than other Marvel books do, and have the most ridiculous continuity of the Marvel universe. (I can certainly be proven wrong with specific examples, as #CoreMarvelUniverse showed)
I know I'm super late to this one, but if someone wants a ridiculous-in-a-good-way Marvel book that doesn't depend on excessive continuity, check out Captain Britain and MI13. I just read through it this past week.
Thursday 01 July
By tomclarkehotmail
Donna Troy, Supergirl, Superboy,Krypto, Guy Gardner
And that's without really trying.
Friday 02 July
By dudewithacleftpalate
jerk. they aren't contagious you know.
Friday 02 July
By Dave
Ah, but you'd be wrong to avoid Morrison's run itself! It's wholly self-contained and works amazingly unto itself. For me at least, it's the only time the book's felt truly must-read since Claremont's mid-80s heyday.
Thursday 01 July
By dnwilliams
Beautifully illustrated, funny, and terribly, terribly sad. Morrison's story was so perfect and it was abused so badly...
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Thursday 01 July
By one zen bullet
I can't believe how much they dropped the ball with this guy on every conceivable level. I didn't even mind the Magneto reveal as Grant put a lot of work in to make him sympathetic and interesting to dig in the betrayal and infiltration angle. I just wish they didn't have to retcon 40 issues of continuity with a throwaway line of Claremont dialogue. "Uh, that was somebody else Charles."
I haven't really gone back to the X books since.
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Friday 02 July
By brandon hendricks
you dont mess with the grant morrison or his stories
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Tuesday 03 August
By maker
Grant Morrison is a great writer, but he tends to treat established characters with a card de blanche attitude. More of an experiment, than a thoughtful attempt to further the mythos. He just kind of does what he wants to do and tends to out think himself. And that, with all due respect,.. is why his X-men run is one of the worst there is. He single handily ruined the X-Universe, and completely changed the intent, and purpose of what the characters are about. It took a cheesy House of M story to re do all the damage he did. The crap 90's were better than his story arc.