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I'm not letting one of my favorite series ever pass gently into the good night...


There really was no other way for the book to end, was there? This felt proper and correct.

I'll miss this book terribly but will treasure the issues always.

It floundered after its run in X-FORCE and the first six months or so of X-Statix, but was picking up with the Avengers crossover. I'll wait until I've actually read the last issue before I eulogize the run.

I was really sad at the end. I thought it was all gonna be a movie or something. And Doop! Oh my poor Doop! Did anybody get the Deadpool/Doop action figure or the Doop minibust from Bowen? I have yet to find the figure and I heard the mini-bust is like a fan club exclusive

Did I ever show y'all my X-Statix magazines?

WOW! I *love* those, Monkey!!!

Did you use a pickle for Doop?

I haven't been able to pick up X-Statix in awhile but how could Dead Girl actually stay dead? Was she disintegrated or something?

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The why's and how's of it aren't revealed, but she does indeed disentigrate.

That bites! If anyone could withstand the slaughter of the whole team she & maybe Venus could.

*really needs to get those X-Force & X-Statix issues he's missing*

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X-statix = Doom Patrol of the 21st Century!

(read 'Doom Patrol from the 60s' in which the whole team died saving a town... *not* the John Byrne continuity nightmare currently being published)

How long till one of the X-Statics pops up like Robotman or Negative Man?

Todd

Good eye, it is a pickle! Here's a better Doop I made recently:

MEL, love all the manips! I'd love to see a comedy movie based off this series.

I agree with Lash...the ending was sad, but there was really no other way to end such a great run. I'm glad Milligan and Allred decided to end things instead of leaving the book to someone else...it just would have felt wrong not in their hands. Glad to see, though sad that I am, that they wrapped up pretty much all their main characters.

...but, if Dead Girl spontaneously pulls herself together and pops in as a guest star now and then, I wouldn't mind. Otherwise, as much as I want to see them again, I think it's best to let the characters rest and remember them fondly.

I thought they kind of left the door open a bit with Venus -- the comment about her molecules possibly still being out there somewhere.

I wonder if bringing any of them back in the future would cheapen this run of X-Statix...

*sigh*...

I have to agree with what's been posted already-- it HAD to end this way, huh.

My first thought as I was reading was "Who? Why?"... but that wasn't the point. Part of Tike and Guy's final conversation really brought it home for me-

Tike: "Who the hell are those people?"

Guy: "Does it matter? Did it ever really matter?"

We don't get the who, the why, because in the end it doesn't matter. And I loved their homage to Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid.

*sigh*... I'll miss this book.

Me too, Povvins... me too.

great magazine covers, MEL! especially the Sugar Kane jokes.

nor sure how i feel about the book ending, hain't been keeping up with it, but the last issue felt pretty muddled.

What happened to Lacerator? And when did Phatt leave the book? Did any member ever survive?

Phat, like every other member and benefactor of the team, died. He died saving the others at the end of the 'Back From the Dead' arc.

Of note is that Vivsector & Doop died off-camera. I guess Milligan wanted Tike & Guy's big scene to be "larger than life"... it worked for me... I really had no desire to see Doop, Myles and the others die, even when I knew it was coming.

I agree with Lash. Getting scene after scene of X-Static after X-Static dying would have been much too harsh and uncalled for.

Vivisector never really was the star, though a great guy, and I'm glad it reflected in his death. Doop was so mysterious and omnipotent in a way that I'm glad we will never know just HOW such a mighty creature could fall.

Tike & Guy's exit was fabulous. I liked how we got simple nods and gestures that they were friends and respected each other without both of them becoming so sentimental they'd read out-of-character. Milligan stayed true to the end.

Well, we've come full-circle. These guys grew on me, something I never thought possible when they were replacing my beloved X-Force, and I'm overjoyed that we had these characters in our lives for at least a few years. I still miss Edie something awful. What a great series.

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Something else else else of note: Lacuna may be the only recurring member of the cast to survive this series.

As I quite like her, I hope to see her around the Marvel universe somewhere. She's SO powerful, in an understated "Not in your face" way.

Lacuna is great. Especially as a fame-hungry mutant who is on tv rather than 'crime fighting'.

Kinda ironic that the book introduced 3 openly gay characters ( 2 shown in relationships, even if Bloke was only around fer a very short while)and killed every single one of them.

I had a soft spot for Phatt and would have liked to see him cross over into one of the other books.

Yeah, I'm glad that Lacuna's still around. She's a fun character.

I liked Phat too, Kid

Have you seen the Doop figure that comes with the Deadpool action figure in Marvel's Legends toy line? I really want it but can't find it anywhere!

Just read the last issue of X-Statix today.

And it's sad, but it pisses me off that this book was taken off the market and Marvel decides to put out a dozen or so X-Spin-Offs that sound like putrid 90s fungus someone forgot to bleach off the taste buds.

UGH UGH UGH

I just want to piss on someone.

Thankfully, I know who to call...

Actually if I remember right, it was creators Milligan and Allred who decided to end the series as they were ready to move on and didn't think the book would fit well with another creative team at the helm.

I have to agree with them there, I'm much happier with a conclusion from the creators then having the book cancelled randomly four years down the line under someone else's belt without a finish.

...and yes, even as an X-Fan, I'm kind of disgusted by how many solo series/minis they're trying out all at once. None of the five or so out now have appealed to me enough to buy them.