Deadpool is government cheese left in the sun.....Agent X is aged Parmigiano Reggiano from Italy. I challenge all of Comic-era to Prove me wrong.
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PM your address, so i can send you some of my must read comics. Volume 2 of Fury of Firestorm will blow your mind
When you understand his comic threads, it's a bit like what I imagine it must be like to see a bright light in the distance when you're laid up in the hospital. Terrifying and makes you wonder if you're really nearing the end.
When I was a kid, I was actually subbed to Deadpool in the mail when they switched over to Agent X, and it ended up being one of my favorite books.
Never did read the solo run of Agent X. Which issues (or a particular run) I should be checking out?
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Who knew Taskmaster loved bubblegum pop music?Reading through the entire Joe Kelly DP run into Agent X is one of my favorite comics memories. That whole thing was a rollercoaster. Also Udon's Taskmaster design is the goat.
Out here looking like a Mega Man boss
This was 2002
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Jesse what the fuck are you talking about
(jokes aside though that's a hell of a thread title to come up with lol)
(jokes aside though that's a hell of a thread title to come up with lol)
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Of course. Now be pissed with me as you realize they put the man on Krakoa and then proceeded to do nothing with him.
Biggest indictment on this Agent X fellow is that I've been reading Slayven's comic threads for a while and I still have no idea who the fuck that is.
Kidding… sorta
Kidding… sorta
Wish you would provide more context in your comic threads, Slayven. Is this basically a Deadpool comic but under a different moniker?
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They look at all your cheese and they say "30% of that is nacho cheese" and they take it off you
Ah well, first issue isn't out until next week so that might be why.
We're best friends now. I love the Agent X series, and I got to gush to Gail Simone multiple times about it (and even cosplayed as Outlaw!)
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A European mutant gangster sets up assassin to so that he can put a mindbomb inside of Deadpool. The assassin dies, the bomb goes off, but the gangster's and deadpool's powers react weird and resurrect the assassin as combination nation of both. He has the skills and powers of everyone involved, plus a mix of personalities. But he is also a new person. Like he can shoot fine with both hands, while deadpool is best his right hand. He is quippy but not an asshole like Deadpool, and he prefers euro food to junk food....well until later. There is a fat Alex arc
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They listen to me
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Wasn't kidding.
Agent X is one of my favorite characters of all time, I even was once going to do skit comedies on YouTube about Agency X. We even did a jingle commerical/logo for it.
And here is my copy of Agent X number one signed by Gale Simone.
Agent X is one of my favorite characters of all time, I even was once going to do skit comedies on YouTube about Agency X. We even did a jingle commerical/logo for it.
And here is my copy of Agent X number one signed by Gale Simone.
Due to this thread and some other factors.
I decided to start a re-read of the Agent X comic again.
And I forgot that he had Youngblood Disease!
I decided to start a re-read of the Agent X comic again.
And I forgot that he had Youngblood Disease!
I also was inspired to do a reread based on this thread, and I regret it. This was way better in my memories than it actually is today. I had forgotten that an entire third of the book is filler--the Gail Simone stuff is only the first 6-issue arc, a 7th issue that frankly also reads like filler, and then the 3-issue concluding arc. The book wants to be about this agency Alex is setting up, but it just barely gets off the ground at the end of the setup arc and then pretty much instantly falls apart, feeling like the whole premise of the series is over before it starts. I dunno, in my memory there was more to this than there actually is, and it all seems like such wasted potential now. If it had gotten even 24 Simone-written issues, I think there could have been a really interesting story in there, but as it is we get the start and end with no middle.
Simone is on Xmen.
Rogue Keeps the X-Men's Dream Alive in New 'Uncanny X-Men' #1 Variant Covers
Check out new covers for Gail Simone and David Marquez's 'Uncanny X-Men' #1, on sale this August.
the formula is pretty clear where added context subtracts "fun" and the whole point of encountering references in jokes you're not familiar with is to learn something new yourself, not have it explained out to you like a class.
youre basically being invited to go learn about the time they "did something really crazy'" and switched the lead of the Deadpool comic for another guy for reasons. (Mostly to try something different and be experimental with the narrative.) I feel like something like this was done before, the main character switch, or whole world switch, or official comic switch. Indie comics Dreadstar and Nexus come to mind.
like if you're way too busy to google it and learn about it yourself but not too busy to have someone give a 2 hour long form video discussion on something, are you really too busy?
edit: with that said, we do need more comic panels in an OP like this, just for engagement sake. this is a art and it isn't effortless, its just supposed to look it
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Simone is on Xmen.
Rogue Keeps the X-Men's Dream Alive in New 'Uncanny X-Men' #1 Variant Covers
Check out new covers for Gail Simone and David Marquez's 'Uncanny X-Men' #1, on sale this August.www.marvel.com
Thanks, I'm aware now. I didn't see it on her wiki previously
That's because the book was actually supposed to be a regular series.
They got canceled pretty much by the fourth issue and so it was releasing the scripts they already had and writing a closing arc.
The biggest problem is that this was the era where the marketing department was more in control of anything at Marvel than any of the editors or creators.
The whole reason the book is called Agent X is because they wanted all books that were under the "X-Men" desk to have an X in the title. Hence why Cables book at the time was called Soldier X
Yeah, it's obvious that this was not the plan of the creators, so I'm not knocking them here. (Except Daniel Way, which you could not pay me enough to read his comics.) But the end result is very thin, resulting in a premise being established and then almost immediately undone. There are moments from this book I love, like Taskmaster aping Chow Yun-Fat movies in the limo, but on the whole it's hard to call what saw print a great series.
I want to call it a great series at all.
When I will call it is a fun read for me. Especially the panties issue because it was written specifically because Gail Simone was told that there were not enough panty shots in the series.
Seriously.
If Simone is writing, absolutely. I dunno who else could pull it off. Maybe Jed MacKay.
