X-MEN: TO SERVE AND PROTECT #1 (of 4)

Northstar appears on the cover

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X-MEN: TO SERVE AND PROTECT #1 (of 4)
Written by CHRIS YOST, JOSHUA HALE FIALKOV, & MORE
Penciled by VARIOUS
Cover by NICK BRADSHAW

We’re knee-deep in the Heroic Age and the X-Men
are smack-dab in the center of the Marvel Universe! CHRIS YOST returns to the X-Books to tell a story that pits two fan-favorite X-Men up against a major Spider-Man villain in a four-part story that will run through each issue of this multi-story extravaganza! Who are these X-Men and why are they wearing disguises? Also in this issue, Fantomex and Batroc fight over a stolen diamond, and more!
40 PGS./Rated A …$3.99

Nick Bradshaw - based on this small glimpse of his work, I'd have to add him to my list of artists I currently do not care much for. Well, not him personally, just his work.

yay. another x-title. another x-subtitle. see me jump for joy.

- Le Messor, who does understand capital letters.
"He who laughs last probably doesn’t understand the joke."

Eh, it's a four-issue anthology book. I usually find the stories in these lukewarm to wretched, but I keep my eyes out for the possibility of the stars aligning and someone really knocking it out of the park with a character vignette.

I like these anthologies (sometimes sketchy quality aside since that's generally to be expected), because with the way the X-titles are right now, they're the only way the billion characters that are around other than Cyclops and Emma get any characterization whatsoever.

I agree with Mistress Merr.
Although from time to time, the characterisation is wrong - why was Northstar acting like a giddy schoolgirl?

- Le Messor
"He who laughs last thinks slowest!"

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Originally Posted by Le Messor

I agree with Mistress Merr.
Although from time to time, the characterisation is wrong - why was Northstar acting like a giddy schoolgirl?

- Le Messor
"He who laughs last thinks slowest!"

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Because he's a homosexual?

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Originally Posted by fantim

Because he's a homosexual?

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He's never acted that way before.
Neither have any of the real-life homosexuals I know.
... or the schoolgirls, come to think of it.

- Le Messor
Willow: Uh, distract him from Buffy. Uh, piss him off.
Anya: I don't know how!
Willow: Anya, I have faith in you. There is no one you cannot piss off.

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Originally Posted by Le Messor

He's never acted that way before.
Neither have any of the real-life homosexuals I know.
... or the schoolgirls, come to think of it.

- Le Messor
Willow: Uh, distract him from Buffy. Uh, piss him off.
Anya: I don't know how!
Willow: Anya, I have faith in you. There is no one you cannot piss off.

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Sorry that was more intended as sarcasm :)

Your sarcastic voice sounds a lot like your regular voice. :)

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Originally Posted by Le Messor

Your sarcastic voice is a lot like your normal voice. :)

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I'm afraid to ask, Mik, if your avatar is a lot like your normal photo? lol.

Mik looks much more like Xander (from Buffy), than he does Sasquatch.

Dana

Northstar... GIDDY?
Lol, must be one of the effects which come from aging.

I hate the idea Northstar is/was a X-Man to begin with, but at least Jean-Paul got his spotlight in the recent crappy horrid non-AF, X-filled years.

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Originally Posted by cmdrkoenig67

Mik looks much more like Xander (from Buffy), than he does Sasquatch.

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Which might explain why I was quoting him above...
or it might not!

- Le Xan
"How is it possible to have a civil war?"

Well, issue #4 is out today and Northstar makes a single panel cameo. It's in the first story, "X-Dudes". He teleports in with some of the grownups who catch Anole and Rockslide, and it's curious that they picked Northstar to be one of the grownups, because way back, Northstar was Anole's advisor back in the Alpha Squadron days.

Love,
rplass