If you were a fan of the brilliant run on X-Force & X-Statix by Peter Milligan and Mike Allred, you may remember that Marvel released three different cover images for X-Statix #1, each presuming that a different character died in the final issue of X-Force.
The “dead” characters from X-Force were replaced with new characters, and the ones featured on the fake covers never appeared. Until now:
With few minor colour scheme alterations, two of the fake X-Statix have joined the Atomics. Horn is right there on the cover, and the weird, stripey one is featured inside.
It’s pretty neat, since they were interesting character designs (then again, how many Allred characters don’t look cool?) I’m kind of surprised to find out Allred got to keep the rights to the characters, though – how many times has a character debuted in a Marvel X-Book (even a fake one), and then wound up on a creator-owned book? Not many, I’d guess.
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One response to “Madman and the Mystery X-Statix”
Humm, I think Youngblood maybe had some promo stuff, ads through Marvel before the Image split? And, conversely, Nightcrawler was to be a member of the LoSH when initially envisaged by Cockrum. Good topic though, and thanks for reminding me of those awesome alternate covers.