X-Static........Love it!

[spaz]

Just read the whole Pete Milligan run on X-Force and devoured the series! Very witty, exciting, and so easy to read. I'm into the fifth issue of X-Static and I was wondering why it got cancelled. Heard a lot of good things about it before but the art turned me off until now. Was this a low selling series I guess? Any news of X-Static being revised?

[twilight]

I guess some people just didn't get the humor or never gave it a chance.

Dead Girl and the rest of the gang have got a mini out at the moment titled "X-Statix presents: Dead Girl" also featuring Dr.Strange.

I hear it's pretty good so you may want to check that out.It's written by Milligan and drawn by Allred.

[Babylon23]

I thought it ended because Milligan and Allred wanted to end it, but I oculd be wrong.

[twilight]

I thought it ended because Milligan and Allred wanted to end it, but I oculd be wrong.

I think they were also a little pissed off that they had to nix the Princess Diana story.

[malephoenix]

I think they were also a little pissed off that they had to nix the Princess Diana story.

They should deal with that. Professionally, that Marvel didn't want to walk that line. And personally, that those who were actually close to Princess Di would find it offensive and vulgar. (I was actually under the impression that the creators *were* okay with the story being nixed.)

[twilight]

(I was actually under the impression that the creators *were* okay with the story being nixed.)

You may be right and I may be wrong sir.

All I have to go are some dusty memories of reading something like that in an interview a few years back.

[noh-varr]

Yeah but Marvel solicited the story. Obviously they didn't care at the time of soliciting it. I didn't like the sudden up and change, though some elements of Dianna were there, you just had to look deeper.

[twilight]

I didn't like the sudden up and change, though some elements of Dianna were there, you just had to look deeper.

There is lots of stuff left over.

The first issue of the story the figure in one of the frames has been changed to Henrietta but her shadow is different,presumably the shadow of Princess Diana drawn before Marvel put the kibosh on it.

[The Sword Is Drawn]

Stupid as it may sound, people really got up in arms when the British press found out about this. Marvel decided it wasn't worth the hassle. It could have led to legal action later, and it really isn't worth going to court with anybody connected to a Royal Family...

Don't get me wrong. I'm British, and I find the unfathomable hero (heroine?) -worship and near fanatacism many people have in the UK, for a fallen and disgraced member of the Royal Family, to be distasteful and bizarre. But after her death almost the entire nation watched her funeral, and thousands queued each day, for hours upon hours, to sign the book of condolences. Even now, even making a tame joke about Diana Princess of Wales will raise an extremely high level objection from people.

We've discussed this before, and back then I also struggled to find a suitable comparative American figurehead to draw as an example to Diana. And now is no different.

As a Federal country the people you guys have in that kind profile position is somebody you voted to get there in the first place. You could try comparing her to a Hollywood celebrity, but the bottom line is that doesn't even come close.

The Royal Family are a line that has run through Britain for thousands of years, multi hundreds of generations. They're the foundation of our country back in the dark ages, titles won through blood and civil war, figures whose famillies led this averagely sized nation to create the map of the world through colonization and Empire. For God's sake, it used to be believed that Kings and Queens of England were chosen by God!

It's like insulting somebody's religion, to even consider parodying them. And Diana only married into all that...

Even if you brush that all aside, the bottom line is that this woman was dead. She died tragically, herded to her death, mangled in the wreckage of a car, after being chased to that end by a crazed mob constituted of the world's press. It's a bloody nasty way to go.

Bringing her back to life as a mutant, in a comic book, is pretty grotesque a concept. And while it didn't really bother me, you'd have to be a pretty sodding simple individual not to realise that was a BAD IDEA if a story to run. It was creative suicide.

[Dr Manolis Dooplove]

Stupid as it may sound, people really got up in arms when the British press found out about this. Marvel decided it wasn't worth the hassle. It could have led to legal action later, and it really isn't worth going to court with anybody connected to a Royal Family...

Don't get me wrong. I'm British, and I find the unfathomable hero (heroine?) -worship and near fanatacism many people have in the UK, for a fallen and disgraced member of the Royal Family, to be distasteful and bizarre. But after her death almost the entire nation watched her funeral, and thousands queued each day, for hours upon hours, to sign the book of condolences. Even now, even making a tame joke about Diana Princess of Wales will raise an extremely high level objection from people.

We've discussed this before, and back then I also struggled to find a suitable comparative American figurehead to draw as an example to Diana. And now is no different.

As a Federal country the people you guys have in that kind profile position is somebody you voted to get there in the first place. You could try comparing her to a Hollywood celebrity, but the bottom line is that doesn't even come close.

The Royal Family are a line that has run through Britain for thousands of years, multi hundreds of generations. They're the foundation of our country back in the dark ages, titles won through blood and civil war, figures whose famillies led this averagely sized nation to create the map of the world through colonization and Empire. For God's sake, it used to be believed that Kings and Queens of England were chosen by God!

It's like insulting somebody's religion, to even consider parodying them. And Diana only married into all that...

Even if you brush that all aside, the bottom line is that this woman was dead. She died tragically, herded to her death, mangled in the wreckage of a car, after being chased to that end by a crazed mob constituted of the world's press. It's a bloody nasty way to go.

Bringing her back to life as a mutant, in a comic book, is pretty grotesque a concept. And while it didn't really bother me, you'd have to be a pretty sodding simple individual not to realise that was a BAD IDEA if a story to run. It was creative suicide.

milligan himself has said he has respect for diana, and the story would have been a tribute to her. I can't think of a better setting than X-Statix to comment on Diana's death which was caused by the press' and public's fascination with her

[The Sword Is Drawn]

milligan himself has said he has respect for diana, and the story would have been a tribute to her. I can't think of a better setting than X-Statix to comment on Diana's death which was caused by the press' and public's fascination with her

I agree, it would have been a very interesting paralell. Like I say, I didn't have a problem with it, but may people would. And I'm sure that it what led editorial to reconsider it...

[agrich]

I suspect the series ultimately got cancelled for the same reason most series get cancelled - because it wasn't a big seller.

Personally I liked the X-Force issues a lot more than the X-Statix issues. By the end of the X-Statix run it seemed like the series had run it's course. It was intelligent and funny, but I also think if it had run for much longer it would have gotten a little tired.

I am enjoying the Deadgirl series now, however, and it seems like it will ultimately feature the entire X-Statix cast, so that's something.

[Dr Manolis Dooplove]

I suspect the series ultimately got cancelled for the same reason most series get cancelled - because it wasn't a big seller.

Personally I liked the X-Force issues a lot more than the X-Statix issues. By the end of the X-Statix run it seemed like the series had run it's course. It was intelligent and funny, but I also think if it had run for much longer it would have gotten a little tired.

I am enjoying the Deadgirl series now, however, and it seems like it will ultimately feature the entire X-Statix cast, so that's something.

marvel wanted to continue publishing it, that's why it moved it to Marvel Knights to give it a boost. But Milligan and Allred had lost their steam after the Diana fiasco and din't want to continue any more...

[GoGo Yubari]

I am enjoying the Deadgirl series now, however, and it seems like it will ultimately feature the entire X-Statix cast, so that's something.

If Vivisector doesn't make an appearance I will be very irked.

I mean, EL GUAPO has already shown up (in the background). El Gruapo!