D is for December 2008! The Super Duper D-List Month thread!

[worstblogever]

I always liked when Apocalypse toasted champagne with them on Christmas, and that it would be the X-Men's last. That panel is hilariously campy.

But more to the point, it frustrates me to no end that someone supposedly deemed one of the strong fit to survive, like Pestilence/Plague, could be killed by being knocked off her own damned flying horse by a child. This was the first sign that maybe Apocalypse isn't the best judge of what makes a good Horseman. And certainly not the last.

Famine and War were too damned cool, though. Other than when the Hulk was set up to be War, I've never been impressed by any of the other incarnations. They just didn't fit, you know?

[atoningunifex]

I enjoyed the horsemen's horses. I loved that chunky, clunky Simonson dinohorse stylization. I always thought the Horsemen were more visually interesting than Apocalypse.

[Swashbuckler]

I was always struck with how tragic the original horseman were. Autumn is immature and self-hating. Abraham bitter and self-hating. Plague/Pestillence, just happy to have been noticed. They are all just really sad figures that were taken advantage of but happy to be noticed.

The only clunker was Warren for me. Just so wah wah poor little rich boy.

Does this make me a prime candidate to be a Horseman?

[Jeremi]

I liked the Dark Riders in X-Factor 65, their designs kicked ass. Though the subsequent writers forgot they were really just Inhumans under Apopo's naughty mind control grip.

I love the Dark Riders! My favorite really has to be Barrage though.

[Jack Flash]

Does this make me a prime candidate to be a Horseman?

since you can eat what you like without gaining weight, I re-name you Famine! Get on your metal horse!

[AcesX1X]

since you can eat what you like without gaining weight, I re-name you Famine! Get on your metal horse!

jed, tell me which dark rider i am! PM me the secret if you have to!

[Jack Flash]

jed, tell me which dark rider i am! PM me the secret if you have to!

this one!

[atoningunifex]

Draw Me an X: D-Legion: Anole



This one is a bit of a cheat. I basically just made minor alterations to the costume of the drawing I did for Anole's Draw Me an X thread. Sorry. I'm just not that fond of Anole.

[Dagger]

Wait, where is the bio I sent Jed this morning/??

[Jack Flash]

Wait, where is the bio I sent Jed this morning/??

TOMORROW!!!!!!!

[Jack Flash]

Draw Me an X: D-Legion: Anole



This one is a bit of a cheat. I basically just made minor alterations to the costume of the drawing I did for Anole's Draw Me an X thread. Sorry. I'm just not that fond of Anole.

that's fantastic!!!!!!!!!!

[Monty_Cristo]

I love the Dark Riders! My favorite really has to be Barrage though.

the Dark Riders were kind of confusing. were they supposed to be mutants or just inhumans? Barrage seems to just be a cyborg with an unfortunate artificial replacement (how does he wipe off?).

[Justin K.]

the Dark Riders were kind of confusing. were they supposed to be mutants or just inhumans? Barrage seems to just be a cyborg with an unfortunate artificial replacement (how does he wipe off?).

He could always steal an arm from Forge

[Jeremi]

the Dark Riders were kind of confusing. were they supposed to be mutants or just inhumans? Barrage seems to just be a cyborg with an unfortunate artificial replacement (how does he wipe off?).

As far as I know, just Inhumans. Barrage could change the weapons back to regular arms, but now I don't know if he actually did it.

[worstblogever]

the Dark Riders were kind of confusing. were they supposed to be mutants or just inhumans? Barrage seems to just be a cyborg with an unfortunate artificial replacement (how does he wipe off?).

I believe it was that the majority, but not all of them were Inhumans further evolved and experimented on by Apocalypse and his Celestial tech. Psynapse was even named as the cousin of Medusa and Crystal.

X-Factor (1st series) #67 reveals the original Dark Riders (HardDrive, Gauntlet, Barrage, Foxbat, Psynapse, Tusk & Underlings) to be Inhumans, but in X-Men (2nd series) #14 they are called mutants, and later members were always referred to as mutants.