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colonel_green ([info]colonel_green) wrote in [info]scans_daily,
@ 2009-09-30 15:30:00

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Entry tags:char: destiny/irene adler, char: kimura, char: selene, char: x-23/laura kinney, creator: chris yost, creator: craig kyle, creator: mike choi, creator: sonia oback, publisher: marvel comics, title: x-force

Give her a hand!

Four scans from X-Force #19.

As we saw last issue, X-23 was delivered to the tender mercies of Kimura, her former handler/tormentor, who proceeded to chainsaw off one of her arms.

In this issue, the spotlight is mostly ceded to Agent Morales, a former-SHIELD/current-HAMMER operative who's been on the trail of the famous assassin X-23 for pretty much the whole series.  Now having unwittingly delivered X-23 into the hands of the Facility, she's offered a spot with them, or else death.



She arrives on scene and shoots Kimura, then frees X-23, while mumbling in horror at her severed hand.  Laura's pretty unphased by it, after a moment, and picks up the other, saying the Facility can't make more of her.  She spends the rest of the issue running around carrying her severed arm, which, if Warren Ellis was writing, would probably have been milked for a lot more black comedy than it is here.

However, this is Kimura, so a bullet isn't enough to put her down.



They boogie, and eventually stumble across a lab full of trigger-scent chemical.

Elsewhere, the buildup to Selene's big scheme continues:




Ah, Selene, you Claremont-era BDSM queen.

Choi and Oback really should draw most everything, but I really wish they had a few more female faces.


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[info]ian_karkull
2009-10-01 01:08 am UTC (link)
Yes, a fallacy. Just because the book isn't pretentious about being all blood and titties, all the time, doesn't mean I can't be bothered/annoyed by the fact that it exists, or that there's a market for it.
There's just something fundamentally wrong with going from Teenage Chainsaw Massacre to Bondage Queen Paradise and calling it a story.
It's just awful, awful shite.

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[info]colonel_green
2009-10-01 01:17 am UTC (link)
Your original post implies that this is for kids, and it's not.

I don't see anything "fundamentally wrong" with it, either; that's opinion. I think they can be a bit excessively grim on occasion, but it's a good title, and if they want to depict their brutal villains as actually being brutal, that's fine (honest, in a lot of ways).

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[info]ian_karkull
2009-10-01 02:17 am UTC (link)
Well, it is a medium that was/is primarily aimed at children and still recruits a portion of it's readership from a younger demographic, but it wasn't my intention to go all Helen Lovejoy on everyone.
Of course matters of taste are often questions of opinion, so I was merely stating my opinion that I find it completely tasteless. It's mindless violence for the sake of shock value and titillation, a pointless mess of as many lowest common denominator elements you could get away with in mainstream comics without publishing actual slasher porn.

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[info]deepspaceartist
2009-10-01 02:19 am UTC (link)
Dude, I was joking. Maybe not a very funny one, but hey, it's late where I am.

If it pleases you, I shall get an icon that says "This post is intened as a joke".

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[info]ashtoreth
2009-10-02 01:44 am UTC (link)
That would be like, the opposite of HIS icon here.

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[info]deepspaceartist
2009-10-02 01:49 am UTC (link)
True. But I was just going to edit Kyle's word ballon in my avatar to read 'This is a joke' or something.

BECAUSE I WILL NEVER HAVE A NON-KYLE ICON UNTIL HE HAS HIS OWN SOLO BOOK AGAIN!

It's my lazy-ass form of protest.

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[info]silver_raven
2009-10-01 02:40 am UTC (link)
I completely agree with you. This is a matter of taste and I have no appetite for violence porn these books plate out. It's such a waste to see such good artists make such vile art. There is nothing empowering or rewarding about seeing this. And for an X-book it is such a shame.

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