Comments on: PSA Monday: Heroes for Hope starring the X-Men

By: Superhawk

Superhawk — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 18:31:02 +0000

Yes, Kitty Pryde remained in the blue outfit the longest. Every other costume came and
went pretty quickly.

The costumes that DIDN’T last long in that group of X-Men were the red/white tunic
Colossus wore, and Rachel’s red-and-yellow outfit. I actually thought that Rachel
costume was pretty cool. Why didn’t she wear that in ‘Excalibur’ instead of the
spiky ‘Hound’ monstrostiy? And doesn’t Rogue look cool in green and black? Don’t you
love how utterly 80s her costumes from that time were?

And, when given the choice between a retarded-looking bright blue and yellow outfit and
a subdued brown and black outfit, does Logan chose the former? “I’m a sneaky one-man killing
machine with ninja training…hmm, I think I’ll wear the most garish costume this side
of Captain Ultra.” Makes NO sense to me. I cringe when I see Wolverine running around in
those colors. Putting him back in the old yellow-and-blue suit was done during the 90s, in
one of the most derided eras of the X-Men. Why has this awful change stuck after all these
years?

By: JD

JD — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:52:44 +0000

She kept it in Excalibur until #71, so yes you’re right.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 04:07:05 +0000

Didn’t Shadowcat wear that blue costume for years in Excalibur? It’s been a while since I read it, but since it was the only X-book I ever read, I hope I’m right.

By: Nik

Nik — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 23:58:19 +0000

Yeah, this was pretty darned bad. Yet what a lineup of talent, to produce such manure of a story!

And for some reason that blue Shadowcat costume remains my “definitive” Kitty Pryde outfit, why I have no idea…

By: Dan Jacobson

Dan Jacobson — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 22:53:37 +0000

Wow, so this is like the comic version of Band Aid? I can just see Storm swooping down saying, “There WILL be snow in Africa this year!”

By: Oliver Townshend

Oliver Townshend — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 20:02:49 +0000

That’s JIM Starlin, not John. As I remember the Alan Moore stuff was incredibly insightful and intersting and pity it was only a page or two.

By: Mikester

Mikester — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:11:44 +0000

As bad as this was, it's like Shakespeare compared to DC's Heroes Against Hunger. Hunger? It's all the fault of an evil alien. You also get Crying Luthor, to boot.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 15:01:32 +0000

Stephen King (with Berni Wrightson) wrote the Kitty Pryde/Famine scene.
The clown scene was written by Chris Claremont (with art by Bolland). The fetish Storm should have given it away…

By: Jer

Jer — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 14:59:29 +0000

Was the evil clown scene the part written by Stephen King, by any chance? He would have been working on his novel IT at around the same time.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 14:06:59 +0000

That was definitely a weird scene: an evil clown, fetish Storm, and a mountain of cream pies. I’m still not sure what to make of it.