X-Statix is still the best modern X comic this side of Whedon's Astonishing run and Morrison's New X-Men run.

Took a few days to chisel through this behemoth. Very interesting premise of super heroes that act for fame instead of some altruistic act. The art was fantastic with lots of awesome guest artist, but it seemed a bit scattered as far as the direction to the story. I feel Mr. Milligan can produce these really interesting set-ups but the follow-ups just seem to be lacking.

This series was honest. It sounds ridiculous in a world of mutation and limitless power, but it's true. These characters felt real. It was genuine diversity in true X-Men style. The art was beautiful and the characters complex.

Disappointing book. It's such a strange Marvel story completely unique. I just don't get the whole killing thing. Since when has it become the norm for good guys to kill the bad guys in marvel comics?Edit: The artwork is terrible.

I've been meaning to read this series for almost twenty years. It's a fascinating artifact of it's time, and has flashes of insight and themes that still feel relevant to the modern media landscape. But it's also kind of a mess of shallow characterizations and abrupt wild plot swings. Diminishing returns as it goes, but I'm still onboard the for revival series next year out of sheer curiosity.

I read most of these comics back when they were originally published in the early 2000's, and lost interest around the time of the ill-fated "Princess Diana comes back from the dead" storyline (where the powers-that-be at the time got nervous and made Milligan change his story at the last minute). That being said, when this gigantic book collecting the entire series (plus all of the associated specials/short stories) was solicited, I knew I would have to get it. It had been years since I even re...

I had no idea there was an X book this weird at Marvel. 20 years on the satire is still razor sharp, and the combination of that with the pop art is incredible. And we of course have to recognize the legend that is Doop.

Marvel briefly embraced their inner indie comics kid on “X-Statix” and the result in one of the best series to ever come from the House of Ideas.X-Statix began life in the pages of X-Force 116, though outside of the name and the fact that it stars a team of mutants, it has nothing to do with the guns and pouches team that preceded it. This team, made up of new characters like Orphan, the Anarchist, Dead Girl and Doop, are reality TV stars as well as superheroes, and their success means they aren...

Good lord, I knew I'd been passively reading this for a while, but over a year? Anyway's, it's great stuff. I'm not an X-Men guy, I'm an Allred guy, so I can't tell you how this fits into the larger cannon. All I can tell you is the writer/artist on this is a perfect match. It's an incredibly cynical look at celebrity culture with superheroing taking a distant second place to fame management. It's brutally violent in parts, and just a blast. When Allred needs a break, the fill in artists are a m...

I think my favorite aspect of this was the way it would create real flesh and blood characters, with pain and insight and humanity. For all of its pop art, satire, tongue in cheek jokes, and slightly above it all aloofness and for all of the standard Peter Milligan weird shit (which I love so so much), it mostly never forgets that we are supposed to care about these people. It addresses a lot of very interesting things and motivations.There were times, though, were the quppiness and satire overw...

Recommended for the art. Now that I have read the whole thing, I'm not sure if I really admire Milligan's writing style. His characters had too much of a tendency to flip-flop personalities to accommodate for the plot. The stories are fun, for the most part. But what really makes this stand out is Allred's art. You can actually watch it evolve through the course of this collection, he just keeps getting better. The art isn't for everyone though. I was talking about this series with a friend and

I was pleasantly surprised to discover that the X-force run by Milligan and Allred, which I thought had ended, continued under the name of X-Statix. I was ecstatic that my interlibrary loan request actually sent in a copy of this omnibus. So I go to the library to pick it up.Did you realize it carries more weight, in actual actual kilograms and the more abstract wisdom of the shallow variety, than the world's favorite holy book? Hell, it gives the dictionary a run for its money. By the time I ca...

At the beginning, this is an incredibly interesting, beguiling tale: Milligan and Allred manage to set a modern American satire firmly in the X-Men universe in a way that leaves you thinking: this can't possibly be canonical. It's constantly surprising and inventive, well-written and dangerous, and Allred's art is gorgeous.BUT, over >40 issues, a lot of the magic certainly wanes. By the halfway point, the whole series gets a lot more standard--the trappings of satire are still there, but there's...

Overall, X-Statix is a beautiful, innovative, funny comic. It was ahead of its time and it looked at superheroes from weirdly slanted views. The 40-issue run had its ups and down, and it definitely overstayed its welcome by the end, but it's still a terrific run, and I'm happy it's finally been collected as a whole.This run was also when I fell in love with Allred's work. It's very clean and iconic and is a strong element of the comic as a whole.New Beginnings (116-120). The idea of turning supe...

This is probably my favorite thing Peter Milligan has written. With Allred's art, it has a psychedelic flair and seems to be just within the realm of reality. But with the powers the characters have, it's not insane. It's the most straight forward, non-weird thing he's done and it is just great writing!A group of super powered characters fight bad guys but also have to figure out how badly they want to be popular and rich. Really nice characters and a blast to read. Recommend!

Loving The Allreds, art and color- bright, eye-popping. I was moving away from comics again when it came out, and I didn't care for its amoral protagonists. This time, I read the first 2 X-Force issues, after starting with X-Statix #1. It presents manipulation of media and a cold-heart to Fame with some very interesting character-driven stories. The satire holds up, two decades later, as do the moral quandaries that dominate those first two years of the title. The issues leading out to space, w...

"Pop Art For Now People" reads the backcover blurb for this tome-of-all-tomes, this freakishly long epic of mutant epicness, and seriously kids -- this is, I mean, holy crap? The longest comic that exists. That will ever exist. Forever. FOR-FUCKING-EVER.It's also, with the groovy go-go aesthetic of Michael Allred's pencils and the loopy cynicism of Peter Milligan's scripts, quite serviceable as highbrow coffeetable book of sequential art -- a book that can be flipped through for random doses of

First, this book — as a volume — is an achievement just in what I brings together. This is an absolute tome, gathering absolutely everything related to X-Statix.Second, this is just a classic comic; perhaps not in the traditional canon, but this series is an all-timer for me. It’s weird and zany, doing stuff only comics can, but is also engrossing and has a real emotional weight. I know it’s part of the gag that X-Statix members die all the time, but I got attached to team, following their ups a...

Milligan's and Allred's satirical, post-modern tongue-in-cheek look at the super hero / mutant genre finally got it's own series after emerging in the X-Force title. This works even better for constant Marvel readers, but even someone new to the super hero genre will like this. Although the opening volumes are really good, and the art is unique and great throughout, the stories got old pretty quick and they lost that innovative feel they had at the start. 5 out of 12.

Hard to give the three star rating. The stories are mostly ironic and humorous. I'm really just here for the brilliant artistic team of Michael and Laura Allred. This ain't Madman but their work still pops.