X-O #53

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X-O #53

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So there are about.... 239 total words in X-O 53. 239, that is it.

And I'll guess that about 60% of them are 3 letters or less. Seriously, I think I read it in under a min.


One of the pages has X-O battling some spaceships and there are 4 pannels.

The dialogue is..... "They think they have me." Then..... "feel my power."


Feel my power...... really.


Now I know most of you have read this already, I have not. I mean I have to, I gotta see the X-O Bike and "it was just a dream" for myself.

I bet that there was more dialogue one two pages of an Early Magnus of Solar book that this entire comic. How can anyone take writing credits for X-O 53? (and not hating, but there are two dudes in the writing credits)

I know that I can do a better job at writing a comic book.


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Elveen wrote:So there are about.... 239 total words in X-O 53. 239, that is it.

And I'll guess that about 60% of them are 3 letters or less. Seriously, I think I read it in under a min.


One of the pages has X-O battling some spaceships and there are 4 pannels.

The dialogue is..... "They think they have me." Then..... "feel my power."


Feel my power...... really.


Now I know most of you have read this already, I have not. I mean I have to, I gotta see the X-O Bike and "it was just a dream" for myself.

I bet that there was more dialogue one two pages of an Early Magnus of Solar book that this entire comic. How can anyone take writing credits for X-O 53? (and not hating, but there are two dudes in the writing credits)

I know that I can do a better job at writing a comic book.


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So, finally finding out the true pain of the later issues of that run, eh?... I feel your anguish for your first read through it. :P

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Re: X-O #53

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myron wrote:
Elveen wrote:So there are about.... 239 total words in X-O 53. 239, that is it.

And I'll guess that about 60% of them are 3 letters or less. Seriously, I think I read it in under a min.


One of the pages has X-O battling some spaceships and there are 4 pannels.

The dialogue is..... "They think they have me." Then..... "feel my power."


Feel my power...... really.


Now I know most of you have read this already, I have not. I mean I have to, I gotta see the X-O Bike and "it was just a dream" for myself.

I bet that there was more dialogue one two pages of an Early Magnus of Solar book that this entire comic. How can anyone take writing credits for X-O 53? (and not hating, but there are two dudes in the writing credits)

I know that I can do a better job at writing a comic book.


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So, finally finding out the true pain of the later issues of that run, eh?... I feel your anguish for your first read through it. :P
Ya the books around issue 50 replaced story with good art. Then around 60 they tossed both out the window :mad: .

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It transformed into a full blown Image title at this point. All art, no substance or intelligent dialogue.

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Elveen wrote:The dialogue is..... "They think they have me." Then..... "feel my power."
I used to say that to my wife when we started dating. I don't think it impressed her, but that didn't matter since I was on top.

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Daniel Jackson wrote:It transformed into a full blown Image title at this point. All art, no substance or intelligent dialogue.
Actually, I thought that image comics had very long winded writers at some points. Like Witchblade. They would take up 1/2 of the 1st page just setting up the issue. And the artists sometimes just did a 1/2 page splash of the side of someone's face. :roll:

Of course, I just read a handful of Image outside of Wildstorm's issues.

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*SQUEE* wrote:
myron wrote:
Elveen wrote:So there are about.... 239 total words in X-O 53. 239, that is it.

And I'll guess that about 60% of them are 3 letters or less. Seriously, I think I read it in under a min.


One of the pages has X-O battling some spaceships and there are 4 pannels.

The dialogue is..... "They think they have me." Then..... "feel my power."


Feel my power...... really.


Now I know most of you have read this already, I have not. I mean I have to, I gotta see the X-O Bike and "it was just a dream" for myself.

I bet that there was more dialogue one two pages of an Early Magnus of Solar book that this entire comic. How can anyone take writing credits for X-O 53? (and not hating, but there are two dudes in the writing credits)

I know that I can do a better job at writing a comic book.


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So, finally finding out the true pain of the later issues of that run, eh?... I feel your anguish for your first read through it. :P
Ya the books around issue 50 replaced story with good art. Then around 60 they tossed both out the window :mad: .
You're being generous. XO became unreadable at issue 44.

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I'm currently reading up through chaos effect. This isn't encouraging me to read further.

If I do, apparently it won't take too long.

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Dr. Solar wrote:I'm currently reading up through chaos effect. This isn't encouraging me to read further.

If I do, apparently it won't take too long.

It is pretty much worthless...... zero story. (IMO) I actually did not mind "The End"..... but the rest is terrible.


But you still read it.

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Re: X-O #53

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*SQUEE* wrote:
myron wrote:
Elveen wrote:So there are about.... 239 total words in X-O 53. 239, that is it.

And I'll guess that about 60% of them are 3 letters or less. Seriously, I think I read it in under a min.


One of the pages has X-O battling some spaceships and there are 4 pannels.

The dialogue is..... "They think they have me." Then..... "feel my power."


Feel my power...... really.


Now I know most of you have read this already, I have not. I mean I have to, I gotta see the X-O Bike and "it was just a dream" for myself.

I bet that there was more dialogue one two pages of an Early Magnus of Solar book that this entire comic. How can anyone take writing credits for X-O 53? (and not hating, but there are two dudes in the writing credits)

I know that I can do a better job at writing a comic book.


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So, finally finding out the true pain of the later issues of that run, eh?... I feel your anguish for your first read through it. :P
Ya the books around issue 50 replaced story with good art. Then around 60 they tossed both out the window :mad: .
:lol:

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Post by xodacia81 »

The truth is, 44 is being generous. I loved this title, but man it was downhill from Wolfbridge onward. There was some great art and issue #64 has a fantastic scene, but overall, the last 30 or so issues are a wasteland of lost ideas and tragedy.

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xodacia81 wrote:..... are a wasteland of lost ideas and tragedy.

Milton? Whitman? Byron? Townshend?

:hm: :hm: :hm: :hm: :?

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Nope, my own dissappointment with the series after that point :(

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XO didn't really start to get good until number 58. Buncha namby pamby whitebread crap before that.

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Take that back, sir, take that back right now, even in jest :twisted:

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I feel your pain. The stories lost out to art in the later issues. Then as the series ended both were bad. I do like the xo bike :P

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I wish I had more chances to use "feel my power" in day-to-day conversation.

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Elveen wrote:So there are about.... 239 total words in X-O 53. 239, that is it.

And I'll guess that about 60% of them are 3 letters or less. Seriously, I think I read it in under a min.


One of the pages has X-O battling some spaceships and there are 4 pannels.

The dialogue is..... "They think they have me." Then..... "feel my power."


Feel my power...... really.


Now I know most of you have read this already, I have not. I mean I have to, I gotta see the X-O Bike and "it was just a dream" for myself.

I bet that there was more dialogue one two pages of an Early Magnus of Solar book that this entire comic. How can anyone take writing credits for X-O 53? (and not hating, but there are two dudes in the writing credits)

I know that I can do a better job at writing a comic book.


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The oft quoted..... "Feel my power!"

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