Just re-read the entire X-O run

depluto · Post by **depluto** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 1:19 pm

Quick impressions:

First few issues were fantastic, obviously. But Ken's gayness was completely over the top.

Turok friendship was a little weird ... had a little Brokeback Mountain in there, I fear. And when Bart Sears would draw Turok it got even stranger. He made him look like a Bratz doll.

Could have lived without the whole Wolfbridge stuff in the middle issues. Who cares?

Moving into the 50s, each issue started taking about three minutes to read. Home of the BIG FREAKING PANELS! The cast of characters got very Imagey too.

OK, No. 64 was actually pretty cool when Aric slit Darque's throat. Nice! And then when Bob Layton came back the character was handled pretty well (although the story became nutso!)

Layton deserves another crack at the chararacter.

siren3-4 · Post by **siren3-4** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 9:40 am

depluto wrote: Moving into the 50s, each issue started taking about three minutes to read. Home of the BIG FREAKING PANELS! The cast of characters got very Imagey too.

The Image villians invading X-O's book made me crazy. I still haven't read the last few issues. I will sonner or later but I was so *SQUEE*.

myron · Post by **myron** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 10:39 am

siren3-4 wrote:
depluto wrote: Moving into the 50s, each issue started taking about three minutes to read. Home of the BIG FREAKING PANELS! The cast of characters got very Imagey too.
The Image villians invading X-O's book made me crazy. I still haven't read the last few issues. I will sonner or later but I was so *SQUEE*.

train wreck...

or should I say bicycle wreck...

*SQUEE* · Post by ***SQUEE*** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 8:42 am

When I started to get back into Valiant comics awhile back the first issues I read were the last 6 X-O comics.... as bad as they were it didn't stop me from getting more. But man those last 6 were *SQUEE* ing *SQUEE*!

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 3:34 pm

Believe me, we all feel your pain.....

cobra_commander · Post by **cobra_commander** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 7:49 pm

Cool..it only took 3 months to get this thread going

betterthanezra · Post by **betterthanezra** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 8:30 pm

When Ron Marz was writing the character it became a three minute read...

Sad Sad...

-Brian

tarheelmarine · Post by **tarheelmarine** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 8:04 am

betterthanezra wrote:When Ron Marz was writing the character it became a three minute read...

Sad Sad...

-Brian

I wonder if Marz regrets the writing he did on it?

On to the original comment that got this thread going. I dont think there was any Brokeback going with those two. I think it was just two warriors who got along well because they were both displaced and had a lot in common (killing to survive in their original timelines).

However, I to could have done without the Wolfbridge affair, I do like the art on the last issues though. Sears was the definitive XO artist.

xodacia81 · Post by **xodacia81** » Thu May 24, 2007 3:36 pm

I recently re-read 0-50x&0. Wow, the quality really drops during the whole Wolfbridge story. The runup was kinda cool, but the story itself was bad. Not as bad as the wasteland Marz created, but bad enough. IMO, the series was really never the same after::SPOILERS::the passing of the first Good Skin. Some of the aftermath issues had moments, but everything starting with Wolfbridge onward was bad. SPOILERS again...How in the world did Marz think killing everyone off and restructuring it like that would help the book? This had to be Acclaim trying to make the character easier to adapt to a videogame. I never did like most of the games they made. BTW, I finally put my hands on a mint #67 & 68, for a total of 18 dollars.

xodacia81 · Post by **xodacia81** » Sun May 27, 2007 10:58 pm

Finally pushed myself to read the much later XO issues, through #64. Ok, the episode with Master Darque was good, particularly the way Aric took care of it. That scene is classic. Aric as a bum just didn't work, though. Now, I just need to put my hands on issues 65 & 66 and I shall be done with the XO collection, aside from a few variants. My estimation-a great book early on, that gradually became truly woeful. But, then again, few VALIANT titles didn't suffer greatly late in thier cycles. 'Tis more the pity.

neonshrk · Post by **neonshrk** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 8:23 pm

X-O is the only series I have the entire run of. It was hard to read the 30 or so issues. Sad really.

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 4:33 am

cobra_commander wrote:Cool..it only took 3 months to get this thread going

See... this is more of what we need, right here.

-slym

cobra_commander · Post by **cobra_commander** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 4:38 am

slym2none wrote:
cobra_commander wrote:Cool..it only took 3 months to get this thread going
See... this is more of what we need, right here.

-slym

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 4:58 am

Admit it - you marveled over the X-O Bike.

-slym

xodacia81 · Post by **xodacia81** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 3:03 pm

XO bike, we love thee...let us count the ways.... ..... ..... ..... (the silence is deafening)

user1463 · Post by **user1463** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 5:04 pm

There was an X-O Bike?

xodacia81 · Post by **xodacia81** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 6:09 pm

Yes. But...I refuse to acknowledge it most days. All I can tell you is, it is in a very late issue. I think it is up in the early 60's.

xodacia81 · Post by **xodacia81** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 11:30 am

Jay Tomio wrote:Recently reread the first half dozen issues - really loved it

One term...PRE-UNITY

Escaflown4 · Post by **Escaflown4** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 11:59 am

I just re-read X-O Manowar up to the Wolfbridge Affair. I have enjoyed the stories so far up until now. However, there was something in the previous storyline that didn't sit well with me.

SPOILER ALERT! (For those that didn't read or gotten this far yet)

There have only been two X-O Manowar class that were created by the spider aliens. One was taken by Aric while the other became useless due to the champion being slain in it by Solar on a remote planet. Throughout the storyline, the spider aliens have risked and sacrificed countless lives to retrieve Aric's armor or the seed to create another. When Shanhara was destroyed in X-O #28, Solar traveled to the remote planet to retrieve the seed of the dead alien champion to replace Aric's armor. Now here's the million dollar question. Why the hell didn't the spider aliens just retrieve that seed instead of going after Aric's? The alien's created both armor, so they had to know how old both of them were. If they anticipated Shanhara's seed, then they should have been aware that the other armor should have grown a seed. Yet they wasted countless lives and an entire colony to go after Aric's?

xodacia81 · Post by **xodacia81** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 12:16 pm

Issue 44 is where it gets bad. As for why the spiders did what they did, I can only say I never got the impression that there were only two sets of armor, just two in the region and I don't know if the Spider Aliens would have known where the armor was, although the system did have tracking abilities as shown in early issues of the series. Maybe it was because doing otherwise would have made too much sense and not kept the series going?

The Count · Post by **The Count** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 5:36 pm

Escaflown4 wrote:If they anticipated Shanhara's seed, then they should have been aware that the other armor should have grown a seed. Yet they wasted countless lives and an entire colony to go after Aric's?

The reason is easy.

Spider aliens are STUPID!

DUMB..DUMB...DUMB....DUMB!

Of course, none dumber than that bucket head, spaghetti face Sven.

"Why Sven, whatever do you mean? Maybe poker's just not your game. I know! Let's have a spelling contest!"

Sven · Post by **Sven** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 5:48 pm

We did not know what the Destroyer did with the body, you nincompoop!

Even we, with our superior-to-yours technology, cannot know everything.

HELLO!!

Nice try

hate you chocula...

MoonChild · Post by **MoonChild** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 5:35 pm

Oddly enough Im just getting to them now, TPB, good character. Pleasantly suprised

Phantom · Post by **Phantom** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 1:47 pm

I loved xo.
loved past tence.
I even loved the accliam xo, untill the last issue. That screwed everything up.
Oh its not from spider aliens ~ I made it!

Sorry a little annoyed when they do something so stupid like that.

xo bike, aswell.

Fanboy375 · Post by **Fanboy375** » Thu Apr 24, 2008 2:02 pm

I could have saved you a ton of time.

Read to / and including Issue #8 and stop!

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