A few months back, I did a little piece on this very site about one of my all time favorite X-Men stories, Fatal Attractions.
Why did I like it so much? What wasn’t to like?!
Cable got half his body blown to pieces, Exodus debuted and started smacking mutants around like a superpowered Chris Brown, Magneto raised douchebaggery to a new level and crashed a funeral for a kid…and Wolverine got jacked the hell up.
True story.
I recently decided to reread the storyline for probably the twentieth time and I still get a thrill about the undoubtedly most pivotal chapter of the six part event—X-Men #25.Why did I like it so much? What wasn’t to like?!
Cable got half his body blown to pieces, Exodus debuted and started smacking mutants around like a superpowered Chris Brown, Magneto raised douchebaggery to a new level and crashed a funeral for a kid…and Wolverine got jacked the hell up.
True story.
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| The fancy schmancy hologram was also a huge plus. |
Really, as good as the rest of the story is—well, honestly, we can do without the Excalibur anchor leg—it’s that issue that made it all work. It’s that issue that I remember reading as a teenager sitting on my front porch in the Bronx that made me just drop my jaw and stare incredulously at the pages before me.
And that’s partly because of how ballsy a decision it was at the times, and how different the comic medium was back then.
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It was like this, only I didn’t quite want to punch myself like I did him… |