Thoughts on X-Force

Even more fangirling in the general direction of the X-Men. *fails*

Finally got my hands on X-Force and Gen X. Have been spending all my waking free time reading. Eyes halfway melted. *dies* Going to start using the words "flonq" and "fekt" in every day speech at this rate- I have a history of picking up euphemistic curses from comic books.

I love Deadpool so much; his introduction to the Marvel Universe is as deliciously wacky as his independent series, and the artist working on New Mutants at the time made him sexy. I respect anyone who can make a guy in a red and black spiderman ripoff bodysuit look sexy. I love that he and Cable have a history together from before the Facade virus thing, because it makes the Cable & Deadpool series that much more ridiculous. ("We fought once. He fed-exed me back to my boss in a box.") They were also in love with the same woman for a bit- technically Cable did think Vanessa was Domino, but still. Yet another random connection between the two that still does nothing to reduce the WTF factor of Cable & Deadpool.

I also love Pietro "Sustenance is not frivolous" Maximoff to pieces. Spastic speedsters make me happy. I'm going to have to read all of X-Factor eventually, but that can wait; I'd only be reading it for Pietro and Jamie, and they wander in and out of the lineup at various points.

Early X-Force/Late New Mutants Cable is an ass...but I still like him. And he gets better! So much better. His rare moments of woobiness (hugging Sam! awkwardness with Domino! d'awwww) and wtfery (beer! sandwiches! weird medical equipment!) just make me love him even more. I do like Sam better, of course, because I'm a sucker for woobiness, particularly immortal woobiness with a southern accent. The way Sam acts around his mother is too adorable for words.

His family is as numerous as the Summers, but nowhere near as annoying.

My love for Cable is still pretty intense, though. His sense of humor entertains me to no end, and his speech mannerisms (heheh, "stab your eyes" heheh) make me giggle madly. And even if I am firmly convinced that Cable and Deadpool are boyfriends (in a mostly hetero/asexual manner, mind you), Cable and Domino are, perhaps, one of my favorite couples in the Marvel Universe. That isn't actually much of an accomplishment. But. Dom is an all around awesome character and the two of them are all sorts of awkward and adorable together, and I am a slave to the woob.

Also? "Harvard. Class of eighty-eight." BWAHAHAHA. But on the other hand, Cable didn't know he was a Summers until after the mess with Stryfe- and that doesn't mean a whole lot to a time traveler, really, but it seems like he could have spent his time out of time after dealing with Stryfe the first time somewhere other than Harvard Law. Just a thought.

Aaaand Generation X is love, which is to say, angsty goth bondage fetishist britboy Jono is love, as are Ange, M, and Paige. (I just have a fondness for all the characters who throw random bits of Spanish into their speech.)

In conclusion, sideline Marvel characters make me so, so happy. I couldn't care less about the main X-men teams. Gambit doesn't even hold any appeal for me now, and that's a thing I never would have thought to be possible. Just- man. The sprawling, incomprehensible majesty of this universe astounds me.

Years of retcon and twisted timelines, switching artists and writers and plot supervisors, and yet the whole thing still manages to hold together as a cohesive whole. Much as I love manga and the aristry behind it- one person or one team of people, with art and storylines that evolve as the manga-ka evolves- there is no manga series out there that can compare to the sheer enormity of X-Men.

Typical for America, I suppose. Never do something unless you can do it big.

In unrelated news, my head is still stuck, and I'm annoyed at a number of people I really have no right to be annoyed at. Meh.