Xombi Revived
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Let's have the cover and four pages from Xombi #1 (May 2011). Xombi, created by Dwayne McDuffie, was one of the second wave of Milestone Comics titles, opening up the line from the fairly traditional superhero stories it had started with. In specific, it was Milestone's equivalent of a Vertigo title, full of weirdness. David Kim, Korean-American scientist, has a hideous lab accident with nanotechnology that turns him immortal and kills his assistant. It also makes him a magnet for all sorts of supernatural and paranormal phenomena. Honestly, a lot of the menaces Xombi dealt with seem to have been gleaned from conversations with Grant Morrison circa Doom Patrol.
With the recent acquisition of Milestone's characters by DC, this is the concept that managed to get an ongoing first.


Bad/weird things are happening. But these are just symptoms of the coming problem.

Julian Parker is a low-level secular mage, kind of cynical--sort of like a slightly less obnoxious John Constantine. But he's stuck in Brazil and the problem is in Dakota, so he has to call our main character.

Julian explains that the prison in question is under the auspices of the Catholic church, and he doesn't entirely trust that organization to be upfront about any problems that might arise. Which is not to say that their individual members aren't good people.

For example. They're joined by Sister Beatrice, Nun the Less (she shrinks) and Father Maxwell (powers not in evidence.) But they're just a little too late, and that's when the action begins....
Your thoughts and comments?
With the recent acquisition of Milestone's characters by DC, this is the concept that managed to get an ongoing first.


Bad/weird things are happening. But these are just symptoms of the coming problem.

Julian Parker is a low-level secular mage, kind of cynical--sort of like a slightly less obnoxious John Constantine. But he's stuck in Brazil and the problem is in Dakota, so he has to call our main character.

Julian explains that the prison in question is under the auspices of the Catholic church, and he doesn't entirely trust that organization to be upfront about any problems that might arise. Which is not to say that their individual members aren't good people.

For example. They're joined by Sister Beatrice, Nun the Less (she shrinks) and Father Maxwell (powers not in evidence.) But they're just a little too late, and that's when the action begins....
Your thoughts and comments?
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Date: 2011-03-18 01:01 pm (UTC)Quite the apparent make-up job on Nun of the Above.
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Date: 2011-03-18 03:06 pm (UTC)But... Yay! More Xombi!
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Date: 2011-03-18 04:09 pm (UTC)He's certainly not especially unqualified, but man.. a lot of people must've bowed out before in that story.
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Date: 2011-03-18 05:20 pm (UTC)It was an online animation called Xombie by James Farr that started in 2003, and has a comic book series called Xombie Reanimated and Xombie Dead on Arrival. Supposedly also going to be a movie by Dreamworks but that announcement was done in 2009.
Just curious which came first? The fact both names of the comic book series are basically identical, they couldn't license Xombie because Xombie is already under James Farr?
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Date: 2011-03-18 06:20 pm (UTC)Which supports my suspicion that DC's creatives are a bit more into horror & weirdness than into proper superheroes.
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Date: 2011-03-20 06:36 pm (UTC)It's even better than I'd expected it to be. This sort of bizarre creativity and all out weirdness is right up my alley and Irving's moody artwork sells it perfectly. I'm really curious to see where it goes, but for now, it's definitely going on my pull list.
Also, I'm totally stealing the "Evil Papier-Mache Head Cult" for my next Mage: The Awakening campaign. Because that is how I roll.