The life and times of Edie Sawyer

[angelophile]

Because Scans_Daily 3.0 has been criminally short on scans from Peter Milligan's X-Force run, I seek to correct that with these scenes, taken from X-Force #124, with guest artist Darwyn Cooke on art duties.

I loved this run in many ways, which both satarized the cult of celebrity and the media, but also managed to make stereotypes into strongly defined characters in between the high body count. I always thought it was a bold move of Marvel to associate this sort of material with brand X. Also, I think I'm right in saying, had the first on-panel gay kiss in Marvel comics, several years before the media claimed that was in the recent X-Factor issue.




The story so far: U-Go Girl's teleportation powers have been becoming increasingly erratic since she accidentally teleported X-Force to her own home instead of their base of operations after a mission, encountering a little girl who looked rather like a young Edie. Considering her problems to be psychological, team leader and potential love interest Guy Smith encourages her to confront her past...







After talking, Guy persuades Edie to return home, where she has an emotional reunion with her mother.











Yeah, I get that too.

This was always one of my favourite issues of X-Force/X-Statix. I always thought it was terribly unfair of Peter Milligan to create a character, make me love her within the space of a few issues and then abruptly kill her off. It always felt like a Joss Whedon-esque "hurt the ones you love most" moment, but it really ripped the heart out of the bookin my opinion.

Comments

[sir_mikael]

Aw this was sweet.
I've been curious about his title but I dunno the art-work has always put me off of trying it out. Seems like there was soime interesting stuff raised in it and decent characters tho.

Haha, she idolised Wolverine growing up?! There really is that whole young girl-Logan thing that keeps popping up. It's a wonder how that got resolved with Molly from Runaways. Now that I think of it Katie Power was kinda fond of Wolvie too, I believe.

Also it kinda appears as though U-Go Girl is supposed to have a wonky eye. It appears pretty consistent in all of this and none of the other characters have it, so it would be odd if it was an artistic screw-up. It's a nice subtle touch.

[koschei]

There really is that whole young girl-Logan thing that keeps popping up.

That really is one of the more skeevy mutant powers out there.

[wasabi.livejournal.com]

Much love to Milligan's X-Force. The entire run was like dating a cantankerous, unpredictable yet strangely alluring person who at first you wanted to throttle, but eventually wanted to never leave.

[rhythmbandit]

Great art and interesting peoples, thanks!

[kingrockwell]

Drawing glittery hearts all over this.