The initial 8 pages look interesting. Hate to have to ask, but how long is the story line? Are we talking years until a conclusion?
PAD,
Ok, I can say it in one word: AWESOME! I can say it in 3 words: I am hooked. I loved your time on X-Factor and was bummed out when you were no longer writing it. While FA has not been my cup of tea, I am hoping Madrox will be. Thanks for posting the link. I will be adding this to my pull list.
Jim in Iowa
The series is a 4 issue mini-series. However, I hope it does take years to complete the story.
PAD, the art looks really good, which is always the kiss of death for one of your books (ie. Chriscross & Aaron Lopresti). Will Pable be doing the entire arc? Any chance he would stay on long term if the series gets picked up?
Looks outstanding.
The prospect of seeing Jamie, Guido, and Rahne reunited is extremely exciting, and I can’t wait to read the whole series. Let’s keep our fingers crossed that this limited series becomes an ongoing!
Now if you could just find a way for Pietro, Alex, and Lorna to make a cameo… 😉
Looks great. I lost track of how many pages I had read and kept hoping there was at least one left every time I clicked. Good stuff.
Can’t wait. Good luck with the book, Peter.
Rahne! Yay! I’ll definitely be picking this up now.
Great looking book. Great dialogue. Compelling teaser of an opening. Hooray for Rahne’s return!
Fun! I’d no idea this was even coming out. I remember those many years ago being extremely ticked off when my X-factor subscription no longer featured the five original X-men, and I was instead stuck with several random characters I had no interest in…but not for long. That was a fun run, and I look forward to revisiting some of the characters.
Man, does this look cool. I’m looking forward to this, and I have my fingers crossed it can keep going past the initial miniseries. Good job, PAD and co.!
Peter, don’t you mean “MadroX”? >=^>
— Ken from Chicago
P.S. Nice modification of the “X” in the logo.
Looks great — looking forward to the trade! (Kidding. KIDDING.)
TWL
It does in fact look promising indeed. And aside from the giant superimposed “X”, I love the logo. Simple, streamlined, but the man-shaped X’s at the end were a great touch.
“Soul Of A Gumshoe”? Man, Peter, you really can’t resist the lame puns, can you? Just kidding. (Kinda)
“Soul Of A Gumshoe”? Man, Peter, you really can’t “resist the lame puns, can you? Just kidding. (Kinda)”
That was a last minute substitution. The original title was “How Dead Was My Ðìçk.” That got all the way to lettering before the plug got pulled on that one. I tried to argue that “dìçk” was a long-accepted noir term for “detective.” Didn’t get anywhere. So, alas, the series has no dìçk.
PAD
Alright im hooked !!!!
In the interest of being of fair and balanced…
Rahne Sinclair ,one of my all time favorite mutants(i love lycanthropes)was created by Chris Claremont.So as much as i criticize the dude he has done some good stuff.God ,that was painful to admit:) (jokes ,people ,jokes)
Peter, very noirish moody visuals.
Plus the start reminds me a little like the early episodes of ANGEL where Cordy is helping Angel shape up his detective office into . . . well, . . . into shape.
— Ken from Chicago
P.S. Oh yeah, and “weed” in LORD OF THE RINGS originally referred to tobacco. Language is a living thing that breathes, grows, and changes. So don’t even try that “dìçk” was a nickname for “detective”. But nice try.
P.P.S. So how’ja get caught? I’m guessing the letterer, Vic Cory Petit, dropped a dime on yas? or is Vic a good egg? [Great, I’m talkin’ noirese, make it stop. Make it stop!]
@ Ken, Yes, “dìçk” WAS slang for detective. Ever hear the phrase “hotel dìçk”? It seems to have fallen out of use though, so a lot of people may not be aware of it.
As for the series….looks interesting. Can’t say I’ve ever been a big “mutant book” fan, but this looks like it might be worth picking up.
Being an Old Phart who rememberes the comics of the Sixties relatively clearly, ever since we got an advance peek at the cover, i’ve been thinking it looks remarkably like good Steranko…
Does anyone else see it?
Just a quick question; since when is Rahne Catholic? I’m not sure if this has always been her origin religion, or if one was ever stated, but wouldn’t she be Protestant if she’s from western Scotland, probably Free Presbyterian considering her background looks pretty strongly evangelical Calvanistic?
Jim
Very nice, Peter. You had me at the opening narration, but you really grabbed me by the throat with the title of the opening issue. I’m a sucker for well-done, or badly done if you prefer, puns. It’s a curse.
Can’t wait to read the rest of the issue.
“So, alas, the series has no dìçk.”
PAD
And no Moorcock.
Renfield
I am just thrilled that Strong Guy is part of it. So, if sells through the roof, any chance of it becoming an ongoing?
Ya know, all this talk about using dìçk as a term for detecitve reminds me of the Andrew Dice Clay movie, “The Adventures of Ford Fairlane”. The tag-line read, “To some, he’s the greatest rock and roll detective. To others, he’s just a dìçk”.
Peter:
Looks good.
Best of luck.
“Just a quick question; since when is Rahne Catholic? I’m not sure if this has always been her origin religion, or if one was ever stated, but wouldn’t she be Protestant if she’s from western Scotland, probably Free Presbyterian considering her background looks pretty strongly evangelical Calvanistic?”
I had the same question. It has been way too long since I read New Mutants, etc., with Rahne, but I was confused by this as well. PAD normally is well researched on the characters, so I am interested in his resonse.
Jim in Iowa
Ok, so much for mental spell checks. That should read “I am interested in his response.”
Jim in Iowa
Is there ant talk of PAD X-Factor collection.
I so LOOOVVVVVVVVVVVVED that series when you were on it!
X-Factor trade? Better ask one of the later artists. I hear he’s done quite well for himself.
Ever have one of those things where you were just so certain you knew it that it didn’t even occur to you you didn’t? Well, that’s the story with Rahne. I was just so sure I remembered her as being Catholic that I didn’t for a moment think she wasn’t. I’m not sure WHY I thought she was. But I did, going all the way back to my “X-Factor” days.
In any event, no harm done, because I’m told we can correct it before it goes to press.
PAD
RichJohnston said:
“X-Factor trade? Better ask one of the later artists. I hear he’s done quite well for himself.”
At least he’s not drawing this series. We may not have seen the second issue.
In any event, no harm done, because I’m told we can correct it before it goes to press>>
Wow, very cool. I’m surpised Marvel was willing to take the time to do this. Heck, I couldn’t for the life of me remember if her religion was ever stated, and not to say there aren’t Catholics in Scotland, but it just suprised me a bit.
On Rahne, I’ve lost track of her over the years. She’s not feral and can look like a normal girl now (and, btw, kudos for having an attractive female character that is realistically proportioned), and she has for some reason adopted an American accent. Is there a reason for the accent thing? I take it some of these changes must be happening in the New Mutants/New X-Men title.
Nice to see Rahne grow so much as a character though, she’ll be a good character to bounce Jaime off of.
Jim
So, alas, the series has no dìçk.
Reminds me of Spider-man’s “Nice costume” from DC Versus Marvel a while back. Or maybe the quotes should be around Spider-man’s name, since technically that was Ben Reilly in the costume. Oh, the memories.
In response to James Gilmer: I think she’s of the Protestant persuasion. It’s either an unintentional mistake by Peter, or an intentional mistake on his part, considering it’s *Jamie* who’s narrating… or, it’s possible that PAD knows something we don’t. 😉
As for your other points… Rahne was always a bit more curvy than portrayed here, but I won’t complain. And, her accent is definitely a plot point in the current New X-Men/former New Mutants title. You’ve not been reading that? Shame on you! 😀
Wildcat
Regarding the use of “dìçk” (or more precisely, the lack thereof), it’s rather amusing that Ann Nocenti didn’t have any problem having Catwoman say “dìçk” in the first issue of “Batman/Catwoman: Trail of the Gun” that came out this past week. (It’s on page 14, panel 3. Selina’s visiting a pawn shop, and she responds to the shopkeep’s question about her being a cop, “Have you ever . . . seen an undercover dìçk that looked like me?”
Maybe DC’s standards aren’t as demanding as Marvel’s. Though, you’d think that as a “Marvel Knights” title, “MadroX” would get a bit more leeway. I thought the “Knights” books were supposed to fit between the regular Marvel books and the “Max” line.
Regarding the use of “dìçk” (or more precisely, the lack thereof), it’s rather amusing that Ann Nocenti didn’t have any problem having Catwoman say “dìçk” in the first issue of “Batman/Catwoman: Trail of the Gun” that came out this past week.
I imagine that Marvel’s problem was with “ÐÍÇK” being in big bold letters in the title on the splash page. Peter could probably get away with using it in a throwaya line.
Then again, he’s the writer who was called on “Nuck ‘N Futz” and “You Bidge!”, so what do I know?
-Joe
Intrigued, I pulled the (now almost 20-years-old!) Marvel Handbook for Rahne’s bio. She’s definitely not of Catholic upbringing; she was an orphan raised by a ‘strict’ minister (which could fit Presbyterian, Free Kirk or roll-your-own).
Regarding her accent: I’m not sure why the point is made in the narration that she ‘speaks with an American accent’ – because thus far, she doesn’t. Most of her dialogue in the preview has the various apocopes and elides of a semi-Scots accent (except for one bit that’s jarringly Irish). Maybe she just forgets to put on the American accent when she’s among friends or under stress (as when chasing off the two knuckledraggers hassling her).
Overall, the preview looks good and I’ll be picking up the first issues. I remember very little of Madrox and I don’t know from Strong Guy, but I like a good detective story, I always liked Wolfsbane, and the writing and art are appealing so far.
Cheers!
Don Hilliard
I noticed something intresting when looking at the preview. If you look at the series details at the bottom of Page 2, it says Published Monthly, rather than the usual Published Miniseries.
Does this mean it has been extended for a longer run?
I note with interest that this is Mr. David’s second approach to a film noir environment, the first being “Fallen Angel.” This time it’s more specifically noir, since Madrox is apparently a detective now. (I gave up following X-continuity a long time ago.) He even has it set up in a kind of “Chinatown” environment.
(Although, not knowing the genesis of this “Mutant-town,” I couldn’t help but think of “Jokertown” – a.k.a. the Bowery – from the “Wild Cards” novels.)
For a guy primarily known for his humor, Mr. D is working hard to establish himself in moody and dread surroundings. I’m wondering if it isn’t time for him to do an out-and-out detective novel – no superpowers, no magic, nothing the fanboys will drool over – to attract the detective and mystery crowd who’ve never heard of him. After all, his career’s drive has been to keep from being stereotyped, or limited to being “just a comic book writer.” And Asimov wrote the Black Widowers series for people who wouldn’t know the Three Laws from the Three Stooges.
> Maybe she just forgets to put on the American accent when she’s among friends or under stress (as when chasing off the two knuckledraggers hassling her).
Doesn’t fit with NM/NXM, really – she’s got pals in that book, and she’s only half in control of her wolf side over there right now (mucho stress). In the snippet so far, it seems pretty much “acknowledge, then ignore” her status quo from that.
“After all, his career’s drive has been to keep from being stereotyped, or limited to being “just a comic book writer.”
This is something I touch on in an interview I just did with Rich Johnston. It seems that the more aggressively I try to break out of boxes that fans (and editors, for that matter) put me in, the more aggressively they try to pigeonhole me right back in. In fact an interviewer for “Publishers Weekly” asked me if comments made by Sir Apropos of Nothing in which he spoke about breaking out of people’s expectations for him was me speaking through Apropos as a surrogate. And she might well have been right.
And when I do something that defies pigeonholing, such as “Fallen Angel,” do the vast majority of fans flock to check it out? No. But tell folks I’m revisiting characters I wrote ten years ago and they come running…all the while commenting that I never create my own characters and do stuff that’s wholly original. It’s almost as if my career is a sculpture: People chip away the stuff that doesn’t fit with what they see in their head in order to shape it as they wish.
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The initial 8 pages look interesting. Hate to have to ask, but how long is the story line? Are we talking years until a conclusion?
PAD,
Ok, I can say it in one word: AWESOME! I can say it in 3 words: I am hooked. I loved your time on X-Factor and was bummed out when you were no longer writing it. While FA has not been my cup of tea, I am hoping Madrox will be. Thanks for posting the link. I will be adding this to my pull list.
Jim in Iowa
The series is a 4 issue mini-series. However, I hope it does take years to complete the story.
PAD, the art looks really good, which is always the kiss of death for one of your books (ie. Chriscross & Aaron Lopresti). Will Pable be doing the entire arc? Any chance he would stay on long term if the series gets picked up?
Looks outstanding.
The prospect of seeing Jamie, Guido, and Rahne reunited is extremely exciting, and I can’t wait to read the whole series. Let’s keep our fingers crossed that this limited series becomes an ongoing!
Now if you could just find a way for Pietro, Alex, and Lorna to make a cameo… 😉
Looks great. I lost track of how many pages I had read and kept hoping there was at least one left every time I clicked. Good stuff.
Can’t wait. Good luck with the book, Peter.
Rahne! Yay! I’ll definitely be picking this up now.
Great looking book. Great dialogue. Compelling teaser of an opening. Hooray for Rahne’s return!
Unconvincingly articulate NYC cab driver, though. 😉
Fun! I’d no idea this was even coming out. I remember those many years ago being extremely ticked off when my X-factor subscription no longer featured the five original X-men, and I was instead stuck with several random characters I had no interest in…but not for long. That was a fun run, and I look forward to revisiting some of the characters.
Man, does this look cool. I’m looking forward to this, and I have my fingers crossed it can keep going past the initial miniseries. Good job, PAD and co.!
Peter, don’t you mean “MadroX”? >=^>
— Ken from Chicago
P.S. Nice modification of the “X” in the logo.
Looks great — looking forward to the trade! (Kidding. KIDDING.)
TWL
It does in fact look promising indeed. And aside from the giant superimposed “X”, I love the logo. Simple, streamlined, but the man-shaped X’s at the end were a great touch.
“Soul Of A Gumshoe”? Man, Peter, you really can’t resist the lame puns, can you? Just kidding. (Kinda)
“Soul Of A Gumshoe”? Man, Peter, you really can’t “resist the lame puns, can you? Just kidding. (Kinda)”
That was a last minute substitution. The original title was “How Dead Was My Ðìçk.” That got all the way to lettering before the plug got pulled on that one. I tried to argue that “dìçk” was a long-accepted noir term for “detective.” Didn’t get anywhere. So, alas, the series has no dìçk.
PAD
Alright im hooked !!!!
In the interest of being of fair and balanced…
Rahne Sinclair ,one of my all time favorite mutants(i love lycanthropes)was created by Chris Claremont.So as much as i criticize the dude he has done some good stuff.God ,that was painful to admit:) (jokes ,people ,jokes)
Peter, very noirish moody visuals.
Plus the start reminds me a little like the early episodes of ANGEL where Cordy is helping Angel shape up his detective office into . . . well, . . . into shape.
— Ken from Chicago
P.S. Oh yeah, and “weed” in LORD OF THE RINGS originally referred to tobacco. Language is a living thing that breathes, grows, and changes. So don’t even try that “dìçk” was a nickname for “detective”. But nice try.
P.P.S. So how’ja get caught? I’m guessing the letterer, Vic Cory Petit, dropped a dime on yas? or is Vic a good egg? [Great, I’m talkin’ noirese, make it stop. Make it stop!]
@ Ken, Yes, “dìçk” WAS slang for detective. Ever hear the phrase “hotel dìçk”? It seems to have fallen out of use though, so a lot of people may not be aware of it.
As for the series….looks interesting. Can’t say I’ve ever been a big “mutant book” fan, but this looks like it might be worth picking up.
Being an Old Phart who rememberes the comics of the Sixties relatively clearly, ever since we got an advance peek at the cover, i’ve been thinking it looks remarkably like good Steranko…
Does anyone else see it?
Just a quick question; since when is Rahne Catholic? I’m not sure if this has always been her origin religion, or if one was ever stated, but wouldn’t she be Protestant if she’s from western Scotland, probably Free Presbyterian considering her background looks pretty strongly evangelical Calvanistic?
Jim
Very nice, Peter. You had me at the opening narration, but you really grabbed me by the throat with the title of the opening issue. I’m a sucker for well-done, or badly done if you prefer, puns. It’s a curse.
Can’t wait to read the rest of the issue.
“So, alas, the series has no dìçk.”
PAD
And no Moorcock.
Renfield
I am just thrilled that Strong Guy is part of it. So, if sells through the roof, any chance of it becoming an ongoing?
Ya know, all this talk about using dìçk as a term for detecitve reminds me of the Andrew Dice Clay movie, “The Adventures of Ford Fairlane”. The tag-line read, “To some, he’s the greatest rock and roll detective. To others, he’s just a dìçk”.
Peter:
Looks good.
Best of luck.
“Just a quick question; since when is Rahne Catholic? I’m not sure if this has always been her origin religion, or if one was ever stated, but wouldn’t she be Protestant if she’s from western Scotland, probably Free Presbyterian considering her background looks pretty strongly evangelical Calvanistic?”
I had the same question. It has been way too long since I read New Mutants, etc., with Rahne, but I was confused by this as well. PAD normally is well researched on the characters, so I am interested in his resonse.
Jim in Iowa
Ok, so much for mental spell checks. That should read “I am interested in his response.”
Jim in Iowa
Is there ant talk of PAD X-Factor collection.
I so LOOOVVVVVVVVVVVVED that series when you were on it!
X-Factor trade? Better ask one of the later artists. I hear he’s done quite well for himself.
Ever have one of those things where you were just so certain you knew it that it didn’t even occur to you you didn’t? Well, that’s the story with Rahne. I was just so sure I remembered her as being Catholic that I didn’t for a moment think she wasn’t. I’m not sure WHY I thought she was. But I did, going all the way back to my “X-Factor” days.
In any event, no harm done, because I’m told we can correct it before it goes to press.
PAD
RichJohnston said:
“X-Factor trade? Better ask one of the later artists. I hear he’s done quite well for himself.”
At least he’s not drawing this series. We may not have seen the second issue.
In any event, no harm done, because I’m told we can correct it before it goes to press>>
Wow, very cool. I’m surpised Marvel was willing to take the time to do this. Heck, I couldn’t for the life of me remember if her religion was ever stated, and not to say there aren’t Catholics in Scotland, but it just suprised me a bit.
On Rahne, I’ve lost track of her over the years. She’s not feral and can look like a normal girl now (and, btw, kudos for having an attractive female character that is realistically proportioned), and she has for some reason adopted an American accent. Is there a reason for the accent thing? I take it some of these changes must be happening in the New Mutants/New X-Men title.
Nice to see Rahne grow so much as a character though, she’ll be a good character to bounce Jaime off of.
Jim
So, alas, the series has no dìçk.
Reminds me of Spider-man’s “Nice costume” from DC Versus Marvel a while back. Or maybe the quotes should be around Spider-man’s name, since technically that was Ben Reilly in the costume. Oh, the memories.
In response to James Gilmer: I think she’s of the Protestant persuasion. It’s either an unintentional mistake by Peter, or an intentional mistake on his part, considering it’s *Jamie* who’s narrating… or, it’s possible that PAD knows something we don’t. 😉
As for your other points… Rahne was always a bit more curvy than portrayed here, but I won’t complain. And, her accent is definitely a plot point in the current New X-Men/former New Mutants title. You’ve not been reading that? Shame on you! 😀
Wildcat
Regarding the use of “dìçk” (or more precisely, the lack thereof), it’s rather amusing that Ann Nocenti didn’t have any problem having Catwoman say “dìçk” in the first issue of “Batman/Catwoman: Trail of the Gun” that came out this past week. (It’s on page 14, panel 3. Selina’s visiting a pawn shop, and she responds to the shopkeep’s question about her being a cop, “Have you ever . . . seen an undercover dìçk that looked like me?”
Maybe DC’s standards aren’t as demanding as Marvel’s. Though, you’d think that as a “Marvel Knights” title, “MadroX” would get a bit more leeway. I thought the “Knights” books were supposed to fit between the regular Marvel books and the “Max” line.
Regarding the use of “dìçk” (or more precisely, the lack thereof), it’s rather amusing that Ann Nocenti didn’t have any problem having Catwoman say “dìçk” in the first issue of “Batman/Catwoman: Trail of the Gun” that came out this past week.
I imagine that Marvel’s problem was with “ÐÍÇK” being in big bold letters in the title on the splash page. Peter could probably get away with using it in a throwaya line.
Then again, he’s the writer who was called on “Nuck ‘N Futz” and “You Bidge!”, so what do I know?
-Joe
Intrigued, I pulled the (now almost 20-years-old!) Marvel Handbook for Rahne’s bio. She’s definitely not of Catholic upbringing; she was an orphan raised by a ‘strict’ minister (which could fit Presbyterian, Free Kirk or roll-your-own).
Regarding her accent: I’m not sure why the point is made in the narration that she ‘speaks with an American accent’ – because thus far, she doesn’t. Most of her dialogue in the preview has the various apocopes and elides of a semi-Scots accent (except for one bit that’s jarringly Irish). Maybe she just forgets to put on the American accent when she’s among friends or under stress (as when chasing off the two knuckledraggers hassling her).
Overall, the preview looks good and I’ll be picking up the first issues. I remember very little of Madrox and I don’t know from Strong Guy, but I like a good detective story, I always liked Wolfsbane, and the writing and art are appealing so far.
Cheers!
Don Hilliard
I noticed something intresting when looking at the preview. If you look at the series details at the bottom of Page 2, it says Published Monthly, rather than the usual Published Miniseries.
Does this mean it has been extended for a longer run?
I note with interest that this is Mr. David’s second approach to a film noir environment, the first being “Fallen Angel.” This time it’s more specifically noir, since Madrox is apparently a detective now. (I gave up following X-continuity a long time ago.) He even has it set up in a kind of “Chinatown” environment.
(Although, not knowing the genesis of this “Mutant-town,” I couldn’t help but think of “Jokertown” – a.k.a. the Bowery – from the “Wild Cards” novels.)
For a guy primarily known for his humor, Mr. D is working hard to establish himself in moody and dread surroundings. I’m wondering if it isn’t time for him to do an out-and-out detective novel – no superpowers, no magic, nothing the fanboys will drool over – to attract the detective and mystery crowd who’ve never heard of him. After all, his career’s drive has been to keep from being stereotyped, or limited to being “just a comic book writer.” And Asimov wrote the Black Widowers series for people who wouldn’t know the Three Laws from the Three Stooges.
> Maybe she just forgets to put on the American accent when she’s among friends or under stress (as when chasing off the two knuckledraggers hassling her).
Doesn’t fit with NM/NXM, really – she’s got pals in that book, and she’s only half in control of her wolf side over there right now (mucho stress). In the snippet so far, it seems pretty much “acknowledge, then ignore” her status quo from that.
“After all, his career’s drive has been to keep from being stereotyped, or limited to being “just a comic book writer.”
This is something I touch on in an interview I just did with Rich Johnston. It seems that the more aggressively I try to break out of boxes that fans (and editors, for that matter) put me in, the more aggressively they try to pigeonhole me right back in. In fact an interviewer for “Publishers Weekly” asked me if comments made by Sir Apropos of Nothing in which he spoke about breaking out of people’s expectations for him was me speaking through Apropos as a surrogate. And she might well have been right.
And when I do something that defies pigeonholing, such as “Fallen Angel,” do the vast majority of fans flock to check it out? No. But tell folks I’m revisiting characters I wrote ten years ago and they come running…all the while commenting that I never create my own characters and do stuff that’s wholly original. It’s almost as if my career is a sculpture: People chip away the stuff that doesn’t fit with what they see in their head in order to shape it as they wish.
PAD