Comments on: More like “Thud” than “Boom”

By: HeroMachine Community Blog | HeroMachine.com

HeroMachine Community Blog | HeroMachine.com — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 19:40:07 +0000

[...] Boom-Boom: “Tell me you can look at that costume in those colors and not think something blew up. I dare you.” [...]

By: Boomshadow

Boomshadow — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 20:15:54 +0000

Your disclaimer at the end of the piece attributes rights to “Marvel Comcis.” Sorry again for the late response.

By: Laridian

Laridian — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:11:59 +0000

I remember reading this issue when it first came out. The mouthpiece is because in the previous issue her jaw was broken, so that mouthpiece is supposed to, I don’t know, hold it in place or something like that. I think in this exact scene, she’s admiring herself in the mirror while talking with a broken jaw and a rigid mouthpiece to hold the jaw in place. Some other character actually chides her for possibly making her injury worse by continuing to talk out loud.

That is the ONLY thing I remember from Liefeld-era XForce besides the really ridonkulous hair designs. And how I wish I could have those memory cells back, to use for other, more important purposes.

By: Jigglypuff

Jigglypuff — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:36:26 +0000

Agreed! Liefield’s art was the most painful and eye-bleeding, especially with the big hair, useless pouches and the not-quite-holding-that-sword grip. Also I curse some of the numerous anatomy errors, malformed women he drew and the dozen of comic covers he spat up during the ’90s!

By: Mr.MikeK

Mr.MikeK — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:38:25 +0000

Apart from the eye bleeding ugliness of the suit (pouches, so many pouches), it throws the entire original concept of the character out the window. When she was introduced back in Secret Wars 2 (Yes, I am that old), she was a typical whiny teen making a living as one of the Vanisher’s thieves. She was plain looking and wore pretty typical Madonna-wannabe clothing. Her brashness came from a depth of pain most teens did not go through. She was lonely and abused by her family. She was the one who taught the Beyonder about real emotional pain from a youth’s point of view. To turn her into the 90′s version of hot just flies in the face of who she was supposed to be. One more piece of evidence that Liefeld & crew were the kings of crap. I almost went DC in the Nineties. Almost.

By: Jeff Hebert

Jeff Hebert — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:10:34 +0000

@Bill: I think you have underestimated my sneakiness. (So I like Adam Sandler movies, sue me!)

By: AbecedariusRex

AbecedariusRex — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:09:34 +0000

“wear” – sorry.

By: AbecedariusRex

AbecedariusRex — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:09:03 +0000

Perhaps, Jigglypuff, perhaps – but even the loudest of the X-girls still has to make a reckoning for her ludicrous bird perchers and the ubiquity of useless pouches. Teenagers never were ridiculous ill-matched clothing that makes them look malformed and… wait a minute.

By: Jigglypuff

Jigglypuff — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:29:53 +0000

I admit that the outtfit here was pretty ridiculous, but then Boom-Boom (Tabitha Smith)was the kind of girl to sport the most eye-bleeding color schemes in the comics. Just my opinion regarding the costume shown. She was the loudest of the X-girls.

Sorry Tabitha. I actually find Anna Marie much more intsresting.

By: MartianBlue

MartianBlue — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:18:48 +0000

@Jeff, well if that’s the case, then I’ll just take my HM3 program and be on my way