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Big Talk
23:07 / 03.01.02
The much heralded deconstruction of hero comix is happening in our lifetime.

things I've noticed:
- he's blended Spike (totally innocuous black skater guy from the X-men cartoon) with Latrell Spriewell- totally addressing that ghetto fabulous w/ tattoos image from the NBA.
- the cover with wolverine is commentary on the comic cover as hype often totally unrelated to content- moreover is it about coke? are the marvel boys splitting an 8-ball in the back room while the presses roll?
- 'bootylicious'- destiny's child.

The invisibles predicts 10 years from now- iis X-force 10 weeks from now?
 
 
kid coagulant
18:49 / 10.01.02
Reading through Milligan's script for issue #123, it looks like Spike may be more of a Dennis Rodman kind of guy.
http://marvel.com/comics/nuffsaid/xforce123/p
age1.htm

Hope this series goes on and on and on...
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
18:59 / 10.01.02
From what I've read in interviews with Michael Allred, Tike Alicar is meant to be based on Dennis Rodman, that was his and Milligan's intention from the start.

I think it is very reasonable to suggest that Spike is based on Latrell Spreewell, but that won't be cemented in my mind til we see him strangle Guy or Edie...