Whew, this rando backup annual story got off to a real bang in the last issue. In what I can only cl

Whew, this rando backup annual story got off to a real bang in the last issue. In what I can only classify as, “an adult, R-rated experience,” we saw Freedom Force get uncharacteristically slaughtered by a mysterious group of villains of various Mid-Eastern origins. And when I say uncharacteristically slaughtered, I mean uncharacteristic for Freedom Force as a group of characters, and uncharacteristic for a fucking a comic book from the 1990s that was sold to children. Super Sabre got decapitated!! Crimson Commando got dismembered!! Avalanche got impaled and Pyro got fucking incinerated by his own flames!! And they showed all of it in graphic detail! Who the heck are these villains!! Ooof I don’t know what I was expecting from an American writer in the early 1990s attempting to depict an alliance of super villains from the Middle East during the height of the first Iraq war, but I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. I’d rather just get distracted with how poorly this follows the events of the previous chapter where we clearly saw Pyro and Avalanche get murdered but they seem mostly ok now.No way! I refuse to believe that a character who is so intimately familiar with serenity is actually fostering a torture soul. That’s bullshit, comic! I was worried that this comic was going to gloss over the extreme brutality of the last issue, because where in the fuck did that come from anyway, but then it kicks back up again. When faced with the possibility of their target being recaptured by their enemies, the Blob and Pyro flat out murder this poor physicist who they were supposed to rescue, in order to prevent him from falling back into enemy hands.And then, holy shit look a this … and keep in mind that Crimson Commando already got his arm chopped of, which they’ve been keeping subtly concealed in this comic. I think they blew his legs off!! And half his god damned face!! I don’t know who came up with this story, and I don’t, quite frankly, care for the stereotypes, but give me more of this insane violence!! It comes out of nowhere!! Most of the other back up stories in the annuals from this year are about Artie and Leech having a crush on their teacher! How is this going to end! (X-Men Annual #15 – 1991) -- source link

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