Blood Brothers: It's Bad
I enjoy bad comics, you know that, that’s why you’re here, that’s why this blog is here. But there are those rare and special moments when I come across a comic that falls beneath even my own incredibly low expectations. Today that is the 1998 X-Man event Blood Brothers. Playing out in the pages of Terry Kavanagh’s X-Man and Joe Casey’s Cable , the four-issue saga sees the two clones/brothers/alternate universe doppelgangers teaming up to battle their equally confusing clone/brother/doppelganger from the future Stryfe, who we covered extensively in my exploration of X-Cutioner’s Song . Sounds like a recipe for success, right? Stryfe is one of my favorite villains, Cable and Nate Grey are delightfully messy and this story even has Madelyne Pryor, one of my favorite classic X Men, but this event displays such a lack of understanding and poor plotting that even I can’t find much good in it. However, we must set the stage a little before we dive in as we actually haven’t had time t...