Typhoid Mary: X-Men #1 preview

[DearMachine]

Because of Iron Fist. that gimmick of releasing comics with charactera from tv and movies

But ... Iron Fist? Did anyone actually watch that? They just cancelled it because of how poorly it did.

[WhiteQueenEmmaFrost]

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The actual ****...

Why? WHY? WHO THOUGHT THAT WAS A GOOD IDEA?!

I was going to say the same thing about this preview.

Of all the characters that could get a LS...why

[Triniking1234]

As someone who knows nothing aboit this character:

1) TK + pyrokinesis. And red hair. So.... Phoenix-lite basically?

2) based solely on the intro page, the character seems more like a victim of some experimental psychiatric treatment and real mental disease, not a villain. Hopefully the book does a good job of separating her from that, otherwise it seems kinda offensive to people with mental illness.(again I have no context here aboit her backstory, just the intro page) to be some demonized bad guy.

Sounds like your first encounter with Typhoid Mary.

My first book with her was Spider-Man. She has multiple personalities and the powers are supposed to vary with personality. In that book, "Bloody Mary" was taking over and killing men who were committing domestic abuse. Most people know her from Daredevil where she's an assassin with psychic powers... or something. I haven't read those yet.

[Ricochet Rita]

Was Typhoid Mary always this wacko? Or did Marvel take a glance over at Harley/Enchantress and went "huh, we can do that"?

Typhoid Mary was created way earlier than Harley and yes, she was always this wacko. Sooo --respect!

That art is...not...aesthetically pleasing to me.

Me either, cartoon style doesn't fit well in Typhoid IMHO: it weakens her expressive capacity instead of boost it. Also, it's a major fail that the colorist has not painted half of Typhoid's face in white, despite the artist has correctly traced a line across it.

Yeesh, anyone got a link to a bigger version? I can't read this at all. :-P

I've ruined my eyes, too X/ . Thanks anyway, Juan678.

Why in the name of JLo's fat booty is there a book where it takes more than one panel for Iceman, Jean Grey, Storm and Bishop to beat the crap out of Typhoid Bloody Mary?

Well --I feel a deep guilty pleasure because of that *evil laugh* Mary rocks!

As someone who knows nothing aboit this character:

1) TK + pyrokinesis. And red hair. So.... Phoenix-lite basically?

2) based solely on the intro page, the character seems more like a victim of some experimental psychiatric treatment and real mental disease, not a villain. Hopefully the book does a good job of separating her from that, otherwise it seems kinda offensive to people with mental illness.(again I have no context here aboit her backstory, just the intro page) to be some demonized bad guy.

1) Eh, more like supposed to be a Stephen King thing, with Carrie's TK and Charlie McGee's pyrokinesis.

2) She suffers from disassociated personality disorder, with Mary being her normal self, Typhoid being a hyper-protective mutant, Bloody Mary being a man killing psychopath, and Walker who struggles to control the other three.

Yeah, this is sort of the right answer.

1) Mary's tragedy is much more unromantic and common than Jean's. Less superheroic, more caustic, as most of Ann Nocenti's creations.

2) Indeed, she's an antiheroine over a villain. She's basically a victim of the system, it's the system which created both Mary and Typhoid, while Bloody and especially Walker are more kind of self empowered persons. I highly suggest 'Marvel Comics Presents' #150-151 (1994) and 'Typhoid' #1-4 (1995-96) as the best stories about her.

This looks like a lot of fun. Typhoid Mary isn't a big-name character and doesn't have a lot of close ties to the X-men, but she brings something quirky to the table. That could certainly make this issue fun. Plus, it gives the X-men a chance to team up for reasons other than pending extinction.

Totally agree, especially the bold. I'm aching for this kind of plots and situations.

[stormphoenix]

But ... Iron Fist? Did anyone actually watch that? They just cancelled it because of how poorly it did.

I watched 5min of it and was bored and turned it off and started watching Shrek........

[Wiccan]

Better quality:
http://www.adventuresinpoortaste.com...fever-x-men-1/

[Ambaryerno]

Better quality:
http://www.adventuresinpoortaste.com...fever-x-men-1/

Actually being able to read it makes it much clearer that there's some plot-related reason WHY she hasn't been stomped already.

[spirit2011]

But ... Iron Fist? Did anyone actually watch that? They just cancelled it because of how poorly it did.

I watched 2 episodes...then I started daredevil season 3.

maybe Marvel should just release a compilation of old bloody mary comics

[Vegeta]

Sounds like your first encounter with Typhoid Mary.

My first book with her was Spider-Man. She has multiple personalities and the powers are supposed to vary with personality. In that book, "Bloody Mary" was taking over and killing men who were committing domestic abuse. Most people know her from Daredevil where she's an assassin with psychic powers... or something. I haven't read those yet.

She also appeared in "Avengers: The Initiative" as "Mutant X." Disguised in a suit of armor and receiving treatment for her mental issues. She later joined that "Sisterhood of Evil Mutants" or whatever if I remember correctly in Brian Wood's volume 2 of X-Men.

[Triniking1234]

*Avengers Initiative.

I remember her from Wood's X-Men too.

[BroHomo]

She also appeared in "Avengers Academy" as "Mutant X." Disguised in a suit of armor and receiving treatment for her mental issues.

I remember that. Everyone secretly hoped it was Jean but was a * Sad Trumpet* moment when her identity was revealed

[Askani's Flame]

But ... Iron Fist? Did anyone actually watch that? They just cancelled it because of how poorly it did.

It was cancelled more likely because Disney is starting their own steaming service and beginning to pull all their content from Netflix. Luke Cage also got cancelled and did so much better than any of the IF's.

But I loved what they did with Mary in this season, even though she didn't have powers.

[Confuzzled]

Typhoid Mary was created way earlier than Harley and yes, she was always this wacko. Sooo --respect!

But considering her creator was Queen Ann, I have trouble believing her "craziness" was as one-dimensional as depicted here.

[Ricochet Rita]

But considering her creator was Queen Ann, I have trouble believing her "craziness" was as one-dimensional as depicted here.

Exactly. This Typhoid Mary is, at least for the moment, a poor caricature of the real one(s).

[anyajenkins]

Probably not for me, but for some reason I find the flaming pigeons amusing. #weaponize the pigeons