#crimson commando

[comicwaren]

From X-Men Vol. 7 #030, “Danger Room, Pt. 5” Art by Netho Diaz, Sean Parsons and Arthur Hesli Written by Jed MacKay

[heckcareoxytwit]

In order to prevent more future threats from happening, Cyclops and the X-Men fight the Fenris twins and the Neo-Nazis in the desert of Arizona.

Also, Cyclops meets his new rival, Crimson Commando, the mutant leader of O*N*E.

X-Men v7 #25, 2026

[pageofpanels]

[coolcomicbookcovers]

[radroller]

The Incredible Hulk #369 “Silent Screams”

Written by Peter David, Illustrated by Dale Keown and Bob MacLeod

[eighteenbelow]

Spoilers for X-Men #25!

....Marvel resurrected one of my blorbos after 15 years and turned him into a hipster stooge for the US government 😩

And I mean, he's been a stooge for the US government before (decades ago, in a very different political climate), but he was basically the antithesis of a hipster. I'm just...confused.

[illyanarasputinfan]

Are there any supporting characters in X-Men that you’ve truly despised? For me, it’s Priscilla Morrison, from Uncanny X-Men issues 215-216 in 1987. After a powerless Storm is mistaken for an arsonist by the super villains Stonewall, Super Sabre, and Crimson Commando, she is abducted and forced to participate alongside Priscilla in a hunt akin to Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game”.

Uncanny X-Men #215 (1987) Marvel Comics

Storm never assumes anyone’s gender.

Uncanny X-Men #215 (1987) Marvel Comics

Just another spoiled rich girl from Newport selling drugs to the locals for a thrill.

Uncanny X-Men #216 (1987) Marvel Comics

Bitch said what?

Uncanny X-Men #216 (1987) Marvel Comics

Priscilla attempts to repay Storm for keeping her alive in the wild by killing her.

Uncanny X-Men #216 (1987) Marvel Comics

Priscilla goes full psychopath, murders an innocent couple she encounters, and steals their truck in order to escape.

Uncanny X-Men #216 (1987) Marvel Comics

SURPRISE!

Uncanny X-Men #216 (1987) Marvel Comics

I remember this being the first instance in an X-Men comic book as a child where I felt guilty I was pleased a character met such a violent and unceremonious end.

Uncanny X-Men #216 (1987) Marvel Comics

Fortunately, Wolverine arrived to help Ororo, and remind little me of what a piece of $#@! Priscilla was. Thanks, Logan!

There have been SO many loathsome minor players in the X-Men universe over the past sixty-three years. I’m curious to know which ones have gotten under your skin.

[gaknar]

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)