Celebrity posers, a famous mortality rate, and mutant satire: X-Statix, by Milligan and Allred
Media manipulation, morally ambiguous celebrities, and white-hot death: when Brit Peter Milligan, who first followed Alan Moore on UK's Marvel Man, and later wrote challenging comics like Shade, The Changing Man, teamed up with day-glo retro indie artists Mike and Laura Allred to create a new X-Force title, they merged marketing cynicism into a story about a group of media-approved superheroes. I reviewed this on Goodreads, after devouring nearly the entire forty issue run in two days. Funny follow-up to Shakespearean plays, but obviously, I enjoyed it. They're naked for religious reasons. I'll leave it to you to check out X-Statix #24. I can say, don't be taken in by Spider-Man's cover appearances: he was routinely abused by the new creators at Marvel who used him for money-making cameos. X-Statix #1-12 really blew me away, especially U Go Girl's diary as read by Venus. I was reminded how brutal the road to fame was, even before the Telecommunica