This was one of my first X-Men comics and remains today one of my favorites. Totally going to pull it from the long box and give it a read when I get home.
This one had Scott and Jean talking about their relationship, showing a scene following X-Men #1 and taking stock of their checkered past in preparation for the wedding in X-MEN. And it had the X-Men tackling Xavier doing a football game. That scene still makes me laugh. His expression was priceless.
Bobby Drake and his parents, Psylocke, Bishop, Archangel, Forge, Storm, Professor X, Moira McTaggart, Banshee, Jubilee, Beast, (damn, forgetting the name of Beast’s GF at the time), Betsy Braddock/Revanche (god, what an awful storyline), Rogue, Gambit, Bobby’s GF at the time (whose name I am also blanking on).
That turkey they are serving is actually the offspring of a younger turkey and a clone of the latter’s former turkey mate, sent to the future to cure it’s turkey virus, only to return and warn it’s biological turkey parents that the future is bleak for turkeys. He was killed and eaten by the X-men for Thanksgiving, but will likely return next year at the Avenger’s mansion for Christmas dinner.
I love the awkward love triangle at the head of the table. Xavier with Moira next to him with her hand on his shoulder, while Banshee looms behind her…awkward
I love that Beast’s hair is shorter than 9-13 people at the table. (And the four people in question are all women.) I bet Xavier looks back at these old photos and is grateful he was bald.
That’s nice theory – but with the sculpture wearing little turkey booties.
And the one next to it is garnished the same way.
Nope that’s just a lazy rendering of a turkey.
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Who told any of those people their hair was ok?
So many mullets…*shudder*
This was one of my first X-Men comics and remains today one of my favorites. Totally going to pull it from the long box and give it a read when I get home.
Thanks, Ron!
-J.
I didn’t know Conan O’Brien celebrated Thanksgiving with the X-Men.
Looks like Rogue’s hair just kinda got away from JRJ.
Yeah, his Rogue always looked so trashy.
WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE? WHERE’S CYCLOPS?
Having a talk with Cable, i believe. If I remember correctly. One of Lobdel’s better X-Men issues.
RahUniQue, that was the next issue.
This one had Scott and Jean talking about their relationship, showing a scene following X-Men #1 and taking stock of their checkered past in preparation for the wedding in X-MEN. And it had the X-Men tackling Xavier doing a football game. That scene still makes me laugh. His expression was priceless.
-J.
From the left and without the aid of Google:
Bobby Drake and his parents, Psylocke, Bishop, Archangel, Forge, Storm, Professor X, Moira McTaggart, Banshee, Jubilee, Beast, (damn, forgetting the name of Beast’s GF at the time), Betsy Braddock/Revanche (god, what an awful storyline), Rogue, Gambit, Bobby’s GF at the time (whose name I am also blanking on).
I think Beast’s gf was Trish Tilby.
I’m pretty sure that Bobby’s girlfriend was Opal (I don’t recall her last name though).
I love that Psylocke is just staring at Revanche coldly while everyone else is in good spirits.
Or vice-versa. Whatever.
Next panel. In walks a tear-soaked Sentry holding a dented can of cranberry sauce.
Sentry: “I’m *sob* so sorry. It…it was all they had left!”
Awesome. …are those rolls or decorative gourds on the right?
I think it’s a bowl of Onions
Delicious raw onions.
Little known fact, Forge LOVES to eat raw onions like apples.
taste just like they smell
Ahh the 90′s.
So is the only character in comics these days that is rockin’ a mullet Animal Man’s son?
Dick Grayson is running perilously close to a mullet in his own book.
yeah but that’s an “urban mullet” and he’s from a circus so he has the creative-type freedom to wear his hair in weird ways
Mullet also has a long established precedent as acceptable circus folk hair styling. : see Simpson v. Cooter c.1998
@Conor: Grayson has been known to sport a pretty serious mullet in the past.
Behold…..
http://www.comicbookdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/mullet-dick-grayson.png
That turkey they are serving is actually the offspring of a younger turkey and a clone of the latter’s former turkey mate, sent to the future to cure it’s turkey virus, only to return and warn it’s biological turkey parents that the future is bleak for turkeys. He was killed and eaten by the X-men for Thanksgiving, but will likely return next year at the Avenger’s mansion for Christmas dinner.
dude that was hillarious
X-turkey REBORN!!!
i really wish that was beak’s secret origin
Is that brown mound on the center of table supposed to be a turkey?
Love turkey loaf. mmmmmmmmm
I think that’s Krakoa.
Does anyone know who cooked the food? Who’s the chef amongst the X-Men?
Here you go.
Nice, isn’t there anything that Sinister can’t do?
@Loser13: Be interesting?
Early on it was established that Jean Grey does the cooking, while the men sit around and eat:
http://luchins.com/dickery/UXM_6_ice_pie_I.jpg
I love the awkward love triangle at the head of the table. Xavier with Moira next to him with her hand on his shoulder, while Banshee looms behind her…awkward
Somehow, Bishop has combined a mullet AND a Jerry Curl! It must be future hair tech.
“Just let your Soul Glo!”
Something truly bad happened to that turkey during the cooking process.
Is that green beans on the table right in front of Bishop? Or just delicious trapezoids?
i wanna see more great moments in comics history. they’re always fun
I love that Beast’s hair is shorter than 9-13 people at the table. (And the four people in question are all women.) I bet Xavier looks back at these old photos and is grateful he was bald.
My favorite part of this picture is that it will take mutant powers to actually reach any of the food. What a bizarre table design!
I’m sure the WWF Thanksgiving table looked about the same that year.
I love that gambit is wearing a do-rag with a suit and tie. I guess he was going for Hulk Hogan professional.
ah crap, Hulk Hogan formal is what I meant.
The Holy Terror ad is blocking half the image for the bigger version. Can’t read the bubbles.
Yet another uncomfortable moment brought to you by Frank Miller.
Joh Romita jr rockin his own mullet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtUFlKERXQE
I can’t be the only one that hates John Romita Jr.’s artwork. I just… can’t be.
What the hell is that flat brown mess in the middle? Surely that’s not a turkey??
That is a sculpture of Ayer’s Rock in Australia. It’s to remind the X-Men of when they lived there.
Oh, trust me, you’re not at all alone. I won’t even touch a comic with his name on it.
That’s nice theory – but with the sculpture wearing little turkey booties.
And the one next to it is garnished the same way.
Nope that’s just a lazy rendering of a turkey.