X-Statix Presents: Dead Girl [Paperback]

Peter Milligan (Author), Nick Dragotta (Illustrator), Mike Allred (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 23, 2006

It's hard to keep a good girl down... especially when she's Dead! After a brief hiatus caused by their deaths, everyone's favorite mutants are back! And this time, they're bringing a host of... questions with them. Like why do some heroes and villains keep on dying, only to return from the dead? And why do other heroes and villains bite the bullet, only to remain dead? Who decides on this craziness? Is it some karmic wheel in the sky? Or is it just some guy in the marketing department? Well, one such deceased villain, named the Pitiful One, is going to find out. When the Pitiful One decides that he's tired of being dead, he assembles a posse of Marvel's deadest villains to attack the world of the living. And it's up to Doctor Strange to stop him and his evil cohorts, but he needs help from...well, you know. With Kraven the Hunter, Tike Alicar and a few other surprise dead guests. Collects X-Statix Presents: Dead Girl #1-5.

Product Details

• Paperback: 120 pages
• Publisher: Marvel; 1 edition (August 23, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0785120319
• ISBN-13: 978-0785120315
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 6.6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #804,014 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very fun, September 30, 2006

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This review is from: X-Statix Presents: Dead Girl (Paperback)

Peter Milligan's X-Statix series ended with the heroes dying. One of these characters is Dead Girl, who already knows a lot about the dead. In this series, she is recruited by Dr. Strange to help suss out dead villains who keep coming back to life. This series is a fun examination on the "dead is dead" policy of certain comic editors, even as characters get to be reborn on what seems to be an almost monthly basis. Which characters gets that right?

Fans of the X-Statix series will see familiar faces. Fans of Marvel comics overall will see a few much loved, but dead, characters, too.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Alas, poor X-Statix, I knew them, Horatio ..., November 18, 2008

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This review is from: X-Statix Presents: Dead Girl (Paperback)

While it's not quite the same as having the late, lamented X-Statix back, the Dead Girl miniseries is pretty close. If anything, the narrower focus (she's not quite the only member in the book, but pretty close) makes this a particularly good X-Statix story, with Pete Milligan getting the chance to do some of his best character work in a while.

His takes on Dr. Strange and Wong are particularly fun, without coming across as petty or mean-spirited. In fact, for a book that spends so much time in Hell or among the damned, there's a real sweetness that pervades this book, which is unusual enough in superhero fare, and forget about books that share this sort of subject matter.

Highly recommended for X-Statix fans or fans of Milligan's other work.