Wolverine & The X-Men #17
Written by Jason Aaron
Art by Michael Allred
Colors by Laura Allred
Review by Joey Braccino
Lots of things happen in this issue of Wolverine & The X-Men, but don’t worry your pretty little head about it.
All you need to worry about is that #17 features Doop, the wonderfully fantastic pop-artwork of Michael (and Laura!) Allred, Jason Aaron’s best, most irreverent humor, and Howard the FREAKING Duck. Oh yeah, and it has NOTHING TO DO with Avengers Vs. X-Men.
Seriously. In this issue, we finally learn what Doop—the bizarre, floating, green, alien X-Man (formerly X-Statix)—has been doing at the Jean Grey School. We’ve seen him behind the front desk or otherwise floating around aimlessly in the background in previous issues, but issue #17 gives us an in-depth look at Doop’s actual responsibilities at the school. These responsibilities include [SORT OF SPOILERS]: napping, attacking Nazis, warding off alien robot invasions, and playing roller derby, and much much more. Yeah. For real.
Mike Allred returns to the character he co-created with Peter Milligan back during X-Force/X-Statix, and let’s hope that no one else ever draws Doop-centric stories. The Allreds’ pop-art stylings are perfectly suited to Doop’s absurd activities. The extremities to which Doop goes in this single issue—insanely graphic violence to gross-out vomiting to quiet dinners with a certain hirsute supervillain—are brilliantly captured with the Allreds’ solid coloring and strong inking.
Verdict
Buy it. Even if you don’t read Wolverine & The X-Men or any X-Men books or comic books in general. Even if you can’t read at all. Just buy it. And read it. Or look at the pictures. And laugh all the way home.
