Atlanta-based contemporary artist, xenonouveau, finally found a use for 1991's X-Men #1: He cut it up painstakingly -- piece by piece, frame by frame -- and glued it all over a toilet, which he is selling on eBay as a piece (not a working model). This is what is known as "ROI."X-Men #1, by Chris Claremont and Jim Lee, was the first part to Claremont's original end to his X-Men oeuvre, though he has since returned to the series a handful of times and is now writing the Forever series in the X-Men line. It also marked the beginning of the end of Jim Lee's work at the company, as he would soon leave to found Image.
Though it was the best-selling comic book of all-time, largely because there were some eleventeen variants, it marked no major turning-point in the team, but it did kill the franchise pretty solidly for about 10 years. It also helped kill the industry for about 15 years.
Marvel just released twelveteen variants for the latest X-Men #1 launch, ominously entitled... X-Men.
© C Harris Lynn, 2010
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