Now that X-Statix is done, I can feel a wrenching hole becoming vacant again in my mind—A gap that Peter Milligan and Michael Allred’s genius did a wonderful job of filling.

Between brilliant artwork by Allreds and the up-to-date storylines Milligan, the series started at the end of X-Force was the most brilliant expose of modern culture yet laid down in the annals of graphic storytelling.

Where else could one investigate Elian Gonzales, pop icons, gay rights, the death of Princess Diana, the Iraq War, superhero politics, class struggles, American excess, and violent brutality in the same piece.

Though it was a long run, it was far too short. I’ll never have enough of The Orphan, Venus de Milo, The Anarchist, Dead Girl, or Doop. But so things go so does X-Statix.

What makes, this series work is the fact that every hero or character introduced since the first issue is dead and gone. And the final, vicious issue holds with the tradition, every last hero is laid to waste in a vile execution style killing. Most likely, Milligan and Allred’s attempt at closure.

But I have one problem. What ever happened to issue #2 of Wolverine/Doop. I’ve traveled to every comic shop from the Twin Cities, MN to Portland, OR to Panama City, FL in search of that issue and have never been able to find it.

Where is my comic book, Mr. Milligan. Where is it Mr. Allred. You owe me.