The Unfunny X-Cons

    (Parody, 1992)
™ and ©1993 Don Chin. Stories ©1993 their respective creators

Don Chin, Bill Maus, and the rest of the gang at Parody Press! struck again with this shameless spoof of the X-Men. In one issue, they neatly manage to lampoon the three key X-Men comics: X-Men (1st Series) #1, the first appearance of the X-Men; Giant-Size X-Men (1st Series) #1, the first appearance of the new X-Men; and X-Men (2nd Series) #1, the top selling comic of all time.

It would spoil the jokes to say too much about them here, but suffice to say that The Unfunny X-Cons is loaded with X-Men in-jokes. The stories swipe panels shamelessly from the originals, adding Don Chin’s bizarre sense of humor to the old stories. It also makes great sport of the characters themselves, transforming, for instance the Beast into rapper Beastie Boy; tough guy Cable into the video adventurer Cable TV; and Jean Grey into a hilarious version of Barbara Eden from “I Dream of Jeannie.”
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  • 1
    #1
    Cover parody of X-Men (1st Series) #1
    Sep 1992
    Cover: $2.50
    W: Don Chin, Ross Turner, Bill Maus  ·  A: Mark Lewis, Chris Stroud, Bill Maus
    1 copy for $4.50
  • 1/Z
    #1 Variation Z
    Cover Z parody of X-Men (2nd Series) #1/C
    Sep 1992
    Cover: $2.50
    W: Don Chin, Ross Turner, Bill Maus  ·  A: Mark Lewis, Chris Stroud, Bill Maus
    2 copies from $6.50