El Guapo

Bursting onto the scene in 2003 courtesy of the wickedly inventive team of Peter Milligan and Mike Allred, El Guapo is one of the gloriously offbeat creations that made X-Statix one of Marvel's most daring Modern Age titles. He shares his wild corner of the Marvel Universe with memorable oddballs like Phat, Guy Smith, Tike Alicar, and Dead Girl — exactly the kind of anarchic company you'd expect from a book that delighted in upending superhero conventions. His catalog footprint may be small, but every appearance carries the irreverent X-Statix stamp that made true believers out of anyone lucky enough to discover the series. If you're diving into Milligan and Allred's celebrated run — collected in the X-Statix Omnibus — El Guapo is one of those characters who reminds you just how gloriously strange superhero comics can be.