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X-Men
Apr 8, 2009 21:57:15 GMT -5
Post by G on Apr 8, 2009 21:57:15 GMT -5
Who knows what is going on with the X-Men?
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Apr 16, 2009 2:30:46 GMT -5
Post by AC on Apr 16, 2009 2:30:46 GMT -5
I'll hopefully have a more complete answer to this one shortly... I'm trying to soldier thru my back-log (almost a year's worth of books on both core X-books).
Last I'd read, In Uncanny, the team relocated to San Francisco (for better tolerance, and acceptance, natch)... and Brubaker started sharing writing duties with the terribly overrated IMO Matt Fraction.
Adjective-less X-Men was rebranded "X-Men Legacy" and became somewhat of a Professor X solo-title. It's pretty continuity heavy, which I love, and it's still written by Mike Carey... really fun read, not sure how I'd lost track of this one, to be honest. Uncanny, on the other hand, was going into a flavor of the month creative team, and was seemingly being pushed as a more "progressive" title.
The Warren Ellis core book, I really haven't tried out. I became quite disgusted that Marvel tried to sell a 16 page issue of it for $4.50... ridiculous.
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Apr 16, 2009 8:51:21 GMT -5
Post by G on Apr 16, 2009 8:51:21 GMT -5
X-Men was the 1st comic I ever purchase and ended up being the 1st comic I ever collected and truly loved. But around 60 issues into it, things changed and it became a team I didn't care about anymore so I stopped collecting each and every issue. I hung in there with various additions for the next 150 issues and I have a pretty nice collection but the longer time went on the more I cared less and less about them. Then the 90s boom just took it to terms of stupid. And now when I look at the X-Men, I just don't understand a damn thing. They have had so many members now that it seems like you could have an entire universe of characters just from X-Men alone. And I've never seen a storyline recently that looked like it was one cohesive ground breaking plotline. I do have to admit to enjoying Astonishing X-Men the recent series but I only read the 1st few issues. But that seemed enjoyable to me because it wasn't all over the place. I guess my problem with the X-Men is I'm too oldschool when it comes to them. Their was the New X-Men and the Old X-Men and that was it. And naturally teams evolve but X-Men to me has just went out of control and been given to writers and artists who are perceived to be hot but really havent made anything memorable. I truly think the X-Men for me died when John Bryne left. That's as old school as it gets. But I havent seen one storyline from X-Men that was good since the Dark Phoenix saga. And anything before that, I thought was good. Just one family of heroes following 1 simple to understand storyline. This has now become one of my least favorite Marvel titles. And for me, its just incredibly sad.  |
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Apr 26, 2009 9:45:16 GMT -5
Post by cyberstrike on Apr 26, 2009 9:45:16 GMT -5
There is also the upcoming X-Men: Forever written by Claremont that is pick right after he left the series with X-Men #3 nack in the early 1990s (X-Men Forever #1 would his version of X-Men #4) and be what he envisioned the X-Men to be.
*OFF TOPIC RANT BELOW*
Sounds like a cool idea Claremont back on the X-Men and doesn't have to be bothered with the current state of the Marvel Universe, and the changes that have been made since he left the series. Claremont can tell the X-Men stories that he wants to tell. It's also is a major ego project for Claremont and could be a major problem for Marvel down the road. I mean we could see a time where lot of creators with "long and/or legendary runs" on titles (some Like Claremont that they were forced to leave without being able to finish what the stories they started); could start asking or demanding for a chance to tell the stories that they wanted to tell with little or no reguard for the history of the title since they left. For example: why can't Peter David write a The Incredible Hulk: Forever ongoing series where he gets a chance to tell his version of the Hulk after he left the series? Why can't Stan Lee write Fanastic Four: Forever or Spider-Man: Forever and tell FF and Spidey stories set back in the 60s or 70s?
I know that Claremont is to X-Men what guys like Simon Furman and Larry Hamma are to Transformers and G.I. Joe respectfully. They are considered to be the greatest writer for that series, the sad thing is that when new writers take on those titles they almost fail compared to "the great" stories that Claremont, Furman, and Hamma wrote. This also makes it hard for new writers to take on these characters because they 9 out of 10 times fail to fans that want all X-Men comics written by Claremont, all Transformers comics written by Simon Furman and all G.I. Joe comics written by Larry Hamma and there are times when the new writers' stuff is actually 1000 times better than the legend's best stuff!
*END OF OFF TOPIC RANT*
X-Men Orgins: Wolverine is coming to movie screens in a few weeks.
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Aug 12, 2009 18:56:25 GMT -5
Post by AC on Aug 12, 2009 18:56:25 GMT -5
I was overjoyed hearing that X-Men Forever would be Claremont's take on the book if he'd never had left... thinking on it more, I think this is probably a book we could do without.
Back when the Quesada crew came in, they cancelled John Byrne's X-Men Hidden Years because it was "unnecessary and confusing to new readers"... Then what in the world is "X-Men Forever"? Not to mention, they're reusing the title of an old Fabian Nicieza mini that was created to "streamline" the X-Men mythos several years back.
I fear when they decide that this book isn't selling well enough (at FOUR DOLLARS AN ISSUE) and try a crossover, to further mangle the X-Men timeline(s).
Anyhoo... that's all I got on this one, hehe
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