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I have to say that the X Men franchise has been going on for decades. Maybe not as many as the Superman franchise has, but it still has quite a number to it.
One thing I am certain of is that the franchise seems to be subverting Status Quo Is God in recent years. Magneto and Professor Xavier seem to be fading into the background, with Cyclops and Wolverine taking their places. A lot of villains associated to the X-Men have been killed off and have actually stayed dead so far.
All this gives me the general impression that the franchise is trying to reinvent itself. Do you think that's what's going on here?
Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 29th 2023 at 10:02:23 AM
Half the time, the Phoenix is as much a threat to the X-Men as it is to whomever they're fighting.
The Head of the Hydra
I got it, take a trip back to Japan & make a Yakuza story in the vein of the Yakuza game seiries with a bunch of mutants.
Wolverine may or may not be involved.
I'll even title the arc "Like a Dragon" after the seiries Japanese title.
Edited by slimcoder on Feb 26th 2019 at 10:39:58 AM
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
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Not if Rachel's in the hotseat.
Professional Complainer
Now you made me want Wolverine vs. Kazuma Kiryu.
Takat Empress
Just tone down on grindark extinction events
Mileena Madness
The Head of the Hydra
Wolverine certainly embodies how it is to live like a dragon in some ways.
Professional Complainer
You ever stop and think that Wolverine is superhero comics' first ever giant fucking weeaboo?
Some kids are watching anime in the mansion and Logan pokes his head in. “Uh, ACTUALLY, bub, it’s pronounced ‘Hetaria Akushisu Pawazu’, ya filthy casual.”
The Mad Doctor
You can fill quite a few drinking games with eXtinction plots, Phoenix plots, AU plots, and Do FP plots.
I really wonder why Magneto hasn't just decided to take over the country yet. In Morrison's run he shows he's strong enough to stage a coup on a very large city quite handily, and that's not even his strongest showing.
I don’t know, but I’m greatly looking forward to extremely old senile Magneto in a decade or so. I mean, Magneto was born in 1940 at the latest if he remembers Auschwitz, so he’s already at least 79. Just imagine the Brotherhood asking for instructions and Magneto just complains about rap music and how a loaf of bread used to cost a penny. And the Eisners come pouring in.
Magneto has already been de-aged to a baby and re-aged to an adult, so he doesn't actually look that old.
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
He's probably younger (looking) than Charles now because of that.
We should all Thank the Stranger. He made that possible.
One Strip! One Strip!
charles recently came back via taking over fantomex's body and calling himself x
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
Takat Empress
Muh status quo
Mileena Madness
It's a bit more complicated than that: when Xavier died, his mind still survived on the Astral Plane, where it was enmeshed in a conflict with the Shadow King. During Charles Soule's Astonishing X-Men, this conflict finally reaches outside the Astral Plane, so a group of X-Men go into the Astral Plane to fight the Shadow King and find the Xavier's mind is still alive. Blah blah blah, they have a Battle in the Center of the Mind, the X-Men eventually win, and then Fantomex decides that he will give up his body so that Xavier can inhabit it, Xavier does and decides to call himself "X" now. (Or "The Man Called X.") Then he erases the X-Men's minds (except Psylocke), so that nobody knows he's still alive.
Yeah, I know: what a dick.
Edited by alliterator on Feb 26th 2019 at 9:42:59 AM
The Head of the Hydra
I’m thinking there be various types of Mutant crime families.
Ya got a bunch of Mutants who band together to form their own group, am individual Mutant walks in & takes over by beating up the strongest guy, or long held leaders of crime families maintain their power by becoming Mutants themselves so ya have these old guys & their family memeber suddenly gaining powers because they share a family X-Gene.
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
Nice: The mutant drag queen Sina Grace introduced in Iceman is getting her own story in Uncanny X-Men: Winter's End. Although her codename is being changed from "Shade" to "Darkveil."
This is interesting. Most of the homosexual mutants in the series have been Straight Gay instead of the more camp type.
I just found out that Leah Williams has a tumblr where she goes behind the scenes with a lot of the "Age of X-Man" stuff. Like:
I was asking Zac & Lonnie some reeeeal awkward questions for a while in terms of how comprehensive/airtight Nate’s vision of this world is–
‘hey! does Betsy still know what sex is? would she still know what ‘pregnant’ means if Nate’s apparently removed all this sexual knowledge from everyone here? ooh their sex drives too, huh? so what’s sex education like in schools here? like even with lowered libidos, they obviously all still have the equipment, right? so how are young mutants learning about their changing bodies? what about young mutants getting periods for the first time? do they know what that’s for? what’s the currency like in Ao X? is there a currency? are they communists? how’s the economy work? is there revisionist history to inflate mutant contributions to society and overlook humans’? how d–’
Leah Williams asks interesting questions. When she's not engaging in the worst (best) shitposting, of course.
You know, it's funny, when Age of X-Man was announced, my reaction was basically to roll my eyes and make wanking motions. But I'm thoroughly enjoying it. There's a lot of genuinely interesting stuff going on in each of the tie-ins. It's compelling stuff.
I really hope all the writers on Age of X-Man tie-ins get new titles coming out of it. In particular, Marvel needs to put Leah Williams on an X-Men ongoing. (If they had any sense, they'd put her on a New Hellfire Club ongoing.) I'd love for Vita Ayala to get a book with Bishop and Gabby, because those two have a lot of potential to be a wonderful pairing, and Ayala clearly knows it. Iceman can be in that book, too, Grace made Iceman and Bishop a fun pairing. And then let Ayala have whoever else they want, too.
But yeah, Age of X-Man has some great creative teams, and I'd love for them to get more work when it ends, so that I can have some X-titles that don't piss me off. (Uncanny X-Men is shit, and X-Force seems to have killed off Warpath.)
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I think Uncanny X-Men is okay so far, not great, but not terrible. But yeah, the Age of X-Man minis are blowing it out of the water by actually doing something completely different and asking interesting questions about the utopia/dystopia they are in.
And yeah, I really hope that Seanan McGuire, Leah Williams, and Vita Ayala get X-books after this. Also, Tim Seeley, but that's a given because his Shatterstar mini was amazing.
Claremont, Hama, and Keith return for Wolverine: Exit Wounds. Like Peter David and Dale Keown's Incredible Hulk: Last Call, Wolverine: Exist Wounds is a one-shot for Marvel's 80th anniversary. "Set during the last scenes of the Kitty Pryde and Wolverine, this character-driven short story takes Wolverine, Kitty, and Yukio to new adventures. Wolverine is the best he is at what he does, but what he does best is..."
Very, very interesting. I think Claremont's last issue was the Magneto issue of X-Men: Black. I wonder if he's going to get an ongoing soon?
Edited by alliterator on Mar 15th 2019 at 1:32:18 AM
Edited by kkhohoho on Feb 26th 2019 at 12:24:47 PM