When I first heard that they were going to relocate the Xmen to San Fran, it seemed like a good idea, quite fresh.
Oh dear. It just seems like another nail in the coffin really. It just doesn't feel right.
The XBooks are a mess at the moment. X-Factor seems like a sprawling, boring mess. X-Force has a strong concept but is a bit wishy washy and all over the place. Let's not even bother talking about Exiles (cliffhanger to issue one: Rogue falls over). Astonishing is popular with my chums, but I find it over-written and the art is too muddy.
And what the f is going on in Xmen Legacy? As a fan of 20+ years, I am so BORED of this already, and the boring art doesn't help. Over in the other Xmen title, and Greg Land's art really doesn't work. If I see one more over-beaming woman's face I'll just rip my comic up.
I was reading the new Xmen Legacy and they've got a picture from the Xmen when they were in teh Australian outback period - and this is what got me thinking. I mean, the OUtback days were by no means perfect - I'm not entirely sure Claremont knew what he was doing - but it was still compelling. So it just goes to show that a change of location can work, kind of, you just have to back it up with good stories. And who's even in the Xmen at the moment? It seems all over the place. REstore the status quo, redefine the teams, bring back Prof X properly, make it a much stronger concept than it is at the moment. It's just all over the place - I was reading issue 501, thinking who's that girl - Rogue? And you only find out later that it's Karma. Rubbish!
And then bring the Reavers into it to attack Greg Land and do to him what they did to Wolverine all that time ago...
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The Avengers seem to have assumed the X-men's former role as the Marvel Universe's resident rebel superheroes, rendering the X-men a little irrelevant, methinks. It can't help that fans can now get their Wolverine fix any number of ways without ever picking up any of the X-titles.
i agree... but how stupid of Marvel to neglect the x-men and put all their effort into avengers.
wonder if bendis will move onto the x-titles sometime. he'd do a good job.
But how likely it is that Marvel will shift the focus back to the X-titles when the real money is to be made in movies, and the X-men are a spent force as far as the movies are concerned? I mean, I can seen them trying to resurrect the X-men movie franchise some time down the line, but not in the immediate future...instead, seems like the focus will stay on the Avenger titles in the immediate future -- home to current movie franchise characters Spider-Man, Iron Man, Wolverine and the Avengers.
But, then, as you say I was the last to know about the Avengers movie, so I may be behind the times on this one too :)
yeah you're right, they will prob invest in the avengers comics for a while.
altho they do normally eff up the comics when new movies come out - iron man and x-men were all over the place when the movies came out.
i heard that they were hoping to re-invest in the x-men movies in the very near future - so we'll see.
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