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<blockquote data-quote="Samnell" data-source="post: 2828543" data-attributes="member: 130"><p>I've got mixed feelings on it. I'm not one of the ones who was a monthly buyer back when it came out so I don't have the grudge that it hijacked four months of storyline, but it's lost its luster for me as I've read more and more in backissues. The stories aren't bad themselves, but alternate universe stories (and most space stories too) tend to come across as canned to me. It's easy to take huge risks with different directions for the characters because you can come back out and say it never really happened so far as core continuity goes. Likewise in space you can annihilate a whole species and never have much fallout since it all happened a billion miles away.</p><p></p><p>That's not to say you can't write good space stories or good alternate universe stories, it's just harder. As much as I love my Claremont 80s X-Men, I don't think the X-Men in space makes a lot of sense if the concept of the books is about minorities and marginalized people. Sure every story can't be mutant angst after mutant angst, but the less removed from the world that hates and fears them they are, the more the X-Men are just generic superheroes. I'd rather each book (or at least each family of books) have a distinct focus. But the economics of a large, established universe with many market-drawing characters is going to dictate a lot of books highlighting the top gun characters and tend to press back the second-stringers. The amount of redundant books will grow (unless titles are kept in constant crossover, which I'm told is what's done with the Superman titles and at least unifies the story in theory) to as large as the market can bear, plus one or two extras.</p><p></p><p>I'm probably over-thinking all of this. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Samnell, post: 2828543, member: 130"] I've got mixed feelings on it. I'm not one of the ones who was a monthly buyer back when it came out so I don't have the grudge that it hijacked four months of storyline, but it's lost its luster for me as I've read more and more in backissues. The stories aren't bad themselves, but alternate universe stories (and most space stories too) tend to come across as canned to me. It's easy to take huge risks with different directions for the characters because you can come back out and say it never really happened so far as core continuity goes. Likewise in space you can annihilate a whole species and never have much fallout since it all happened a billion miles away. That's not to say you can't write good space stories or good alternate universe stories, it's just harder. As much as I love my Claremont 80s X-Men, I don't think the X-Men in space makes a lot of sense if the concept of the books is about minorities and marginalized people. Sure every story can't be mutant angst after mutant angst, but the less removed from the world that hates and fears them they are, the more the X-Men are just generic superheroes. I'd rather each book (or at least each family of books) have a distinct focus. But the economics of a large, established universe with many market-drawing characters is going to dictate a lot of books highlighting the top gun characters and tend to press back the second-stringers. The amount of redundant books will grow (unless titles are kept in constant crossover, which I'm told is what's done with the Superman titles and at least unifies the story in theory) to as large as the market can bear, plus one or two extras. I'm probably over-thinking all of this. :) [/QUOTE]
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