Whedon on X-Men?

[Kobold Avenger]

Morrison's run certainly made far better reading than most of the stuff that went on during the 90's especially under Scott Lobdell where the comic became stagnant. I don't want any of the new writers, writing the same old stuff over and over again, it becomes pointless.

And to add to this, Joss Whedon said he really liked Morrison's run, and is using many of its concepts. Two of the characters he's writing is Cyclops and the White Queen as the school's headmasters. Chris Claremont is also using many of the changes, in fact he's already used concepts like X-Corporation to insert Sunspot, Magma and Skids who all work for it, into the story. Also his other series the new Excalibur is all about Prof. X rebuilding Genosha since he's not the headmaster anymore.

Out of the students and new characters, Fantomex/Weapon XIII will be appearing with Wolverine in the Weapon X series. Beak will show up in the series Exiles for a bit, and eventually into New Mutants (now renamed New X-Men: Academy X or something like that). And the Afghan girl Dust is slated to be a regular character of the new New X-Men series.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

The whole relationship between Jean Grey and Scott Summers continually suffered from being too perfect and unrealistic. Real people after all do have affairs, and people do die. X-Men was supposed to be about change, but not much change ironically enough happened in the years before.

 

[pensiv]

also, IIRC X-Corp was introduced by Joe Casey in Uncanny, not Morrison.
Joe Casey is currently exploring more of the superhero corporation idea in Wildcats 3.0.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

Actually there was a difference between the X-Corps and X-Corporation.

The X-Corps were a fascist paramilitary mutant organization based in Paris lead by Banshee, with Blob, M, Avalanche, Jubilee, Multiple Man, Abyss and Husk as members.

The X-Corporation was the international arm of the X-Men set up by Prof. X (while Cassandra Nova was inhabiting his body) with Domino for the Hong Kong branch. Sunfire, Feral, Thornn, and James Proudstar for the Mumbai branch. Darkstar (now deceased), Siryn, Multiple Man, M, Cannonball (who left), and Rictor were the Paris branch established after the X-Corps fell apart. Sunspot, Magma, Skids and a few others were the LA branch, while Quicksilver and Sabra and whoever else the writers feel like bringing in belong to other branches of the X-Corporation.

And I have to add that WildCATS wasn't worth reading until Joe Casey became the writer.

 

[DMScott]

But I, old school fan, can't pick up the comic now without saying "Who are these people? Why does that dude have a beak? Scott's sleeping with WHO?"

Do I need to read Ultimate X-Men or something? I need a friggin' road map here. I just want to see Cyke and Jean Grey, a bouncing blue Beast, and Wolvie laying into Sabertooth or something. Not the West Wing with spandex.

Coming from what sounds like a similar background (I stopped reading X-Men around 1990 and only recently dipped my toe back in), I think Ultimate X-Men is your best bet. It starts pretty much clean from issue 1, with all the X-Men (well, except for Woverine and Xavier) as teenagers. That of course means there's plenty of teenage angst, but since I got hooked in the Claremont era that just makes me nostalgic.

One way to get back in is to grab the first trade paperback for Ultimate X-Men and New X-Men, then read and see which appeals to you more.

 

[pensiv]

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