X-Men restarted
I heard the news that Chris Claremont was going to get a new series that picks up where his first run leaves off. I have mixed feelings about this. If it was pure and 100% accurately picking up as if it hadn't ended, I would be all for it. But times have changed, Chris has changed -- things have just changed. So it's going to be strange. He left so many dangling plotlines (most of which were thrown out without mercy), that I doubt he'll remember them all, and I imagine that plenty of stuff will probably get lost in the shuffle.
I've been trying to remember what all was going on at the time. The original version of Excalibur is still around, though I can't remember if Alan Davis's solo run happened yet. There's a space between X-Factor teams, I think, so the Freedom Force replacement team doesn't exist yet, I think. Unfortunately, X-Force has started, so lots of characters with giant thighs and tiny feet and no real names or motives or backstories are running around. Pretty much all the former X-Men are together, except Dazzler, who is an amnesiac in Hollywood; Longshot, who left for parts unknown; and Havok and Polaris, who are slated to be in X-Factor. Of the New Mutants, Warlock and Cipher are dead, and everybody else except Cannonball and Boom-Boom (who are with X-Force) are just sort of gone. Wolverine is still mysterious, and Cable hasn't been tied to Nathan Christopher Summers yet. Magma's backstory hasn't been flushed down the toilet yet.
Apocalypse was decimated by Cyclops. Mister Sinister was reduced to a skeleton by Cyclops, and the Marauders were all killed. The techmode virus rampaging through Limbo has been resolved. Magneto is dead. I think Masque is dead. Sat-Yr-9 is grooming Kitty to be her protege. The Reavers are targetting the White Queen's properties. The Hand and Fenris have aligned together. The Hellions haven't been killed off yet.
I'd actually prefer if they rewinded further back. For the last year or so, Chris was writing Jim Lee and Wilce Portacio's plots, which were kind of nonsensical and poorly thought out. The last issue Chris Claremont plotted was 273, I think, after the X-Tinction Agenda, ending with Lila Cheney teleporting the X-Men off to parts unknown. I tend to think of this as the real end of his run, as Jim Lee plotted the strange Shi'ar storyline that followed, which lead into the dissolution of the original X-Factor (plotted by Wilce and Jim), and the anti-climactic Shadow King storyline. Unfortunately all this is in the mix, if you start with X-Men #4.
I'm intrigued. I'll probably overlook my embargo of Marvel for the first issue, just to see.
I've been trying to remember what all was going on at the time. The original version of Excalibur is still around, though I can't remember if Alan Davis's solo run happened yet. There's a space between X-Factor teams, I think, so the Freedom Force replacement team doesn't exist yet, I think. Unfortunately, X-Force has started, so lots of characters with giant thighs and tiny feet and no real names or motives or backstories are running around. Pretty much all the former X-Men are together, except Dazzler, who is an amnesiac in Hollywood; Longshot, who left for parts unknown; and Havok and Polaris, who are slated to be in X-Factor. Of the New Mutants, Warlock and Cipher are dead, and everybody else except Cannonball and Boom-Boom (who are with X-Force) are just sort of gone. Wolverine is still mysterious, and Cable hasn't been tied to Nathan Christopher Summers yet. Magma's backstory hasn't been flushed down the toilet yet.
Apocalypse was decimated by Cyclops. Mister Sinister was reduced to a skeleton by Cyclops, and the Marauders were all killed. The techmode virus rampaging through Limbo has been resolved. Magneto is dead. I think Masque is dead. Sat-Yr-9 is grooming Kitty to be her protege. The Reavers are targetting the White Queen's properties. The Hand and Fenris have aligned together. The Hellions haven't been killed off yet.
I'd actually prefer if they rewinded further back. For the last year or so, Chris was writing Jim Lee and Wilce Portacio's plots, which were kind of nonsensical and poorly thought out. The last issue Chris Claremont plotted was 273, I think, after the X-Tinction Agenda, ending with Lila Cheney teleporting the X-Men off to parts unknown. I tend to think of this as the real end of his run, as Jim Lee plotted the strange Shi'ar storyline that followed, which lead into the dissolution of the original X-Factor (plotted by Wilce and Jim), and the anti-climactic Shadow King storyline. Unfortunately all this is in the mix, if you start with X-Men #4.
I'm intrigued. I'll probably overlook my embargo of Marvel for the first issue, just to see.