So, it's been announced that Chris Claremont is to return to the X-books and write an alt-universe X-book that will pick up from where he left off in 1991 with X-men # 3. Cute
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At first I was torn with this, but, after giving it some thought, I have to agree.
I am on of the few that actually enjoyed the Neo, but the writing on those book was, as you said, mediocre at best. The dialogue was rehashed from his old stuff, just spoken by different 'all new' original characters. The problem with the Neo was that he didn't have 10-15 years of sub-plots to lead into them. He tried to cram all that into the first couple of books. It fell flat.
His writing in the early days when I started collecting was the basis that I compared other writers to for the rest of my days of collecting. This made it very difficult for me when reading Exiles. His writing on that was so banal and hack that he wound up being the reason I stopped reading that book. Once again, I would not be surprised if the resurrection of Psylocke, once again, is the lead in to this new x-book.
Don't get me wrong. I would love for this to be old school and enjoyable as all hell, but it would have to be an alternate universe. There is no way he could convincingly segue himself into the new status quo.
I am on of the few that actually enjoyed the Neo, but the writing on those book was, as you said, mediocre at best. The dialogue was rehashed from his old stuff, just spoken by different 'all new' original characters. The problem with the Neo was that he didn't have 10-15 years of sub-plots to lead into them. He tried to cram all that into the first couple of books. It fell flat.
His writing in the early days when I started collecting was the basis that I compared other writers to for the rest of my days of collecting. This made it very difficult for me when reading Exiles. His writing on that was so banal and hack that he wound up being the reason I stopped reading that book. Once again, I would not be surprised if the resurrection of Psylocke, once again, is the lead in to this new x-book.
Don't get me wrong. I would love for this to be old school and enjoyable as all hell, but it would have to be an alternate universe. There is no way he could convincingly segue himself into the new status quo.
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