I’ve made no secret of my lack of love for the Academy X characters.
(ROLL OVER Julian for the twinky naked version!)
There were just way too many of them and too many of them had redundant or unimaginative powers and looks. Also, I resented that they got the “full-fledged major player” treatment so early in their creation while Gen X got the shaft. So I never collected their “New X-Men” books simply because I didn’t believe they deserved that monicker.
But as you can see, here I’m including Mercury, Hellion, and Pixie, prominent Academy X characters. Yes, I have had somewhat of a change of heart. I think Marvel’s decision to either kill or all the worst ones was a bad idea. I try to emote along with the characters I read, so it just feels pretty horrible that nearly an entire cast was murdered due to what’s seen as an editor’s mistake. Yea, letting all those Academy X squads spring up like weeds was a mistake, but killing over half of them was a worse mistake.
i agree completely. i miss morrison's x men
HELLION! And Pixie and Mercury…
You know I really like ALL of the characters in this batch? I know people diss on Pixie all the time but she's actually a character with a TON of potential in the future is the right writer's turn an eye to her in healthy doses.
And Mercury was just a…well rounded character in my opinion. She was the right amount of background and foreground character.
But Hellion is just like…totally fun. I kinda don't like him but at the same time I think he's great and it was cool seeing him in that Wolverine and the X-men cartoon. I had to run and tell my brother "HELLION'S IN THE SHOW!!!"
And on the gratuitous killing tip? You know…had they WAITED for M-DAY to happen all the kids would be alive and just off living their normal lives without powers and it'd have a been an excellent way to de-squad the X-men as well as have characters off to the side they COULD potentially come back later.
But Marvel likes to get stupid in doses. They LOVE to introduce a bunch of new characters and then slaughter them just to yank the fans.
Well remember, Jubell- they killed those kids off AFTER Mday. Remember the bus was all depowered students on their way home and then it was bombed. It was just a senseless mass killing. Those kids could have just gone home on that bus and not have heard from ever again. But no, some writer needs to feel like he's telling a poignant story so he offs some 50 characters in a panel.
It's that kind of storytelling that makes me write my own marvel stories in my head. In my U, the Xavier school is a fun place to be, not a killing field. In my U, Professor X isn't an evil dickhead. and in my U, if I allowed an Mday, Id have at least one character point out the absurdity of why the only powered mutants in the world ended up being ones who've been on an X-team…
OH GOODNESS! >.<
You totally reminded that was EXACTLY what happened! Ughhh that makes it worse.
I think I rewrote in my head so that it didn't seem so senseless.
It is sad that Xavier's can't be a fun place anymore.
Remember the days when the school would have random pool parties or the all too popular baseball game?
Sigh, haven't seen one of those in…forever. I think in that way the X-men movies were a bad influence. It's like they confirmed the fans want to see constant angst when…
I'm sick of it in comics.
I really would like to come back to the days when random filler issues were a possibility and things weren't as serious.
The famous Teen Titans "Day in the Life" issue could never be done nowadays the way it was. It'd be too pressured by whatever happened before and would happen after it.
Barring a crisis of mega proportions of course.
Aw the baseball games! *teary eyed
In general, 2000s Marvel is way to serious and somber for me. It's like the end of the world all the time. Avengers Disassembled, House of M, Decimation, Civil War, Secret Invasion, and Dark Reign all took over the entire Marvel U. so it was like one bad dream after another. I liked it better when the books operated independently of each other and only crossed over here and there.
Whether it was push back from fans or from Disney, Marvel seems to want to combat these sad times with the Heroic Age. But I don't see how anything good for mutants can come from the Heroic Age given that the XMen are in the middle of 2nd Cumming and everyones dying left and right. Someone actually told me. "yea the Heroic Age will make Marvel happy again… except in the xbooks" 🙁
So no baseball for a while, huh?
You know, I didn't notice that before but you ARE right…all of the big arcs have been pretty much about destroying the Marvel Heroes where as before it was more…"Save the Earth" based. Like "Oh no! War in space! Gotta save the world" not a game of "Let's see who gets screwed up the most…" The Event.
And I can see what you mean about a new Heroic Age being less than X-friendly. I mean…during the first heroic age the X-men ended canceled because they didn't quite fit.
And when Chris Claremont brought them back he made sure the book was also FUN to read.
I haven't had fun reading an X-men book in a long time…except for the Academy books and most of them are dead now -_- (or getting crazed)
Ah, the good ol' days of Claremont. What an awesome time. What the heck happened to him? I haven't liked anything from him after his 90s departure.
Well, I take that back, there were a few moments of X-Treme I got into. And his short stint back on Uncanny was readable when he wrote Betsy. But other than that… blehg
What is the purpose of the Forever titles? I mean, is it filling the Ultimates void? Or is it like Marvel's apology to Claremont. Like "sorry we pushed u out– here's a book." But Ive yet to meet anyone who even remotely cared about x-men forever.
I have…never heard of X-men Forever O.o
I think the last Claremont thing I liked was his "End" mini-series for X-men where he got to show how everything ends if he had it his way. I thought wow, okay…this is cool.
Beyond that…ugh everything he's done I've hated. No lie. I think because right now it's hard for Marvel to find a place for a writer like Claremont. I think they need to give him something NEW to work on. He needs to be allowed to for older characters that are interesting instead of 20 somethings.
Have you read him trying to use slang and then having a 30 year old man call someone a "youngster"
I CRINGE JC!!!
I seriously CRINGE!!!