Second Edition of 'What I'd Do...'
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newnumber6This one, rather than taking over just Exiles (speaking of which, I decided to add Madrox and Karma to my 'Secret Ops' team), I've decided to take on the whole of the X-Books (with a bit of the rest of Marvel)!
This would be more of an super-editorial position, assigning creative teams and designing casts, rather than specific plotting, but there may be some ideas there... I'll take it from where I'd go with Reload (minor spoilers for what has been revealed about post-Reload books)...
Overall plans: Although no mega-crossovers (at least in the main books. I _do_ like big crossovers, but I think they're best left to miniseries), there will be continuity.. characters from one book will frequently 'pop up' in another, even for slight reasons; they still mostly live in the same mansion, and are like a family, it doesn't make sense they wouldn't hang out. But when they go on 'adventures', the teams will pretty much stick to the cast unless there's good reason not to.
Astonishing X-Men: Leave as is, Joss Whedon/John Cassady, with the cast of Scott, Emma, Beast, Logan, Kitty. Seems to be going well so far. They'd be the 'PR team', helping out at any old public scene needed.
Uncanny X-Men: Leave creative team as is, Claremont & Alan Davis, with the following cast: Kurt, Storm, Bishop, Cannonball, Wolverine Husk, with Storm being the leader, and Sage providing information in an Oracle like role, although not part of the field team. Evangeline Whedon would also be a recurring character, handling the legal end. I like the idea of having a brother/sister together on the team. Warren and Husk might continue to see each other, but it'd be a subplot at best, with a 'long distance' vibe on it (as Warren's helping with Genosha) and they won't be working together. This team would be focusing more on the enforcement of mutant crime, continuing the XSE type plot, but working more closely with the mansion.
X-Men: Scrap the creative team entirely. My selection: Brian K. Vaughan, art by... I dunno, Andy Kubert? Maybe Aaron Lopestri, since he's just been tapped to do Excalibur (but I prefer Claremont with Larocca). Roster will be: Gambit, Rogue (either with powers (although perhaps _only_ absorption) and on the team, or without powers in a supporting role, semi-retired. (I'm sorry, I'm just sick to death of 'I'm so cool even without powers I can beat up every mutant alive'), Havok, Sage, Juggernaut, Iceman, Meltdown, Wolverine (I'm assuming the current 'powers that be' philosophy that he has to be in everything, but perhaps not all the time, continues). They'd also publicly be on 'disaster relief' duty, but that's just a cover so if anyone asks what their jobs are that's it. The team would really be for the missions the X-Men don't want publicity for. Taking out Weapon X like organizations, combating mutant terrorism directly.
Excalibur: Keep the general idea of Xavier in Genosha, trying to rebuild, and keep Chris Claremont on the book, but pair him up with Salvador Larocca. Roster: Xavier, Shola (from Mekanix), Magma, Warren, Rachel Summers, and probably another girl, maybe Monet, maybe someone else, but with a movement of characters in and out of focus.
New X-Men: Academy X: Keep pretty much as is, I guess. I'm overall satisfied with the book. Don't like the name, but I'm thinking as an editor and so will have to acknowledge that yes, that probably will boost sales quite a bit. Might move Sunspot over to recurring cast, just to get one of the original male new mutants. Plus I think he'd probably work well. Many of the other mutants who are absent from the other rosters (Northstar, Chamber) will be recurring here as well. I'd lessen Scott & Emma's role in things except in extreme cases (although perhaps with a subplot of Emma encouraging a new group of 'Hellions', even though not intended for evil like her originals)
NYX: Keep as is, but make sure it comes out regularly! ;)
Ultimate X-Men: Creative team... Brian Michael Bendis & David Finch! I'm loving the book now more than I have in a long time and I don't want him to go. Maybe a brief stint with the current plan of Bryan Singer and the X3 writers, so long as it sticks pretty close to Ultimate canon rather than 'movie-versing' it. But after Singer leaves, then Bendis again. Same general cast it has now.
Mystique: Prefer to leave it to Vaughan, but I think if he's going to be writing Uncanny, might not have that luxury. I'd give the new writer they have a shot with it, but if it doesn't work out, I'd probably fold the title and perhaps send Mystique into the regular X-Men team, still blackmailed into helping, but where effectively she'd be part of the 'secret' team, maybe even assuming the identity of a 'new' shapeshifter discovered by Xavier.
District X: Can it. Not needed.
Weapon X: Cancel it.
Cable/Deadpool: Cancel it... or rather, not green light it since it actually hasn't started yet. Maybe give it a miniseries and then if it sells well open and has a good story, open it up. But I'm just not big on Cable and Deadpool was only good with Simone writing it.
Emma Frost: Cancel it. It's taken too long to go anywhere interesting. Maybe give it another arc to wrap up the hellfire club thing.
Wolverine: You know, unless he really gets high numbers such that my editorial instict can't justify doing otherwise (which I think might only come with a famous creative team), I'd just cancel it. Wolverine's just not interesting as a solo character. The occasional mini, okay, but that's it. If I can't cancel it, then I don't really care. Of course, since rumor has it Mark Millar and John Romita Jr. will be the creative team after Rucka leaves, cancelling it might not be doable.
Exiles: Well, I already gave my comments on what I'd do with this. Of course, in this scenario I don't think I could also be writing this, so that doesn't really apply. I'd have to think on it, and might wind up killing it. I do want to slim the line down some and although it's been fun, it's often been directionless too. Maybe if we could get a great creative team with some really good ideas, but I really can't think of anyone offhand.
X-Statix: My instinct is to cancel it. From what I understand, the sales aren't really that good. And![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
angelophile likes it, so that's reason enough to cancel it. ;). (duck). Still, I've never felt it fit into the Marvel Universe as it was written, and with the low sales factored in, I just don't see a good reason to keep it going.
X-Men: Unlimited: Keep it going, good place to look for new talent and tell stories that can't fit into the regular books.
New Books:
Agency X: With Gail Simone and UDON. I don't care if she's exclusive to DC, she rocks! Alex, Sandy, Taskmaster, Outlaw, and even Mary Zero running a merc agency.
One Written By Me: Untitled, with my own characters, because I'm an arrogant bastard. ;). The general idea would be another mutant secretly gathering other young mutants together but in a normal school, and deliberately shielding them from Cerebra or any other mutant detection. Secret identities still being a major issue.
Would also consider:
Ultimate New Mutants: (Although perhaps not with that title, and don't know of creative team)...
I've always had this idea of an Ultimate New Mutants. My original plan (back before the 'Return of the King' arc), had them being assembled and led by a reformed Magneto, but one who felt betrayed by the methods Xavier used on him, and so set up a team acting as a vigilante mutant police force, somewhat like the XSE, and secretly training for the day Magneto fears that Xavier will Go Too Far. Don't know how I'd do it at this juncture, maybe tie it into the government desire for a team and have it be lead by (super ethical) Emma (sort of a Psi-Corps like telepath who upon learning of her powers did what she felt was her duty and reported them to the government). Team would consist of Ultimate versions of Doug (quantum computer mind, just live I've apped places), (jawless) Chamber, Cannonball, Illyana (yes, still Piotr's unnaturally aged sister), Penance (not Monet, just a obvious mutant type with difficulties communicating), and Dani. If Emma winds up running it, Karma will probably be involved too
X-Factor: Possibly miniserieses, but I did like the one with the human FBI agents investigating hate crimes against mutants.
Not counting the new books in the 'considering' titles, that would leave the Xbooks line at 11-12 books, give or take the maybes, rather than the 16 we have now. (That's not even counting Alpha Flight which I believe Marvel is technically counting as an X-Book, or the X-Men: The End miniseries).
While I'm a super-editor at Marvel, most of the other books I don't care enough to change anything about, let them keep running under the supervision of others. But for completeness...
Cancel (unless their sales are spectacularly beyond expectations or it's a 'I really love this' type thing given as an incentive to a top creator): Venom, the Marvel Knights Fantastic 4, Captain America & The Falcon (don't need two Cap books. Maybe move Priest to a higher profile title like Avengers or even the regular Captain America book. If he wants to tell the same stories there, great), Silver Surfer, Thanos, and Iron Fist.
Put an end to the Thor: Reigning plot which has taken it totally out of the Marvel Universe, or if it sells well enough, just rename and rebrand the title, allow it to continue in a Spider-Girl vein, and launch another Thor (I don't read it, but I don't like core character books being taken completely out of continuity).
Commission: Try out a couple completely new characters with name creators. Maybe a few solo female-led titles to replace the ones I've axed... think they're important and is one place DC has an edge on Marvel. Can't name any good examples off hand though, unless we do a Shadowcat solo book too. ;).
I'd also certainly add creator-owned titles to the mix (I feel they're vital as incentives for getting top creators to sign exclusives), and maybe restart Epic, or something Epic-like that allows newcomers to submit, but with a more organized business plan. Oh, and if you're on the LJ, you'd of course all be welcome to get in on it! ;)
For nostalgia's sake, I'd probably commission a new Power Pack series (perhaps with DeFilippis and Weir as authors, I think they've expressed an interest), maybe try a new Cloak and Dagger, and, all for me, a a Supreme Power-style retelling of DP7 (the best of the New Universe titles).
Actually, it'd be DP7-and-the-rest-of-the-universe, called simply Paranormals, so Star Brand would still be behind the White Event, but it would focus on the DP7 group. I'd want to get a really good creator on this, but I have no ideas in mind since Gruenwald, the original creator of DP7, is dead.
Reading back over this, I seem to be a fairly ruthless editor with a soft spot for whatever I personally like even if they might not sell. Probably not the best combination, but oh well, it's my fantasy, I'm entitled. ;) Next 'What I'd Do With' will not be comics-related, I promise! ;) (No guarantees for the one after that though).
Comments are of course welcome. ;)
This would be more of an super-editorial position, assigning creative teams and designing casts, rather than specific plotting, but there may be some ideas there... I'll take it from where I'd go with Reload (minor spoilers for what has been revealed about post-Reload books)...
Overall plans: Although no mega-crossovers (at least in the main books. I _do_ like big crossovers, but I think they're best left to miniseries), there will be continuity.. characters from one book will frequently 'pop up' in another, even for slight reasons; they still mostly live in the same mansion, and are like a family, it doesn't make sense they wouldn't hang out. But when they go on 'adventures', the teams will pretty much stick to the cast unless there's good reason not to.
Astonishing X-Men: Leave as is, Joss Whedon/John Cassady, with the cast of Scott, Emma, Beast, Logan, Kitty. Seems to be going well so far. They'd be the 'PR team', helping out at any old public scene needed.
Uncanny X-Men: Leave creative team as is, Claremont & Alan Davis, with the following cast: Kurt, Storm, Bishop, Cannonball, Wolverine Husk, with Storm being the leader, and Sage providing information in an Oracle like role, although not part of the field team. Evangeline Whedon would also be a recurring character, handling the legal end. I like the idea of having a brother/sister together on the team. Warren and Husk might continue to see each other, but it'd be a subplot at best, with a 'long distance' vibe on it (as Warren's helping with Genosha) and they won't be working together. This team would be focusing more on the enforcement of mutant crime, continuing the XSE type plot, but working more closely with the mansion.
X-Men: Scrap the creative team entirely. My selection: Brian K. Vaughan, art by... I dunno, Andy Kubert? Maybe Aaron Lopestri, since he's just been tapped to do Excalibur (but I prefer Claremont with Larocca). Roster will be: Gambit, Rogue (either with powers (although perhaps _only_ absorption) and on the team, or without powers in a supporting role, semi-retired. (I'm sorry, I'm just sick to death of 'I'm so cool even without powers I can beat up every mutant alive'), Havok, Sage, Juggernaut, Iceman, Meltdown, Wolverine (I'm assuming the current 'powers that be' philosophy that he has to be in everything, but perhaps not all the time, continues). They'd also publicly be on 'disaster relief' duty, but that's just a cover so if anyone asks what their jobs are that's it. The team would really be for the missions the X-Men don't want publicity for. Taking out Weapon X like organizations, combating mutant terrorism directly.
Excalibur: Keep the general idea of Xavier in Genosha, trying to rebuild, and keep Chris Claremont on the book, but pair him up with Salvador Larocca. Roster: Xavier, Shola (from Mekanix), Magma, Warren, Rachel Summers, and probably another girl, maybe Monet, maybe someone else, but with a movement of characters in and out of focus.
New X-Men: Academy X: Keep pretty much as is, I guess. I'm overall satisfied with the book. Don't like the name, but I'm thinking as an editor and so will have to acknowledge that yes, that probably will boost sales quite a bit. Might move Sunspot over to recurring cast, just to get one of the original male new mutants. Plus I think he'd probably work well. Many of the other mutants who are absent from the other rosters (Northstar, Chamber) will be recurring here as well. I'd lessen Scott & Emma's role in things except in extreme cases (although perhaps with a subplot of Emma encouraging a new group of 'Hellions', even though not intended for evil like her originals)
NYX: Keep as is, but make sure it comes out regularly! ;)
Ultimate X-Men: Creative team... Brian Michael Bendis & David Finch! I'm loving the book now more than I have in a long time and I don't want him to go. Maybe a brief stint with the current plan of Bryan Singer and the X3 writers, so long as it sticks pretty close to Ultimate canon rather than 'movie-versing' it. But after Singer leaves, then Bendis again. Same general cast it has now.
Mystique: Prefer to leave it to Vaughan, but I think if he's going to be writing Uncanny, might not have that luxury. I'd give the new writer they have a shot with it, but if it doesn't work out, I'd probably fold the title and perhaps send Mystique into the regular X-Men team, still blackmailed into helping, but where effectively she'd be part of the 'secret' team, maybe even assuming the identity of a 'new' shapeshifter discovered by Xavier.
District X: Can it. Not needed.
Weapon X: Cancel it.
Cable/Deadpool: Cancel it... or rather, not green light it since it actually hasn't started yet. Maybe give it a miniseries and then if it sells well open and has a good story, open it up. But I'm just not big on Cable and Deadpool was only good with Simone writing it.
Emma Frost: Cancel it. It's taken too long to go anywhere interesting. Maybe give it another arc to wrap up the hellfire club thing.
Wolverine: You know, unless he really gets high numbers such that my editorial instict can't justify doing otherwise (which I think might only come with a famous creative team), I'd just cancel it. Wolverine's just not interesting as a solo character. The occasional mini, okay, but that's it. If I can't cancel it, then I don't really care. Of course, since rumor has it Mark Millar and John Romita Jr. will be the creative team after Rucka leaves, cancelling it might not be doable.
Exiles: Well, I already gave my comments on what I'd do with this. Of course, in this scenario I don't think I could also be writing this, so that doesn't really apply. I'd have to think on it, and might wind up killing it. I do want to slim the line down some and although it's been fun, it's often been directionless too. Maybe if we could get a great creative team with some really good ideas, but I really can't think of anyone offhand.
X-Statix: My instinct is to cancel it. From what I understand, the sales aren't really that good. And
angelophile likes it, so that's reason enough to cancel it. ;). (duck). Still, I've never felt it fit into the Marvel Universe as it was written, and with the low sales factored in, I just don't see a good reason to keep it going. X-Men: Unlimited: Keep it going, good place to look for new talent and tell stories that can't fit into the regular books.
New Books:
Agency X: With Gail Simone and UDON. I don't care if she's exclusive to DC, she rocks! Alex, Sandy, Taskmaster, Outlaw, and even Mary Zero running a merc agency.
One Written By Me: Untitled, with my own characters, because I'm an arrogant bastard. ;). The general idea would be another mutant secretly gathering other young mutants together but in a normal school, and deliberately shielding them from Cerebra or any other mutant detection. Secret identities still being a major issue.
Would also consider:
Ultimate New Mutants: (Although perhaps not with that title, and don't know of creative team)...
I've always had this idea of an Ultimate New Mutants. My original plan (back before the 'Return of the King' arc), had them being assembled and led by a reformed Magneto, but one who felt betrayed by the methods Xavier used on him, and so set up a team acting as a vigilante mutant police force, somewhat like the XSE, and secretly training for the day Magneto fears that Xavier will Go Too Far. Don't know how I'd do it at this juncture, maybe tie it into the government desire for a team and have it be lead by (super ethical) Emma (sort of a Psi-Corps like telepath who upon learning of her powers did what she felt was her duty and reported them to the government). Team would consist of Ultimate versions of Doug (quantum computer mind, just live I've apped places), (jawless) Chamber, Cannonball, Illyana (yes, still Piotr's unnaturally aged sister), Penance (not Monet, just a obvious mutant type with difficulties communicating), and Dani. If Emma winds up running it, Karma will probably be involved too
X-Factor: Possibly miniserieses, but I did like the one with the human FBI agents investigating hate crimes against mutants.
Not counting the new books in the 'considering' titles, that would leave the Xbooks line at 11-12 books, give or take the maybes, rather than the 16 we have now. (That's not even counting Alpha Flight which I believe Marvel is technically counting as an X-Book, or the X-Men: The End miniseries).
While I'm a super-editor at Marvel, most of the other books I don't care enough to change anything about, let them keep running under the supervision of others. But for completeness...
Cancel (unless their sales are spectacularly beyond expectations or it's a 'I really love this' type thing given as an incentive to a top creator): Venom, the Marvel Knights Fantastic 4, Captain America & The Falcon (don't need two Cap books. Maybe move Priest to a higher profile title like Avengers or even the regular Captain America book. If he wants to tell the same stories there, great), Silver Surfer, Thanos, and Iron Fist.
Put an end to the Thor: Reigning plot which has taken it totally out of the Marvel Universe, or if it sells well enough, just rename and rebrand the title, allow it to continue in a Spider-Girl vein, and launch another Thor (I don't read it, but I don't like core character books being taken completely out of continuity).
Commission: Try out a couple completely new characters with name creators. Maybe a few solo female-led titles to replace the ones I've axed... think they're important and is one place DC has an edge on Marvel. Can't name any good examples off hand though, unless we do a Shadowcat solo book too. ;).
I'd also certainly add creator-owned titles to the mix (I feel they're vital as incentives for getting top creators to sign exclusives), and maybe restart Epic, or something Epic-like that allows newcomers to submit, but with a more organized business plan. Oh, and if you're on the LJ, you'd of course all be welcome to get in on it! ;)
For nostalgia's sake, I'd probably commission a new Power Pack series (perhaps with DeFilippis and Weir as authors, I think they've expressed an interest), maybe try a new Cloak and Dagger, and, all for me, a a Supreme Power-style retelling of DP7 (the best of the New Universe titles).
Actually, it'd be DP7-and-the-rest-of-the-universe, called simply Paranormals, so Star Brand would still be behind the White Event, but it would focus on the DP7 group. I'd want to get a really good creator on this, but I have no ideas in mind since Gruenwald, the original creator of DP7, is dead.
Reading back over this, I seem to be a fairly ruthless editor with a soft spot for whatever I personally like even if they might not sell. Probably not the best combination, but oh well, it's my fantasy, I'm entitled. ;) Next 'What I'd Do With' will not be comics-related, I promise! ;) (No guarantees for the one after that though).
Comments are of course welcome. ;)
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Date: 2004-03-01 01:56 pm (UTC)Personally I think Weapon X is a good idea that so far hasn't achieved its full potential but is getting there. It's not meant as core book, but it does pick up plotlines and characters that are abandoned by the main titles. With varying results. I've liked Chamber's role, the stuff with Sinister was great and Cable's Underground was okay. On the negative side a number of the one shots sucked ass, but blame the various writers for that. Frank Tieri stated a number of times he hated some of the depictions of the characters in those one shots that overshadowed a lot of what came after for me.
I'd also like to see Unlimited X-men dropped and replaced by a quarterly X-Corps title to focus on those characters who just don't make it in the books any more. Larger size comic, maybe a 33 pager each quarter, with stories about characters like Monet, Madrox, Syrin, Feral, Proudstar, Skin (he didn't die really, right?), Roberto, Empath, Bedlam, Wisdom etc etc. Rotating creative team, give new people a chance but also some old hands a chance (let Scott Lobdell do something).
Exiles... cancel that. It's a What If? comic that's for fanboys only and has a boring cast. Never fulfilled any potential it had and it's gone on way too long to hope it might get better.
And nope, I don't dislike it cos you like it. I just don't think it's a good book.
Cancelling Books
Date: 2004-03-01 02:10 pm (UTC)X-Men Unlimited/X-Corps. Yeah, I figured a lot of the stories for X-Men Unlimited could revolve around the XCorps, but don't like the book being specifically devoted to it, because then it loses out opportunities for other stories, and I also am not too thrilled with the whole X-Corporation concept in general. Stories with them, sure... the idea for the book should be no stories that couldn't just as easily happen in the core titles. So, no solo Wolverine stories, at all, if we stil have a Wolverine book around. Under that rule of thumb, hopefully the majority of stories wouldn't be focusing on the main group (although perhaps some might guest start in a particular tale).
Remember, I'm not all that hot on Exiles either. I enjoy the characters, personally, but the book itself is iffy (contrast to Weapon X, where with the exception of Chamber, I don't enjoy any of the characters, _and_ the book is iffy). It may be for Fanboys, but it's also selling twice as much as Weapon X, if I'm recalling things correctly. I enjoy it on the whole, but it's still towards the bottom of my 'enjoyment scale' for X-Books I read, and once in a while they do a really good story, but not often. I'd still cancel it without a really good creative team at the helm.
Re: Cancelling Books
Date: 2004-03-01 03:03 pm (UTC)Exiles does well because of the inexplicably large Blink fanbase mostly I suspect. Weapon X hasn't, until recently, had any 'stars'. The initial arc with Sabretooth obviously sold well, but since then star potential in the book hasn't been high. Marrow doesn't exactly have a massive following. (Unfortunately) and even those of us who do like Marrow haven't been pleased what's been done with her up to now.
I can't imagine anyone's going to pick up a comic for Mesmero or Sauron. That the book has an audience at all with such a cast of second stringers shows it's selling okay. It's up there above titles like Batgirl, Catwoman, The Authority, Dangergirl and even Superman. It's on a par with Birds of Prey, Wonderwoman, Aspen, Alias, Teen Titans and Y: The Last Man.
It could be doing worse. Still think the title has greater potential than Exiles to be honest. But I'm not a bit What If? fan.
Well apart from the issue where Death's Head killed the Fantastic Four, Cage, Namor, and a few others on a whim. That was amusing. ;)
Re: Cancelling Books
Date: 2004-03-01 03:41 pm (UTC)Weapon X, according to the industry statistics I've seen, got a single brief bonus for the beginning of the Defection arc (well, okay, also a .2% bonus for the Sinister issue), and since then has been dropping, where it's now just slightly lower than it was before the Defection arc. Anyway, with the reload its looking they're going to shift focus to Survivors of the original Weapon X/plus program, so more on Wolverine, Sabretooth, and Fantomex (see the latest interview on http://www.newsarama.com). Color me uninterested. I might pick up the first issue or two of the next arc, but I expect I'll have dropped it before Reload anyway, though.
More potential than Exiles? Difficult to judge, though I'd agree that in general a story in the regular Marvel universe has more potential than one that's explicitly shifting around a lot, but Exiles isn't a pure 'what if' book, as it has a (somewhat) stable cast.
(Marvel also has a different bottom line than DC; DC can support titles that get much lower sales than Marvel can, from what I understand, owing something to the backing of DC by Time/Warner I like some DC books a lot, but saying 'Weapon X sells better than DC titles!' isn't saying a lot. ;) (Although incidentally, although you're right about the other ones, Teen Titans is inexplicably one of DC's fairly big sellers nowadays, and actually _does_ sell more than twice what Weapon X does). Though I think from an enjoyment and IMHO quality standpoint, Birds of Prey blows both WX and Exiles away. ;)
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Date: 2004-03-01 08:33 pm (UTC)So if I assist in building that alternate-dimensional machine that allows us to enter a reality where you own Marvel, can I be an associate editor? With a stick for keeping the talent in line? ;)
More seriously though I tend to agree with you on cancelling Weapon X- if it had never been written at all, it might be something worth doing, but as is it seems a mess, even if it has gotten better. Exiles, well, if you followed through on the metaplot (as you were discussing in that other post) then it could become not so much a What If? book with fun characters.
I don't know that I'd want to can District X though, but that might be just that I like Gotham Central and Powers so much, and they're crime stories in a similar vein. Banshee and Bishop working together on something like that might be cool, with a third supporting character (Mystique in a cop uniform? ;) )- though the setup would have to be explained well, as in why they were doing the FBI's job with relation to mutant crime, etc.
Anyway. I like this kinda theorizing and a lot of those books sound like good setups that have reasons to exist beyond "Claremont wants these characters!" and so on.
Yay, alternate universes!
Date: 2004-03-01 08:56 pm (UTC)District X I'm semi-interested in, and I'll probably at least pick up the first few issues.. my problem is that it would seem that we already have a 'mutant crime fighting team' with the XSE group. And we already have a 'gritty street-level look at mutants' with NYX. From what I've read of District X, it's seeming to combine those two elements into one, and so might be redundant. It might be cool, and I'm certainly willing to give the book itself a look, but when I'm playing mini-editor... well, it'd have to make a pretty good case. (ANother option would be dropping the XSE aspect from one of the titles, but then I'd have to give it another reason for existing... or go back to 3 core X-books, which I suppose is an option, but tends to lead to cast bloat with everybody wanting a bunch of characters). Banshee, Bishop, and Mystique, would seem to be an interesting team, though. ;) Especially seeing as how (a) Mystique slit Banshee's throat, last we saw. ;)
But yeah, I find this kind of 'if I were in charge' speculation is a lot of fun, gets some of the creative urges out. And I suppose there's a billion to one chance that a Marvel CEO will run across my LJ (perhaps hitting the 'random' link from the LJ main page) and say, 'There's our man!' ;)
Re: Cancelling Books
Date: 2004-03-02 06:03 am (UTC)Nevertheless there's quite a number of fans out there who seem to genuinely like Weapon X and, presumably, it's still making enough to continue. It's fulfilling a niche without treading on any other X-comics toes, unlike the main titles that can't keep continuity straight between themselves and are populated by the Logan clones.