Your in Charge.... Now What???

topic posted Mon, October 23, 2006 - 10:21 PM by  Michael
Ok miracle of Miracle's an actual Marvel Fan is made head of all things Mutant, What direction do you take them in? You can make this as deep or as light as you care too, let us know your team or teams lol basicallyhave as much fun with this one as you can :) With any luck mayb someone at Marvel will read this lol :)
On that Note :)
I would not reboot in that shitty sense an start from scratch but i would simply reduce my xmen to 3 books an 3 books alone. The Xmen team would Cyke, Iceman, Angel, Beast,Jean Grey, Mimic and them only. Tons of Guest Stars but i would keep the team of all original members, and do a backstory on how Mimic became a Xman id ask Claremont to write it, and if he was incapeable id get Wheaton to write. Its Marvel so id get a top artist but id like Kubert or Silverstri in this dream :).
I would try an keep that book as Xavier's normal team, deal with classic Xmen theme's in hopefully classic but relevant ways ideally incorperating all the history with expanding it slowly an REALISTICALLY lol. Id use traditional villians her Magneto, Morlocks, Governemt, and the ol Avengers from time to time, but with Modern twists and building on the 50 year rich history.
My Uncanny Team would be ran by Storm, Wolvie, Nightcrawler,Colossus,Havok,Bishop,Banshee, and Cable and again them alone. For this group i would have them deal with new and dangerous villans, the Brood, Apocolypse, Shaw and the Hellfire Club, and Alien Cratures, and New Villans the staff slowly introduces. This would be the team that while under Xavier, would deal with those foes an issues that the "normal" or "old" Xmen simply were never equipped to deal with, and while they would keep with Xavier's theme of Living Together, it would be pushed to its furtherst point as Batman does when written best. Think of the old team as Superman, my new team as Batman. I would try an show how these "new" villans simply push the envelope, try an show the grey part of the Marvel Universe, and basically Make them your original Xmen's team you don't want to Fuck with. Ideally i would like George Perez to draw them and have Miller write this ad since this is my dream ill make that happen.
There would be no more solo books, and i would either simply have the remaining mutants people love show up in these books or in relevant Marvel books that would help a storyline... not simply sell Books.
I would give my writers an Artists the madate to read what came before, be knowledgeable an respectful, but to make there own nitche, and sign them to 5 year deals :p. Id ask them to write about the stories and issues they feel passionate about as it will show through thir work. And i would make sure that Mutants are not a Xmen exclusive and that other teams and other hero's tell stories involving them, and not any "crossover's" simply to sell books, story an only story is all i would preach. Thats a small taste of what i would do, now i can't wait to see what the rest have to say here :).
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Michael
Minnesota
  • Re: Your in Charge.... Now What???

    Tue, October 24, 2006 - 2:59 AM
    No way am I giving up any story ideas without and large advance check.

    jmz
    • Re: Your in Charge.... Now What???

      Tue, October 24, 2006 - 3:00 AM
      and an assistant to catch my typos.
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        Re: Your in Charge.... Now What???

        Fri, January 19, 2007 - 2:11 PM
        I think Wolverine has enough steam to fly solo... however, keeping the "Old style" (Claremont/ Buscema/ Byrne), with flashbacks to his old past... but not the one they re-recreated for him, the times when he didn't remember anything except the Weapon-X fragments... ahhh, the old times! I really enjoyed the "Patch" stories, then again I jumped out of the X-men like a lifetime ago, right after Age of Apocalypse (yeah, that far). I still like the characters and peek on the comic book shop, but I don't like the way everything's so convoluted right now...
  • Re: Your in Charge.... Now What???

    Mon, June 2, 2008 - 11:50 AM
    A cute, nice, optimistic kid is introduced, with fun but not-readily-combat-suited powers. The fans enjoy a counter to the ubiquitous grim 'n' gritty, so she becomes popular. This of course means that (while the editor, me, is on vacation, a guest writer sets things up so that) she is guaranteed to soon be mindraped by the alternate future version of the mysterious fetus she ended up aborting without ever realizing that the daddy was Xavier. She returns to the team as a clinical sociopath with Really Big Guns and an extensible adamantium hymen. However, since this is my turn at the wheel, in the first panel of her reintroduction she is utterly disintegrated, adamantium and all, by an omnipotent blue beam from nowhere. The attack stops there with no clues and no follow-up.

    This sets up the new regime under my reign: in every story, in every X-title, the instant a character demonstrates character-inappropriate and/or gratuitous badassery, he or she is instantly struck down by an omnipotent blue beam. I work hard to impress the writers that if they don't control themselves, there soon won't be many X-Folk left. Wolverine, Cable, and a few others survive, since no one can call their badassery inappropriate - they were designed from the start to be badasses, and in fact have no other defining characteristics (at least any that survive from writer to writer).

    In the next Big Must-Buy Crossover Event (which should be no more than two months away, max, whenever this happens), it is revealed that the mysterious Blue Beams of Badass-Blowing-Up come from a seventy-year-old guy named Hector, who used to work for the company that was tapped to remove the rubble from the last sixteen times the X-Mansion was blown up. He pieced together some hypersensory apparatus and the Biggest Baddest Gun Of Them All from bits of alien super-tech, for reasons that are never spelled out - he just sits on his porch and fires the gun through the Earth at his targets, muttering "Dang kids, ruining everything!" in his gruff and cantankerous old man way.

    Then I'm fired. But it was sooo worth it.

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