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Marvel to Cancel, Relaunch Entire X-Men Line (Hickman writing ongoing flagship X-Men title)
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It's just a normal reboot of the line. Happens 20 times a year.
Scott/Emma superfans now sound just like Scott/Jean Superfans while Scott and Emma were together.
It's the equivalent of getting new writers and directors for a season of tv. Also they're being hyperbolic.
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While I have enjoyed quite a few x-men runs over the years, as recently as Red this is awesome and has the potential to be the best thing since Claremont. I was already excited for his first two books but with the entire line relaunched and set around his new main book it could be the premier brand in cape comics.
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You should start tonight. Get a Hoopla account and go to town.
even that sounds pretty bad if your looking for a consistent narrative and tonal direction in any sense
I think I've still got a Marvel Unlimited free trial so maybe I will.
Again, it doesn't happen 20 times a year. They're being hyperbolic.
I'll take fan over super fan. They were a great couple and I'd like to see them get back together. Hickman seems to really like Emma so she should get some of the limelight at least.
I was just kidding. This is more like a new season than a proper reboot. Current X-men is kind of bad so it's welcomed.
Giving Hickman the keys to the X-books is the smartest thing Marvel Comics have done in idk how long
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Start with Fantastic Four and make your way to Secret Wars. (You don't have to read Secret Warriors or SHIELD, but they are good.The Ultimate Universe stuff is optional too. All you really need to know is that it exists and there is an evil Reed Richards over there)
Marvel unlimited should have all of this right? I have most of these but still missing several issuesStart with Fantastic Four and make your way to Secret Wars. (You don't have to read Secret Warriors or SHIELD, but they are good.The Ultimate Universe stuff is optional too. All you really need to know is that it exists and there is an evil Reed Richards over there)
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Is shield even finished? I have up to whatever issue before it took a multi year break...
I have all the FF and avengers stuff and secret wars. It's the other issues I need to read up on.
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Basically why they keep rebooting, cuz they didn't. The X-Books have been a mess for years/decades now, and the lack of original ideas and vision contribute to that - both of which hopefully Hickman can bring.
Grand Design & Aaron's Wolverine and the X-Men have been the few X-Books I've picked up in a long long time and I really do want to get back into the mutants. I'd heard good things about X-Men Red so I might pick up that too around the same time I'll pick up these Hickman issues.
Nah, just a new person at the helm. Knowing Hickman this will likely draw on a large part of the wider X-Men history, so if continuity is your game then it will probably have more than enough.
It's not that they reboot to eventually get it right. It's just that every writer that's been in charge of X-Men wants to leave their own stamp on the franchise. Hickman can do amazing things for the X-Men, as long as he's in charge of it. Once he leaves someone else will mess with what he's done, for better or worse.
Man, Hickman must have a lot of pull at Marvel. I bet he could demand/ask for any series he wanted and they'd give it to him.
I was going to say just that. This is the Original Sin of the Franchise as far as the 2000s goes. If the X wants to win me back, start with that.
Marvel just loves the reboot button, it's getting really old real fast.
Thank fucking God
The X books needed some fucking direction and life injected into them
I mean like the Laura, rouge and gambit, Red and Xforce so it's not bad but uncanny and the line has been dull for a while it's clear they have no idea what to do with the xmen
The X books needed some fucking direction and life injected into them
I mean like the Laura, rouge and gambit, Red and Xforce so it's not bad but uncanny and the line has been dull for a while it's clear they have no idea what to do with the xmen
Eh, it's more like relaunches really. And there are more than a few books in Marvel's current line that are well regarded precisely because they were relaunched under a newer, more appealing vision.
Never been interested in the X-Men before but I thought Hickman's previous run in Marvel was great and I'll definitely read this going forward.
I think it's really only the x line that didn't really improve at least the flagship books
It's just every ten months. It's not like they're Captain Marvel...
