Actually insane.
In a sane world the movies SHOULD be promoting the books. As its the books that need the promotion.
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In a sane world the movies SHOULD be promoting the books. As its the books that need the promotion.
The OP of this topic is basically what you're asking for. "The most important scene in the history of the X-men" and such.
To be fair, Gunn has a very open and two-way conversational style with fans and his entire thing is like...actually being present.
I don't think if Feige suddenly got a Twitter account and started marketing things, it would feel very organic. But maybe there's a different way he could promote the books, just not one that requires him to seem like an actual human person and not The Company, Personified.
I get it but like, c'mon man, use the pipeline for fucks sake
Yeah. It's always been one of Marvel's greatest weaknesses hiding inside of their greatest strength. The overall alignment of everything USED to benefit the movies greatly, but at the expense of the comics, and now that the movies are in bad shape the comics are suffering for nothing.
Or the comics go overboard with the synergy and the movies actually adapt the silly stuff.
There was a conversation today on Twitter about how mutants must feel after things like terraforming Mars, conquering death and curing Alzheimer's to From the Ashes... and yeah.
I can't get it out of my head that the feeling must be like One More Day on an entire species scale.
I can't get it out of my head that the feeling must be like One More Day on an entire species scale.
While we didn't needed further escalation from all the Mars stuff and super Mutant culture, this back to status quo seems worse.
I really really dislike X-Men 97, it's turning back to an era that was carried by art, but the stories were never good.
I really really dislike X-Men 97, it's turning back to an era that was carried by art, but the stories were never good.
I wouldn't blame the cartoon for the reset. I think the reality of the situation is that things were always going to "snap back" eventually, and they needed to rip the cord or some writer or another would keep finding excuses to delay the inevitable even further. For better and for worse, a LOT of people like to see mutants as a regular part of the Marvel universe, and it doesn't help that the sheer amount of "well you need to read this and this and this to understand this" aspects of the Krakoa era made it completely impenetrable for people who weren't in it for the long haul. Like even speaking as someone who's been an X-Men fan since the early 90s, I tried to make sense of all the Moira time loop shit and was just like "nope. I'm out". If I want to just read fun mutant stories it's really hard to find them in this sea of convoluted, incestuous plot logic and writers all having their own ideas about how the status quo should work. It's a headache. And I don't think there really was a way to fix it short of an entire full-setting Marvel "from scratch" reboot, which Marvel is not going to do because they aren't DC.
97 isn't a perfect show - it's paced very weirdly due to the short seasons - but I think for the most part its heart is in the right place in terms of trying to tell a RELEVANT mutant story for the era it's been released in. It's calling back to the 90s for sure, but the subject matter we're seeing actually depicted in the show couldn't possibly be more 2024.
I understand the Krakoan era is ending soon, and I've just started a read of all of it. With Marvel Unlimited, I tried reading eeeeeverything, but I'm getting a little fatigued by some of the books. Is there a great critical path kind of reading list that you guys would recommend? I'm about 20 issues into the Marvel reading order listed at the end of each issue, after HoX and PoX.
I get you not liking OZT, but it's also adapting and remixing stories like Inferno, E is For Extinction and Lifedeath, some of the most liked in X-Men's history.
I was excitedly for 97 at all as I don't have nostalgia for the original series but it's been such a pleasant surprise.
I've been using this:
Generally if some of the side books are not doing anything for you after the first 5-6 issues, it's okay to drop them. Read what you like.
Thanks. I guess I just don't want to miss anything critical or awesome.
This week's X-Men had some funny moments, but good lord Duggan just completely gave up on the writing. Really doesn't help the rushed feeling of this whole end of the era. Even good writers would stumble when they're stretched so thin, Duggan barely writes decently on his normal workload.
It really saddens me how poorly this really cool, iconic era of the X-Men is ending.
It really saddens me how poorly this really cool, iconic era of the X-Men is ending.
Kate's "No more X-Men" made me roll my eyes so hard. Almost as groan worthy as Xavier's "No more humans" recently.