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Re: No Love for First Gen X-Men?
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Real quick, just to play devil's advocate, why are the X-Men always the scapegoat in the "Marvel is exploitive" debate? There have been far more Spider-Man titles than there have been X-Men. I mean, in the mid-90s, there were four Spider-Man titles a month plus multiple mini-series going on at the same time.
In the '80s, there was just one X-Men title, Uncanny, one direct spin-off, the New Mutants, and one indirect spin-off, X-Factor. Plus Wolverine's solo title, which isn't really an X-Men book. Calling Wolverine an X-Men book is about the same as calling Thor, Iron Man and Captain America "Avengers books." Sure, it was much easier to have them handled by the same editorial office because of the shared character, but Wolverine's solo title rarely has anything to do with mutant stuff, with the exception of a few minor crossovers in the early '90s, like 1 chapter of Fatal Attractions and 1 of the Phanlanx Covenant.
In the '90s, there were still only two X-Men titles, X-Men and Uncanny, two indirect spin-offs, X-Force and the new version of X-Factor, and a few that had nothing to do with the X-Men but get called "X-Men books" -- Excalibur (really a Captain Britan spinoff), Cable (really an X-Force spinoff) and to a lesser extant, Deadpool, which has absolutely nothing to do with the X-Men, aside from the fact that he knows Wolverine and Cable. Calling Deadpool an X-Men book is like calling Thunderstrike or Force Works Avengers books -- yeah, there are some loose ties, but not really.
Also: Before trashing the post issue 66 X-Men completely, I suggest trying a few different storylines from several of the different eras, and I'm not just talking about the over-hyped Morrison stuff, because there are a lot or real gems out there from the last 30 years in the two main titles, among them Inferno, the Genosha and Brood storylines of the late '80s, the X-Tinction Agenda, Scott and Jean's wedding, the Genoshan genocide, Jean's (for real!) murder at the hands of a Magneto impersonator, and pretty much the whole Alan Davis run. Not only that, many of the 1st gen X-Men, especially Iceman, Havok, and Polaris, have been written far better by later writers than they were by Lee and Thomas. Check out the stories of Iceman's bigoted father being beaten by anti-mutant protesters in the mid 90s, or any of the Polaris mental breakdown stuff from '02-'03.
That being said, I will concede there are low points -- the second Claremont run being the major one -- But there has been more good than bad.
OK we now return to our regularly schedule love of the original X-Men, already in progress.
Why can't they just let her have her imaginary babies and her robot husband? Look what happens when she doesn't!
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