Wednesday, March 11, 2009

TWIMC: Marvel's X-Editors and Writers.

Firstly, TWIMC?
"To Whom it may Concern".

I'm crazy mad for syndicating ideas. Often to my detriment.

Secondly, aware that the last post I made may well have been a case of TL;DR... I'm keeping this short. Ish.

COULD WE GO BACK TO SEPARATE TEAMS, PLEASE?
And stop the near regular killing off of D-List Characters, while we're at it?

There are so few characters left at the moment, but yet the two core books, a key support and most satellite shorts and one-shots feature the same characters.

I mean, it was mainly a slight gripe that Wolverine was in all three Key Books at once... And I quite liked the usage of Emma Frost as a supporting character in the Adjectiveless run.

But now I see so much of (Badly Written, courtesy of Editorial Mandating) Cyclops it makes my head spin. And for no apparent reason, here's Wolverine:

Yep, Marvel has it's answer to Heath Ledger's Joker. Whereas the Dark Knight character is a Shark-like Predator that cuts it's way through the film driven by the need for Chaos; Marvel has the potential to have a Wolf-Like Predator that could cut it's way through any medium driven primarily by the need for Beer.

And whilst there are some writers who can manage this, poor Mr. Howlett is Marvel Comics' resident WHORE. A dirty, well-worn Village Bicycle written poorly by any Tom, Dick or Harry in an INSANE volume of titles with no real depth... Like there's a set of ball pits with Locations, Numbers, and Marvel's Villain Back Catalogue... Writer's take their pick, dip their member in some ink and splash away on some paper, with the more intelligible parts eventually deciding the next arc of the Wolverine ongoing...

This is of course wanton speculation... But how else would Jeph Loeb come up with a Magic Sword?

But I digress...

We have so many characters, even with M-Day having thinned out the numbers... Back in the old system we had random C/D-Listers stepping up to the plate... Hell, it still does happen (Vanisher in X-Force?). But it can't happen if the numbers falling and everyone clamors to have Cyke and Wolverine in their books. Eventually the same voices show up, the world begins to stagnate and it just becomes the same stories and interactions, over, and over, and over...

Even Iceman isn't featuring properly in a core title. So where do the Northstars and Husks come into it? Let alone the Lady Masterminds and Omega Sentinels...

PLEASE... Let the little guys take over.

If only for a while...

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