Comics Jeph Loeb and...X-Men???

[OnedetachedonE]

Jeph Loeb took some time to answer some fan mail in the latest issue of Wizard magazine. When asked what character he was dying to write, he expressed a desire to return to Uncanny X-Men.

What do you think about this possibility?

 

[Manic]

I hope Alonso, Lowe, and the rest of the X-editors have enough sense to keep him away.

 

[OutcryX]

im sure that they dont

 

[Manic]

I have just the tiniest bit of faith in that editing team. Most people at Marvel tend to put Loeb on a book, and let him run free and do whatever the hell he wants. Does it match up to current continuity? Who cares! He's Jeph effing Loeb!

Meanwhile, Alonso & Crew are the only editing staff at Marvel with anything resembling a long term plan. Even when they hired Warren Ellis (whom I know 90% of the X-Fans hate) to write Astonishing, they clearly restricted his control. Nothing big is happening in Astonishing X-Men, other than a half-way interesting sci-fi tale.

Mike Marts (before he moved to DC to work on such classics as Countdown) might have let "old legend" status sway him into putting Chris Claremont on core titles when he was clearly off his game, but Axel Alonso is the guy who had enough sense to push him off into alternate universes. I don't think he'd be crazy enough to take in Loeb.

 

[GambitXremy]

I hate loeb's hulk

 

[mightiest_mortal]

I hate loeb's hulk

Yeah any interest I had in the Red Hulks secret identity died out well over a year ago.

 

[Darthkush]

Am I the only Loeb fan here? People forget about Long Halloween, Spider-man: Blue, etc. Heck, I like his more current stuff like Hulk and Batman:Hush, etc.

He's gotta be better than Ellis on Astonishing. I like Warren Ellis but his astonishing is shockingly dull. Fraction is doing a great job on Uncanny and Carrey is sort of hit and miss on Legacy.

I think Loeb is , if nothing else, consistant.

 

[Manic]

Consistently bad.

I've said it once before, and I know it sounds a little insensitive, but Jeph Loeb's writing has been going downhill ever since his son died. His older work was good, but I haven't been able to read an entire story arc by him in a few years. I don't blame him, really. He just hasn't been up to his A-game in a long time. The problem is that nobody in the industry will admit it or limit his creative control.

 

[Roughneck]

Give Loeb the Exiles.

 

[Jennifer Walters]

Give Loeb the Exiles.

No, just no. Parker is making em better after the **** Claremont did to them, so no, let's not give them to another ****nut.

 

[Roughneck]

yeah it was more of a joke then anything.


But it would be somewhere where Loeb could go nuts with his big "popcorn" action and characters showing up that make no sense....and all that Loeb stuff that he does.....and we could question continuity less.

Better yet, just make a new book called Loeb. and he can write whatever he wants but it wont affect continuity at all.