Comics Official X-FORCE Discussion Thread

[javi1024]

I doubt Necrosha and Second Coming will reverse M-Day. Sure, most signs point to it, but then you have Quesada up at the top of the mountain still talking about how that's the way the X-franchise should be and that's the only reason it's still selling and whatever else comes out of his mouth.

And, at the end of the day, the E-i-C is the guy in... well, you know, it's in his title.

i dont think its gonna reverse M-day (50 bucks says 99% of the mutants resurrected will re-die by the end of Necrosha), but i think what they want to do is finally takes mutants off the endangered species list. i mean you can argue how successful House of M affected the X-Men since only a handful of them were depowered, but now it will no longer be the backdrop of the entire X-franchise if they open the possibility of mutants being born again. i doubt they'll want to go back to the notion of the mutant population replacing humans (thanks Morrison).

 

[Manic]

In fairness, Morrison's stories said mutants would overtake the human population in about 4 generations. That's decades in the future, Marvel time. We'd all be old or dead by the time writers had to deal with that.

 

[El Bastardo]

If writers ever had to deal with that. It could have been left dangling, but been left a part of the franchise.

I'm surprised people are even allowed to use or reference Fantomex, given how much of Morrison's run editorial has decided to throw out.

 

[Manic]

Damnit, I want the return of the U-Men!

 

[javi1024]

i guess they were interesting in a twisted kind of way.

 

[Manic]

They were humans who lopped the body parts off of mutants in an effort to become mutants themselves. We could've had an interesting Decimation story about depowered mutants joining them in order to be special again. Instead, we got nothing. Nothing!

 

[El Bastardo]

Yeah, another Grant Morrison thing that Marvel quietly and not-so-subtly slipped under the rug.

 

[Manic]

I bet one of the writers could use it if they wanted to, though. Just like Whedon was allowed to use Cassandra Nova, even though she's supposed to be Ernst instead of stuck as a blob in a box.

 

[javi1024]

stuff like that kind of makes me wish writers would just finish telling their stories by their runs' end instead of leaving these threads "so other writers can run with it". look at Cassandra now, last we saw her it looked his she was inhabiting Armor's body. is anyone ever gonna address that?

 

[Manic]

stuff like that kind of makes me wish writers would just finish telling their stories by their runs' end instead of leaving these threads "so other writers can run with it". look at Cassandra now, last we saw her it looked his she was inhabiting Armor's body. is anyone ever gonna address that?

If Ellis doesn't do it while he's on Astonishing, then no one ever will.

 

[javi1024]

If Ellis doesn't do it while he's on Astonishing, then no one ever will.

exactly. then like 5 years from now someone will say "i want to use Cassandra Nova as my villain" and they either try to reconnect his new story with Whedon's irrelevant one or come out of left field and have fans saying "WTF, howd she get here".

 

[El Bastardo]

Writiers not leaving threads for future writers to pick up on would single-handedly damage the industry and genre, which is a pretty loose word I'm using to encompass pretty much every single comic publisher putting out a book even remotely like a superhero title.

It's a tradition, one. It's also an entire point in writing something that contributes to a canon that is 40+ years old. Furthermore, it's the nature of stories themselves: not all stories need to end, or rather, not all stories need finite and specific ending points. Not all stories have ending points. Not all stories can end. Not all stories can be easily wrapped up during a writer's tenure.

Better to leave the thread dangling with the promise that someday someone might pick it up and run with it - and if that person does a crappy job, the blame's on them and not the writer who the idea originally belonged to - than try to rush everything into an ending just to safeguard one's original thought.

 

[OutcryX]

...like the additional Summers brother(s)
...and Wolverine's son
...and the fate of Maggot9yeah..most people are like 'who'..but i liked the guy)

 

[Colossal Spoons]

Like who the hell nurse Annie's son was talking to in the car after Polaris ruined her wedding with Havok.

 

[El Bastardo]

That was Austen's attempt to bring Cassandra Nova back in. He's said as much.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

My life is complete now

 

[Manic]

Wait... Chuck Austen bowed out by briefly introducing a plot thread that was already left by a previous writer?

*headdesk*

 

[El Bastardo]

Chuck Austen, ladies and gentlemen.

Manic, ladies and gentlemen. How's your head, Manic? Say goodnight, old chum.

 

[Specter313]

 

[YoungE808]

mmmm Selene. That cover with Banshee is awesome.

 

[ChaoticPsylocke]

that cover with Selene is AMAZING! wow! the art is just incredible.

 

[ChaoticPsylocke]

that cover with Selene is AMAZING! wow! the art is just incredible.

 

[UraniaChang]

I think Selene's worst fear has already come true...

 

[TheVileOne]

So, was Sex and Violence cancelled or what?

 

[UraniaChang]

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