I stopped reading the X-Men regularly quite some time ago. Then John Byrne began doing The Hidden Years and that became my one “go to” X-Men title for many months until Joe Quesada unceremoniously pulled the plug on it. Since then I read and enjoyed Grant Morrison and Joss Whedon’s respective runs, but didn’t become a regular reader beyond that. Now Marvel is six issues into another “hidden” period (one that hadn’t previously existed) set between X-Men (1991 series) issues #3 and #4 in the Chris Claremont series X-Men Forever. Now this title has become my one go-to X-Men title.
Chris Claremont has never been one of my favorite comic book writers, but he’s really pulled out all the stops on this series! Tom Grummet is the series’ regular artist, but issue #6 is nostalgically penciled by Paul Smith (and inked by Terry Austin to boot). I don’t know how long this series is supposed to run, whether it’s an ongoing or a limited series or what, but I’m enjoying it. I’m not sure how well it jibes with actual 1991 continuity (not well, I’ve heard), but slotted in, as it is, between two consecutive issues, I would think the continuity problems would be exacerbated the longer it runs.
Still, for someone like me, it scratches that X-Men itch. Anyone know for how long?
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It's actually set to start from #3 and just go forward...it's not stuck between those issues. The idea is that Claremont could take that team of X-Men and move on with whatever he wants to do with them for as long as sales make it viable. There is no set end issue for this series.
It's actually set to start from #3 and just go forward...
I don’t see how that can be because Wolverine is dead and Storm has been reduced to childhood in X-Men Forever, and that doesn’t jibe with established continuity if the stories told in this title are supposed to run concurrently alongside the X-Men titles of the day. Still, it doesn’t matter all that much to me. It’s almost as if Marvel suspended publication on the X-Men until I was ready to read again, allowing me to pick up right where I left off 18 years ago. I’m not the biggest fan of Chris Claremont’s writing, but he seems rededicated and refreshed on this series, pulling out all the stops. If his writing was as good in the years leading up to his departure, I might have continued to read X-Men all those years ago.
No...X-Men Forever is its own continuity...it doesn't have to agree with ANYTHING that happened in the X-titles after X-Men #3 all those years ago...it's X-Men of Earth-C (laremont)...
It's what continuity could have been, had Claremont stayed on the title. Except for all the things he wouldn't have been allowed to do, like kill Wolverine and stuff...
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I don’t see how that can be because Wolverine is dead and Storm has been reduced to childhood in X-Men Forever, and that doesn’t jibe with established continuity if the stories told in this title are supposed to run concurrently alongside the X-Men titles of the day. Still, it doesn’t matter all that much to me. It’s almost as if Marvel suspended publication on the X-Men until I was ready to read again, allowing me to pick up right where I left off 18 years ago. I’m not the biggest fan of Chris Claremont’s writing, but he seems rededicated and refreshed on this series, pulling out all the stops. If his writing was as good in the years leading up to his departure, I might have continued to read X-Men all those years ago.
It's what continuity could have been, had Claremont stayed on the title. Except for all the things he wouldn't have been allowed to do, like kill Wolverine and stuff...
"You've got the brain of a four-year-old boy, and I'll bet he was glad to get rid of it." -Groucho Marx
Check out the Secret Headquarters (my store) website! It's a pretty lame website, but I did it myself, so tough noogies
Listen to WOXY.com, it's the future of rock-n-roll!
Ooooh! Does it have tough women?
And ninjas?
And tough women ninjas?
Tough women...yes...
No ninjas yet...
And the ninjas, when they arrive, will have really big hair.
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