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Uncanny X-Men #500!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32302521.post-90167463466808479302008-08-25T23:54:00.000-07:002008-08-25T23:54:00.000-07:00Steve, where are you?Steve, where are you?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32302521.post-49320137490546255802008-08-17T14:54:00.000-07:002008-08-17T14:54:00.000-07:00Uh-oh: X-men 500 was so bad, it froze the SteveRea...Uh-oh: X-men 500 was so bad, it froze the SteveReader...<BR/><BR/>As Ben Grim once said:<BR/><BR/>"Fire up the BetaMax, Stretcho!"keKevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00289597293731183865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32302521.post-64708532403166751722008-08-09T22:53:00.000-07:002008-08-09T22:53:00.000-07:00I agree with everything Greg just said.Especially ...I agree with everything Greg just said.<BR/><BR/>Especially the part about Magneto.<BR/><BR/>Brilliant.Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00289597293731183865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32302521.post-35260528720935060742008-08-09T20:25:00.000-07:002008-08-09T20:25:00.000-07:00Well, Professor X would be there. I'm sick of wri...Well, Professor X would be there. I'm sick of writers killing off characters to make their comics edgier (Books too: Star Wars books might have sucked but they sucked even more after they killed Chewbacca). Formulas work for a reason. You don't tinker with the main ingredients. Leave that for the Ultimates. <BR/><BR/>I'd make it a hundred pages with a few stories of a few different types. Small stuff too; remember that issue where Wolverine and let the Juggernaut kick Colossus' ass in a barfight because Colossus wasn't being a good teammate? Something small like that: in continuity, and revealing, but not a major event. Something X-Meny.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Bigger stories too, and if we're sticking with continuity, I would want to see Magneto and the X-Men team up (after a fight probably) and go ripshit on Tony "Benito Mussolini" Stark and SHIELD. I agree with Kevin, Magneto is much more interesting in "complicated" mode.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32302521.post-17828471893686275242008-08-07T20:04:00.000-07:002008-08-07T20:04:00.000-07:00Hmm.I would start a new take on the book, and hand...Hmm.<BR/><BR/>I would start a new take on the book, and handle it, in some ways, like Giffen handled the V4 Legion - create a large, multi-character backdrop, mining all of the millions of X-men characters and dangling Claremont subplots for material - while still focusing on a core team in the foreground. <BR/><BR/>Personally, I like 'good Magneto' (or, at least, 'complicated Magneto') - so he wouldn't be the villain - though he'd probably be in the story.<BR/><BR/>One thing I like about the X-men is that most of the characters look just as interesting in regular clothes as they do in brightly colored costumes, so I'd probably keep them out of uniform unless necessary.Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00289597293731183865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32302521.post-48963781599900884372008-08-06T19:49:00.000-07:002008-08-06T19:49:00.000-07:00so what would a really good X-Men 500 ideally do? ...so what would a really good X-Men 500 ideally do? What team? What concepts?stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00411174345391126343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32302521.post-91046614625066686402008-08-05T16:18:00.000-07:002008-08-05T16:18:00.000-07:00Great review (a fine retrospective as well), and i...Great review (a fine retrospective as well), and indeed a money saver. Issue 500 might have caused me to come out of my comics hibernation and plunk down the four thousand dollars I'm sure it costs. At least it's not a hologram or foil cover. Remember the 1990s? And it may not be his best work (hard to top Kingdom Come), but I think its a fine cover. The colors - maybe there could have been less pink - work well for the X-Mex.<BR/><BR/>I might point out that the perennially shitty and mystifyingly popular Gambit appeared in the late 80s, and for some reason, wasn't immediately made to choke on a bowl of gumbo. <BR/><BR/>Despite some low points (there almost had to be, no one stays on for runs like that anymore), I was raised on the Claremont run and was also a huge fan.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32302521.post-11754533927560856602008-08-05T10:22:00.000-07:002008-08-05T10:22:00.000-07:00Steve - great review. The best kind of review - o...Steve - great review. The best kind of review - one that saves me money! Times are tough and all.<BR/><BR/>I would guess that Ross made over a grand for the cover painting. Which, to my eyes, is far from his best work. Ross states in just about every interview that he doesn't give a wet slap about the X-men and it shows - only Wolverine and Colossus are really well realized. And it suffers, as all of his work has for years now, from this strange shift in palette. Gone are the blacks, greys, and browns of his Kingdom Come/Uncle Sam days - now, his paintings glow with pinks, with yellows, with pinks (did I mention all the pinks?)...<BR/><BR/>I'm with you as far as reading X-books currently goes - Astonishing was the only foray into X-verse I've made in about a decade. Unlike you, I was a pretty huge Claremont-run fan. And I firmly believe that the franchise can be saved - though I'm practically impressed with how bad a job Marvel's been doing for the last 10 years. Perhaps their problem is that they're trying to get back to the wrong X-men - to the Jim Lee reboot, rather than the best of the Claremont run. (Whedon knew better, clearly).Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00289597293731183865noreply@blogger.com