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Grex Comics Item 52: X-Men
Entered by pez on Tue Aug 5 21:23:12 UTC 1997:

Great News for X-Men Comics!!!!!!
Scott Lobdell will no longer be writing X-Men and Uncanny X-Men!!
Once again Marvel is attempting to return quality to their books :)
The new writers and artists are:
for X-Men: Joe Kelley (Deadpool, Daredevil) & Carlos Pacheco (Fantastic Four)
for Uncanny X-Men: Steven Seagle (Alpha Flight, some Vertigo stuff) &
Chris Bachalo (Generation X, Death: High Cost of Living, Ghost Rider 2099)
there's are good signs if you ask me :)

15 responses total.

#1 of 15 by senna on Wed Aug 6 00:56:22 1997:

Scott Lobdell is gone?  Wahoo!  Thank God!  I, like, really hated his writing
style.
Like, a lot.
and awful lot. 
didn't like it at all.

#2 of 15 by pez on Wed Aug 6 06:09:58 1997:

heh.
he actually has written a few good stories (Uncanny X-Men #303) but his good
stories are so few and far between they can't begin to even out with his bad
stories..

#3 of 15 by biohazar on Wed Aug 6 16:02:54 1997:

When I'm teaching my class on writting next fall, I'm going to use Lobdell's
writting on the WildCats/X-Men Silver Age as an example how NOT to write...
   Now, I have never read anything of Kelley's, but I have read some of
Seagle... and it's nothing to get excited over. Furthermore, the editors are
still the same and they are probably not going to change much. The only thin
I would get excited about is if Marvel made a deal with an outside creator
to act as creative director (sort of like Heroes Reborn without sending them
into another universe...).

#4 of 15 by pez on Wed Aug 6 21:38:19 1997:

like the upcoming Defenders, Punisher, and Nick Fury books?

#5 of 15 by biohazar on Tue Aug 19 23:37:44 1997:

Right!

#6 of 15 by pez on Sat Aug 23 19:45:21 1997:

Steven Seagle on an X-Men book is still in the rumor stages..
but he will be writing a 4 issue stint on wolverine.. maybe more..

#7 of 15 by planeter on Tue Jul 21 03:45:47 1998:

I'm glad that he will be gone too. He is confusing. Too bad that Erik 
Larson isn't on the books

#8 of 15 by pez on Sun Aug 2 19:29:53 1998:

Erik Larsen will soon be writing Wolverine and Nova for Marvel and
Aquaman for DC along with continuing Savage Dragon over at Image.

hmm.. we need some conversation in this conference..
let's try this.
does anyone have anything to say about the new X-title coming soon:
Mutant X? it's written by Howard Mackie who will also be writing
the 2 remaining Spider-Man books.. i don't care much for Mackie so
i don't know that i'll like Mutant X.. my prediction. yours?

how does everyone feel about the cancelation of Excalibur and
X-Factor? is anyone out there?

#9 of 15 by karmic on Mon Aug 3 03:24:58 1998:

Yeah, someone is out here. :) 
Excalibur and X-Factor were, from most accounts, well in need of being put
out of their misery.  Their sales were still pretty good, but not as good 
as the other X-books, so the axe fell.
As for Mutant X: I dunno.  I started loving Tom Raney's art when he did
Stormwatch, but the idea of a series which is basically another Age of
Apocalypse doesn't do it for me.

#10 of 15 by pez on Mon Aug 17 21:12:08 1998:

I loved Peter David's run on X-Factor and all of
the work Alan Davis did on Excalibur but that was long ago and
i haven't really looked at either of those books in 3 years or so

i kinda liked the Age of Apocalypse.. but Mutant X is
the "real" Marvel Universe's Havok and the rest are just evil
versions of good guys or what? i haven't heard much beyond that
i might pick up the first issue.. probably flip thru it anyway.

anyone else reading Deadpool? heh. funny, twisted stuff

#11 of 15 by pez on Sun Sep 20 17:38:43 1998:

ok. due to creative differences.. Joe Kelly and Steven Seagle are
leaving the 2 X-Men books.. i believe the January issue will be their
last.  Kelly leaving upsets me because he's a solid, funny writer and
both writers were the most talented to be on the X-books in too long.

their replacements?
i've heard rumors of Claremont and another about McFarlane(?!?!)
writing the books.. and John Byrne (ugh) is going to be writing
an Untold X-Men type book.. that takes place during the time when the X-Men
books were canceled before Giant-Size X-Men #1 years ago
that along with Byrne's retooling of Spider-Man's origin really messes up
or will allow for a lot of messing up of current continuity.. i won't
even get into Byrne's refusal to acknowledge Busiek's Amazing Fantasy #16-18
and Untold Tales of Spider-Man stories..

feedback?

#12 of 15 by katcombs on Sat Jun 26 16:07:20 1999:

This is my first post, so I donno what I'm doing.... Anyonne here like
Excalibur and New Mutants? I'm looking for artists, fan fiction writers and
bio creators.. If anyone is interested, please email me at
katcombs@cyberspace.org

#13 of 15 by lumen on Thu Jul 29 21:26:14 1999:

contact my wife at prattju@cwu.edu (Grex e-mail bookworm@cyberspace.org)

I guarantee she'll be interested.. she's a BIG Excalibur fan and she 
followed the New Mutants a bit too.

We are both waiting with baited breath to see what happens to Douglock 
and this whole return of the Red Skull thing.

#14 of 15 by pez on Tue Sep 28 21:52:41 1999:

Claremont is returning to the X-Men, hopefully
it'll be better than his current Fantastic Four
work, although his Contest of Champions II
mini-series is turning out quite nicely,
he's writing a GREAT Iron Man.

#15 of 15 by pez on Tue Sep 28 21:53:41 1999:

Iron Man in Contest of Champions I, I mean,
Busiek and Stern are writing the actual
Iron Man book until #25, then Joe Quesada takes over.

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