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And Now . . . The Children Of The Children Of The Atom

LicenseFarm — Thu, 01 May 2008 19:39:49 PDT

Sigh. So bored. The last interesting thing that Marvel did with the mutants was Peter Milligan & Mike Allred's X-Force cum X-Statix, and Grant Morrison's run on New X-Men, a gift to the franchise's future which Marvel promptly turned around and crapped all over.

OK, I'm being harsh: Joss Whedon and John Cassaday's Astonishing X-Men has been awesome, but only because it hearkens back to the prime of Claremont's tenure.

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outsdr — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 01:56:13 PDT

Too bad the artwork looks like utter crap.

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sumocat — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:10:16 PDT

We mocked up a bunch of mashups for X-Offspring ahead of the X-Men movie (I used to work for AnotherUniverse.com). The best by far was the daughter of Marrow and Blob. Her name was Big-Boned, as in "I'm not fat; I'm Big-Boned!" I have her whole Claremontian internal monologue and origin story mapped out. (It involves Marrow wanting to get really drunk and later really regretting it.) Let's see Claremont top that.

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bigswingdaddy — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:55:25 PDT

...My name is Oedipus Snikt, I'm the second best at what I do, until I find my dad. Then I'll be the best. and it won't be very nice. I have a healing factor, bone claws and the ability crush your larynx with my mind, oh and I have a dragon... and I come from the future... and uh... I'm here to ah hell. My suspension-of-disbilief module just imploded.

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Hayes — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:36:56 PDT

@Defendant:
Braak was right. The kid was named Wild Thing. She was Wolverine and Elektra's kid. This took place in the MC2 Universe, where the Spider-Girl series takes place.
[en.wikipedia.org]

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braak — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:19:12 PDT

@braak: It's tricky, because you don't want to combine people that have powers that are too much alike. Like, you wouldn't want to combine Wolfsbane with Wolverine, because that'd be a waste.

But Wolfsbane with Multiple Man, maybe, and their kid could just make a bunch of werewolf clones everywhere.

Or if you combine Cannonball and Storm, maybe he could just tool around on a giant tornado all the time. And shoot lightning.

None of these are as much fun as invincible organic-steel exoskeletal spikes.

braak

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ideaman2020 — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:07:02 PDT

They probably changed the name from Next to GeNext to avoid confusion with [and/or lawsuits about] John Byrne's Next Men for Dark Horse...

I'm not generally a fan of alterna-future timeline stories [unless they relate to the here-and-now, like Days of Future Past], but I guess it depends on the writing. Spiderman 2099 was great, but that had Peter David at the helm...

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braak — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:00:46 PDT

@Defendant: Well, while that makes a hell of a lot more sense, I had it in my head as Elektra. Maybe I saw her, and just identified her as Elektra, because I wasn't reading very closely?

Who can say with me? No one.

Anyway, I'm sitting down now and coming up with all kinds of outlandish power combinations for mutant offspring.

braak

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Defendant — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:34:47 PDT

@braak: The kid with Wolverine and Psylocke's powers was the daughter of Wolverine and Psylocke. Not Wolverine and Elektra.

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Plankton420 — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:15:29 PDT

"Beloved X-Men scribe Chris Claremont..."!?

I never beloved him. I never even really be-liked him!

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matta_p — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:23:46 PDT

yay! More X-books. Just what the marketplace needs.

John Byrne had this idea first with Superman/Batman:Generations.

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braak — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:20:22 PDT

@DSTRYA: Also, I want their powers to be mixed up in volatile ways.

Like Colossus has a kid with Marrow, or something, and that enables him to grow giant, deforming metal bones out of his body.

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Final — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:10:18 PDT

I love the concept of resetting the X characters and putting it in real time and looking at their kids.

Clarmont is hit or miss with me.

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DSTRYA — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:06:10 PDT

they look kind of .. boring. what happened to mutants looking like mutants? or the sort of "handicapped by my own powers" look of Cyclops or Chamber? in all fairness, i haven't read it so it might feature these kind of details.

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Gyrus — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:57:42 PDT

@iJake: yes, I meant Cable. Firefox does not like the Marvel Stylebook of Proper Nouns with Capitol Letters as Names. Maybe I should turn off my custom dictionary... Oh technology, why do you taunt me so?

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Urael — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:40:55 PDT

@Gyrus: Agreed. Claremont has become a toxic factor in which X-books I'll read. Him and Chuck Austen should be lowered into a pit and made to fight to the death. The winner is then shot.

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braak — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:10:12 PDT

@Dead Air ummm Dead Air: Weirdly, the whole thing just came out as "Primary colored awkward high school years remember how great Spider-Man was?"

No Frank Miller attached.

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Belabras — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:08:52 PDT

I'm just so completely over the X-men. Have been for years now.

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Log1c — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:07:49 PDT

@iJake: But considering its a non-canon version that isnt AN OLD WOLVERINE (fuck that Ultimate stuff) would be pretty cool I think, especially without the technorganic virus.

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Dead Air ummm Dead Air — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:05:52 PDT

@braak: A goddamn Wolverine/Elektra kid is a goddamn dream for both 1980's goddamn Frank Miller, and 2004 self parody goddamn Frank Miller!

Dead Air ummm Dead Air

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iJake — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:01:58 PDT

Do you mean Cable? And I would assume since the storyline is picking up after all the previous generations of X-Men are getting old, that it couldn't really be Cable since he's been around a while, time traveling abilities aside.

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ElijahDProphet — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:00:49 PDT

@Gyrus: I would assume that it is, in fact, Nathan Summers, however it is likely a non-cannon version of Nathan (later Cable). Claremont's last book, The End, was an Elseworlds style story about the X-Men, and since a bunch of people are dead in current continuity I would think that this book is outside canon as well.

Claremont was always a better ideas guy then script writer. He came up with some brilliant concepts on his run, but his dialog is often terrible.

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braak — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 06:56:03 PDT

They did one of those series with "Children of the original [blank]" a while back.

Wolverine had a daughter with Elektra, who for some reason had Psylocke's power in addition to her healing factor.

This could have made for an extremely interesting series. Could have. Could.

braak

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Gyrus — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 06:42:27 PDT

I'm guessing Glowing Eye Boy is a young cabal? Which is kind of a bore. We know all about Cabal and frankly, who cares?

I like the idea but it's been a while since Claremont did anything really cool. In a few years, he'll be Stan Lee, only more pompous.

Gyrus

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ElijahDProphet — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 06:39:29 PDT

I can not wait for this to come out, I really like Claremont, and thankfully, I can use my power of sight to read these comics!

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Log1c — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 06:35:18 PDT

Interesting. I always kind of wondered when they would give up the main guys and focus on some other ones, given nearly all of them will have to die eventually...

I might have to pick this up...

Log1c