Is the Rightright post immediately below this one also an account of yours? How about the EmmaFroststan post immediately above? All these accounts follow a nearly identical list of substacks and are all unusually fixated on requesting certain plot outcomes for Jean/Scott/Logan/Emma each week, after the similar batch of posts went quiet from now deleted accounts (also with the same substack follow lists) like Peptty and thirdligthy and Han and Moneolphie.
Please stop spamming the comments each week from multiple accounts with these same demands for what should happen to Jean/Scott/Logan/Emma.
As former editor of the Champions books, will we learn the fate of the Champions in NYX or elsewhere? I only ask because it’s been about a year since Kamala resurrected and the only other Champion she’s reunited/interacted with is Miles. I know you can’t say *when* we’ll see the Champions again, just wondering if they’re even still an active team right now.
Looking at your breakdown of the cover for UNCANNY X-MEN #141, immediately followed by X-MEN #1, which is bringing back a version of the familiar logo... Has there been any thought to also bring back the classic "heads in a box" for covers? Or would that just take room away from the cover artists?
Think I asked about this some weeks back along with recap pages and naming characters and other things that might help returning X-readers and Tom said something about a mixture of those would be there...so hopefully we get the headshots back!
The corner box heads would sometimes dictate whether I wanted to pick up an issue of, say, Avengers back in the day - and definitely helped with my back issue buying.
It's also an easier way to tell if you're picking up X-Men Vol. 7 #4 or X-Men Vol. 15 #4.
I have to enquire further about the Cable sidelining. I get something like Nate Grey, X-Man getting sidelined. His solo might’ve lasted #75 issues and was only cancelled due to a direction change, but that was 20 years and he’s pretty obscure and kinda confusing. Ditto for most of the children of future’s past. But Cable? I feel like Cable’s both pretty straightforward in context and a character who can hold down a solo, something you said you wanted to do more of with this relaunch. Bishop is also popular enough that I’m kinda curious but Cable doesn’t feel like a Longshot tier “Wait what do you mean he’s his own grandfather?” backstory or Ruby Summer’s level of “Who?” popularity. It’s just weird to me that he’s off the board for being too complicated?
Only just saw your #118, for some reason I didn't get it in my email feed. Anyway, your comic book collection looks pretty tiny compared to mine and has to live in the garage. And I have two rooms that are full of Kallax's which contain all my collected editions. So I guess I'm the one with a big problem. :/
I believe you'll find your answer in X-Men Forever. If I recall, Xavier sent a telepathic blast to the white hot room through Mother Righteous that told the Five which mutants had died so that the five could resurrect them. If not in XMF then in RotPoX, it was definitely one of Gillen's books.
Also, in X-Men 35, we saw that pretty much every mutant ever was resurrected in the WHR in their absence so he definitely would've come back then.
It's absolutely baffling to me that, at this point, characters like Cable and Bishop would be sidelined. Off-and-on members of the X-Men for over 30 years. Cable having had several long-running titles and a big-screen debut in Deadpool 2. Both appearing in the recent (and rather popular) X-Men '97 cartoon. By now, both Cable and Bishop are about as entrenched in the X-Men mythos as, say, Gambit or Rogue. And you can boil both of their origins down to "time travelers from the future, come back to the present to prevent certain awful things from happening" without complicating it. (Same as you can do with Rachel!)
I can understand not wanting to explain Rasputin IV, or Nate Grey, or some of the others hailing from alternate futures or timelines, but taking some characters off the board because you want "digestible for ordinary people who hadn’t been following the books for a couple of years" feels like an odd justification. Which ordinary people are we talking about? How long is a couple of years? Because if From the Ashes is all about nostalgia and back to basics (which in this case seems to mean hearkening back to the 'classic '90s' than Cable and Bishop should fit right in.) So are you trying to attract readers who fell off pre-Krakoa? The 2017 ResurrXion era? 2012's Marvel NOW! relaunch? The "no more mutants" era? The Grant Morrison era?
(I really am curious now as to which readers you're hoping to lure back in, if you're trying to streamline some of the X-Men's chronally-confused baggage...)
As a father of a five-year-old, I'm surprised that X-Men isn't a known quantity for him in way that Spidey is, or the core Avengers are. And as a kid who grew up in the 90s, that seems extra odd.
Do you have any plans to target books at a younger generation? Not necessarily aimed at five-year-olds (although he loves the Spidey and friends comics Marvel brings out and would devour X-Men) but anything aimed at a pre-teen market? In fact, do you consider this an important market at all?
Tom, will we see a lot of action in Exceptional X-Men? I mean, HIVEMIND revealed in a podcast that Exceptional is a kind of book without a villain, but the characters are wearing new action suits, so can we expect to see them in action? I'm dreaming of seeing more of Kitty as the action star she is (not the ninja version)
Do you care much about the online reading orders for storylines and events? Is there's an ideal "director's cut" of the ideal way to read each chapter of a story? Or does the reading order defeat the effort of designing a story designed to be satisfyingly read even if you only read a three-issue tie-in, or only the core event, or only one single issue?
Do you have any thoughts on code name-less characters? The X-world in particular is full of characters that go by their “real names”, and it’s always bothered me. Sure super-hero names are a contrivance, but “Shadowcat” just feels more heroic than “Kate”.
I feel like Captain Kate works fine for her, but now that she's not a captain that obviously doesn't work anymore. Also, Kate is definitely a different story than most codename-less characters in that she's had multiple over the years and her story with them is much more one of questioning her identity and trying to find a name that fits more than just not having one
San Diego Comic Con is creeping up on the calendar, which got me thinking about the extent it--and other trade shows--influence the publishing calendar. Do things like "we have to have X-Men #1 out by SDCC" influence your thinking when scheduling releases? Or is there no mind paid at all to lining up titles with big cons?
Is the Rightright post immediately below this one also an account of yours? How about the EmmaFroststan post immediately above? All these accounts follow a nearly identical list of substacks and are all unusually fixated on requesting certain plot outcomes for Jean/Scott/Logan/Emma each week, after the similar batch of posts went quiet from now deleted accounts (also with the same substack follow lists) like Peptty and thirdligthy and Han and Moneolphie.
Please stop spamming the comments each week from multiple accounts with these same demands for what should happen to Jean/Scott/Logan/Emma.
love i don't think he's gonna respond, is this really what you want to spend your time on every week?
As former editor of the Champions books, will we learn the fate of the Champions in NYX or elsewhere? I only ask because it’s been about a year since Kamala resurrected and the only other Champion she’s reunited/interacted with is Miles. I know you can’t say *when* we’ll see the Champions again, just wondering if they’re even still an active team right now.
Looking at your breakdown of the cover for UNCANNY X-MEN #141, immediately followed by X-MEN #1, which is bringing back a version of the familiar logo... Has there been any thought to also bring back the classic "heads in a box" for covers? Or would that just take room away from the cover artists?
Think I asked about this some weeks back along with recap pages and naming characters and other things that might help returning X-readers and Tom said something about a mixture of those would be there...so hopefully we get the headshots back!
[chanting] heads in box! heads in box!
The corner box heads would sometimes dictate whether I wanted to pick up an issue of, say, Avengers back in the day - and definitely helped with my back issue buying.
It's also an easier way to tell if you're picking up X-Men Vol. 7 #4 or X-Men Vol. 15 #4.
I have to enquire further about the Cable sidelining. I get something like Nate Grey, X-Man getting sidelined. His solo might’ve lasted #75 issues and was only cancelled due to a direction change, but that was 20 years and he’s pretty obscure and kinda confusing. Ditto for most of the children of future’s past. But Cable? I feel like Cable’s both pretty straightforward in context and a character who can hold down a solo, something you said you wanted to do more of with this relaunch. Bishop is also popular enough that I’m kinda curious but Cable doesn’t feel like a Longshot tier “Wait what do you mean he’s his own grandfather?” backstory or Ruby Summer’s level of “Who?” popularity. It’s just weird to me that he’s off the board for being too complicated?
Only just saw your #118, for some reason I didn't get it in my email feed. Anyway, your comic book collection looks pretty tiny compared to mine and has to live in the garage. And I have two rooms that are full of Kallax's which contain all my collected editions. So I guess I'm the one with a big problem. :/
I feel like I missed some but it’s irking me being unable to find the answer: when and how did Quentin Quire get a body after Wolverine/Sabretooth?
Open question, I’ll take answers from anyone as long as they’re correct.
I don't think there is a right answer yet. I believe the last time we saw him was Wolverine/Sabertooth.
I was thinking that while wondering whether I missed something.
FHOX/POX and FX (not so much) hit me with a lack of clarity.
I believe you'll find your answer in X-Men Forever. If I recall, Xavier sent a telepathic blast to the white hot room through Mother Righteous that told the Five which mutants had died so that the five could resurrect them. If not in XMF then in RotPoX, it was definitely one of Gillen's books.
Also, in X-Men 35, we saw that pretty much every mutant ever was resurrected in the WHR in their absence so he definitely would've come back then.
My hero!
Thank you!
ofc! might as well put my obsessive love for and knowledge of these books to good use every once in a while
Tom, can we hope that Emma will have a new love interest in this new phase, or can you not talk about that yet?
I’m still hoping they finally give Emma x Banshee a shot.
It's absolutely baffling to me that, at this point, characters like Cable and Bishop would be sidelined. Off-and-on members of the X-Men for over 30 years. Cable having had several long-running titles and a big-screen debut in Deadpool 2. Both appearing in the recent (and rather popular) X-Men '97 cartoon. By now, both Cable and Bishop are about as entrenched in the X-Men mythos as, say, Gambit or Rogue. And you can boil both of their origins down to "time travelers from the future, come back to the present to prevent certain awful things from happening" without complicating it. (Same as you can do with Rachel!)
I can understand not wanting to explain Rasputin IV, or Nate Grey, or some of the others hailing from alternate futures or timelines, but taking some characters off the board because you want "digestible for ordinary people who hadn’t been following the books for a couple of years" feels like an odd justification. Which ordinary people are we talking about? How long is a couple of years? Because if From the Ashes is all about nostalgia and back to basics (which in this case seems to mean hearkening back to the 'classic '90s' than Cable and Bishop should fit right in.) So are you trying to attract readers who fell off pre-Krakoa? The 2017 ResurrXion era? 2012's Marvel NOW! relaunch? The "no more mutants" era? The Grant Morrison era?
(I really am curious now as to which readers you're hoping to lure back in, if you're trying to streamline some of the X-Men's chronally-confused baggage...)
I mean sidelined for the launch… they’ve both been sidelined for bursts of time before.
As a father of a five-year-old, I'm surprised that X-Men isn't a known quantity for him in way that Spidey is, or the core Avengers are. And as a kid who grew up in the 90s, that seems extra odd.
Do you have any plans to target books at a younger generation? Not necessarily aimed at five-year-olds (although he loves the Spidey and friends comics Marvel brings out and would devour X-Men) but anything aimed at a pre-teen market? In fact, do you consider this an important market at all?
Tom, will we see a lot of action in Exceptional X-Men? I mean, HIVEMIND revealed in a podcast that Exceptional is a kind of book without a villain, but the characters are wearing new action suits, so can we expect to see them in action? I'm dreaming of seeing more of Kitty as the action star she is (not the ninja version)
Heya Brevoort, here is something I wanted to ask.
What characters fandom surprised you the most , whether it be the size of it or their attitude?
What are you're thoughts on characters sharing Mantles such as the two wolverines ?
Is this wave officially finished or can we expect books to be announced ?
Another thing I would add on is that I like Mercury's suggestion on the whole Duo book thing.
Do you care much about the online reading orders for storylines and events? Is there's an ideal "director's cut" of the ideal way to read each chapter of a story? Or does the reading order defeat the effort of designing a story designed to be satisfyingly read even if you only read a three-issue tie-in, or only the core event, or only one single issue?
Do you have any thoughts on code name-less characters? The X-world in particular is full of characters that go by their “real names”, and it’s always bothered me. Sure super-hero names are a contrivance, but “Shadowcat” just feels more heroic than “Kate”.
I feel like Captain Kate works fine for her, but now that she's not a captain that obviously doesn't work anymore. Also, Kate is definitely a different story than most codename-less characters in that she's had multiple over the years and her story with them is much more one of questioning her identity and trying to find a name that fits more than just not having one
Hi Tom!
San Diego Comic Con is creeping up on the calendar, which got me thinking about the extent it--and other trade shows--influence the publishing calendar. Do things like "we have to have X-Men #1 out by SDCC" influence your thinking when scheduling releases? Or is there no mind paid at all to lining up titles with big cons?
Hi Tom! Crazy that it's finally the week of your X-Men books releasing!
Here's my question: What's the quickest you've ever thought "This person has got 'it'" about a new writer or artist?