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[QUOTE]Originally posted by moriarty:
And so far as my dim memory goes, Len Wein created Wolverine and introduced him to the X-Men.
Yes, that's right. Of the "All New Different X-Men" from Giant Size X-Men, Claremont and Cockrum only created Thunderbird, Colossus, Storm, and Nightcrawler. Sunfire and Banshee were both from the original X-Men run...
Remember when you said that both the big two should raze most of their product to the ground and start fresh, Flux? Well, how would you go about deciding what deserves the culling?
I think that what I would do would cancel most of the ongoing series, all of the ones that are either selling poorly, or are redundant. A good example: Uncanny X-Men is a totally redundant comic in light of New X-Men, and even X-treme X-Men. It doesn't have any real niche to fill, it's just there - a comic which has no direction and a cast comprised of all the characters leftover from when Morrison and Claremont chose their line-ups. There's no good reason for that comic to be published, other than that it sells a bunch of copies because it is called Uncanny X-Men.
Instead of abandoning the characters who've had their series cancelled, they would have one or two miniseries per year, and make them events by putting some advertising money behind them. It makes more sense to put out four really great issues of the Avengers in a year, and then repackage it as a trade paperback, rather than pump out 12 mediocre issues per year, with diminishing returns. It would also fix the problem of fill-in artists and missed deadlines, because this way, they can insist that all of the issues are in the can before they release the first issue.
Also, focusing on miniseries would likely attract better talent to the properties, because a talented person may want to do one Captain America story, but they may not want to commit to the character full-time. I think that you have to acknowledge the limitations of some characters - some characters really don't merit a monthly series. |
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