that cant be final bc it appears rough
Ew, ew ew ew ew....I just had an inevitable thought. How long will Marvel wait until Jean and the rest of the Adult "05" are forced back together in some contrived X-Factor Vol.1 style.
Before or after the inevitable return of Scott Summers event?
Yup, i feel like Cyclops will be dead for a long time. the teen O5 make his abscense moot and they're probably staying (apparently forever). having two teams of O5 would be redundant and boring.
Not happening. o5 as a team don't really work. There's only one woman (Jean) and no racial/ethnic diversity. It's why the X-Men didn't really take off until the All New, All Different X-Men era.
It's why X-Factor the first didn't work and had to be extended. Bringing the past o5 to the present and seeing how they would react to the positive and the negative things that happened in the future was cool for awhile, but it has run it's course.
Time to be over and move on. No more o5 as a team. Besides a lot of work has been done giving various members of the o5 relationships with other X-Men and other people. Not need to put them together as a group again.
They did and do work as a team, hence why Marvel has had them be a thing consistently since 2013. And reuniting them again, doesnt mean they cant add others to flesh things out as we have seen in the various X-titles starring them
X-Factor starring the O5 was a hit and was one of Marvel's highest selling books in the 80s. The writing was horrible when it debuted but Louise Simonson took over fairly early with issue 6 and turned things around, making it one of the more popular book
Yup, X-Factor was founded in the premise of getting back the O5 team, minus Xavier (if i remember correctly) and it lasted a long time, not mentioning that Louise Simonson is usually an awesome writter (his Superman stuff is great), so the argument than the O5 doesn't work just doesn't make sense.
5 years and about 70 issues. It didnt end bc the book was failing but rather Marvel wanted to finally bring the characters back to the O5 and launch X-men volume 2 out of that. X-Factor dipped when they did leave it
From Cable's thread. Serving me some Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix