"We come into this world alone and we leave the same way. The time we spent in between - time spent alive, sharing, learning together... is all that makes life worth living." - Jean Grey
I suspect that last bit also has a lot to do with why we've been in a nostalgic feedback loop for quite a while. Where everyone is telling X-Men stories about other X-Men stories.
I was optimistic, but now I'm really confident since Hickman brought up the Kardashev scale and mutants. I sat back and said, "Why did we never think of that?"
All this sounds great.
I hope my favorites will have some good role in it.
I think what he's getting at is actually the inverse: Marvel wasn't able to fully profit from X-Men outside of comics, especially with regard to movies, so they weren't very motivated to nurture their X-Men comics.
Now that Marvel has re-acquired all X-Men rights, they're actually interested in investing in their X-Men comics, which presents him with more opportunities to tell stories he wants to tell and collect an appropriate paycheck.
Shots fired at Bendis!
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I remain skeptical until I know more and/or read the actual comics. Too much hype, too few details, too much rationalization. And no one writer should ever be given total creative control over a franchise without serious editorial supervision; sounds like the plans were forced on the X-MEN editors. I'll believe this is a good thing when I see it; i.e., I'll believe the X-Men aren't being screwed-over again when I see it. I'll be a lot happier when I know what the books and creative teams are after HoX and PoX are finished. (Sorry, I can't help it. Nearly every big plan for the X-Men has crashed and burned. Characters have been trashed. I can't get excited about this until I see Hickman is doing something good and positive.)
The thing about it is that the editorial supervision is literally what is turn the X-Men titles into the dumpster fire that they are today the X-Men books have lacked a cohesive vision ever since Avengers vs X-Men. Before that even. This is getting me excited because Hickman is all about interconnectivity especially if he's leading the front when it comes to shaping the X-Men books for the next couple of years I'm here for some fresh ideas and if not fresh ideas than some quality revisions of old ideas.
I want good characterizations, slow Burns, build ups and epic payoffs
Lemire on EXM, Guggenheim on XMG, Rosenberg(+Brisson/Kelly) on Uncanny. And AOXM is still kind an Age of Apocalypse rehash. I'm not exactly saying they're worst than Bendis, most of them aren't overall, but their books were even more rooted in nostalgia and rehashing old ideas.