I also never thought Lobdell was a bad writer (though I didn't like his Excalibur) I thought his X-Men was fine. Even great at times. Generatiom X is given.
I also never thought Lobdell was a bad writer (though I didn't like his Excalibur) I thought his X-Men was fine. Even great at times. Generatiom X is given.
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I hate to bring it up again, but Claremont in his early run brought up the fact that Xavier had feelings for Jean. It was in issue where Jean is in the hospital after landing the shuttle and Xavier thinks to himself that he once thought he loved Jean as much as he loved Moira.
Also there was another issue in the original run (in the 40's I think but can't recall the exact issue) where Scott is jealous of the time Xavier and Jean are spending together and Scott wonders if Xavier has feelings for Jean.
Now I agree that it was something best left alone, but I'm just saying Waid wasn't the first to bring it back up but he was the first in a very long time to do so. It definitely brought a problematic element to Xavier but... at least in the Onslaught story it was acknowledged that it was a dark thought Xavier had and one he repressed and wasn't ever going to act on.
LOL She looks like she just bit into a lemon and no wonder.
I was trying to do too much and not doing any of it as well as I could. But I've had a change of mind... though not everyone shall enjoy it. I will.
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I'm still keen on a proper, long X-Men run by Mark Waid one day, free of editorial interference and conflicts with other writers. I'm not holding my breath as with Dan DiDio gone, I think Mark's focus will shift back to DC for the foreseeable future, but maybe one day
I thought I was in the early stages of going senile when I read this, but...
... then I realized this is probably what he meant.
I for the most part enjoyed Lobdell's take on the X-Men as there was no silly love triangle between Logan/Jean/ and Cyclops during his tenure.
Mark Waid: Great Writer but ill-suited for X-MEN. More of an AVENGERS guy.
Scott Lobdell: Mediocre writer with flashes of greatness usually when playing out melodrama or emotional beats. The teen angst of GENERATION X played to his strengths.