A reply to a rather lengthy e-mail that I got the other night from a fellow called Rabid18 ( at least, I assume it's a chap - if I'm wrong, please, feel free to correct me, Rabid ).
Yes. There is, indeed, a perfectly good reason, Rabid, why there's not a lot of X-Men on the Street. It's because I don't like the X-Men. Not even Neal Adams' X-Men. Can't stand them. It's true, I was a great fan of the Claremont / Byrne run, back in the day, but, then, so was everybody. I didn't mind the films ( well, two of 'em, anyway ). And I thought the last animated series they did was pretty entertaining. But, for the most part, I cannot abide the comics. I gave the Ultimate X-Men a fair old crack of the whip, when they released it as a monthly over here ( two US issues in each UK issue ), and, yeah, got quite into it, but that didn't last, and I ended up dropping it. I think Wolverine is probably the single-most over-rated, over-used, and over-written character in comics, and I wish Jean Grey would just fuck off and stay dead.
As to the whole giving the public what the public wants idea: no. I don't feel the need to. If anyone wants the X-Men, they've got plenty of places other than the Street to visit.
That said, I'm nothing if not a decent sort of chap, and here's a wee collection of X-Men images just for your good self, Rabid. Probably worth noting, too, that there's one more ( pretty big ) X-Men jobbie in the offing, to tie in with the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe series of posts, so you might wanna keep 'em peeled for that.
Cheers, then.
Yes. There is, indeed, a perfectly good reason, Rabid, why there's not a lot of X-Men on the Street. It's because I don't like the X-Men. Not even Neal Adams' X-Men. Can't stand them. It's true, I was a great fan of the Claremont / Byrne run, back in the day, but, then, so was everybody. I didn't mind the films ( well, two of 'em, anyway ). And I thought the last animated series they did was pretty entertaining. But, for the most part, I cannot abide the comics. I gave the Ultimate X-Men a fair old crack of the whip, when they released it as a monthly over here ( two US issues in each UK issue ), and, yeah, got quite into it, but that didn't last, and I ended up dropping it. I think Wolverine is probably the single-most over-rated, over-used, and over-written character in comics, and I wish Jean Grey would just fuck off and stay dead.
As to the whole giving the public what the public wants idea: no. I don't feel the need to. If anyone wants the X-Men, they've got plenty of places other than the Street to visit.
That said, I'm nothing if not a decent sort of chap, and here's a wee collection of X-Men images just for your good self, Rabid. Probably worth noting, too, that there's one more ( pretty big ) X-Men jobbie in the offing, to tie in with the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe series of posts, so you might wanna keep 'em peeled for that.
Cheers, then.
