Kieron Gillens X-Men appreciation

[GambitXRemy]

I always laugh when people mention Stan, whose run wasn't that long or very good. Most of the early X-Men stories people remember were from Roy Thomas.

That being said, Gillen had a great run, and I really enjoyed it. I hope he gets to come back one day.

my first comics were x-men the early years by jack and stan so i have a personal fondness for them

ive read review on uncanny x-men 20 and reviewers are saying its up there with grant morrison

[Dr. Sonic]

I always laugh when people mention Stan, whose run wasn't that long or very good. Most of the early X-Men stories people remember were from Roy Thomas.
That being said, Gillen had a great run, and I really enjoyed it. I hope he gets to come back one day.

Yeah, Stan Lee didn't write that many X-Men stories at all.
Still, as the team's co-creator, along with Jack Kirby, he warrants recognition and a degree of reverence on any list of the great X-Men writers.
Totally agree in regards to hoping KG gets a chance to return to the X-books in the not so distant future...

[Omega Alpha]

The final chapter was good, but I think we should have gotten a page with the entire extinction team on it. This really did feel like another issue. But I guess it's being wrapped up and then continued in consequences and ANXM, so we can let it slide. Great series Gillen. I have no interest in Young Avengers but I am reading it simply because of how much I loved your rUn on UXM

Read Journey Into Mystery then. Shows some of Gillen's finest work, and will introduce you to the absolute awesomeness that is Kid Loki.

I always laugh when people mention Stan, whose run wasn't that long or very good. Most of the early X-Men stories people remember were from Roy Thomas.

That being said, Gillen had a great run, and I really enjoyed it. I hope he gets to come back one day.

I think he was talking about in terms of influence, not necessarily quality (although Stan and Jack had some very good stuff, specially the Sentinels story).

And Stan and Jack in less than 20 issues introduced the O5, Xavier, Magneto, Juggernaut, Sentinels, the Brotherhood, Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, Mastermind, mutantkind itself as a different group than humans, and the X-men as hated and feared by the people they are sworn to protect (although not to the extent it was developed in Claremont's run), and that's just from the top of my head. Without all those characters and concepts, there would be no X-books today.

[0bsessions]

He's fine. I don't have a problem with him. I think he was hamstrung by editorial. All in all, I don't think he'll have a lasting impact on the book, which, to me, both CC and Morrison did.

Lasting impact?

Outside of Cyclops/Emma, what about Morrison's run is still even a consideration? Shit, even cat Beast has effectively been ignored at least half the time over the last few years.

-Booming mutant population? Retconned with House of M.
-Magneto/Xorn? Retconned to hell within like two months.
-Cyclops is a pussy? Whedon did away with that right quick.
-Fantomex? Dead, dead, dead.

Most of his ideas were quickly swept under the rug. Some of them have been revisited, but by and large Morrison has had almost no lasting impact on the X-Men franchise. Damn near everything he did was undone within a year or two to bring it back in line with the Claremont status quo.

[darknessatnoon]

What Claremont status quo?

[0bsessions]

What Claremont status quo?

I should probably have clarified it:

Claremont, amidst his racism analogues, did a lot of work turning the X-Men into conventional "super heroes." While they still faced plenty of mutant centric stuff, a good chunk of Claremont's early run was the X-Men tackling general threats (Cosmic stuff, Moses Magnum, the Savage Land, etc).

Whedon went in a similar direction and Fraction seemed to grab on to that too.

As "progressive" as Morrison's run was considered, he did a lot of backtracking the the early era with making the X-Men remarkably bubbled up.

[graffiX]

For me, it's CC at #1 and Gillen at #2. I hated Fraction's run, but KG brought me back in. Glad I did.

Read Journey Into Mystery then. Shows some of Gillen's finest work, and will introduce you to the absolute awesomeness that is Kid Loki.

After reading the Point One yesterday, the Young Avengers story stuck out to me...specifically because of Kid Loki. It's got me interested in the character. Where is a good place to start on Kid Loki (Journey Into Mystery)?

[Omega Alpha]

For me, it's CC at #1 and Gillen at #2. I hated Fraction's run, but KG brought me back in. Glad I did.



After reading the Point One yesterday, the Young Avengers story stuck out to me...specifically because of Kid Loki. It's got me interested in the character. Where is a good place to start on Kid Loki (Journey Into Mystery)?

He first appeared in Thor #617, but Journey Into Mystery begins with #622.

[Regino]

Lasting impact?

Outside of Cyclops/Emma, what about Morrison's run is still even a consideration? Shit, even cat Beast has effectively been ignored at least half the time over the last few years.

-Booming mutant population? Retconned with House of M.
-Magneto/Xorn? Retconned to hell within like two months.
-Cyclops is a pussy? Whedon did away with that right quick.
-Fantomex? Dead, dead, dead.

Most of his ideas were quickly swept under the rug. Some of them have been revisited, but by and large Morrison has had almost no lasting impact on the X-Men franchise. Damn near everything he did was undone within a year or two to bring it back in line with the Claremont status quo.

Emma/Scott; Jean Grey staying dead; the World and Fantomex; Death of Darkstar; Dust; Quentin Quire; Sublime; Cassandra Nova; Phoenix and White Hot Room.

[Thrive2Mix]

Havent read it yet!
But it is on my list! (Have been re-reading the entire series from start to finish)

[Ayiteb]

Emma/Scott; Jean Grey staying dead; the World and Fantomex; Death of Darkstar; Dust; Quentin Quire; Sublime; Cassandra Nova; Phoenix and White Hot Room.

Also the genocide of Genosha, that's a big one.

@Alpha Omega: I may check it out. I even less interested in that than Young Avengers though.

[GambitXRemy]

Im just glad Gillen didnt try to change the x-men if you know what i mean or go in and try to make a mark and turn everything upside down

[Ayiteb]

Im just glad Gillen didnt try to change the x-men if you know what i mean or go in and try to make a mark and turn everything upside down

With only 20 issues, and almost half of them devoted to AvX, he really wasn't given much of an opportunity to.

[GambitXRemy]

With only 20 issues, and almost half of them devoted to AvX, he really wasn't given much of an opportunity to.

true but i think thats what makes it more better

[DarthCyclopsRLZ]

With only 20 issues, and almost half of them devoted to AvX, he really wasn't given much of an opportunity to.

Gillen wrote 11 issues prior to the relaunch and contributed to another four.

Damn, now that I think of it, it's such a shame we never did find out what the hell happened to Penny Newsom.