Tom Brevoort, X-Men and Illyana Rasputin

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Yesterday, Bleeding Cool ran gossip for the way forward for the X-Men now that Marvel SVP and Executive Editor Tom Brevoort is taking up the road

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool ran gossip from the Brazilian comedian conference CCXP relating to the way forward for the X-Men titles now that Marvel SVP and Executive Editor Tom Brevoort is taking up the road. And heard that it’ll have the working title Blue Moon; it is not going to erase Krakoa from continuity however will flip to a extra “back to basics” standing, with a twist. And that Magik would have a number one position.

Which led some to look again to 2003, when Tom Brevoort wrote a column for the web site ComiX-Fan. He selected to write down about his relationship with the X-Men as a reader, diving into  seventies and eighties continuity, with Chris Claremont and John Byrne within the lead-up to X-Men #137 and The Death Of Phoenix, however then how he stopped studying the e-book quickly afterwards.

“Up through #137, the heart of the book had been the relationship between Cyclops and Phoenix, Scott and Jean. Cyclops was my favorite character in the series at this point, the serious introvert who was nevertheless a natural leader. But after Jean sacrificed herself, the book needed to find a new hook, a new centerpiece. And after some quick trial-and-error, this turned out to be Kitty Pryde, Sprite. I had liked the character in her initial appearances, but once she came to virtually monopolize the title, I found her incredibly annoying. Simultaneously, influenced by television dramas such as “Hill Street Blues,” Chris was adding in a strong element of ambiguity into the stories he was telling. Characters were neither black hats nor white hats exclusively—which could have been exciting, except that he also cribbed the serial style of such shows without their habit of wrapping storylines up. As a result, interesting situations tended to be back-burnered for months, sometimes resurfacing with the characters in wholly different status quos. I sometimes refer to this as the period in which the X-Men stopped being super heroes, and became something else.”

And with Wolverine taking up from Cyclops because the centre of the collection, Tom Brevoort dropped X-Men. “There were moments since then when the book got me interested again for a brief time, but they were few and far between. I just didn’t care for the flavor of the series enough.”

He displays feeling completely different in regards to the Grant Morrison run, nevertheless. “Grant threw out the standard X-Men style—a gutsy move, since it was undeniably commercial—and substituted his own wild ideas in its place. I think Grant’s run followed the established pattern he’d set down in earlier series such as Doom Patrol and JLA—it opened with a number of electric, mind-blowing stories, settled in with a soft, flabby and somewhat self-indulgent middle section, only to pull a stellar climax together in the final issues. It’s the most fun I’ve had with the X-Men in a long while. And that’s why you really don’t want me editing many X-Men comics—the things you like about the book and the characters aren’t the things that work for me. (I’ll tell you this much: were she not already dead, I’d delight in dropping a concrete block on Illyana Rasputin’s head, so annoying did I find her Magik persona.)”

So sure, given what we heard in Brazil that is attention-grabbing. Have issues modified within the twenty years since? Well in 2014, when Brevoort reposted this column on Tumblr, he added “Note: Illyana is alive again these days. Joy.”

So how come we’re listening to that Illyana Rasputin is to guide the brand new X-books that Brevoort is modifying? Have we obtained it utterly improper (at all times attainable) or has Brevoort determined to deal with his personal prejudices head on, and go hell for leather-based for Magik? Is this Tom Brevoort’s “one in a blue moon” likelihood to make such a change? I may see Gail Simone writing the hell out of Illyana, cannot you?

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