From: stud1b53@bnr.ca (Anshu Prasad)
Subject: Re: Ideas to help the mutants (was: Re: X-cutioner's Song)
Reply-To: stud1b53@bnr.ca (Vilhelm Boggild)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 92 17:52:01 GMT

In article <maguire-061092091529@128.149.100.151>, maguire@copland.jpl.nasa.gov (Kevin Maguire) writes:

NOTE: Some stuff was deleted...

|> Alright, here's things I think we need to do to help fix the X-books:
|> 
|> 2.  No more time travelling.  Period.  Good time travel stories require 
|> extremely tight plotting with very careful attention to detail and
|> continuity, which the current X-books do not have. 

  I agree!  Time travel is not an easy concept to write about in
the first place, let alone in an ad hoc manner...

|> 3.  Get rid of Gambit.

  At the risk of being labelled a 'fanboy', I think Gambit has some
potential as a character when written well.  It gets a little boring
when you're sure everyone is a good guy.
 
|> 7.  Wolverine's origin - give him one once and for all, and stick with it.
|> Stop overexposing him in every book in the Marvel Universe.

  Definitely!  I don't know anyone who appreciate Wolverine's
over-exposure in the Marvel Universe.  But, alas, he sells comics...
  
|> 10.  The X-Men get restrained by power-dampers all the time, and often
|> they're customized for the victim.  Why not have Forge build one for
|> Rogue so she can touch people - note that her flight, strength and
|> invulnerability are not a mutant power, but a permanently absorbed one,
|> so it wouldn't be too hard to say that the damper leaves her all those
|> powers, and only damps the touch power.

  A nice thought, but I don't like the idea of using Forge for this.
Maybe it's because I'm an engineer, but I find the idea of inventing
fantastic things on demand a little hokey, mutant power or not :-).

|> 
|> MY ideas for X-Men plotlines:
|> 
|> 1.  Gambit IS the traitor, and he DOES have a charm power (as SHOWN already
|> in some old X-Men book), which is why the X-Men have not been as suspicious
|> of him as they should have been.
|>     This charm power has clouded the X-Men's minds, leading to their
|> strange and out of character recent behavior.  He goes for it, with help
|> from some of his clan members, and the X-Men put them down.  Bishop gets
|> lots of airtime in the final fight - this is his plotline, after all.
|> 

  This would probably make some pretty good comics.  But, I can't help
thinking I'd miss Gambit...

|> 4. <Stuff Deleted>
|> Magneto becomes field leader for X-Men.
|>

  I think this idea has a lot of potential.  Unfortunately, any return
of Magneto would just contribute to Marvel's growing problem with the
"Revolving Door of Death".

|> 5.  <Stuff Deleted> 
|>    New Mutants to be focused on the new school.  Scott, Jean, Ororo and
|> Forge move to this book as faculty, as does Prof. X.

  It would be nice to see these couples in more peaceful, family
oriented environment.  However, it requires a writer of great ability
to keep something like this from getting boring after a while.  Are
you sure current Marvel writers are up to the task?

|>  Maybe lose Wolverine, as he goes to 
|> find himself in the woods (in his own book).
|>

  Hey, get rid of Gambit AND Wolverine?!?  You're talking pretty big
changes here...  I maintain, it's not necessary to get rid of them,
only to write them well.
 
|> 
|> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
|> Kevin Maguire                         No, not THAT Kevin Maguire
|> maguire@copland.jpl.nasa.gov          I'm a rocket scientist, not an artist

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Anshu Prasad
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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