Its been a
while since I've cared about the X-Men, which is sad because they're
my favourite superheroes. Its no big secret that Marvel have been
keeping the X-Men at something of a remove from the rest of the
Marvel Universe the last few years. You can't blame them: they make
millions and millions out of their own Avengers movies and sod all
out of Fox's X-Men movies.
Still,
something seems to have changed and now there's a big relaunch in the
offing: ResurreXion. Encouraging news but by Marvel's current
standards its a bit... traditional.
I mean, this
is a company currently aggressively pushing female leads in Thor,
Hawkeye, Captain Marvel and Iron Man; changing the races of the Hulk,
Spider-Man and Ms. Marvel; pushing characters out of the closet left
right and centre; and, Spider-Gwen. Against that background we get...
… and a
similar one for the Claremont generation. Not the worst pitches in
the world and there are some interesting ideas off to the side with
Iceman and Jean Grey solo series and a Generation X revival with the
Jubilee leading the “Wolverine & The X-Men” generation of
kids.
Still, I
can't help but think the fact there's not a potential Marvel Studios
movie being workshopped here is holding the line back from the sort
of innovation that's happening just about everywhere else in the
Marvel Universe.
I'm always
willing to be surprised by things and if this works no one will be
happier than me. I dearly want to care about these comics again. It
was the original “Blue & Gold” era that got me into comics in
the first place, the original GenX were (alongside DC's Young
Justice) “my” generation of teen superheroes.
Hell, maybe
somewhere in this relaunch there's secretly a place for Chamber, the
greatest British mutant superhero of all time.
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