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I got a big laugh out of that, what with being an old school X-Men fan (well if you call late 80's/early 90's old school).
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You mean Xorn? Yes, what happened was during Grant Morrisons run on New X-men he had Magneto pretend to be Xorn and pretty much destroy New York city...during which he killed Jean (who had already been killed two isues before) and had his head chopped off by Wolverine. The way Grant Morrison wrote it, there was no Xorn. Right after that Morrison left the book and Chris Claremont retconed the whole thing...added the whole Xorn twin brother thing...and brought back Magneto. So blame Chris Claremont for the whole confussion.
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It wasn't Chris Claremont's decision to retcon it. Both he and Morrison agree that such was an editorial edict...mainly because Magneto is going to be a villain in X-3, and they wanted the comic version still around.
Blame the editors.
And more concern about tying into the movie franchise than coherent comic stories.
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That's Marvel's biggest weakness right now: they're making so much money on licensing existing intellectual property to films that they're actually shortchanging the comic book material which is the source of their film properties.
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I hate to break this to you Tom, but Marvel is maintaining that it wasn't the clone Gwen Stacy who conceived children with the Green Goblin in a previously unrevealed illicit tryst.
Nope, writer JMS (and Marvel) claim it was the real Gwen.
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quote: Marvel is maintaining that it wasn't the clone Gwen Stacy who conceived children with the Green Goblin in a previously unrevealed illicit tryst.
I know. I'm in full-on denial. In fact, my Spiderman fix is coming exclusively from Ultimate and Marvel Knights now.
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quote:Originally posted by Enigmatic: This kind of thing is why I tend to read independant or standalone mini-series comics in trade paperback collection form.
And miss out on all the good storylines in the core titles?
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Aeroth, a clarification on "standalone miniseries" : I'll read a storyline from one of the core titles if it stands alone as a complete story arc. For instance, I recently got the 2 Batman "Hush" trades (mainly because Book mentioned them in a different thread). That works as a story all by itself, and you don't miss out on much by not following the title each month. I didn't know who Huntress was, for example, but that didn't seem to matter much.
I haven't bought a comic book on a monthly basis since (don't hit me!) Spawn, back in issues 1-50 when it was kinda cool. Okay, that's probably more issues than it was good, but it took me a while to stop. Now most of things I read are more like Marvel 1602 or Dark Knight Returns, where there's a story and it has an ending and the place in the larger continuity isn't really important.
Excellent jokes in this...about a certain Canadian super-hero and his insane schedule, about Emma Frost being Emma Frost...and a special cameo by Sammy the Fishboy!
(Don't ask. Be glad you didn't read his stories, if you don't recognize him.)
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