Posted by Pseudo at spider-mtc-th011.proxy.aol.com on July 30, 2001 at 15:08:10:
In Reply to: thanks and thoughts about "sell outs" posted by Dead_By_Dawn on July 30, 2001 at 13:15:12:
The X-Men, and the selling out, there-in.
Well, let's put it this way. Had the movie been a bomb, and not a surprise smash hit in the theatres, Wolverine would still be wearing his yellow spandex, and the X-Men wouldn't try so hard to look hip in their black leather, all of them with a new, harder edge. Morrison is trying to combine elements from The Matrix and The Invisibles, and it's not THAT bad...I feel it's very overrated, though. X-fans bash Joe Casey on Uncanny, but praise Morrison on New X-Men. The margin between them is very thin, so I don't get it. Granted, Morrison has scored some huge hits, namely with Animal Man and Doom Patrol, but still, New X-Men has this "been done" aura to it. Of course, Grant SWEARS that those responsible for The Matrix stole his ideas found in the Invisibles.
Back to the "selling out" thing. Quesada and Jemas are trying to draw in the fans of the movie, and have X-fans prior to the movie just go along with the flow, since no matter how the book is, a great many have loyalty to it, and will keep buying it. Marvel figures the millions of dollars worth of money grossed in the movie will be akin to the numbers generated through comic sales, if the characters look and act similar to how they did in the movie. Comic sales are on a decline, and Marvel DID sell out, if such a thing exists. They opted to say "fuck you" to all past fans and the original incarnation of the X-Men, and have conceived this contrived movie version of all the characters. Thus, essentially retconning the past, and reinstating ideas from the movie as canonical.