#x books

[bookshelvesandtealeaves]

📚 “X” STACK 📚

QOTD: Do you know any books starting with X? Any you’d recommend?

I’ve read XOXO by Axie Oh and didn’t love it so unhauled it years ago.

Here is my single X book:

- XOXO by Christina Lee

[newx-menfan]

Fan-Favorite New X-Men Won't Get Their Own Series For One Depressing Reason

Marvel reveals why the New X-Men aren't getting a new book.

God do I feel brain dead just reading that explaination 🙄🙄🙄

Sooo…it used to be that the New X-Men weren’t “sellable” despite cult popularity AND good sales numbers during their run …then it was that they weren’t A-list characters, despite the x-office now pushing characters like “X-Men 2099”… and NOW it’s that they’re too “old” and therefore “unwritable”…

The funniest thing about this is…has ANY “newly created characters” lasted very long enough to even be developed before being cast aside anyway? 🤭

Trinary was thrown in the dust bin after Tom Taylor’s “X-Men Red”…

Rasputin was a “look or you’ll miss it”…

The only memorable “5 Lights” was Oya and Hope…

Eyeboy, Kid Gladiator, Hindsight and the others are just wallpaper, same as the New X-Men…

Bendis’s teen team never took off except for kinda Glodballs (mainly because he was in Spider-Man) and Tempus…

Like NONE of them were EVER consistently pushed or developed ANYWAY- none of them are “learning” because none of them even really seem to matter for more than a couple runs. Like this whole thing is utterly ridiculous to me because if fans HAD to choose…most would rather just see New Mutants/ the original Generation X/Academy X than these frankly soulless creations that aren’t going to become the next Kitty/Jubilee/Jean/ect anyway.

(Also you can totally tell the NXM are pretty popular SOLELY because it’s popped up in Screenrant AND AIPT Q+A’s regularly… let’s just pray that the Disney overlords at the very least will pick up on the popularity as marketable and make an animated series out of it!)

[newx-menfan]

I just need an “Academy X” or an “X-23” (where Liu never happened) book to happen to make my life complete 😜

[newx-menfan]

Seriously I thought the whole point of Krakoa was to get RID of Death as cheap tension Hickman…

[newx-menfan]

[newx-menfan]

FWIW, Tini Howard and Jordan White have been around giving interviews to AIPT and XavierFiles lately, and insist that the X-Men line is under Hickman's control now, and that he doesn't give plot directives to his collaborators and built X of Swords around what the other writers wanted to do with their books. So if we take them at their word, Leah presumably really wants to write stories killing/traumatizing the surviving New X-Men for w/e reason

I’m just going to drop this old interview from Kelly Thompson on “Age of X-Man” here...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo46hfhmkwM&t=1029s&app=desktop

Of COURSE they aren’t going to say editorial is controling the line, because that SOUNDS BAD...

I’m more inclined to believe the multiple writers (Thompson, Lemire, Grace, ect) that have hinted that this is indeed a thing, especially since the commonalities with X-Men stories in the last few years are pretty dang glaring...

So I personally will give Leah a bit of a pass...that being said- I pulled ‘X-Factor’ off my pull list after Santo’s pointless semi-death.

[newx-menfan]

Why can't they just *say* "our creators just aren't interested in writing the new x-men, we'll reconsider a relaunch when we hear the right pitch"? People would probably respect that a lot more than just being lied to, and getting told weird nonsense excuses like "we can't make Surge an X-Man because Wolverine and Storm wouldn't respect a former student" (said without irony during the Blue/Gold era)

Because they know fans will call them out on it. 

Nunzio DeFilippis/Christina Weir said at one point they’d be willing to write for them again, Kris Anka was DYING to do them when he still worked with Marvel, and Seanan McGuire has stated her love for Surge and several other NXM...

You can only argue you haven’t gotten a good ‘pitch’ for so long...and the X-Office KNOWS fans would eventually bring up the blatant reason they won’t do NXM- it’s too diverse.

They don’t want to do a title that would include LGBTQIA, disabled, and people of color as the main characters that could potentially compete with their A-List X-Men...

So they’ll find any other excuses for it, so they don’t have to state the clear reason WHY NXM hasn’t been brought back, despite being heavily requested by fans AND it selling well during it’s run...