Another X-Men story I'm trying to remember, JB...

...something about you and Chris maybe working together again on X-Men...

...I think it was X-Men: The End...something like that...

...but before the deal was actually made, Marvel announced the project...

...something about a Brinks truck...

...does any of that ring a bell...???

JB,

What was your favorite look for the original X-Men?

I have always been a big fan of the original school uniforms.

Nathan wrote:>When I was a kid, I used to look at that FF poster for hours... I wanted something just like it, but something... different!

MY god, I LOVE this! The FF poster has been in my possesion for nearly 30 years and it's still one of my favourite every pieces of art. This is just a beautiful version of that and I love all the little touches of humour.

...something about you and Chris maybe working together again on X-Men...

...I think it was X-Men: The End...something like that...

...but before the deal was actually made, Marvel announced the project...

...something about a Brinks truck...

...does any of that ring a bell...???

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Yes -- tho I don't remember what the project was. (Dragged to the trash, I guess, when I didn't happen.)

I DO recall either Quesada or Jemas, in the fan press, when someone suggested the project was maybe something I would not want to do, saying they would "back up a Brinks truck" to my door. At which point I told them even the most vanishingly small chance of my doing it had evaporated as soon as they said that.

I have always been a big fan of the original school uniforms.

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Those would absolutely be my favorites, too.

One of the things I was looking forward too on HIDDEN YEARS was "catching up" to the period, during the reprint days, when the X-Men, appearing in other books, would be in their school uniforms. This apparently was a deliberate choice, so that readers would not be "confused" by them being in those costumes in their home title, and something else when they appeared elsewhere. I'd come up with an "internal" reason for them to go back to the original uniforms (seeds were already sown in the issues that came out). Plus, I had figured out a way for the Beast to return for a while, after he turned gray and furry, and still look like his old self.

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One of the lesser flaws of the FF poster is that it did not occur to me to include any "interaction" among the characters. About the closest thing to such is Franklin clearly enjoying being lifted up on that platform, and Medusa looking in disgust at the Frightful Four, but unlike Nathan's piece, the characters otherwise might as well be cardboard cut-outs.

Probably some part of my brain was being too "logical", thinking that "interaction" in a gathering like that (if such a thing could even HAPPEN!) would be in the nature of a giant battle scene!

Putting aside the cost factor (which is considerable to me) I am now drooling at the thought of other similar ideas...an Alpha Flight version based on the 28 issues...a Next Men version...etc...

Oh man I wish I was rich.

It's a bit like those DOCTOR WHO fans whose heads exploded trying to fit "The Curse of Fatal Death" into Whovian "continuity".