Posted: 02 February 2016 at 11:50am | IP Logged | 8
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The absence of Ben and Johnny is keenly felt.
Years ago, when Claremont was ousted from the X-Men in favor of Jim Lee and the Boyz 2 Image, I sent a letter to Marvel recommending they give him the Inhumans. The outsider themes, close ties, and general make-up of the group made them a near match for the Merry Mutants, I felt.
You had the dark costumed, taciturn leader in the half-face mask whose power was a curse; you had the regal woman with the massive flowing hair (and right next door, her cousin whose elemental powers could be used for weather control); You had the water-based character, the big, strong, often-thought-simple strongman, the thin, wiry one, capable of incisive humor. There's even a wild man who had three-point claws on the back of his hands before Wolverine came about... (Leonus, created in 1968) You could put Crystal and Lockjaw in the place of Kitty and Lockheed. How long before a lettering mishap conflated the two?
I thought it would be a pretty good match between characters and writer. I did not say that I thought all of that stilted "warrior ethic, heart's desire, no quarter asked none given" nonsense would sound better coming from pseudo-alien royalty than the X-Men. I thought an Inhumans-in-place-of-the-X-Men book would be a lot of fun.
I didn't pin any hopes on such a thing, however, since I suspected that with characters he'd invested so much time and effort into having been taken out of his hands, an X-Men style team might be the last thing Claremont would want to do... Then he created the Sovereign Seven for DC...
It is interesting to me that now that Marvel has essentially switched out the two teams, the Inhumans today bear almost no resemblance to the team as it stood then, in membership or story premise.
Regarding the t-shirt again, I do appreciate the fact that the Sentry and Jewel (AKA Jessica Jones) haven't been shoe-horned in somewhere...
Edited by Brian Hague on 02 February 2016 at 11:57am
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