MARVEL EASTER TRADE TREATS

[Eric J. Moreels]

{Originally posted at X-Fan v3.0 on January 11, 2002}

<a href="http://x-mencomics.com/xfan/images/covers/xxmsl1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://x-mencomics.com/xfan/images/covers/xxmsl1t.jpg" align=left alt="X-Treme X-Men: Savage Land #1"></a>According to the latest issue of Diamond Comics Distributors' Previews catalog (Vol XII #1), Marvel Comics are set to release four new X-Men and related trade paperbacks in April 2001.

April 3 sees the release of the X-Treme X-Men: Savage Land TPB, collecting the recent limited series by writer Chris Claremont and artist Kevin Sharpe in a 96-page trade.

Also on that date, the Essential Marvel Team-Up TPB debuts, collecting the first 20 issues of the original Marvel Team-Up series which featured Spider-Man teaming up with the heroes of the Marvel Universe, including the X-Men. This mammoth 528-page trade will be printed in black-and-white and feature talents such as Roy Thomas, Len Wein, and Gil Kane.

A new printing of the X-Men: Mutant Genesis TPB will arrive on April 10, collecting the first 7 issues of the second X-Men series by Chris Claremont and Jim Lee in a 176-page trade.

Last but not least for April, the "Return To Weapon X" story arc from Ultimate X-Men #8-12 by writer Mark Millar and artists Adam Kubert and Tom Raney will be collected in the 144-page Ultimate X-Men Vol. 2 TPB.

Pre-order these trades online now from X-World Comics and save! (http://www.x-worldcomics.com/x/bstore/tpbxmen.html)

[daedsiluap]

Note to Marvel.
Re: The X-Treme X-Men: Savage Land Trade Paperback

First off, don't bother.

Second off, to ensure good relations, make sure you include in the copywrite info that Alan Moore had nothing to do with it.

[xtremexman]

I am really looking forward to getting the X Treme X Men trade. I missed that whole entire mini series, and I am not about to miss the trade. I just love what Chris Claremont has done with the X Treme team, and I would have to say that I can't resist getting more of his work. The guy just isn't a god, Chris Claremont IS God.

[daedsiluap]

God is God.
Chris Claremont is inconsistent. If you can read the Savage Land trade and still deify him, you must be reading it wrong.

Don't get me wrong, I like Chris Claremont and X-Treme. I think he's done much better there than he did last year in the X-mens. And I liked his take on the FF. However, Savage Land was a disaster.

[Al Harahap]

Originally posted by daedsiluap
God is God.
Chris Claremont is inconsistent. If you can read the Savage Land trade and still deify him, you must be reading it wrong.

Don't get me wrong, I like Chris Claremont and X-Treme. I think he's done much better there than he did last year in the X-mens. And I liked his take on the FF. However, Savage Land was a disaster.

I have to agree with you that X-Treme Savage Land was a disaster. However, I don't think Chris is in anyway to blame. At times when he's asked about "future plans of characters," he sometimes states apathetically (aww!) that it always depends on the other two xore X-writers' plans and if there's any lynching of characters involved. The whole premise for Savage Land printed as a mini was that it had already been so far developed that it was too late to pull out, but they had to explain why Beast was no longer with the team, because Morrison wanted to use him in his book. Now, considering all that messiness, he wasn't given much to work around with, and the fact that Marvel always treats Chris' book as the bastard child among their golden girls New and Uncanny, I think he's done all a dignified writer can do. Blame it on the editor.s

[Ryan Scott]

Originally posted by Karma
I have to agree with you that X-Treme Savage Land was a disaster. However, I don't think Chris is in anyway to blame...Blame it on the editor.s ?!? That's right, let's conveniently shift the entire blame onto the editorial department and let Claremont still shine like gold. :rolleyes: Please....he WAS the writer. It's not like this was ghost-penned or anything. He WROTE this mini. Thus, part, if not most, of it's failure should be on his shoulders. For all the talk that they are Morrison and Casey's ( *sniff* ) toys, Claremont WAS able to use Beast for this mini. The only editorial mishap in this case was the switching of editors mid-story ( though, it's a miniseries. Shouldn't it have been all plotted out anyway? ), thus shifting the focus and "editorial eye" on where it was heading. That does not mean CC is an "innocent". And it shocks and appalls me to see you so callously sweep it under the rug like that. Writers have off-moments. IT HAPPENS. This was one of CC's (IMO).

[xtremexman]

Originally posted by daedsiluap
God is God.
Chris Claremont is inconsistent. If you can read the Savage Land trade and still deify him, you must be reading it wrong.

Don't get me wrong, I like Chris Claremont and X-Treme. I think he's done much better there than he did last year in the X-mens. And I liked his take on the FF. However, Savage Land was a disaster.

Keep in mind that when I said Chris Claremont is God that was just a figure of speech. I don't care what anybody says - I love his work on X Treme X Men, and that includes the Savage Land mini series. The work he did in Uncanny X Men and X Men was great, but his work in X Treme X Men now is even better. His run on Fantastic Four was excellent to say the least, because I collected those issues as well. And by the way - Savage Land was not a disaster.

[Ryan Scott]

Originally posted by xtremexman
I don't care what anybody says - I love his work on X Treme X Men, and that includes the Savage Land mini series. Um........you just said you never read XXM:SL. How is it that you "love" it when you've admitted to never reading it?

[xtremexman]

Originally posted by MabusRex
Um........you just said you never read XXM:SL. How is it that you "love" it when you've admitted to never reading it?

I have read summaries of each issue. I followed the mini series even though I didn't collect it. Now that I know what to expect, I am anxious to buy the trade paperback. Does that answer your question?

[Ryan Scott]

Yes, but you can understand my confusion. When someone says they "missed" something, that usually implies that they didn't read it.

[xtremexman]

Originally posted by MabusRex
Yes, but you can understand my confusion. When someone says they "missed" something, that usually implies that they didn't read it.

I understand you confusion, but let me clarify something for you. Technically, I did miss the mini. I didn't collect a single issue, therefore I did not spend money on it. Sure, I didn't read it - but I did follow each issue of the mini.