Truly one of the great X-Men runs of all time. Amazing to launch a book with Rogue leading Mystique, Sabertooth, Lady Mastermind, and Cable…and then get even darker and more humanizing by focusing on the worst parts of Xavier in the most postmodern way.
Thank you for this. Character for me is something I want to be able to get stronger at building and/ or finding their voice to write about them. Chip Zdarsky’s BATMAN has some great character arcs for Bruce Wayne/ BATMAN that I find interesting to read about.
I wish Marvel would put out some decent collections of the LEGACY run, instead of just the hardcovers that collect, like, four issues a piece. But yeah, Carey's was the book that kept me reading the line at that time, Fraction being one of the kind of writers you mentioned who, despite being hugely talented—and killing it on like three other Marvel titles right around the same time—never really worked as an X-writer.
I am, incidentally, very curious who you'd put on that list. I suspect we're thinking of a bunch of the same folks.
Thanks for another great newsletter! I’m a big fan of Mike Carey’s Vertigo work, and I think you hit on why his strategy for some of his best characters there (Neil Gaiman’s take on Lucifer, various literary figures in Unwritten) also made him such a great fit for the X-Men, by getting to their essence.
Truly one of the great X-Men runs of all time. Amazing to launch a book with Rogue leading Mystique, Sabertooth, Lady Mastermind, and Cable…and then get even darker and more humanizing by focusing on the worst parts of Xavier in the most postmodern way.
Thank you for this. Character for me is something I want to be able to get stronger at building and/ or finding their voice to write about them. Chip Zdarsky’s BATMAN has some great character arcs for Bruce Wayne/ BATMAN that I find interesting to read about.
I wish Marvel would put out some decent collections of the LEGACY run, instead of just the hardcovers that collect, like, four issues a piece. But yeah, Carey's was the book that kept me reading the line at that time, Fraction being one of the kind of writers you mentioned who, despite being hugely talented—and killing it on like three other Marvel titles right around the same time—never really worked as an X-writer.
I am, incidentally, very curious who you'd put on that list. I suspect we're thinking of a bunch of the same folks.
I thought Carey's LUCIFER was a masterwork. I didn't follow him to the X-stuff, because I have allergies. :)
Thanks for another great newsletter! I’m a big fan of Mike Carey’s Vertigo work, and I think you hit on why his strategy for some of his best characters there (Neil Gaiman’s take on Lucifer, various literary figures in Unwritten) also made him such a great fit for the X-Men, by getting to their essence.