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Milligan: Let’s see… Sentinels, check. Apocalypse, check. Former villain showing up and claiming they want to join/help the X-Men, check. What other old plot elements can I recycle? I know; I’ll have a first-string X-Man become one of Apocalypse’s horsemen!
Larroca: Oooh! Oooh! Does this mean I can draw Gambit without a shirt on again?
Milligan: Go to town.
Apparently, Salvador Larroca’s consuming ambition is to draw Gambit shirtless and/or naked in at least every other issue of X-Men. This strikes me as a good ambition (well, with the possible exception of the shower scene in issue #171, which managed to combine nekkid Gambit with nekkid Mystique and give me creepy flashbacks to Psycho).
Since I’ve got a thing for characters doing sleazy/morally questionable things in the service of good, I am tentatively in favor of Horseman!Gambit. For one thing, he’ll make a better Death than Warren, and we know from Warren’s example that they can probably de-Horseman him later.
If they handle it right. Being Marvel, and notThe Saga of Batman’s Emo Woe DC, there’s about a 60/40 chance on that. Of course, there's also a 40/60 chance that this whole "Civil War" thing will turn out to be the Marvel-verse version of "Infinite Crisis."
And you damn well better handle it right, Marvel. You’ve already killed off half my reason for reading in Ultimate X-Men, and everybody I ever cared about in X-Men: The End (granted, in a not-entirely-sucky way). Screw things up here, and you’ve lost me. No longer will I stand around in bookstores and read your comics without buying them! I may actually go over tothe Dark Side of the Force DC.
I am still disappointed, however, that this whole "Civil War" storyline thing of Marvel's isn't an AU series along the lines of "1602," that sticks everybody back during the real Civil War. Because the only thing hotter than Scott and Bishop in Union blue would be Gambit in a Confederate officer's uniform. Peter Parker could be an old-school photographer, along the lines of Matthew Brady, Reed Richards could be a vaguely Edison-like Victorian mad scientist, and Magneto would kick John Brown's ass when it comes to being a rabble-rousing zealot.
Larroca: Oooh! Oooh! Does this mean I can draw Gambit without a shirt on again?
Milligan: Go to town.
Apparently, Salvador Larroca’s consuming ambition is to draw Gambit shirtless and/or naked in at least every other issue of X-Men. This strikes me as a good ambition (well, with the possible exception of the shower scene in issue #171, which managed to combine nekkid Gambit with nekkid Mystique and give me creepy flashbacks to Psycho).
Since I’ve got a thing for characters doing sleazy/morally questionable things in the service of good, I am tentatively in favor of Horseman!Gambit. For one thing, he’ll make a better Death than Warren, and we know from Warren’s example that they can probably de-Horseman him later.
If they handle it right. Being Marvel, and not
And you damn well better handle it right, Marvel. You’ve already killed off half my reason for reading in Ultimate X-Men, and everybody I ever cared about in X-Men: The End (granted, in a not-entirely-sucky way). Screw things up here, and you’ve lost me. No longer will I stand around in bookstores and read your comics without buying them! I may actually go over to
I am still disappointed, however, that this whole "Civil War" storyline thing of Marvel's isn't an AU series along the lines of "1602," that sticks everybody back during the real Civil War. Because the only thing hotter than Scott and Bishop in Union blue would be Gambit in a Confederate officer's uniform. Peter Parker could be an old-school photographer, along the lines of Matthew Brady, Reed Richards could be a vaguely Edison-like Victorian mad scientist, and Magneto would kick John Brown's ass when it comes to being a rabble-rousing zealot.
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That would be utterly, utterly brilliant.
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