So now Wolverine's a woman, and the X-Men are the Scooby gang.

[enyawd72]

Another X-Men reboot...This just isn't even funny anymore.

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[monitor_ep]

Which is why I stopped reading comic books.

[emeraldknight47]

Welcome to another case of the Disneyfication of the Marvel Universe. With all of the changes the MU has gone through recently (some worse than others, but all taking the characters we've all grown up with further and further from their established personas), can there be any doubt that this truly is a slow takeover of what we have loved by Disney and an attempt to make it all warm and fuzzy and family-friendly safe? I have no way of knowing for sure, but I would put even money on sometimes in the next decade or so, Marvel characters will be interwoven and integrated into the existing Disneyverse and the characters we've loved will be long gone, only available in back issues of comics when they were still comics worth reading...

[Gorn Captain]

Which is why I stopped reading comic books.

Welcome to my world!
I only read old comic books...

[VintageMike]

Said ti before I'll say it again. I'm ore than happy to drop stuff when they do stupid nonsense. There are still a handful of books I like and it's enough. As long as I have an average of four books to pick up a week, I'm good. Much easier since one thing that are getting right is "Star Wars".

[TrekStar]

A gender bender Wolverine, gotta love today's world, just a head shaker for sure.

[hedrap]

If you read any convention panel coverage, the common theme has been how the grieveance industry has put Marvel and DC editors on their heels. At first, some points like "fridging" female characters as a plot point were quite valid. But now it's gone way overboard, to where Quesada was arguably begging the NYCC crowd like he was the guy in Office Space screaming "I'm a people person"!

It's killing not just comics, but a lot of industries. They're patronizing groups which business studies have shown are not reliable and if they do show up, it's never enough to offset the core audience losses. Articles just this week were covering how McDonald's is in a death spiral because current management decided they needed to pander to a constituent which no matter what changes are made, will never considered McD's an option.

Marvel can only go this far because Disney is subsidizing this endeavor for IP. If they were independent and tried this, it would be the late 90's all over again, with hostile takeovers and bankruptcy fights. Ms Marvel started this trend, but that was a natural extension on that character and while the sales have been solid, they're not skyrocket like the hype leads to believe.

The irony is what Quesada encountered. He was pleading, listening all the identity changes they've made and the collective response was "it's just a trend and they'll drop it when the trend ends". So where the publisher decides to acknowledge the grieveance by risking their flagship trademarks to embody the changes, the aggrieved say it's insincere for not creating a new character. Kobayashi Maru.

[Etrigan]

Is X-23 as the new Wolverine and Wolverine from the 616 is been dead for quite a while now. She took the role of the new Wolverine per his death request. The story goes after the X-men took in X-23 he trained her to be more a hero and less assassin. Which if you follow both characters modernly makes sense she wanted to change. The All New Wolverine solo book is actually decent feels like a Larry Hama Wolverine book. The only Wolverine that remains is Old Man Logan. I havent read the whole new X-men book but Xtraordinary is Xmen is alright and is more like a classic X-men Book. The Inhuman drop the terragen myst around the Earth and is sterilizing mutants so the X-men are sheltering the remaining mutants. Basically X-men versus Inhumans.