X-men

X-men is a popular comic book concept of a team comprised of superheroes, and was invented by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, but it’s owned by marvel. The comic book’s issue #1 was published in September 1963.

The thing about comic book characters owned by comic book companies is that they are bound to be altered. These alterations can be very minor to major. If a comic book company gains ownership to a character or comic concept, the company can now assign any creator that they deem fit to work on the concept. The creator selected can either stick with the original concept, expand on it or can also choose to go another direction. With the X-men concept we have many different creators who have worked on it over the course of its existence.

INVOLVED CREATORS

There is Stan Lee and Jack Kirby who were the original creators of the work. Others involved in the writing of the concept over the years include: Roy Thomas, Chris Claremont, Scott Lobdell, Steven T. Seagle, Alan Davis, Joe Casey, Chuck Austen and Ed Brubaker (2006 writer). Those involved in the X-men art after Jack Kirby include: Werner Roth, Neal Adams, Dave Cockrum, John Byrne, Dave Cockrum, Paul smith, John Romita, Marc Sivestri, Jim Lee, Joe Madureira, Alan Davis and Chris Bachalo (2005-2006 artist). Even with these listed writers and artists there are even more who were involved with the X-men, in terms of plots and featured characters.

THE FANS

Fans of this comic book are familiar with the original X-men, Uncanny Xmen, Ultimate Xmen and the current Astonishing X-men. The Xmen title has even been adapted into animated series in the early to late 90s and another animated variation called X-men Evolution in 2000. Not only has it been animated but it has also been a comic book movie, with its current release called X-men: The Last Stand.

Now, with an accomplished work like the Xmen, one has to be careful in making sure they keep the personalities, meaning, and individual storyline of the primary characters intact. This is very crucial because this can determine the likeability of the whole comic and not just the character. Even with a comic book like X-men with different variations and alternate worlds, the most popular concept is the team in the natural marvel world.

Many people have developed a love for the comic book and the characters in the Xmen team. The true X-men fans who liked these characters do not only like their abilities but like the plots and themes developed for each character on the team. In other words, it is the personality of the characters, not just the powers, that allowed us to be able to determine who we most like and who we least like. The storyline developed for each character then gives us an opportunity to look into these characters, and learn why these characters are the way they are. A good storyline explains their lives and events that transpired with the characters, which gives us a little insight as to why the character say what they say, do what they do and even why they possess the abilities they manifest? This is vital due to the fact that not all the characters were born to obtain the powers they currently hold.

With all that said, we need to understand the importance of the characters, as to what roles he or she plays in a team like the Xmen. This is critical because the factor that a character’s personality adds to a team can prove to be priceless.

Think about it, if someone comes along and switch personalities of the primary characters you would not like that character anymore because it is not the person you liked. To take it even farther you would not only dislike the character but you may now dislike that whole comic book for the reason that everything has been manipulated from the original you liked.

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STICKING WITH THE STORYLINE

This is also the situation for comic book movies. Comic book fans want to see in the theaters the comic book they grew to love, not something different. The X1 and X2 movies were directed by the same director, while X3: the last stand was directed by a different director. Comic book fans immediately saw the difference in the three X-men movies. Many were highly disappointed and many were satisfied.

Reading many reviews and talking to those who liked and disliked the movie I was able to decipher those who may like the movie and those who may hate the movie. Anyone who views the Xmen comic book concept as just a bunch of mutants with cool powers would like the X3 movie, because it includes a lot of mutants displaying some of their powers. With the special effects it makes it that much more engaging and real.

Those who also understand the unstableness, uncertainty, or unpredictable nature of the marvel universe would tolerate this movie and may even try to comprehend the core meaning of the movie and the comic, which ties into “acceptance.”

For those who like the X-men for the storyline, personality and plots of each character, may find the X3 movie highly disappointing. This is so for the reason that too much is happening in too little time and too many people to cover in too little time. The only way this could work is to compromise the storyline as well as some of the comic book characters. It is like you are trying to fit an eight hour movie into one hour and forty minutes.

We all know that making comic book movies can be difficult. That is why we have to stick with what works and worked. Visual effects work, and the original comic book story worked, unless it won’t have had as many fans as it did and wouldn’t be considered to be translated into film.