In case your not aware, I'm kind of as aspiring comic book writer....heavy on the aspire, light on the writing so far. I've written a couple short stories, but in mainstream comics you rarely get to work on original properties. You work on more established characters, Spider-Man, Batman, Hulk, etc. So as kind of as exercise I like to think of what I would do, what stories would I write if given the keys to the castle as it were, what would I add to the "lives" of these characters.
My favorite growing up was always the X-Men, over the years I've had a few ideas of what I would do. I thought I might share them, and perhaps some of my others.
1)Powerless
My Plan was to have the X-Men lose their powers for a year, and just take the time to really explore how their powers have come to define them, and how living a normal life would be joyous for some, terrible for others, and others would just lose it. Plus just to see them try to handle powerful problems in crazy new ways without their powers, to prove that powers didn't make them heroes
Take someone like Rouge there are so many ways to play it, she could stay reclusive being so used to being unable to touch, she could go hogwild become a Wild Party Girl if you will, without her powers to manage the different thoughts of people she's touched, could drive her crazy. I'd like to see her become the wild party girl, she's never been able to touch so now she'd wanna be around people all the time, do things she hasn't been able to, and probably go overkill and make some decisions she's regret. It would be emotionally interesting and possibly a way to take her Ms. Marvel Powers away, the Invulnerability, Flight, Strength, make her character simpler, I mean she can always borrow those powers again from someone else, and that whats interesting about her power.
Wolverine I'd have him go and hide himself away, he has so many enemies who you know would take advantage of his situation, a lot of who he is is based on the fact he's not afraid because, he knows he's gonna survive take that away and he'd change...a lot.
Some examples, I've had this idea for a while and one writer did this story, kind of, he took all mutants powers away for about a year, but it was only a 3 issue story. We saw them lose them, then bam it was a year later and they went on a mission to get them back.
2)Total Relaunch
Now this one I came up with not as just a storyline, but just a total relaunch of concept. There being so many mutants (at least their were) and my hatred of leaving good characters on the sidelines so we can tell another Wolverine story, or having Jean Grey die again.
I'd have kind of a "final" story, basically give the X-Men the worst day they've ever had, having the team reasses if their needs to be an X-Men, or if their might be be better ways for them to spend their time, to help others. If their are no X-Men they can't be attacked. Some of the characters getting older and wantng to move on in their lives. Which would culminate in Xavier being to sick to be apart of it. Beast taking a hospital job, taking care of Xavier, and possibly ending in Xavier's death. If would end with them disbanding, decreeing "The X-Men are Dead". With the last panel being someone watching them on a monitor (in the shadows of course) saying "Long live the X-Men"
The next issue would take place like 6 months later, and begin with some mutant related hostage situation. We see Cyclops in a suit and tie in a government type building being informed of the situation, he then goes to his personal office with the breifing on the hostage situation. To which he starts debating to himself who he might need. And he contacts 4 of 5 specific mutants (or former X-Men) getting the breifest glimpse of what they've been up to since the X-Men. Then like Mission Impossible he selects a team of people with the talents he needs. They run a mission etc. Next mission another group of people. Just trying to feature many different characters, and eventually lead up to mysteries about "Agency X" and how it was formed who's in charge.
Just what I feel would be a much needed change, since the X-Men are generally a mystery group to the World at large, make them really stealthy, have them not really wear costumes, try to keep their identities secret as much as they can. Something I feel they haven't bothered with for a long time.
Thats all for now, I'm sad this post took as long as it did to make.
