I always figured the "out" was that Xavier was there, and was telepathically making everyone think Magneto was dead so he could quietly take him away and get him off the drugs.

Bring back the pre-1995 X-Men…in those costumes. Problem solved.

I suspect they will mostly to avoid the criticism that what is now the most prominent gay Marvel character leads a basically chaste and unfulfilling romantic life. It's even a legitimate criticism, to some extent.

The Wolverine thing is even dumber than that: the argument was that the Avengers needed someone capable of killing when it was necessary, a decision they took right around the time most of them had started occasionally killing bad guys int heir solo titles. And then Wolverine *never actually has to kill anyone anyway*.

Making Cyclops militant is fine, but they need to play him as ambiguous rather than basically harmless and confused about what "militant" actually means.

Still and all, there's "mutants as people with one or two powers that make them a bit freaky" and then there's "mutants whose powers are ridiculous do-everything abilities that make them cosmic demigods."

They let Warren Ellis write it, so it might just work.

Well, it was chock full of Norman Osborn hyping himself as a hero and being scum behind closed doors, while the Sentry slowly went crazier. And Ares got a spotlight issue. But the rest of them were pretty much the usual band of interchangeable snarkers in the background, and it was actually a *running gag* that…

For an event that involved pretty mush every acclaimed "star" writer Marvel had at the time, AvX is a horrible, cobbled-together mess that ends up contradicting the stated intentions of the creators.

That whole story was inane; the Phoenix has been wiping out life on every planet it passes on its way to Earth, but Cyclops is sure it won't do that here. The Avengers, meanwhile, show up and start a fight against a small nation of super-powered people thanks to Captain America apparently switching minds with Ultimate…

Aaron's run was fun for a while, but most people I know think the "evil little kids as archenemies" thing got old fast, especially since half of them were one-dimensional ciphers.

I think the editorial environment he likes is also long gone; for a writer who likes to build stories within a consistent "world," the Big Two are a bad place to work right now. Marvel's has their "star writers can ignore or change whatever they want, everyone else falls in line belatedly" policy, and DC just throws…

Even that run shows a lot of seams if you reread it knowing were Bendis ended up. Once Matt declares himself the new Kingpin, there's a lot of time-filling nonsense (albeit beautifully drawn) that does very little with the concept until "The Murdock Papers," and that arc ends on a cliffhanger that the next writer has…

So…Astro City: The Movie?

Or alternatively, the FF is Doctor Who + Pacific Rim + Guardians of the Galaxy.

Though they also have enough "kooky nutjobs who cause bigger problems" that this is something to work around. There are monster,s sure, but the guy running them is just the Mole Man.

I dunno, there's a reason FF villains have tended to spread out tot he rest of the Marvel Universe; they're a big wacky concept farm. But I think a movie focusing on the "imaginauts" idea would be better; stop trying to make the Avengers or Chronicle and aim for something with the tone and scope of Guardians of the…

"Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest" is just complaining; how was he to know what would happen because of a couple of overzealous eavesdroppers?

Please explain how the following is actually about ISIS: "When we get home, access to sex is strictly controlled by the woman. If the woman has additional preferences in terms of temperature, beverages, and whatnot, the man generally complies. If I fall in love and want to propose, I am expected to do so on my knees,…

"When we get home, access to sex is strictly controlled by the woman." - Scott Adams