It was a good week.

Battle For The Cowl wrapped up(no surprises, except for Tim's miraculous armor).  The grand finale of, "Who Is Superwoman?" left more questions, which is awesome.  And that really covered my DCU side of the spectrum.


As for MARVEL, it was "X-Men week" for most of their followers.  I haven't really paid much attention to LEGACY, but I have collected UNCANNY all my life.  I was siked to add #510 to the collection, but Greg Land = "Weak Sauce".  That whole ELIXER/CUCKOOS scenario was rather unnecessary(you know, with him also being involved in MESSIAH WAR, almost 1,000 years in the future).  And Land's "copy and paste" style has really bummed me out.  I'm a fan of Terry Dodson, wish we had more of him. 

I'm also a fan of Chris Claremont and Jim Lee's X-Men.  And this week, it was pretty dope to see Jim Lee's art on the cover of a Marvel comic book with Claremont's name print above his, and the "X-MEN" to the right.  X-MEN FOREVER ALPHA is basically the deluxe edition of X-MEN Vol. 2 #1, as well as issues two and three.  There was also a little tease into Chris Claremont's X-MEN FOREVER on sale in June.  After almost twenty years, X-Men #1-3 was Claremont's final arc of an X-Men story.  He's since come back to the X-family over the years, and done various stories/titles.  He even came back to Uncanny X-Men a few years back introing X-23 to the Uncanny-world. 

I think that FOREVER is a great concept.  Let's see what Chris Claremont would've done had he not left the title.  He's had 18 years to think about it.  You have to take into consideration all that has actually gone on in the X-Men's lives.  Calremont's going to have to bounce off of that a bit.  And with what's on the last page of ALPHA, he may be losing readers...or gaining more.  I'm not going to give anything away, but the character obliterated is a poster-person of the X-Men community.  Whether this person is dead or not, whomever did it, is powerful as hell.

But back to the reprinting of X-Men #1-3.  Don't you think that it would've been dope if they had gone in and recolered the issues themselves?  Like a "re-mastered" version of a classic series in a classic time period for Marvel Comics.  And that got me thinking that Marvel should do that with some classic tales from the late 80's-early 90's.  Like McFarlane's SPIDER-MAN, any of it.  Or Walt Simonson's FANTASTIC FOUR.

I do like that they "re-mastered" Jim Lee's classic shot of "X-Men '91"s cast of characters.  I will definitely be picking up the door poster. 

Does anyone else think that they should "re-master" old Marvel works?  Or should they just be left alone?  I say bring on some fresh looks on old classics!