X-men!

[stormkeeper_lovedoris]

I'm enjoying two X-men things.

My BFF got me this X-men TV show thing from Japan. It's really good. I'm only about half the way through it, but the plot has me engaged and the characters are fairly true to form. Storm is a little bland and 'perfect' but I guess you can say that about many Storm incarnations. There's this group of baddies called the U-men who are like an anti-mutant hate group, who capture mutants and use their powers against them and other mutants. Freaky!

And I'm still reading Astonishing X-men. I fell a little behind but just picked up issues 55 and 56. It's really good, still. It looks like the current story arc is over now, so I can't say where it will go from here. But it's nice that after 12 years of being the X-man fan who's not into comics that now I can say I am enjoying some.

EDIT - I just found out that X-men creator Stan Lee turns 90 today. Very cool. I admire him for creating so many strong female characters. He was ahead of his time.

Comments

[sevarem.livejournal.com]

Simonson didn't create Shadowcate/Kitty Pryde. She's also a Claremont creation and was brought into the comics in 1980, during the Dark Phoenix Saga.

Simonson gets a lot of credit for other cool stuff though. Even though she didn't create the New Mutants title/characters (that was also Claremont), she took wrote quite a bit of it. Her big credit though is the original X-Factor. Once she took over writing duties on issue 6, the series really took off.

I need to take off my Marvel geek goggles. For serious.

[denisia.livejournal.com]

She also did Power Pack which was totally MY series. :)

Who am I thinking of then, it's driving me mad...I could have sworn that Louise Simonson either created or extensively wrote two characters based on her daughter Julianna Jones. One of them is definitely Julie Power from Power Pack but I could have sworn the other was Shadowcat. No?

[sevarem.livejournal.com]

Definitely not Shadowcat. She's a Claremont creation through and through. He was very fond of her and wrote quite a few arcs centered around her.

Here's a link to every character Simonson created: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Characters_created_by_Louise_Simonson

Now I'm curious as to who you're thinking of. Do any of these ring a bell? She did create the whole Power Pack family.

[denisia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Power Pack is her baby, and I know Maggie was based on her, physically - and Julie Power = Julianna Jones...but there was one other in the X-Men universe that supposedly was modeled after Julianna. None of the ones on that list are ringing a bell and now it's really bugging me that I don't remember who it was!

[denisia.livejournal.com]

Aha, it IS Shadowcat...but it's the work of Claremont, not Simonson herself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitty_Pryde

The fictional Kitty Pryde first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #129 (January 1980), by writer Chris Claremont and artist Byrne, as a highly intelligent 13-year-old girl. Claremont said several elements of the character's personality were derived from those of X-Men editor Louise Simonson's daughter, Julie.