X-men 1... All female team?
Planeis
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Is there a point to this? I dont get it. Seems like a stunt to get some media attention.
Planeis
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Would an all male team be a stunt?
I'm in for just about any book where Rachel Summers/Grey is a part of the lineup. And sure it's a gimmick. Wasn't the first, won't be the last. Every now and then, though, a gimmick will surprise you and work. And as others have noted, in Copiel we trust.
I don't know that is a sustainable model for a book. I mean, Birds of Prey has been getting published (in different volumes) for more than 15 years or so. Has there been outside media attention for it the whole time? Is it a two decade stunt? Or is it a book that there ended up being an audience for? Could this not be the same thing being tried here? They think there is an audience for a book like this, so they made it.
Just because something gets some media attention doesn't mean that the only point behind it was to do that.
(Also, is this even getting outside media attention?)
I don't read X-Men currently, but is this supposed to last? Like, Birds of Prey is essntially all women right? Obviously a small team, but still. All women. Is X-Men supposed to continue like this for a long time, or is gonna be one 6 month arc, and then back to a more regular team?
If it was permanent fine, but if its only a few m Im not saying its a sustainable model for a book. Thats my whole point. I think maybe the whole point of this is to get some attention, and then in a few months the all women group will be gone. Unlike Birds of Prey.
Im also not saying that just because something gets outside media attention that it automatically becomes a stunt. I DO think that could be the reason here. You asked me if having an all male team could be a stunt. Im saying, no it couldnt be because the whole point of a stunt would be to get attention, which a random grouping of all men would never get.
And yes it absolutely is getting media attention, thats how i heard about it.
The New 52 was not a stunt. It got a lot of attention and sales, but 18 months later its still here and its the status quo. If the New 52 universe had gone away after 6 months, that would have made it a stunt.
So if X Men keeps an all female group for a long time, like a year or two or more, I would say obviously it wasnt just a cheap stunt because they stuck with it. But if the cast goes back to being co ed after one storyline, that would indicate to me they just wanted extra attention during the re launch.
For me, I feel like there can be a team of X-Men that is all female without it having to be a stunt. As it was, the team lineup of adjectiveless X-Men has been majority female for awhile anyway, and there are plenty of sustainable books about assortments of X-characters. If one happens to be all-female, or if one happens to be all-male, then they could both be called X-Men as far as I am concerned. And then the starting lineup of one of those books could shift, say adding a male character to one, or a female to the other, and they could still be called X-Men.
And if it is a book called X-Men (and especially if the execution on it is good) then I think there is a sustainable market for it.