Marvel November - Villains

[sherkahn]

It's the middle of August, and that means the solicits for November are beginning to pop up.
Newsarama has solicits for two of their most popular villains.
Doom and Magneto





"DOOMED TO HELL!"

VICTOR VON DOOM #1 (of 4)
Written by NICK SPENCER
Art & Cover by BECKY CLOONAN
NOVEMBER 2011



Oh shit.

From that article:

"We spoke with the team for the exclusive announcement of Magneto's first feature series since 2000's Magneto: Dark Seduction. The solicitation text says Magneto is caught on-camera killing humans. While the creative team couldn't talk much about what this means for his membership with the X-Men, they were able to talk about who he is as a character and tease a few other characters that might be showing up, as well as, for Young, switching sides in a way of his own."

I may wait for trades, but the teams behind these stories are quite capable.

Comments

[rordulum]

The solution should be to stop trying to force them into heroic roles, when they know that some writer or editor is going to come along sooner or later and say, "I liked Magneto more as a villain, so a villain he shall be."

It just makes the X-Men look like fucking morons when it happens. And then it happens again.... And again.

[protogarrett]

"I can't believe he betrayed us!"

Really? I mean... really? I mean, at least Lady M. had a good reason: "I need a place to stay and I want revenge against some enemies we have in common."

Mystique had a redemption run for a while. Though, honestly, Cyclops just needs to have X-Force kill her for good this time.

Sabretooth... yeeeah, that one just never was going to go well. The theory for Rogue was, "If I'm controlling him, then at least we know where he is."

Emma, Rogue, and Omega all had great background stories to support them.

[rordulum]

Hell, half the time they've got to contend with loyal X-Men betraying them for various (often mind controlled) reasons. Havok, Gambit, Polaris, Jean Grey, Wolverine... and so on. You'd think it would be slightly more difficult to convince them of your good intentions than, 'hey, I'm good now.'

Carey's first team really took the cake, though. Sabretooth, Omega Sentinel and Lady Mastermind? Oh, and Cable who's often a bit shifty (and turned out to be when the arc led into Messiah Complex) to say the least. Like there weren't enough established X-Men/New Mutants/X-Factor characters for him to choose from without having to dip his hand into the 'supervillains to reform' bucket.