[Secret Wars] X-Men '92 #5: "Head Games"

[superboyprime]

Sims: "Not gonna lie, Jean was probably the hardest one to write, for me at least. The '90s are such a weird time for her. So much of what we think about her character is stuff from the '80s, and in the '90s, she felt like she was still trying to redefine her character without the Phoenix. She didn't even have a codename! But then that kind of became the core of how we thought about her, and her struggle to get past this identity comes up pretty big in chapter 5."

Bowers: "Yeah, we both really like Jean, too, but it's sometimes hard to get around the fact that, in the 90s, she spends an awful lot of time just being Cyclops' fiancée. The show did her no favors, either, and if I'm not wrong -- correct me if I am, Chris -- but she's the only character who doesn't get a solo episode, which really hangs a light on what they thought about her at the time."

- Chris Sims and Chad Bowers

Comments

[jipe]

Is it just me or does it bug anyone else how it feels like this series is more trying to be a pastiche/parody of the 90s X-Men comics rather than the cartoon like it's supposedly trying to be?

[rainspirit]

There are no stars in the sky and Doom is God-King of the universe. Do you really want THIS comic to be a straight-up continuation of a long-gone television series?

[jipe]

I keep forgetting this is a Secret Wars tie in. Honestly I do that for most of the tie ins that don't have explicit connections to it like, say, Siege does.

From the title they're pretty clearly billing this as a straight-up continuation of that cartoon ala Batman 66 but the comic itself is this weird mishmash of the cartoon and the era's comics that doesn't really properly represent either. I wasn't allowed to watch the cartoon as a kid and wasn't even alive in 1992 to be reading the comics so it's not for nostalgia reasons or anything like that, this whole thing just feels really half baked and oddly forced to me :/

[baihu]

I have to admit I didn't follow the 90s cartoon religiously, but I was hoping the story was going to be serious while using the X-Men circa 90s, whether closer to comic or cartoon didn't matter.

[coldfury]

ehhh... this is about as serious as the cartoon got.

[cainofdreaming]

Big guns? Yeah, because the naval artillery they're lugging around just isn't large enough.

And did they teleport Wade into the ground there? Not that he'd mind all that much, I think. His mouth still works.

[stolisomancer]

Big guns? Yeah, because the naval artillery they're lugging around just isn't large enough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xECUrlnXCqk