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Doesn't it break your heart to see how cool the X-Men could be. Boy if Marvel would just call and say, JB we want you to write and draw your version of the team, picking up where you left off after X-Men 143. •• Perhaps you don't recall that a discussion of this floated around the forum a few years back, around the time Claremont was starting X-MEN FOREVER. X-MEN EVERMORE become the working title, and there was much back and forth about what I might do, and I did, indeed, say it seemed like something that would be FUN to do. Unfortunately, one of our members -- I won't name names -- took it a step too far and emailed Tom Breevort insisting Marvel get behind this. Breevort's response was typical of Marvel at the time -- that if I wanted to do such a thing, I should contact them, to let them know I was "serious". Made me think back on how comics used to be, when the editor's job was to pitch projects to people who might be interested. That was how I got the X-Men assignment in the first place, after all, when Archie Goodwin, then EiC at Marvel, called me and offered it to me. That was also how I got the FF, this time Shooter, as EiC, making the offer. It was how I got Superman. How I got She-Hulk. Avengers West Coast. Iron Man. Starbrand. Doom Patrol. In fact, the number of projects I've worked on that were offered to me far outnumbers the ones I pitched myself.
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