Archive for the 'Superhero Comics' Category

I was reading a bunch of Marvel’s rather delightful teen romance comic Spider-man Loves Mary Jane recently. I enjoyed it, which I expected both because it is an unusually common guilty pleasure among customers at the shop I work at and also because I love superhero romance. I actually started reading Ultimate Spider-Man again when I found out about the Spider-man/Kitty Pryde romance.

Anyway,  it made me think and now I have a proposal for a comic that would make me very happy. It’s just like Spider-man Loves Mary Jane except instead of being about Mary Jane it’s about the X-Men. Call it, I dunno, “Cyclops loves Jean Grey” or something. Once I thought of the idea, it seemed totally obvious. Mary Jane is, as near as I can tell, a fairly successful comic, particularly with demographics who don’t ordinarily read superhero comics. I know this is the fact at the store where I work. It’s not a bestseller by any means, but it’s been steady and growing. The X-Men, even more than Spider-man, have built in love triangles and romance. You could even take it something like the original first X-Men issue, having Jean Grey come to a new special school for mutants only to be the target of tons of adolescent male attention. You could add more and more interactions. There’s even been a very brief appearance of Iceman in Spider-man Loves Mary Jane, now that I think about it, so it would be pretty trivial to have the two comics exist in the same universe. And then you could even do the Kitty Pryde/Spider-man thing and own my heart forever.

C’mon, Marvel. It’s not like you’re not going to launch a bunch more X-Men comics anyway. Why not do something a little bit different with the X-Men. I bet it would not only help serve the same audience as Mary Jane, it would probably bring in more people to that title, since I think that a lot of X-Men fans would enjoy the Mary Jane comics as well.