Five X-Men Stories That Fox Would Have Done Worse Than Dark Phoenix

Imagine What Fox Would Have Let Happen to THESE tales!

Once upon a time, before original graphic novels and “writing for the trade,” mainstream comics were monthly episodic fiction stories that ended up not making a lot of sense when you threw them together, especially as writers came and went. It’s impressive then that Chris Claremont, Dave Cockrum, John Byrne and others were able to follow the arc of Jean Grey to Phoenix and finally to Dark Phoenix in a time when collected trades and OGN’s were not even a concept in most American readers’ minds. This is one of the few ambitious stories that stands out from this era. So many hands in the pot, including one that led to a change in the ending, and the story still finished strong.

And Fox did The Last Stand and screwed their first adaptation attempt up. Badly.

Say what you will about the second try that just came out, but at least in that one the heroes went up in space a little.

Fox probably did the right thing with a looser adaptations the first time around, using the X-Men’s many concepts while ignoring or changing most of the story details. It’s a good move given nearly half a century of continuity (It’s certainly helped the main Marvel movies). Sadly, when Fox takes…