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Anonymous asked:

Not to feed in to the hysteria but after reading your interview today about Original Sin all I kept thinking is "Why the young Avengers? Why not the Young X-Men or a group of Mutants." Why does Marvel continue to shove X-Men into their own corner especially after AvsX ? WHY?!?!?!? It's the MARVEL UNIVERSE not the damn Avengers Universe , ever since Marvel Studios took off you'r etrying super hard to make it so. I'm a Marvel Fan not just an Avengers fan Tom

brevoortformspring:

As I just mentioned in the last question I answered, I’d maybe see this reaction as being more justified if our Previews catalog didn’t have page upon page of X-MEN title releases in these same months, including ORIGINAL SIN tie-ins.

But to break this down a little bit further, part of the reason it’s the Young Avengers is that some of those characters have a connection to the central storyline of ORIGINAL SIN that the Young X-Men simply do not have. So it’s not the sort of thing where you could make this story about any of the assorted mutants you’re talking about and have it make sense in the same manner.

Plus, honestly, I put the book together. And my beat is the Avengers side of the tracks. The X-office was welcome, as were the other assorted offices, to pitch any stories that they wanted to have done on ORIGINAL SINS, but they were all busy with their own affairs—the only guys that took us up on that offer were the INHUMAN crew. But left to my own devices, I’m not going to just go and build a Young X-Men story. For one thing, I don’t know precisely where all of those characters are or what’s being planned for them. For another thing, you or others like you’d kinda hate it on principle if I did so, based on the assorted UNCANNY AVENGERS feedback that tends to show up from X-fans who are very upset that X-stuff is appearing in an AVENGERS book.

I have to say that I share anonymous poster’s concerns to some degree. There’s undeniably a lot of X-books, and they do tie into Avengers events, but that does not automatically make them prominent in the universe.

When there is a major Avengers event that shakes the Marvel U, there is a response in the X-books. When there is a major X-Men event, the Avengers don’t even seem aware of it. That goes for almost every event back to Civil War. By repetition, that shows that Avengers events are Marvel U events, and X-events are stories unimportant to the rest of the universe.

And yes, different stories lend themselves to different kinds and levels of tie-ins, but ultimately that comes down to how Marvel decides to construct those stories. Anonymous poster is not complaining that there’s no X-books–he or she is complaining that the X-Men are shoved in their own corner unless it’s the Avengers who ask them to come out and play. And THAT creates the impression that the X-Men are being treated as a secundary franchise, whether it is true or not.