I
was meaning to come in to talk about Archie's Mega Man X adaptation sooner or later, lol. It's just too bad it's not going to be its own series, but I wonder what it means for the Mega Man comic, just because it's going to be done within the Mega Man comic (and thus probably shortening the amount of pages dedicated to the MM comic -- and we are a little behind in the game adaptations because of Worlds Collide).
I honestly think it should've been its own series since MMX is more story-based than OG MM.
But hey, Flynn did say that if people really want a Mega Man X series, they should really demand it or buy the issues that do have MMX in it so they could go for a separate series for it. I'd love for that to happen, just for the sake of a lot of the references that Flynn & co could add into the comics to at least bring a little bit of levity to the tone and style of MMX. So the MMX stuff starts in Issue 34. That should be out in February 2014.
You can read the interview with Ian Flynn
here.
A little bit of it that should be mentioned, though:
IGN: Are there any other Capcom properties youd like to tackle at Archie?
Flynn: Im game for just about anything. Dead Rising? Phoenix Wright? Okami? Breath of Fire? Bring it on.
Kaminski: Mega Man X is only the beginning! Stay tuned!
IGN: Anything you want to add?
Flynn: Im very excited to get to the X universe, and Im hoping it will one day open the door to more Mega Man stories. But its all up to the fans. The more you demand, the more we can provide!
Kaminski: The response to Sonic/Mega Man: Worlds Collide was easily the biggest tidal wave of support I've ever witnessed on either of these two comic franchises, maybe of my whole time here at Archie. You guys came out and supported us and made that storyline into the juggernaut that it became, and for that I thank you. Everyone who loved what we did on Worlds Collide is going to flip over what Ian and Spaz have in store for Mega Man X! The best is yet to come!
So yep! I hope it's successful enough to go for more Mega Man X stuff. I just hope Flynn won't spread himself too thin since he'd then be working on
four comics as opposed to just three. His writing is great, no doubt about that (like, he picked the Sonic comics up from the place they were in and put them in a better place), but I'm hoping he won't spread himself too thin by concentrating on more stuff.
I'd honestly meant to post this, but one of our (very frequent to the point of me asking him to get an account but he doesn't want one) lurkers, Bean,
put the preview pages up for Mega Man #29 a while ago (give me a break, I've been busy). I haven't had a chance to read the issue yet, but apparently it felt like filler material to him? Or at least it wasn't as good as MM #28.
Anyway, issue:
I'm so happy I didn't get the variant. >.>