Around that time, Laura was handed off to Marjorie Liu instead. It’s also unclear if NXM was dropped solely because of “Messiah Complex” shifting gears, because KYOST wanted to do “X-Force”, or because editorial pushed the book out NXM for nostalgia. He feels like Marvel is profiting off of his creation and ruining his previous work… I get WHY he is angry- he felt like Quesada cheated him out of introducing X-23 into the comics, Quesada got the “first edition” status to his character, and Kyle has repeatedly gone on record that he hates “NYX”. He had NO PROBLEM altering other peoples original creations to suit HIS story- and honestly, DeFilippis and Weir handled that all with better grace.

Creators from Liefield to Claremont onward have basically ALL voiced an equivalent to this complaint…Īnd truthfully I do find it a bit ironic that Kyle is taking this sort of attitude and bitterness at Marvel…because he LITERALLY killed off DeFilippis and Weir’s creations. That’s the downside of working for Marvel/DC and why Image comics became a thing in the 90’s. It kind of DOES seem tied to a bid to get back into writing for Marvel, along with possessiveness over the character X-23 and feeling that Marvel disrespected him as a creator…which while that is understandable- Marvel ultimately owns that character. Truthfully, I have said this before but I will say it again- as much as I like Craig Kyle’s writing and would be happy for him to come back…this kind of feels like a JK Rowling “Dumbledore is gay…but I never actually wanted to show it in the movie or writing” kind of move. I have mixed feelings on this matter- on the one hand…I would really LOVE KYOST back on a X-book….on the other hand I think Kyle needs to accept a bit that he doesn’t HAVE control over the X-23 franchise anymore. For those who don’t know- Craig Kyle AGAIN recently tweeted that he had intended for X-23/Laura Kinney to be gay in the comics and that if he got a new series in 2023: that would be the story he would tell.

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