Idle thought inspired by watching part of Cat On a Hot Tin Roof

[james_davis_nicoll]

What if rather than Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the early X-Men had been written by Jack Kirby and Tennessee Williams?

Obviously, we can keep Xavier's mansion but it will have to be moved to Mississippi.

Comments

[onyxlynx]

And the drama would triple and there would be sexual overtones all over the place.

(I'm going to miss Night of the Iguana tonight. Again.)

Speaking of crossovers

[mme-hardy.livejournal.com]

I read your subject line as "Cat in the Hat on a Hot Tin Roof".

Re: Speaking of crossovers

[johnreiher.livejournal.com]

I googled "Cat in the Hat on a Hot Tin Roof" and got zero hits. It's amazing, no one has ever done a parody with that title.

Re: Speaking of crossovers

[agharta75.livejournal.com]

I got nine hits (a couple of them from here) but, yeah, not much has been done with that. New Yorker cartoon opportunity!

[doc-lemming.livejournal.com]

I can tell you that Jean Grey would be a lot more interesting.

"I have always relied on the kindness of mutants."

[doc-lemming.livejournal.com]

The spin-off comic is of course "The X-Menagerie".

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

I note that in the early issues, everyone on the team -including Xavier- was smitten with telepathic Miss Grey, almost as though she was using her powers to bewitch them...

[doc-lemming.livejournal.com]

*scribbles idea for competing superhero group, Psybill and the Sex-Men.*

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

It does occur to me the X-Men didn't run into a second tolerable female until Jean Grey was distracted. Hmm. I'm sure that's not suspicious at all.

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

It's not her fault; she couldn't help herself; she didn't even know it was happening.

[liviapenn.livejournal.com]

It was an entire school full of teenagers... and just one girl. Of course they all liked Jean. (No, I don't know what Professor X's excuse was.)

[nathan helfinstine (from livejournal.com)]

He's a telepath, so he was being subconsciously influenced by all those young men lusting after her.

[agharta75.livejournal.com]

There would be more Rogue and Gambit?

[centuryplant (from livejournal.com)]

I was going to say that Rogue's accent would be more convincing, but James is talking about the Lee/Kirby X-Men, so no Rogue or Gambit yet. The Chris Claremont X-Men would presumably be written by someone else. I nominate Djuna Barnes.

[seth ellis (from livejournal.com)]

Actually they'd have terrible Brooklyn accents instead.

[agharta75.livejournal.com]

And why doesn't X-Men have mutants with terrible Brooklyn accents? Or, even better, terrible Jersey Shore accents!

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

Would ANYTHING Happen?

[jamoche]

Not until someone with ice powers showed up, because nobody ever wants to do anything in the South when there's no AC.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

What city would serve as the hub of Marvel's heroes in general?

Atlanta? Memphis?