2004: AN X-ODYSSEY

BY SLYDE REAPER

Author's Comments:
Hello, my story is named 2004. I got the idea a few years ago on how I felt X-Titles were being treated. I was so mad at how they were being treated (happily my opinion has changed). I have outlined what's happened to a lot of people on Earth but the story centers around the X-Men. At first it starts off with the heroes returning from a war. Most of the heroes in the X-Universe are currently in the X-Mansion (they are not planning to stay for long). They first story arc will be the heroes fighting Mephisto. Than after that I will be cutting the cast down a lot.

In this universe the past is the same to the regular Marvel Universe up to Joseph's funeral and that's where everything changes. In this universe there are a lot of changes: Thunderbird is ALIVE! Henry Gyrich is President, Juggernaut and Wolverine are war-time buds, BUCKY is BACK, as are Nick Fury's Howling Commandos. The Six from Mutant X are now in X-Factor, Deadpool is around and so is a child, and more. I would like any criticism, insults, comments, suggestions, likes/dislikes. And if you want to write a story in the 2004 universe just write me and we can talk about it.

Attached are the Team Rosters, Solo heroes, Introduction, Organizations, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, and Timeline. The team rosters lineups are not all established in the story. So I would like to thank everyone at Mutatis Mutandis for being so COOL and all of you for reading my story.

Slyde

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From Paul, 7/30/00:

Do you want my honest opinion? The idea is some what weak as is the writing. The characters and teams don't meld well together with such characters as Silver Surfer and Gladiator, who would not join any Marvel teams for two reasons.
1. They have lived the life of the Universe, for them to stay on earth is like asking a kid from New York to move to a small 3 thousand person town and be happy. Cannot happen.
2.Gladiator is crazy with his honour and duties, and those are to protect the Shi'ar Empire, he would never leave and if they Shiar we're destroyed, he'd go crazy with guilt and guard the remains... that's just an honest feeling.
But I do like the Juggernaut going good.

From Anonymous, 4/1/00:

You obviously put a lot of time into designing the layout of the teams and researching characters names. The writing, however, needs much improvement. The dialogue all sounds like a prepubescent boy is speaking. Have you read the X-Men titles to try to get a feel for the characters that you are trying to write? Grammatically it is even worse. I feel that you took on too broad of a scope with this story. You are trying to handle an entire thirty-some years worth of complex characters in one story. Much to grand a scale for someone so young. My advice to you is-- try writing a first-person story featuring a character you are incredibly familiar and comfortable with using a very limited supporting cast. This will help you to develop your characterizatio skills. I don't mean to sound harsh, but I enjoy reading and writing about the X-Men too much to see something ike this and not comment. I recommend checking out The Shifting Sands webpage, or Marvel X, for some wonderful examples of fanfic. I hope this helps.

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