The framing segments require an additional comic in order for the reader to have some sort of Meets Madelyne Pryor in Alaska ( Uncanny X-Men #168) but that’s not quite confirmed. It pretty much has to happen before Scott leaves the X-Men (again) and The original work is frequently lauded as something you can hand to new readers and say, “This is the X. It’s just that nothing needed to be added to GLMK, and there are no possible improvements to be made. And Chris Claremont on a bad day is still a decent read most of the time. Brent Anderson still has the touch in theįraming sequences, for sure. Salvador Larroca and Phil Noto’s covers are great Larroca was an especially goodĬhoice as a former collaborator with Claremont on X-Treme. Released in July and August of 2020 is a trip Similarly, the extended version of God Loves, Man Kills More importantly, God Loves, Man Kills was never really intended as canon, and this arguably ill-advised sequel made it such. Stryker had ONE appearance before 2003, and it’s the one we’re mainly discussing in this article! The woman who would become Lady Deathstrike appeared one year later, in 1983-in Daredevil, strangely enough-but with no connection to the good reverend, until Claremont retconned his involvement with the Oyama family prior to GLMK.
To start things off, Claremont connects Deathstrike to Stryker, just like in the movie. Good or bad of a read it is depends on whom you ask, but nothing could beat the original graphic novel, Volume’s author, the legendary Chris Claremont-and it was released in 2003, to coincide with X2. This was anĪrc of X-Treme X-Men entitled “ God Loves, Man Kills Pt.2.” It did at least feature writing by the original Ironically enough, the Fox film inspired another attempt at catching lightning in a bottle. The film, while inexplicably outperformed profit-wise by X3: The Last Stand, did manage to outshine the first film and the Wolverine: Origins movie at the box office, and is generally considered to be the best of the four “original cast era” films. The most successful of these returns, 2003’s X2: X-Men United, wasn’t even a comic book but a movie.Įven it took liberties with the material, but this is to be expected.Ĭertainly, posing William Stryker as a military general with ties to Lady Deathstrike and the Weapon X project that created Wolverine streamlines the X-Men mythos for viewing audiences, and plays better on the big screen than would a more closely adapted reverend-and-goons combo.
This doesn’t stop it from happening, however. God Loves, Man Kills is a well that’s hard to return to.
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