How long was the series intended to last?
Did you see this series as something that would have been finite, eventually ending (kind of like Gaiman’s Sandman)? Were you planning on telling all of the tales of the Hidden Years, between the cancellation of the first series and eventually ending with GIANT-SIZED X-MEN #1? JB: Between X-MEN 66 and GIANT-SIZED X-MEN 1 we saw several appearances by the X-Men in books such as CAPTAIN AMERICA, AMAZING SPIDER-MAN and MARVEL TEAM-UP. I was using those appearances as benchmarks for my stories, figuring out how much I could comfortably fit between each, in order that I could tell new stories. (As you may have noticed, XHY covers only a couple of weeks of the X-Men’s lives — and that included the “jump” I did in the last issue, in order to take care of a few subplots.) XHY was clearly finite, since G-SX-M was out there as an “end point” for my series, but the way I had it worked out, I could have easily done 100 issues or more before I had to send the team off to Krakoa.
Did you see this series as something that would have been finite, eventually ending (kind of like Gaiman’s Sandman)? Were you planning on telling all of the tales of the Hidden Years, between the cancellation of the first series and eventually ending with GIANT-SIZED X-MEN #1? JB: Between X-MEN 66 and GIANT-SIZED X-MEN 1 we saw several appearances by the X-Men in books such as CAPTAIN AMERICA, AMAZING SPIDER-MAN and MARVEL TEAM-UP. I was using those appearances as benchmarks for my stories, figuring out how much I could comfortably fit between each, in order that I could tell new stories. (As you may have noticed, XHY covers only a couple of weeks of the X-Men’s lives — and that included the “jump” I did in the last issue, in order to take care of a few subplots.) XHY was clearly finite, since G-SX-M was out there as an “end point” for my series, but the way I had it worked out, I could have easily done 100 issues or more before I had to send the team off to Krakoa.
