Be warned - the comics have a 30+ year history that won't much coincide with movie canon - and also they have space aliens and stuff, which kind of detracts from the mutants being the coolest thing out there.
But enjoy anyway - lots of good Charles/Erik backstory.
Well, for starters, Charles is from New York. Somehow, I don't think that's the case in the movieverse. ;) And there's Charles marrying an alien princess.
Yup. Alien princess.
:sticks fingers in ears, goes "la la la movie canon for me la la la:"
Apparently he married her - and both Erik and Charles' wives left them, because they were so close that there was no room for anyone else. (this is in more current canon, apparently)
loreleif is filling me in on lots and lots of good Charles/Erik comics canon.
He married her and was her consort for ages, lived with her off and on. Recently, though, I believe she's dumped him. (His evil kinda-sorta-twin-sister took over his body and made her do icky evil things and... yeah. Something like that.)
Well, Charles died at least once protecting Erik, in return for which Erik followed Charles' dream and formed and led the X-Men.
That'd be the issues leading up to and forming the Age of Apocalypse arc. Plus, IIRC, a couple alternate universes that crop up elsewhere. In the main timeline, though, Erik was the headmaster at Xavier's school for quite some time, whilst Charles was off with his alien princess. That's the New Mutant books.
And in Ultimate X-Men, which is a different canon entirely (essentially, a restart of the universe set in present day), they were "like brothers" once, and Charles says of Erik "the first time I met another adult mutant was like being hit by a thunderbolt. Far, far more powerful than being in love and our human wives knew it." Which leads to the breakup of his marriage. (Also in Ult. X-Men, Prof. X wears an AIDS ribbon. And I know it's stereotyping, but I'm sorry, I really *don't* know any straight guys who wear them.)
The ones she wrote. I don't remember seeing her rec's. I'm really only interested in Erik/Charles. Something about the way he said, "Erik, what have you done?" pressed *all* of my buttons.
Educated British Elbow sex of the sort that begins "Genius of the Restoration aid in our Resuscitation" and progresses through lots of Shakespeare quoting and tea and ends in "Oh dear, I haven't done this since Oxford. Oh dear, WHY, haven't I done this since Oxford?"
I have long been a fan of the X-Men comics, so I was wary when they decided to do a movie. There was so much backstory and depth to the Xavier/Magneto relationship that I didn't think it would be possible to show it onscreen. Let me tell you this...when Patrick and Ian were cast I was jumping for joy. Those two brought the characters to life.
(And XMen was the only comic I've ever read that I kept stopping in the middle to say "umm, they were LOVERS in the past, duh!")
over here from Penknife's journal I saw this post...guh. yummy. thankyou for sharing (the tasty pic. is now saved to my harddrive.) *coalesces after melting*
If they didn't want people to think about slash possibilities they shouldn't have cast Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart with all the lovely (obvious) subtext.
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Date: 2003-09-15 10:38 am (UTC)I'm about to borrow a bunch of the comics from
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Date: 2003-09-15 10:41 am (UTC)But enjoy anyway - lots of good Charles/Erik backstory.
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Date: 2003-09-15 10:48 am (UTC)Backstory's mostly what I'm looking for, anyway. I'd like to try to get a sense of what their official history is...
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Date: 2003-09-15 10:57 am (UTC)Yup. Alien princess.
:sticks fingers in ears, goes "la la la movie canon for me la la la:"
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Date: 2003-09-15 11:31 am (UTC)Now, Magneto, he was married once.
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Date: 2003-09-15 11:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-15 12:58 pm (UTC)Anyhoo, no no -- alien princess is one canon, wives resented their closeness is another altogether.
Welcome to the world of comics fandom. *g*
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Date: 2003-09-15 12:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-15 01:02 pm (UTC):dies:
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Date: 2003-09-15 01:10 pm (UTC)About the only thing I took away from that arc was, "damn, does Prof X make an ugly as sin woman!"
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Date: 2003-09-15 01:07 pm (UTC)That'd be the issues leading up to and forming the Age of Apocalypse arc. Plus, IIRC, a couple alternate universes that crop up elsewhere. In the main timeline, though, Erik was the headmaster at Xavier's school for quite some time, whilst Charles was off with his alien princess. That's the New Mutant books.
And in Ultimate X-Men, which is a different canon entirely (essentially, a restart of the universe set in present day), they were "like brothers" once, and Charles says of Erik "the first time I met another adult mutant was like being hit by a thunderbolt. Far, far more powerful than being in love and our human wives knew it." Which leads to the breakup of his marriage. (Also in Ult. X-Men, Prof. X wears an AIDS ribbon. And I know it's stereotyping, but I'm sorry, I really *don't* know any straight guys who wear them.)
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Date: 2003-09-15 10:44 am (UTC)Jeez, the charisma *leaps* from the page...
::staggering off to collapse on the chaise longue and dab her temples with lavendar water::
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Date: 2003-09-15 10:54 am (UTC)Doesn't it? One might say they're ... magnetic!
:flees:
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Date: 2003-09-15 11:49 am (UTC)::smacks
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Date: 2003-09-15 12:02 pm (UTC)Man, they sure are, though.
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Date: 2003-09-15 10:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-15 10:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-15 10:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-15 11:00 am (UTC)Because yeah, there's more out there that is that good.
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Date: 2003-09-15 11:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-15 11:57 am (UTC)Burn All the Letters, by
Smoking on the Bus, by
The History Teaches three-parter: Parched, Ex, and Half, by
and...
His Terrible Swift Sword, by <lj user="yahtzee63" GUH.
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Date: 2003-09-15 11:58 am (UTC)And I meant to use my pimp icon on that last message, too. Sigh.
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Date: 2003-09-15 10:57 am (UTC)GUH! ::melts into pile of Angel gooo::
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Date: 2003-09-15 10:58 am (UTC)I don't want to think about which one is Riff-Raff, though...
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Date: 2003-09-15 11:15 am (UTC)Educated British Elbow sex of the sort that begins
"Genius of the Restoration aid in our Resuscitation" and progresses through lots of Shakespeare quoting and tea and ends in "Oh dear, I haven't done this since Oxford. Oh dear, WHY, haven't I done this since Oxford?"
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Date: 2003-09-15 11:19 am (UTC)#2 - Yum.
#3 - Now I've got Marcus Brody and Henry Jones at university with Charles and Erik. This would be a HELLACIOUS group of young men to contend with.
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Date: 2003-09-15 11:22 am (UTC)Except that Marcus and Henry graduated in the 1890's, it would be a wonderfully fun crossover.
No, no, reluctant male odalisques, blond sheiks and other such goodies are where my mind must be now...
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Date: 2003-09-15 11:52 am (UTC)::whimper::
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Date: 2003-09-15 11:42 am (UTC)British Elbow Sex is my new fandom.
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Date: 2003-09-20 08:10 pm (UTC)You inspired this icon
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Date: 2003-09-15 11:44 am (UTC)I love you.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
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Date: 2003-09-15 11:58 am (UTC)XM2
Date: 2003-09-15 02:26 pm (UTC)(And XMen was the only comic I've ever read that I kept stopping in the middle to say "umm, they were LOVERS in the past, duh!")
While cruising.
Date: 2003-09-16 01:48 pm (UTC)If they didn't want people to think about slash possibilities they shouldn't have cast Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart with all the lovely (obvious) subtext.