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Marvel Responds to Liefeld X-Men Budget Comments: "We're Trying to Put Out the Best Books We Can"

At the New York Comic Con X-Men panel Sunday, Marvel responded to claims made by superstar artist Rob Liefeld that with the looming merger between Fox and Disney, and thus the return of the X-Men movie rights to the House of Ideas, Marvel was finally allowed to raise the X-Men comic book budget, including by hiring Liefeld himself for a big crossover event in 2019.

Here's what Liefeld had to say a few weeks back:

Here's the deal. Since the X-Men movies came out and Disney didn't have them, I don't know if you've ever paid attention, but Marvel kind of turned the volume down on the X-Men for almost 20 years. Now that they have them more, what was told to me was, 'Oh yeah. Our budgets on the X-Men books are back up to what they used to be because now we own them all.'

I have a new project, 2019, it's a huge X-Men crossover…It's awesome…Marvel called me up last Thanksgiving and said, 'We want you to do a big story.' I said well, let's see if they'll go for this, and I tried to do something no one has done before. So I gave them this pretty aggressive proposal for an event and I can't say what it is, I can't say what it involves, got a lot of new stuff.

But when asked about the X-budget in a reference to Liefeld's comments at today's panel, Marvel's Jordan White took to the defense:

We can't comment on the merger, but as someone who has been working on X books for a while… We're trying to put out the best books we can and fingers crossed, it'll be better than ever.

Uncanny X-Men writer Matthew Rosenberg also had a response for people who claim Marvel doesn't care about the X-Men: "There are 16 X-books."

Of course, neither response actually addresses whether or not Marvel has increased the budget on the X-Men comics since the merger with Fox was announced. If it's not a denial…

Marvel Responds to Liefeld X-Men Budget Comments: "We're Trying to Put Out the Best Books We Can"

Bleeding Cool's Madeline Ricchiuto was on the scene at the panel, sending us updates. Stay tuned to Bleeding Cool for more from NYCC.


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