And I'm looking at forums, the same places I usually despair at morons not giving anything new a chance and all I'm seeing are people who think this is a good idea. Are you all insane?
So many reasons why this is a bad idea. Let's go through a few really obvious ones first of all.
1) There was a REALLY good reason why Chris was kicked off the X-books in the first place.
2) The x-books were not in particularly good shape in 1991.
3) We've done the alternate universe schtick in the x-books already and much better- Age of Apocalypse and the much under-rated Factor X.
4) Claremont has already returned to the X-books at least twice and both times he was at best mediocre.
5) At best it will be a confusing albeit slightly charming and amusing gimmick- at worst it will be a confusing and crap series that will lose more readers than it brings on board.
6) George Lucas. That's right. Yeah, see, now you're seeing my point(s).
Chris Claremont wrote some tremendous stuff back in the 1970's and 1980's. And then he wrote some really awful stuff. I mean really horrible. Dreadful. Also, Chris is a bit of an arrogant jackass who doesn't like other writers messing with 'his' characters and who reacts badly to change.
Another huge reason is that Chris simply can't hack it anymore in the current marketplace. Compared to the new level of talent in the industry such as Robert Kirkman, Warren Ellis, Matt Fraction, Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, just to mention a handful, Claremont is just apallingly out of touch and not interested in varying his tired old windy dialogue routine.
Nice idea, Joe but I wouldn't bet your kid's scholarship fund on the longevity. I give it about 12 issues, possibly as far as 25 issues but don't see it going any further than that.
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I am on of the few that actually enjoyed the Neo, but the writing on those book was, as you said, mediocre at best. The dialogue was rehashed from his old stuff, just spoken by different 'all new' original characters. The problem with the Neo was that he didn't have 10-15 years of sub-plots to lead into them. He tried to cram all that into the first couple of books. It fell flat.
His writing in the early days when I started collecting was the basis that I compared other writers to for the rest of my days of collecting. This made it very difficult for me when reading Exiles. His writing on that was so banal and hack that he wound up being the reason I stopped reading that book. Once again, I would not be surprised if the resurrection of Psylocke, once again, is the lead in to this new x-book.
Don't get me wrong. I would love for this to be old school and enjoyable as all hell, but it would have to be an alternate universe. There is no way he could convincingly segue himself into the new status quo.