Aug. 4th, 2021
The Immortal Hulk #48 - "Hiding Places"
Aug. 4th, 2021 06:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)

I'd read up on the whole Red She-Hulk arc, and I'd seen how that had fleshed Betty out, and informed her personality, but at the same time that all felt fairly safe, in a way. Going back to the original Harpy stories after that — it's the '70s, they haven't aged spectacularly, but at the same time, there's a weird power in there. This is all coming up directly from the mental basement of a bunch of hippies and ne'er-do-wells — Red She-Hulk feels slick, Hollywood, a spin-off of an established brand that's catching fire, while Harpy is... Harpy is a creature from a dream I would hesitate to tell a therapist about. So, getting back on point, I ended up combining the two with a view to getting back to the feeling of Harpy - something a bit more primal and interesting. And Joe, being Joe, took my somewhat mealy-mouthed direction of "Red She-Hulk with wings, claws, fangs and big bird feet" and gave me what I needed for the story, which is a Junji-Ito-esque horror from the very depths of the id. -- Al Ewing
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X-Men #1: Fearless, Chapter One: In Threes
Aug. 4th, 2021 05:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)

"The first 12 issues are pretty carefully constructed to tell the biggest X-Men story we could conceive of. The X-Men are going to change the universe...again." - Gerry Duggan
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