Astonishing X-Men #27-28: Ghost Box, Parts 3-4

[superboyprime]

"The metaphor of mutantcy has meant many things to many people over the years. It's been code for adolescence, for race, for sexuality, for politics and probably a dozen other things. I want to see what it actually means in the 21st Century. This, to me, is interesting work: to take a sounding of a franchise that has meant so much and so many things to so many people over the years, and to see what else it still has to say; to look forward and see how this badge of X -- which didn't have the cultural load it carries today when Lee and Kirby generated the idea -- can be made to mean. Also, I think planes will probably crash, beer will be drunk, people will get stabbed and certain characters will have what Joss called 'the crazy weasel sex.' But there will be no crying. This is very important. There is too much crying in science fiction these days." - Warren Ellis

Comments

[lordultimus]

I'll never get over Emma Frost speaking like a British person despite coming from Boston. I honestly don't know if I'm annoyed or amused at this point.

[shakalooloo]

SOMEONE has to be British in an Ellis comic, dammit!

[scorntx]

The obvious solution is have Pete Wisdom speak like he's from Boston.

Turnabout's fair play.

[tinygaylaura]

Personally I'm turned on

Everything sounds sexier in a posh british accent. And Emma is already peak sexy. She's like a checklist of my kinks and turn ons. So that just pushes her off the charts.