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He's unique in that he's the sidekick who made it. He started out as this plucky, youthful sidekick character that idolized his hero, Barry, who spent his life studying and learning how to be him, he became it and went through so many ups and downs, trials and tribulations, and eventually exceeded his mentor. He became the fastest man who ever lived, and that's a really interesting dynamic. -- Si Spurrier

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Oh, and: Mystique. Mystique like you’ve never seen her. Mystique on a jagged path that will lead to something profound. -- Si Spurrier

What we didn't want to do was to say, "No, that's all lies," and throw it away and pretend it was never there in the first place. We've worked with it in a very clever way to sensitively dance between the raindrops and present something which doesn't take anything away, but does add a great deal. -- Si Spurrier

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It's, funnily enough, the doctrine of the cleansing flame, isn't it? The Phoenix of it all. In order to generate new things and new life, you have to have these periods of devastation, and that's the notion behind "Fall of X." We've built this house of cards, we've never pretended that it's perfect, it's clearly got lots of holes in its foundations. Now, finally, somebody has come along and flicked it all down. That's fertile soil to be telling stories in. -- Si Spurrier

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It’s the sort of IP, for a host of reasons that I could bore you with, like pub chat territory, but it’s the sort of IP where it doesn’t feel awkward to be telling very intimate human stories in the same breath as gorillas invading Central City, or just really batshit sci-fi stuff. As long as you pack it with clever ideas, and as long as the underlying theme speaks to humanity and heart and doing the best you can, and it doesn’t matter how fast you can run, you also have to be a good person – these are all sort of things that The Flash is so very good at. So it’s always been a sort of paperclip at the back of my head that if ever I got the chance, those are the sorts of things that I could throw at it. -- Si Spurrier

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"Whereas Mystique, she's fascinating and wonderful and would be an utterly unlikable character if it weren't for the fact that everything she does is purely and pragmatically focused on love. That redeems so much — this idea that she and her wife have this centuries-old romance that is so overwhelming that it threatens to destroy not only everybody around them but also each other."
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It would've just felt disingenuous and disrespectful to go, "No, this isn't a superhero comic anymore! It's not about a family who loves each other. It's about spooky horror stuff!" I would've hated that, and I think the fans would've quite rightfully turned their noses up at it. Instead, we set ourselves the challenge of doing both... -- Si Spurrier

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I'm using the concept of "putting on a costume and saving people" in a way that I don’t think I've ever seen before. But hey, that’s me straying into hifalutin' metaphor territory which the PR people hate. So, let's stick with the swashbuckling joy, bad guy-punching, classic Spidey stuff. And lots of romance. Be thou excite. -- Si Spurrier

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Mind you, by stunning coincidence, all the flirting and sexytimes in Uncanny Spider-Man — and OMG there are a LOT of those, in fact they’re pretty much constant — revolve specifically around a character with the same unfortunate initials as me. (No, sorry @STRYFEGRENADEHotboi1992, it’s not a story about Nazis, put your trousers back on.) -- Si Spurrier

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Reading this was electric. It had the kind of jolt for me as reading the first Alan Moore Swamp Thing and I do not say this lightly. -- Gail Simone

If you remember what happened with Immortal Hulk? The magic is happening again. -- Paul Cornell

The Anatomy Lesson you've been waiting for; reverent of what came before, yet unafraid to beat a bold new path. -- Alex Paknadel

It's both 1) a take on Flash comics that's never been done in over 80 years (cosmic horror) and 2) very true to what's come before, the characters and the "feel" of what makes a Flash comic. How does this happen? Magic, I guess? -- Christos Gage

It's not really something I've ever been given the opportunity to do before, you know? I think I'm in a lot of editors' Rolodex as the cerebral Vertigo guy and they sort of come to me when they want a story about... Nightcrawler inventing a religion or whatever it may be. So to get the opportunity to do some good old superheroing [instead] is quite exciting. -- Si Spurrier

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I’ve seen a few of the really shouty angry lonely types gnashing and wailing and skyclawing themselves into venomous little comas over incredulous questions like “why the hell would Nightcrawler dress up like Spider-Man?!” To which I quietly chuckle and mumble under my breath “guys, that’s the stooorrrryyyyy,” before hitting block and going off to swim in my giant bath of money. -- Si Spurrier

( Better the devil )

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I got a DM from this one angry, threatening guy who was unequivocal about the Krakoan Era being the work of Satan, and the worst thing that ever happened, and a betrayal of comics’ true fans, fans like him, and that we should keep all our snowflakey nonsense – like, you know, kissing and politics and women having opinions and thoughtful themes and people choosing to love whoever they want to love, disgusting stuff like that — that we should keep all that out of comics where it belongs. And I just thought, you know, if this one random over-entitled white male feels this strongly about it then, damn, he must be right. “Krakoa must fall!” I pleaded to my colleagues. “And us with it!” Sadly the other writers in the room never listen to more than the first half of any sentence I say, so I think they just took the title and ignored the rest. -- Si Spurrier

( Fall of the House of X )

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The third issue – 1000 years into the future – is the dominion of the Ugly Idea. The subjugation of identity behind the all-consuming need to belong, to perform, to walk unthinkingly in the same direction as everyone else. The defeat of individuality. And, if I've done my job right… the last glimmer of hope. -- Si Spurrier

( Counting bodies like sheep )

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Last week, Marvel announced the creative teams for three Fall of X books and today, they announced the creative teams for three more. It was...not at all what was expected. So let's go through them!

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The first issue – 10 years into the future – is about the ultimate futility of authoritarianism. The tendency for control to eat itself. It's about the oh-so-human realization that when the jackboots are empty and the dictators are out of ideas, what rises to reclaim the light is the wild spark of humanity. Kindness. And big ideas. (The problem is: that last one can get you in trouble. As we shall see...) The second issue – 100 years into the future – is about identity and meaning. It's about a group of people who've shackled themselves to one Big Idea, starting to worry that it might be the wrong one. It's about parenthood and legacy, and stealing magical shit from the most powerful beings in the universe. It's about ritual and love. Above all, it's about saying "why?" to power. -- Si Spurrier

( Keep the faith )

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Ironically, given the (somewhat misleading) topline hook for Way of X -- a story about mutant religion! -- I’m yet to really respond to a story that uses Kurt to inspect metaphysics [...] I’m talking about those stories which pop up occasionally, which use him as a vehicle to delve into the granular stuff: Heaven and Hell, the nature of souls, judgment in the hereafter and all that jazz. For me, these things are articles of extremely personal faith, and as soon as you go putting them front and center in a shared-world story, you’re immediately fixing them in stone. At best, you’re going to wish you’d left a narrative backdoor open (eg: “the soul experiences what it wants to experience…”). At worst, you’re alienating a big chunk of your audience who have very different ideas of their own. Look, it’s very natural, and very human, to want to explicate every single tiny detail of a shared universe. How this works, what that does, what goes on the map here, what are the rules for this. It’s fun and we all do it. But go too far and it’s death. It’s literal narrative death. One of the many unexpected obligations of a storyteller is knowing that being specific isn’t always smart. -- Si Spurrier

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The “keep politics out of comics!” crowd have not been paying attention for [checks notes] 60 freaking years. In the Krakoan era, those possibilities are still very much on the table – they always will be, so long as there are fascinating mutant characters doing fascinating things. But now we also have access to a far grander and more abstract canon of metaphors. Now we can speak to civilizations, cultures, polities, policies, faiths, and fates. It’s an extraordinarily clever widening of the micro to the macro. -- Si Spurrier

( Parental control )

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There has never been a revolution where the person who was best at fighting for a new status quo is also the best at maintaining it. It's just not possible, because if you're the person who fights, you don't stop fighting. If you're the person who's good at maintaining and equalizing, then you were never the right person to be fighting for this in the first place. That's the conflict I like to look at between Charles Xavier and his son, David Haller. -- Si Spurrier

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Titans: Beast World Tour: Central City #1

X-Men Blue: Origins #1 - "Lament in Blue"

Uncanny Spider-Man #4 - "Slice and Dice"

The Flash #3 - "Angles"

X-Men Blue: Origins #1: "Lament in Blue"

The Flash #2 - "Stepping Out"

Uncanny Spider-Man #3-4 - "Superpositional"

Uncanny Spider-Man #2-3 - "Blue Streak"

The Flash #1-2 - "Strange Attractor"

Uncanny Spider-Man #1 - "Park Life"

The Flash #800 - "Between Love and You"

Before the Fall: Sons of X #1 - "Run It Again"

Nightcrawlers #3 - "The Sacred Heart"

The Fall of X

Nightcrawlers #2 - "The Apostate"

Detective Comics #1067-1068 - "A Tune That Listens Back"

Legion of X #10 - "Among Us Stalk the Sentinels"

Legion of X #10 - "Among Us Stalk the Sentinels"

Legion of X #9-10 - "A Voice in the Wilderness"

Legion of X #8 - "Family Ties"

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